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[mac_monkey]

As stated earlier his name is Satoshi there is no double 'i', I read it straight from the text.

Tsk those pesky cubehunters dont trust anyone these days

[myf]

I agree that we probably need to track this fellow down. I reckon he's been given a question to pass on to whoever contacts him, and the answer to that will be the solve.

On a whim though, taking off from the six degrees of separation idea, I decided to try Karinthy, Milgram, and Stanley Milgram as possible solves. Not surprisingly, they didn't work. But hey, worth a try.

[poozle]

[mac_monkey]

Actually, I don't think it's a legal issue at all. If someone takes a picture of you in a public place, they can do what they like with it.

At least thats what I remember hearing

[myf]

I think he knows what's going on. It's one thing torturing us lot with random stuff, but it would be a bit much to use a photo of someone, and risk them being badgered by strangers from the other side of the globe, without them knowing.

[Rand0m]

One for Boing Boing, this, I think...

[thereverendeg]

correct

[sledgecallier]

Babel fish confirms that 私を見つけなさい is japanese for

[tc]

[EvilGenius]

I'm trying the personals: "slightly evil genius seeks rustic Japanese hottie who takes photos of self on cell phone - must have black hair, brown eyes, no facial hair. Your own rural wallow in pre-modern Japanese hamlet a plus."

[Cabbage]

Okay, on a whim, cos I'm a whimsical kind of vegetable, and it's 4:35 in the morning, I decided to do a Google Image search on "Kevin Bacon" (as in Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon) and Satoshi. Got a few pictures, and one guy looks a bit like him (Satoshi Nikaido) but then there's another picture of the same bloke (unless it's a bloke with the same name) and he's got a tache and he doesn't look anything like him. Don't know what the text says as it is in Japanese.

Probably a dead end.

Maybe it's time for bed...


Edit: Ah - he's an actor who was in the Last Samurai...


Edit 2 Also found this http://www.fujilab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp/~nakamura/
Could be him when he's younger? His little brother? Has he taken a photo in the same way? Has he got that little curled up bit on his lip? Are his eyebrows in the right place?

When I go to the website I get lots of questionmarks where the text should be - is this because I don't have a Japanese font installed or is it part of some bigger puzzle?

Click down the links and you get stuff about Japanese walking robots, Quantum parallel computers, and a picture of an acoustic guitar. Too weird.

Right that's it, definitely time for bed.

[EvilGenius]

Email the Americans and tell them this guy wants to buy an airline ticket, tell them he's been acting suspiciously, say the writing is Arabic (like they'd know) - they'll soon know who is We could learn from the news where the cruise missile fell in Japan, the rest is cake . . .

[Cinana]

Search led me to this...Perplex homepage won't load for me, so i can not enter in my quesses.

http://www.articulograph.de/userlist-2006-table.xls

Then I went to another google hit and saw this under M. Kaneko: Compositional sematics of an ambiguity.
"Numata, Yoshiko. 2000. Toritate (focus particles), In Satoshi Kinsui, Mayumi Kudo and Yoshiko Numata (eds.) ......"

Both of those searches, i just typed in Tubingen Uni Japan Satoshi

Maybe nonessestial.

[myf]

[fretty]

Possibly the man knows about this and has been told to lie low for a while