
The gentleman you see in the picture there is the Company President, he's giving his big thank you speech to the employees for their work this year. Behind him you can see the hostess for the event, a 40-something year old woman dressed as an 80's Japanese teenage pop-singer (and she did indeed sing!) who the company hired to MC the event.
It was a lively and fun party, and everyone there was in good spirits, so I guess the company did well this year. As it turned out, I wasn't the only foreigner there, there was also a representative from Cannon Japan there (their business partner) who gave a speech in what I'm told was almost unintelligable Japanese accented Mandarin to the enthusiastic crowd. Also the Vice President's son (also an executive at the company) had obviously studied overseas from the perfectly accented English he spoke as we chatted a bit. I wasn't sure what to expect from this party, but I was sure happy with what I got!
