We didn’t have to leave until 930 again so i woke up, had breakfast and then did some more work in my room. I joined the others at the cafe on the second floor, where i said “tanjoobi omedetto” to Mikiko. I already knew Mark and Jack. So was introduced to Teru who is a businessman they are here to see for another venture-Enplug. Then i met Nanxi who is the ceo of enplug in the us, and Harry (one of the workers) and Nathan (Marks son who is also involved in Enplug).
Mark, Jack, Mikiko and i went to Konami for their annual meeting. There was a much different vibe in the room. I just did a bit of work while Mark whinged at them about numbers. It certainly didn’t look like a good business relationship.
The stadium managers all came in to the room after that, and the intention was for me to do some training with them. Mark and Jack went off to an enplug press release. However after showing them a couple of the new features i stepped back and they had a good session together where the managers discussed how they use Sportskeep and address various issues. They came across some translation issues which i rectified or took a note of. The department manager came in and all the stadium managers introduced themselves to him. Amazingly they had never done anything like this before, and it was such good value to them all. He told them that action sports is going to be their focus moving forward so all looked promising. I got about a minute with him to show some of Datascore and he enjoyed seeing the animations. There may be hope yet!
We went to a convenience store for lunch-it was a short break as the ceo was coming in. He spent about 10 minutes talking to the managers. Mark has never met him before so it all looked great. Mikiko and i introduced ourselves to the ceo but didn’t get more than a minute. We resumed for a little longer and the managers got to ask a couple of questions, but then it was time to leave. So we caught a taxi back to the hotel and dropped our things in our room.
Our next mission-i had brought a hat i had to post to ottosan. He liked my hat last time i was there so we had bought him one. Mikiko and i went to the post office and it was easy to send, however good having her there as they asked if it had to go express or courier or normal mail, and i may not have been able to answer that and would have been overcharged. We then went back to the hotel, and to TGIF again for happy hour and birthday drinks. We also ordered some salad to keep us going.
We got a message from Mark saying dinner was booked for the ninja restaurant in Asakusa. Kaoru and i had been there before, and most of the guys had on a previous trip. But we weren’t leaving until 930 so ordered a bit more food and drinks. We called Jack and invited him to join us as Mark had said he was back at the hotel. He eventually came along, but then Mark, Angie and Teru came and grabbed him for a meeting.
Mikiko and i went back to our rooms and i got some work done (and had another beer to keep me going). Finally it was time to meet for dinner. 3 taxis took us to the restaurant where we were taken through the secret passages to our table.
The meal was nice and of course the drinks were flowing. I had a chat to Angie as i hadn’t seen her for a few years. I was back at my seat for the ninja magic which was enjoyable and very impressive. Jack, Mikiko and i shared our meals so we got some variety which was good as it was hard to pick just one dish! After dinner we caught taxis back to the hotel and called it a night.