Sunday I got the royal Tokyo tour (by train and subway) from my new friend Nathan of CMPO.  Saw ancient temples and modern electronic shops.

Monday and Tuesday were 14 hour days making final preparations for the seminar on Wednesday.  My hosts, CMPO, is a non-profit spin off from Quake Japan.  They sent out over 3,000 flyers advertising a one day "Crisis Communications" seminar that also promised to explore what the Western media is doing. They also advertised a late afternoon session that would focus on crisis news conferences (limited to ten participants).