The party room is ready
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Table 26 is set!
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Kimono girls awaiting the guests
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Registration is open
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Starting the evening with some glögg
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FCCJ President Marko Saarelainen with wife Mayumi taken by surprise.
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The 413 participants find their seats and greet old and new friends.
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Santa makes his entrance, causing some amusement at a Finnish table, perhaps Santa is too slim....?
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Interesting exchange of looks... right Ole Johansson of SAS, does he see something familiar in Santa? But watch out for Santa's laser eyes.
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From the darkness emerges a Santa look-alike playing saxophone.
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They meet on the stage...
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..and it is revealed that the saxophone playing look-alike is SCCJ's Mats Bruzæus, the MC of the evening. He also admires the slim Santa....
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They have a chat about Santa's travel habits and language skills.
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The participants are...
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...are getting ready...
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...to enjoy the first course of dinner.
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Having delicious halibut.
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Serving liquorice snaps at the Icelandic table
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Could I have two more of these?. Approprately at a Finnish table...
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The Bronze sponsors, with Michael Vilhelmsen of Lundbeck Japan as lead singer, doing the Danish snaps song.
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The 'Helsinki Sängerknaben - Large Size', did not want to be outdone and preformed a Finnish snaps song.
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The Icelandic participants also did their version of a drink song, from right lead singer Arni Pall Einarsson, Ambassador Stefan Larus Stefansson and Bolli Thoroddsen. According to the Ambassador, all Icelandic drink songs are about fish, ships and women... Judging from their expressions, they are here doing the part about women...
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The first lottery; for a Ole Mathiesen watch by POS, presented by Asako Sato, caused a bit excitement because the first winner pulled out of the box was not present, so Fredrik Alatalo, pictured here second from left, was pulled as a 'substitute' winner. However, later in the evening he passed on the watch to the lady whose name was first picked from the box. Kudos to Fredrik!
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Lottery for the first Ecco bag prize, presented by Kenji Takii.
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Proud winner in the third lottery, for another Ecco bag.
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The happy winner in the Scandinavia Corporation lottery. Prize presented by Mats Holjo.
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Lottery for the Tetra-Pak prize, presented by Carl Schafer.
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Lottery for the Nippon Ericsson prize, presented by Fredrik Alatalo.
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The fish more important than the entertainment? Or Marko just pretending to concentrate on the meal and not watching the singers when wife in nextby?
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The Sophia University group presenting Christmas songs.
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Beautiful both for ears and eyes..
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Was it too much excitement?
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A few other interesting expressions...
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Lively discussions at a Danish table. Front DCCJ Chairman Henrik Irmov.
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The MC tries to do an economy version of the main show by doing some juggling, but fails.
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The pro enters,
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BonBanGoo was World Champion in 2005 at the tender age of 17.
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Doing some amazing brick tricks.
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A balancing act with the bricks.
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Enjoying himself on the stage and catching the audience.
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Start juugling balls, first three.
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Then picking up four more with his fot.
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Getting ready to juggle 7 balls, which is one of the hardest trick in the business.
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Four balls in the air.
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Juggling all seven!
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...and catching all of them.
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Happy to receive flowers from a Scandinavian Kimono Girl.
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Dirk Lukat and Lynne Lin relaxing.
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The EBC Chairman Tommy Kullberg's table Tommy far right, wife Marja far left.
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The Swedish top table. Left Eiji Takagi, right his wife Yuko. Ambasador Stefan Noreen concentrating on eating.
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Silver Sponsor recognition; receiving a bottle of champagne from left Honka, Hirofumi Idota (Sweden House), Mia Thunqvist (IKEA), Fujio Ota (Tumlare), Marko Saarelainen (Honka) and Richard Corwin (Gard).
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Santa makes a come-back!
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Lottery for the Westin prize, presented by Andreas Trauttmansdorff
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Lottery for the Ekornes Prize, presented by Hajime Osawa.
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Lottery for the SAS, presented by Ole Johansson.
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Ole with the happy winner.
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Last lottery, for the Finniar prize. But Finnair representative Sakari Romu was nowhere to be found, until he was revealed under the Santa's costume...
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Presenting the prize, almost knocking heads.
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This concluded the lotteries, the official program, and the career of Santa at this year's party!
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Brad and the Hitmen, and a couple of 'Hitgirls' rounded off the evening with a lot of dancing.
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The dancefloor was immediately filled.
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All combinations accepted; singles, couple, triples...
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Shooting the camera man.
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Having a great time!
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'Are you short of girls?'
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'Here we are!'
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The ballroom almost exploding.
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A lucky guy, Joachim Hinne
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Marko Saarelainen pointing at cameraman. An order to his exeutive, or what?
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A look of appreciation....
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Icelandic Ambassador Stefan Larus Stefansson and Mme. Gudrun Hardardottir (far left) about to leave escorted by the Kimono Girls.
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Others continue the dancing.
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Westin Tokyo General Manager Andreas Trauttmansdorff, with wife Dominique, sees to hit that their hotel preforms to the end, here seen on the dance floor at 22:34.
(the hotel did a great job!)
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All combinations accepted; singles, couple, triples...
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Nippon Ericsson boss Fredrik Alatalo with wife Victoria Lappin Alatalo.
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Arms in the air!
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Was worth coming all the way from Switzerland to experience this!
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The faces tell it all.
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The last tune of the evening.
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