From: Hiroki Kawada <kawada <at> MERL <dot> HITACHI <dot> CO <dot> JP>
Date: 23 feb 1996
Subject: Habu's fiancee was kicked.

Hi, shogi-gossip fans,

Miss Eri Hatada, fiancee of Habu, was kicked at her waist and injured very
slightly.  She was buying a ticket at Tokyo station.  The criminal, a
middle aged man looking like a homeless person, asked something to her and
kicked her when she replied "I don't know.".  He did not seem to know her.
He was immediately arrested by policemen who were patroling AUM suspects
there.
The next morning all of gossip TV programs reported the details.
Habu, just finished a game (lost)  in shogi center and coming out from the
exit, was immediately surrounded by huge number of presses, but he rushed
to the taxi and directly went his fiancee's house.  He left no comment.  A
press made many tribial questions to her mother through an interphone at
the door.  Finally he asked if the fiancee would be pregnant because Habu
looked very serious in spite of her very light injury.  Her mother
answered, "Definitely NOT".  But who knows except the two?

Hiroki Kawada                     * "After the defeat
Mechanical Engineering Res. Lab., *   it is a valuable time."
Sec. 15, Hitachi, Ltd.,           * K. Yonenaga,
Kandatsu 502, Tsuchiura,          *  Shogi (Japanese chess) player
Ibaraki  300 Japan