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	One of the factory buildings, viewed from the railway station. [Chapters 9 - 13]
	Easy rider heading straight towards the front gate of the company. It is likely he was a parcel delivery rider rather than a salaryman.
	The fence is for keeping intruders out, not for keeping us in. [Chapters 9 - 13]
	Feet up (white socks, on the steering wheel) at lunch time, near the front gate. There were usually 10 or 20 trucks and vans parked outside the gate, usually with the engines running for 45 minutes till lunch was over: no energy-saving here. [Chapter 11]
	Main gate: closed for lunch. We employees were not allowed to go through this gate. Instead we had to use the smaller gate to the left. If we had bicycles we had to walk them through the gate [Chapter 9]. This rule also applied to motor bikes -- I even saw employees dismounting and pushing big 500 cc bikes through the gate.
	Mini-tennis at lunch time on the company road. Several groups played this mini-tennis, a few colleagues played football, one guy skipped, another guy went running (even in the hot sweaty summer, with no showers available!). But the vast majority of the 6000 employees in this complex just ate the bento lunches at their desks. [Chapter 10]
	Factory buildings, near the research lab. The workers in yellow helmets and blue overalls used to do their aerobics every morning along this road. [Chapter 4]
	The shinkansen from Tokyo/Yokohama to Osaka and back (or in the reverse direction, when based in Osaka). Work trips usually meant a long day: a few hours travelling 500 kilometres or more in the morning, meetings in the afternoon, and a few hours travelling 500 kilometres back home after work. No overtime payment, of course. [Chapter 8]

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