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Nearly three years ago I went to New York for about 20 hours. Flew over on Tuesday afternoon, landed on Tuesday evening, did a bit of translation of one possible speech the prime minister was going to give, woke up the next morning, found there was a revised version of that provisional speech, fixed the translation. Then we went in to listen to the actual press conference and took furious notes so as to remember everything that needed to be changed.
This is the finished product if you’re interested in taking a look at it. I spotted two mistakes in it soon after it was posted, sob. Oh well.
The government plane coming back to Japan was nice in all respects but one. Pretty spacious seats, with lots of empty ones for our gear. Great food. A couple of movies, which I ignored. And we landed at Haneda, which is fairly close to downtown, rather than Narita, which is an extra hour away by express train. Score. So what was the problem? . . . Smoking flight. Urk. I think this is one of the only trans-Pacific flights where you can still light up en route. The Japanese secret service dudes and all the press guys were loving it. I was choking. But lots of beer (free, of course, and to make things better they had the premium versions of all the Japanese labels; the gold Fuji-san can for Asahi and so on) helped to ease the pain.
Some pictures are up on Flickr now.
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