BUsiness fair

Business fair was held in Nagoya on Oct. 13th. In this conference, some PE members participated as a presenter. I was not a conference PE member, only a participant.

Some visitors came this booth to consult their engineering issues.

Autumn travel

Yesterday, I travelled forest hill “Heaven’s Sonohara”.

https://go-centraljapan.jp/route/mountain/en/16.html

This event was hosted by Mihama Society of Commerce and Industry. The lunch’ s menus were raw meats of horse, baked carps, wild vegetables and beer. After that, we visited a cool forest hill by ropeway gondola.

It’s a nice autumn trip season.

State funeral

Now, Japanese governments are preparing the state funeral for for former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sep. 27th. However, there is large controversial discussion in Japan. The number of people who oppose to his state funeral is increasing day by day. They said “Condemning of the condolence cannot be accept.” or “The cost of state funeral must be huge” and so on. However, I think the state funeral is reasonable considering his big governmental accomplishments.

University’s library

Researching in Nihon Fukushi University’s library. It locates from my office only 10minutes by my car. Good library.

Water temp was 30.2℃.

Here is a wastewater treatment plant of a factory I visit constantly. Air temp was 35℃, however we are not surprised such temp nowadays.

But the water temp was 30.2℃. Also this year, the water temp becomes above 30℃. According to a past record of this plant, the water temp was 35℃ on Aug. 13th 2016. I remember that I thought my thermometer has been crashed then.

So, we must be careful the heatstroke.

Annual congress of Aichi branch

On Jun. 11th, annual congress of Aichi branch, the Institution of Professional Engineers Japan was held. It was held in Nagoya Congress Center, and was also available on the web.

I made a greeting and explained an annual report of the branch’s performance as a boss of branch.

After that, an interesting lecture was held. The title was “Gennnai Hiraga, an engineer who discovered an electricity”.

Youtube movie of our office

Please browse the youtube movie.

https://youtu.be/Wnhz08TOWlY

I ordered a movie production company to make it.

Nowadays, there are a lot of people who get various information with an internet connection at their home due to Covid – 19 pandemic. Unlike homepage or SNS, youtube movies are animated so more people have watched them.

Moreover, business of engineering consultant is hardly recognized most people, and I’m always annoyed by such problem. That’s why I decided to produce youtube that makes more people understand the business.

In the second half of the movie, my son and I talk together.

Comeback victory

I visited Nagoya baseball stadium. It was not Banterin Dome. Farm is also interesting. Bravo! Great comeback victory! I became happy and got energy. The first string, keep it up!

My town's dental clinic

I sometimes come here to cure my teeth. It’s a small dental clinic that is operated by a female doctor.

Last month, gradually, I had a pain of toothache. So, I went here and began to cure my teeth. “There is a cavity of bad tooth. If you will not take care of your teeth carefully, most of your teeth will be lost and you’ll have to use false teeth in the future” she said.

So, I have to come here for a while.

Accumulated snow

This photo was taken in front of Takayama station. It’s located in the center of Japan island. A lot of accumulated snow

Moreover, at yesterday’s my workplace, there was too much snow than around the station. Water quality inspection at river and lake was tough work, yesterday.

My measuring instruments

This is a measuring instrument that can measure pH and DO (oxygen concentration in water) at the same time in the field. Its condition became wrong at the end of last year.

I’ completely forgot to fix it then, and I noticed that it must be fixed before today’s fieldwork. So, I exchange its electrode and corrected the indication. And the performance was checked.

Moreover, I noticed that the condition of electronic balance was not good. It must be used for calculation the concentration of activated sludge. Ordering new one right now, it turned out that it will arrive here this week. So, I was reassured.

Conclusion of this year corona pandemic situation

This is only my opinion, I’ll conclude the situation of this year corona pandemic. Although we had a tough time during the Tokyo Olympic season, it was settled well after October.

Considering many countries in which there are a lot of infected persons and deaths, Japan’s situation is good, I think. I think the contribution of Japan’s medical and health workers are extremely huge. A number of vaccinees has become 100 million. Moreover, it would be effective that all Japanese always put mask on their face, frequently wash hands with disinfection liquid and keep social distance.

Although there may be concerns about people’s movement during year-end and new-year or spreading of the omicron variant, there is no need to panic. Because we have already undergone a lot of such tough times. The omicron variant was found on Dec. 1st. Considering that there is no tendency that a number of infected persons and deaths is notably increasing in this month, it doesn’t seem to threat thing. So, if we’ll gargle, wash our hands frequently, put mask on our face every time and keep social distance, we would be able to withstand.

In Hekinan city

Yesterday, I went to Hekinan city in business.

Two weeks ago, I visited Seto, last week I visited Gifu and Takayama. Recently I visit here and there, probably because the covid – 19 pandemic has cooled down. And it would be no problem that I announce such news.

A year ago, when I uploaded my business trip to Tokyo on Facebook, a custumer phoned me and said, “Mr. Nonobe, you seemed to go Tokyo, didn’t you? Don’t come here for a while. You will be able to come here after two weeks or over.” That time, I shocked very much.

The photo is taken at Hekinan – Chuo station platform.

Gifu and Takayama

Today, I worked in Gifu city, north from Nagoya. The illuminations were very beautiful around Gifu station.

I’ll visit Takayama from tomorrow until Friday. It’s business, not sightseeing. It may snow lightly there, so we must use a warm jacket.

COP26 is over.

COP26 is over.

It might be the most important international conference in other conferences that held in the world this year.

Leaders of countries had a heated discussion about the amount of greenhouse gas emission.

The venue was Glasgow, UK. Japanese PM Kishida attended it. Although he announced some positive measures to reduce the amount of CO2 gas, abolish of coal fired power generation plants was hesitated. That’s why, the impression of Japan was not be so good.

Comparing Chinese president who absented the conference, in spite of the largest emission country, PM Kishida who explained with the responsibility as one of developed country might be great. Mr. Biden, US President became upset about the absence of China.

Anyway, all participants agreed the decision about pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°.

60 years old birthday

The day before yesterday, I became 60 years old. A lot of SNS friends sent me birthday messages. Thank you so much!! Nowadays, on the web I saw a lot of persons, however who have not yet seen me directly. I have a lot of places I want to visit, a lot of persons I want to see directly and a lot of things I want to do. So, after the Covid – 19 pandemic will be over, I’ll hope that such my dreams.

The number of Covid-19 patients and deaths in Japan.

This Fig. shows the number of Covid-19 patients and deaths in Japan.

The number of patients decreased drastically from the end of Sep. In addition, the number of deaths is low level now.

I’m thinking the reason of cool down tendency. The efforts of medical staffs and its relevant persons must be huge and great! Moreover, the percentage of people who took an injection of Covid19 vaccine became over 75 %.

Bibimbap set

In Nagoya city, all snack bars and restaurants closed at night until the end of September to prevent the coronavirus infections.

Recently, the number of patients decrease drastically. So, the government alleviated the restriction and at last they started to reopen at night.

Tonight, I ate bibimbap set and drank beer. Very happy!

Shitara-town, Kitashitara-gun

Here is Shitara-town, Kitashitara-gun.

This is not business, however it’s possible to lead to a good business. So, I came here all the way. Aichi prefecture is larger than we think. The running time between my office and here was about two hours by car. I like long – distance drive, so it was not painless for me.

Town office is wooden construction. The design feeling of an office building is good.

Silent Eating

A friend has come from a distance. We had a lot of things we want to know each other. Before that, we went to a seafood restaurant. However, there was an announce “Silent eating” on the wall. We were shocked because we want to talk there. So, we hate Covid 19.