The 2-Belo <the2belo@msd.bigremovethislobe.ne.jp> wrote:
> We have a report from the fj.life.in-japan Dynamics Officer that
> mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net has exploded. Flight director confirms that:

> >John W. <worthj1970@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Aug 5, 8:17?am, mtfes...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
> >> > Jean-Marc Desperrier <jmd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > > mtfes...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
> >> > > > I'd heard Shibuya attracted a much younger crowd than when I worked
> >> > > > there (it was pretty much a salary-man's section)
> >> > > How long ago were you working there ???
> >> >
> >> > 1989-1991.
> >> >
> >> Otherwise known as "The good old days" (even though they're a couple
> >> of years more gooder than my good old days).
> >
> >One thing I've always regretted; the morning of Hirohito's funeral (the
> >day was a national day of mourning) I was in Shibuya at about 10:30. 
> >There was literally not another person outside, not a car on the road,
> >nothing. It was like a sci-fi show where The Last Man On Earth wonders
> >where everyone went. 
> >
> >And I didn't have my camera...

> (Totally off topic but) So you remember this moment?

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrF7Tk9DNoU

> As a history geek it would have been hugely interesting, in a morbid sort of
> way, for me to have been here at that point in time; alas I didn't make it here
> until 1992. I watched the funeral on TV though.

I didn't really watch that. But I DO remember that everybody assured me
that Hirohito wasn't going to die before January 1; it would be terribly
expensive to retroactively change "Showa 64" to "Heisei Gannen". By hook
or by crook, he was going to make it to Jan 1.

Mike