I am waiting at the airport for Sabena flight to Tokyo via Anchorage in Alaska.
At that time no Airline can fly over Soviet Union .
The airline cancels the flight due to mechanical failure.
And decide to take all the passengers to Metropole Hotel in Brussels which is an old Palace next
to Mannequin Piss, Grand Place.
I ask the airline if I can .stay at home. They refuse my demand .
Next day we fly to Anchorage the weather condition force the pilot to land to Fairbanks a small
airport covered with snow, the plane refueled .We land to Tokyo Airport 48 hours after I arrived first to Brussels airport.
I went to New Otani Hotel
which is famous with its garden and it is Cherry Blossom season time and I am delighted to see this.
The next day a Platinum Pen Factory
send a Black Limousine with a Black Capped driver to pick me up.
I am very impressed to be treated like a Minister at the age of 26 years.
When arrived to Factory from president to youngest manager a row of bowing heads were
welcoming me at the gate.
I was received in a meeting room where everybody fixed eyes on me and listening my presentation.
I have the filling that most of them do not understand English at all but at least they showed
me how a foreign visitors received welcoming faces by being just serious as if they listen a scholar teaching them some of the most serious subjects.
At the end I just asked them the question I wanted to ask them since I arrived in their
country.
I asked can you give me the secret of your success.
They just made some noisy breathing sounds as usually Japanese will do in similar circumstances when facing an embarrassing question.
And they say in very small speed letting the words come out one by one:
Before we want to do something, we check every step many,many,many times.
After checking so many times the possibility of mistake is almost zero.
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