A few pictures of the XE8 events during my recent trip to Japan and China, and a video of my keynote in Tokyo. (Trying to link directly form Google Photo, let's see if this works).
Japan
Event in Osaka (view of the castle from the event room and dinner after event) and Tokyo (during the event and the city)
China
In Beijing, forbidden city entrance and attendees at the XE8 event.
There was a good crowd at the first event after some time, old customers looking to the new features but also new developers.
I was actually a bit (negatively) impressed by how nothing in my Android Google phone worked in the country, given all Google servers cannot be reached. But that's another story.
Video of Tokyo Keynote
This is in English with subtitles, edited to skip the live translation.