I took a lunch with Mr. I, a class mate at Garden Plaza in Ebisu. At a French restaurant at the top of tower, we enjoyed foods as well as a beautiful, transparent view of the east side of tower. The red Tokyo tower distinguished itself from the surrounding houses and streets, reflecting afternoon sun. Mr. I is a professional of computer technology who has been working on computers just after he graduated from a university fifty years ago. But he complained about many minor troubles of the latest models of personal computers. Even though the governments are going to take actions to promote intelligence technology in Japan to the top level of the world, the reliability of machine as well as the good use of machine should have been drastically improved first. As more than ninety percent of information we get through internet is in English, we, Japanese, should make efforts to master reading and writing in English. This is our suggestion to those who are conducting to promote IT.

According to the New York Times of today, DaimlerChrysler's chairman, Mr. Jurgen Ｓｃｈｒｅｍｐｐ is urged to resign on both sides of Atlantic Ocean. The Times said German shareholders are criticizing Mr. Schrempp that he paid too much for Chrysler, while American take issue with his admission that the link was conceived as a takeover of Chrysler rather than a merger of equals. But Mr. Hilmar Kopper, the chairman of Deutsche Bank's supervisory board, is said to be reluctant to force the ouster of a senior executive. The bank holds 12 percent of DaimlerChrysler shares, the biggest shareholder of it.

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