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[[start page]] 156 usual. Clogs or sandals. Am brought in [[strikethrough]] b [[/strikethrough]] directors room. Presented by a girl with [[strikethrough]] clean [[/strikethrough]] immaculate clean, rolled up wet bath towels in dainty little wooden basket for wiping my face and hands. Then after some some conversation translated by Kondo escorted thru works. [[red underline]] Pyrite furnaces. [[/red underline]] then acid chambers then hydrochloric plant and finally bleach rooms. Vaulted chambers about 6 feet high. at top, of bricks, small doors, width about 10 feet length about 30 feet. simply housed under open wooden shed, simple and cheap but everything clean as everywhere in factory. All [[red underline]] wooden buildings [[/red underline]] very light and simple and all clean but not painted Little paint used here on almost all Japanese buildings. Exquisite [[red underline]] lunch [[/red underline]] served in a low [[end page]] [[start page]] 157 wooden building, and the other chemists and engineers introduced to me. [[red underline]] Kondo [[/red underline]] is the only one who speaks fluently english so we have to translate. Excellent hors d'oeuvre among which [[red underline]] long straight red shrimp about 5 to 6" long. [[/red underline]] Excellent cold chicken etc. Mr. [[red underline]] Ishikawa [[/red underline]] the general technical superintendent drinks beer as well as one of chemists. Others drink water or iced-tea. Afterwards was told lunch was sent by one of best restaurants in [[strikethrough]] Park. [[/strikethrough]] Tokio. [[red underline]] Our photographs [[/red underline]] made by two photographers in kimono etc. Tanaka says [[red underline]] he sent for a specially strong Ricksaw man for me. At [[/red underline]] 4 P.M leave by train. Motor car Shiohara at station. Went to buy some underwear at store recommended by [[red underline]] Kondo. Dignified [[/red underline]] clean cut [[red underline]] businesslike transaction. [[/red underline]] Then went to hotel. and after dinner went to bed early. Slept [[end page]]