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.


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