Meatspace
Making wholemeal bread
Since I moved to Japan I have been unable to find any shops selling wholemeal bread so I have been making my own. It doesn't cost much and is pretty easy to do. I use a National SD-BH101 which cost about 1.4万円 at Yodobashi Kamera Akihabera. I buy 25kg bags of Graham wholemeal flour from TOMIZAWA online shops. I buy 4 packs 125g saf-Instant red dry yeast. Yeast has a limited shelf lift after being opened so I find it is worth buying smaller packs. TOMIZAWA offers free delivery to most places for orders over 1万円. If you plan on using the free delivery you need to be careful because there is a weight limit and various other conditions. All other ingredients I buy from local supermarkets. -- UPDATE I missed a few decimal points on the prices it should have been 1.4万円 not 14万円, and 1万円 not 10万円.Cross Cultural Career Panel
Yesterday I was a panellist in a round table discussion about the challenges of cross cultural career development chaired by Tomoyuki Sakurai. Sakurai-san previously ran the cross cultural engineering party which I was unfortunately unable to attend. About 100 predominantly Japanese people attended, and a large number said they were considering working for a foreign companies or 外資系. This is the first time I have been in a panel, or presented in any capacity, in-front of a large group and I was pretty nervous. The other panellist included Jim Grisanzio, Toshiharu Harada, Gosuke Miyashita, Iwasa Takuma and Hiroumi Mitani who did live translation from English to Japanese. The main message I wanted to get across was that it is possible for most Japanese to work in foreign companies.
