At the Hayashibhara Biotechnology Company in Okayama

The lawns at the Hayashibhara Biotechnology Company... made and maintained by the Shimoden Landscape Company of Okayama... the brains behind the Okayama Garden in Pune...




Another view of the Hayashibhara Biotechnology Company Conference Room




The visiting cards being exchanged... an unique feature of showing respect to each other... absolutely perfect... immediately makes perfect strangers into friends...



At the viewing gallery of archival documents... superb use of a blind corridor... converted it into a museum... Even Jane Goodall's letter and signature were up there...




Taking a closer look at the germplasm being taken out of liquid helium containers...



I am in discussion with the Professor at the Liquid Helium storage containers... to preserve the germplasm... at minus 197 degrees centigrade...



The collection of the old microscopes at the Hayashibhara Biotechnology Company



An archive photograph of the Emperor and Empress of Japan at the Hayashibhara Biotechnology Company. The person in the background in the photograph, we were informed, is the Honorable Governor of Okayama... It seems the Emperor of Japan was touching the hibernating Hamster...



An archive photograph of Shri Morarji Desai, former Prime Minister of India, on a visit to the Hayashibhara Biotechnology Company in Okayama...



An old photograph of one of the earlier seniors of the Hayashibhara family and their earlier industry... kept in the archives gallery of photographs...




Mr. Yashwant Khaire and the Professor in serious discussion about potential use of the Hayashibhara Biotechnology research in AIDS, Cancer and Hepatitis ...



The poster presentation at Hayashibhara Biotechnology Laboratories about Hamster Hibernation and how to induce hibernation in mammals... amazing work... pioneering...













The Hayashibhara Biotechnology Company Laboratories... All sanitised and clean... spotless spotless spotless clean laboratories...


Our local host.... He is an Associate Professor of Biotechnology at the University of Hiroshima... Extremely intelligent and knew English... explained the Hayashibhara Biotechnology initiatives very sincerely...




At the Hayashibhara Biotechnology Company's conference room... Absolutely a treat... It had full ceiling to floor glass walls that helped see outside... lace curtains on it... leather chairs... And can you see the sets of files and folders kept ready for our visit?