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To: bobby beara who wrote (15282)	8/4/1998 12:59:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 116764

OT Some more on Japan: - 'Experts wonder if Japan is prepared for Y2K bug TOKYO (AP) -- While much of the industrialized world frets over the ''millennium bug'' and warns of computers going berserk come the year 2000, Japan is an island of tranquility. Government officials and business executives insist programs for handling the software glitch are quietly under way. Too quietly, critics say. ''There is no sense of crisis,'' said Takafumi Hamaguchi, chief researcher at Tokio Marine Risk Consulting Co. ''I am pessimistic. I think people will just begin to realize it's too late when the day comes.'' ... sjmercury.com