From: Sam Sloan <sloan <at> ISHIPRESS <dot> COM>
Date: 17 mar 2001
Subject: Re: Japanese Numerals

At 09:02 AM 3/17/2001 EST, you wrote:
>Dear Friends,
>
>    I have a question regarding notation: In Japanese games I see positions
>recorded by the Japanese character (presumably in Kanji) and a Hindu-Arabic
>or Roman numeral.  Is there not a native Japanese numbering system that
>predates the introduction of these Occidental methods -- and wouldn't it be
>somehow more authentic or traditional?
>
>-Mike

I do not believe that this is an Occidental method at all.

I believe that this is the traditional Japanese method.

If the Occidentals had messed with this, they would have done it differently.

Sam Sloan