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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I really appreciated reading Markus' report from Yamagata.
I greatly regret that I still haven't been there but it was good to get
such a descriptive account - thanks.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Pordenone had its own compensations, only two programmes
of which were Japanese - the anime programmes. These got their own section
in the catalogue, written by Alex Jacoby and Johan <SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Nordström, so I need not add anything
here.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">But there
is one thing worrying me disproportionately - In the first programme, which
included four by Murata Yasuji, it turned out that I had seen one before -
Kobutori / Removing the Lump - even though I have no note. I can see it's
on the Digital Meme set, but they haven't come my way. Is it possible that
it was shown at NFC in May2009, during the 'alternative SCMS'
?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">The second
set were all <SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Ōfuji and Ogino,
after which Okajima Hisashi and Tochigi Akira from the NFC said a few words
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Roger</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>