Our flight was detained 1.5 hours after boarding so we arrived at Tokyo Station at a very busy tine! After exiting the Narita Express, which I clocked at a top speed of 81 mph, we transferred up the Blue Line which was very crowded. Each time the doors opened and it looked like no one else could fit, they pushed in and everyone made room somehow! Quite an experience!
This has been the experience of a lifetime and I hope to come back someday!
Great fun with our student guides at the night market! Highlight for me was the Mango Shaved ice!
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Fun thrip to National Chung Hsing University!
Toured the university and had a calligraphy lesson!
Pleased that we had extra time to visit this!
Our very gracious hosts at our bank visit not only treated us to lunch but gave us fabulous parting gifts!
The VP of International development told us about expansion and plans for their new HQ. Check out that pool!
This was a real highlight of the trip and amazing place to visit for the beauty, architecture and sheer magnitude.
Beautiful blue mountain lake!
David Sachse a KSU Civil Engineering Alum has spent 15 years working in Taiwan in the semiconductor industry. He’s originally from Leavenworth Kansas.
Taiwan makes the most chips of anyone in the world 21%
Lam makes the machines that make the chips! Very fascinating how these machines work in nanometers to build the semiconductor chips layer by layer like a building!
Taiwan Science Parks – industry concentrated in clusters which makes it easier to do business.
David’s job at Lam is leading a team that works worldwide to buyback its own used machines from chip manufacturers to reclaim or reprocess.
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