IMPS2001 Photo Gallery

Osaka, Japan

(July 2001)

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Unfortunately I have not made many photographs of the conference proper.
There are mostly photos from the Conference dinner, but David Thissen saved the day.

IMPS 2001 in Osaka, Japan

This was the first meeting outside Europe or North America and the first meeting to be called "International Meeting of the Psychometric Society."

Yakata Kano IMPS2001 Logo	Banquet building	Reception	Shigemasu, Thissen, Maiko and Stout
Photographs, courtesy David Thissen

The Kagami-biraki ceremony

Kagami-biraki is a ceremony performed at celebratory events in which the lid of the sake barrel is broken open by a wooden mallet and the sake is served to everyone present. Kagami refers to the lid of the sake barrel and biraki means "to open" so kagami-biraki literally means "opening the lid." Because of the lid's round shape, the kagami is a symbol of harmony. The kagami-biraki, therefore, represents an opening to harmony and good fortune. [https://www.gekkeikan.co.jp/english/sake/kagami-biraki.html]