The party room is ready
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#19, the Finnair table is set!
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The reception area from excalator
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Kimono girls awaiting the guests
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The reception desk
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The reception desk
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SCCJ Party Committee representative Mats Bruzeaus with friends
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Enjoying the glögg., second from fright SCCJ Chairman Fredrik Alatalo.
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Meeting old and new friends. Finnair's Sakari Romu exchanging name cards.
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Enjoying the glögg..
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At right Swedish Ambassador Lars Vargö and Eva Vargö
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Enjoying the glögg with raisins and almond.
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Veli Solehmainen protects himself from the flash.
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Party Committee representatives Mats Bruzeaus and Daiki Koshiba with Claus and Maria Eilersen
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Two former SCCJ Chairmen; Gösta and Yoko Tyrefors, Carl-Gustav and Maquie Eklund
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The 310 participants seated.
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The ASIJ choir
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The ASIJ choir
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The ASIJ choir
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The ASIJ choir receives flowers after the performance, choir director Brent Huber takes a photo.
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DCCJ Chairman Henrik Irmov (second from left) surrounded by camreamen..
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Waitress checking on drink availability..
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FCCJ President Marko Saarelainen enjoys the cod.
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Thumbs up for the fish dish!
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Having a good time!
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All smiles!
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Having a good time!
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The Icelandic Ambassador's table, back center Ambassador Stefan Larus Stefansson and Mme Gudrun Bryndis Hardardottir
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The SAS table, back for table SAS Leif Nilsson and right Jenny Furstenbach.
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The top Ericsson table, at right Ericsson Japan K.K. Presindet Fredrik Alatalo
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Lottery for the Ericsson Japan prize, presented by Fredrik Alatalo, who is curious to see who's the winner..
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Fredrik Alatalo presents the prize to the winner.
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Lottery for the Volvo prize.
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Prize presented to the winner of the first POS prize.
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Prize presented to the winner of the second POS prize.
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Prize presented to the winner of the third POS prize gets a lei, at right POS representative Asako Sato.
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Asako Sato presents the main POS prize, a Jacob Jensen watch..
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The magician from Mexico arrives on the stage with his big suitcase.
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Riken makes a rope stiff in the air.
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Magic requires fast movements.
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Tearing up a flyer...
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..into 16 pieces....
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...and when folding open, it is back in one piece!
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Throwing imaginative cubes to the audience.
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Doing bottle tricks with Todd from the audience.
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The bottle comes always out wrong end up.
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The hand guilliotine trick with a lady from the audience. Testing the guilliotine with a cucumber.
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...the lady puts her hand in the guilliotine...
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...ready to go, note the cucumber beneath her arm ...
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Down does the blade, cucumber is cut, but no blood...
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A regular pet bottle and a mobile phone from the audience...
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... some twisting and shaking...
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...and the phone si inside the pet bottle, as witnessed by the phones owner.
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A knife is needed to get the phone out of the bottle.
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Flowers after the performance..
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Riken does card tricks at the tables after the show.
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Heikki Mäkipää and Kauko Laitinen meet an old friend
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Santa appears to the party.
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...followed by an unexpected 'tomte', Taiko Nakazato.
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MC Mats Bruzeaus calls Santa on the stage.
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Santa talks about his visits to Tohoku area.
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The 310 participants enjoying dinner and the program.
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Santa having a rest backstage with the Kimono girls.
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Santa meets an old friend on the stage, FCCJ president Marko Saarelainen.
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Silver sponsor recognition, sponsors get a bottle of champagne.
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Silver sponsors lined up from left: Mats Holjo (Scandinavia Corporation), Masanori Suzuki (Sweden House), Mikael Palmquist (IKEA), Mats Steinnes (Wallenius-Wilhelmsen) and Marko Saarelainen (Honka Japan)
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The Westin Tokyo General Manager Dietmar Kielnhofer presents the Westin prize to the winner.
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Almost as memorable as the prize, a hug from Santa.
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Leif Nilsson ready to present the SAS prize.
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Leif with the happy winner.
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Lottery for the Finniar prize, presented by Sakari Romu..
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Sakari congratulates the winner...
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... and gets a hug!
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The happy winner also get a hug from Santa.
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Photo opportunites with Santa after the program.
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Santa with Rie and Fujio Ota.
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The unmatched charm of Santa.
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Brad and the Hitmen starts off the dancing
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Dirk and Lynne Lukat showing their style of the floor.
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Logistics on the dance floor, DCCJ Chairman Henrik Irmov.
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You don't need to be a Scandinavian to enjoy the Party, Joachim Hinne and Nagisa To.
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Enjoying his last Scandinavian Christmas Party in Tokyo, at least for a while...
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Ulf and Agneta Melin having a good time.
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Got inspiration from the magician?
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Mats and Peter Holjo surveying the 'supply'.
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The last tune of the evening. Thank you and see you at the next party!
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Happy ending! FCCJ President Marko Saarelainen with friends.
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