Today has been a busy day after relaxing yesterday. I got a meeting with the Senior Trade Consul from the Canadian Embassy coming down to Osaka for a meeting with us. This guy is basically their man in Japan for getting business going between our two great nations ( diplo speak). So have had to get stuff ready for the meeting. Will be trying to squeeze as much help from him and the Government of Canada out of him and try to make our Personal and Corporate Tax Dollar back home work for us for a change. I used to work for Industry Canada and that being apparently the more efficient govt agency, I am appalled at how bad the bureaucracy can be.
So to assist me with this and everything else we have been doing out here in Japan we have had to rely heavily on our three secretarial staff. They are a god send they know what I am thinking before I even know it myself and go out of their way to assist me in my day to day work. I used to think that this profession is no longer needed and is going to the shredder of history like a typist, but for foreign capitalized companies trying to do business abroad there will always be the need for this position. In addition to all the hard work they do and the long hours they spend they are the one of the nicest bunch of people I have met here in Japan. They follow the tradition of staying at the office late and only seem to leave when I do. I don't ask them to do this but they seem to be chilling out working in the Reception area till 8-10pm at night and are here at 8am every work day. God Bless them
The Picture I took above is from my new phone ( Post coming soon..). It has a cool Panoramic function that can link up multiple pictures and this was an attempt to get a shot of one side of the Secretary Station with that feature. Came out a little blurry.
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