[Rubber Duck]

Originally Posted by donwebcorleone

okay. okay. i express my apologies. A movie "Lost in Translation" might be helpful today. even when there is only 2 or 3 parts related to high level business in Japan. By the way, that hotel is a Grand Hyatt but the old one in Shinjuku.

anyway, again my deepest apologies and lets come back to talk about the conference.

but really Edwin, we are not talking about inviting daily japanese that use trains and buy in 100 yen stores. Even a small walk into the parking lot of Keio University can give you an idea of friends and guys who would join. Not to mention, how many big guys we can bring in. Edwin, we wanna do it very good to do business for us and for the participants, we have nothing to gain inviting people that worry about those little things as hotel fees or trains. We cant gain much with them. Sorry to be so direct, but i think you have a different idea about middle class to higher japanese people.

I tend to agree with those sentiments, but I think some of that now famous market research of yours is now called for.

On the apology front, there is no need to. You are very unlikely to offend me, but some important players especially in the US may turn out to be very conservative in their moral views.