From: Hiroki Kawada MERL HITACHI CO JP> Date: 21 sep 1995 Subject: Ms. Hayashiba quited and ... Ms. Hayashiba lady's 5-dan, having ever owened many of lady's titles, has quited Shogi Renmei and never appears in offical games anymore. She has once dissapeared and escaped to England for a few months causing a lot of reputations. She is not only a strong shogi player but also a famous writer of girl's mystery novels. But much more shocking news was her full-nude photo book is going to be published. This news was sensational in Japan and a lot of magazines, not only shogi magazines, treated as a headlining news. Mr. Dan Oniroku, known as a shogi patron, the former owner of "Shogi Journal" (out of print) did not agreed to publish her nude from his point of view, said in a magazine. He is not only a shogi patron but also a famous SM novel writer. He will ask her to become an actress in his movie as he can teach her his way. Anyway, I do not prefer seeing those kind of photo books, but let me take a look in order to confirm what's going on there. Foreign shogi players may be able to ask Ishi press if they handle shogi photo books. Sorry. :-) A certain yellow-news-paper resource in USA told that an certain European shogi champion should be shocked to hear this news because he is in love with Ms. Hayashiba. When he comes to Japan I have a lot of questions to ask if he had ever given a lot of help to her escaped to England. Hiroki ------------------------------------------------------------------- Hiroki Kawada * "After the defeat Mechanical Engineering Res. Lab., * it is a valuable time for me." Sec. 15, Hitachi Ltd., * Kunio Yonenaga, Kandatsu 502, Tsuchiura, * professional shogi player Ibaraki 300 Japan * -------------------------------------------------------------------