Heavyhands in Japan

So it seems that Heavyhands will be sold in Japan once again. I haven't been able to figure out the name of the company which will be marketing and selling the product, but the person in charge of this effort, a Mr. Koike, is apparently the president of the Japan Heavyhands Association, and a Japanese website for HH is already partially made and published (http://www.xpoint-plan.com/test/index.htm).

I will be going to Yoyogi Park in Tokyo to meet Mr. Koike, who is called the "Len Schwartz' of Japan" (i.e. the "my grandfather" of Japan...this is a very strange and interesting phrase to me), as well as a guy named Paul Shepherd who has been promoting Heavyhands and running a fitness class in Tokyo for four years, a yoga teacher interested in incorporating Heavyhands into her Yoga routines, and the members of the aforementioned club. Ostensibly I will work out with them, introduce myself, and possibly go to dinner with them in Shibuya...I will try my best to make a good impression and to improve communications between the Japanese and American branches, in promoting a global Heavyhands network of sorts.

Will report the results sometime on Sunday...very excited about this.

In other news, I met a disgusting man at one of my host company's factories today who blatantly insulted and demeaned two guests from our Mexican factories throughout a two-hour long tour during which I was acting as an interpreter. I don't want to get into it now. Fuck him. If somebody leaves a comment and wants to learn more, I'll write more; otherwise I probably won't bother.

I recently got the Japanese version (i.e. the original version) of my favorite video game of all time, Rockman 2 for NES (known as Megaman 2 in the US). After a good 8 years or so, it has built up a considerable nostalgic value to me, and is even more fun than I remember it being. I had never stopped to think about this until moving to Japan and talking to friends about video games, but in Japan the "Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)" is known as the "Family Computer" (famikon for short). My Japanese friends get a big kick out of the fact that most Americans simply called the NES "Nintendo" for short, since it's really just the company's name. On the other hand, most of my American friends think it's hilarious that it would have been called the "family computer" in Japan. Both are pretty stupid names I guess.

My room is a mess again...want to write about many more interesting things that are happeningo to me, but I'm too tired to write more. Oyasumi...