Kaiganyama's Homepage
aims at helping people from Sweden and other Western Countries to enjoy their relations with the wonderful Japanese people

Updated April 11, 1997

The webpage was opened to honour my hosts and their great hospitality
during my scholarship visit in December 1994 to Tokyo and NRIPS

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Shishi Kaigan-yama is a translation to Japanese
of my name in Swedish Lennart Strandberg
In English it would be something like Lion Beach-mountain

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Useful phrases

Thanks (a lot)	Domo (arigato gozaimas)	Tack (så mycket)
Excuse me	Sumimasen	Ursäkta
Do you speak English?	Eigo hanashimasuka? (Eigo=English)	Talar ni engelska?

Before going to Japan, I was told that people in the streets of Tokyo are shy and difficult to speak to in English.
My experience was the opposite. When I opened with my very poor Japanese (Sumimasen, Ei'go ha'nasemaschka), people probably felt that their English was much better than my Japanese. So, they made me understand in one way or another.
To find your way as a pedestrian in Tokyo, that phrase is very useful. Particularly if you have a street-map to point at.
Bring a compass to use when you come up from the subway.
Keep a card in your pocket with the address to your hotel written in Japanese.

When dining, you should serve beverage to your neighbour and wait for her/him to serve yourself.
It is impolite to pour up for yourself and drink before others have anything in their glasses.

Would you like to roll your own Sushi?
Even if you don't, I do recommend Japanese seafood!
After my few days in Japan, I became very fond of it.
In fact, I chose seafood when returning on the plane, though the Steward offered delicious meat, too.

For Swedes in emergency need of Sushi, there is Sushi-Akuten

VETA is a Swedish acronym for
Science and Experience in Traffic safety Work

In the VETA research society
we support drivers
by providing knowledge
rather than blame

Accidents are unintentional like diseases
Prevent them accordingly!

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The correspondence with my dear friends in Japan was lost when I left the Swedish Road and Transport Research Institute VTI. (Just a couple of weeks after my return from Japan, I switched from being an employee at the VTI to work full time with the development of the VETA society and its education of traffic safety professionals in scientific research.)
Therefore, I have posted on the web some of the pictures that seemed to be lost in mail. Nevertheless, they are still available in computer media:

The graphics is dedicated to many people who gave me a great and long-lasting impression of Japan.
I look forward to future co-operation and deepened experiences.

Initially for this webpage, I (at centre of picture) would like to mention in particular:

• my extremely generous host Dr.Kazunari Mogami (to the left in picture) and all nice people at NRIPS. and ITARDA
• my friend since the ESV Conference in Washington DC (1987), Mr.Mitsuo Horii (to the right in picture), and more recent acquaintances from my unforgettable visit to JARI (Japan Automobile Research Institute, member of Tsukkenkyo) in Tsukuba.
  JARI researchers cooperate internationally in various projects, e.g. with INRETS in France.
• Dr.Masaru Ueyama and his wife, inviting me to their home for a delicious meal and an interesting insight to Japanese life:

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Best Wishes from Lennart Strandberg
Fax: +46 (0)13 52992
GSM cellular phone: +46 (0)70 54321 00
Mailing address: VETA, Box 1, S-59054 Sturefors, Sweden.
Email: lennart.strandberg@veta.se

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