Back in Tokyo 2

Everybody is happy: the sun is out again...day 1 of my simultaneous translation workshop (I work in English-they via their headsets-hear it in Japanese) went well...Ginza shops are extraordinarily expensive...there's no recession here yet...in Starbucks at 0700 this morning: me (prepping for my work-shop), two business men asleep head in arms, one lady knitting...just as Guinness is best in Dublin, plain boiled rice really is pretty good here...no sign of Mount Fuji this visit though, yet.