On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 15:51:24 +0900, Chris Kern <chriskern99@yahoo.com>
belched the alphabet and kept on going with:

>On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 04:39:30 +0000 (UTC), mtfester@MAPSON.netscape.net
>posted the following:
>
>>Michael Cash <mikecash@sunfield.ne.jp> wrote:
>
>>> Could you cite the relevant statute please?
>>
>>It USED to be that in some states in the  Hew Ess Ay a black belt was considered
>>a "deadly weapon" for legal purposes. No longer, to my knowledge.
>
>Sounds like an urban legend to me.

Me too. That's why I asked for a cite. And since we're talking about
Japan (how unusual!), a reference to a Japanese statute would be nice.