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From: jeff@necntc.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Network, you say?
Message-ID: <3449@necntc.NEC.COM>
Date: Fri, 24-Apr-87 11:21:26 EST
Article-I.D.: necntc.3449
Posted: Fri Apr 24 11:21:26 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 25-Apr-87 12:01:00 EST
References: <1987Apr5.124224.22886@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <94@cerebus.UUCP>
Reply-To: jeff@necntc.UUCP (Jeff Janock)
Organization: NEC Electronics Inc.  Natick, MA 01760
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In article <94@cerebus.UUCP> ronc@cerebus.UUCP (sysadm) writes:
>In article <1987Apr5.124224.22886@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> dalj@gpu.utcs.UUCP (David Lloyd-Jones) writes:
>>
>>If this is a network, howcome there's nobody Japanese on it?
>
>Our parent company in Japan is indeed on the net.  I don't think they
>do much posting, but they certainly read news.
>

I can say the same for NEC - news and email are quite popular in Japan.

Visiting employees (from Japan) enjoy unique learning in different
environments.

Also, students from Japan may be found within most of the major
centers for advanced learning including MIT, Harvard, CMU, etc.

What leads one to the point where they would make a public statement
such as the one above?  Curious... 

jj