John W. wrote:
> On Feb 19, 1:09 pm, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> John W. wrote:
>>> Anyone know if there's a restoration going on or planned for later
>>> this year? I saw something in another forum that indicated this, but I
>>> don't see any news stories in English and I'm too impatient to
>>> decypher the Japanese news stories. Hopefully I'll finally get back to
>>> the inlaws this year, but it'll suck if the castle is under some
>>> renovation project and isn't completely open.
>> Fourth item, maybe?
>>
>> http://www.city.himeji.hyogo.jp/english/himeji/node72.html#SECTION000...
> 
> The problem with that site is that it hasn't changed in years; it
> could be new information (I don't often go to that particular page)
> but since they're using HTML circa 1996 it's hard to be certain; if I
> were a go-getter I'd offer to redo that site but I'm not really a go-
> getter unless beer is directly involved. I went through the Himeji
> Kanko page (much nicer and more reliable: http://www.himeji-kanko.jp/en/index.html)
> and didn't see anything in English; my Japanese reading is crap so I
> might ask the BYJW to look at it later.

There was something roughly equivalent on the Japanese page.  I thought 
I saw a reference to the news being circa October of last year and 
ass-umed.  Almost everything on the city seems to be kanko-oriented and 
I didn't see much that would qualify as news in the good, solid five 
minutes I devoted to it.

-- 
CL