Jin and I met with MSKK, aka Microsoft Japan, today. They’re an outstanding bunch. We talked shop for a bit, then they took us to a lovely dinner of oden, which is another shared-soup thing like chanko (or chiyanko, depending on how you want to spell ちやんこ. It was also quite yummy! We then went to a local sake bar and had a lot of sake.. we had to try all the local varieties. Imagine going to a local wine bar in Paris with some locals, or the local pub in Munich or even Seattle with locals who know the beer. Same thing. We had a lot of amazing, cold sake. Sadly, I don’t recall any of the names… I’ll have to send some mail and ask ‘em, and see if i can’t get them at Uwajimaya or something.