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[ixalon]

[aliendial]

Thanks to catherwood, who is not even playing this game, I think we have the location - this is a picture facing the place where our guy is standing (except he'd be behind that tree or even upstream of the yellow house, and of course the season is different):

http://www.speechcode.com/show-public-photo-cover.php3?serialNumber=934

Alsace, baby!

edit: and now I call bingo (just searching the city name on google images gets you an even better shot): http://www.guiarte.com/pueblos/images/kaysersberg.jpg

A pity I don't have the card yet.

All hail catherwood!!!!!!

[isca]

[ramsfan]

I do, and sadly the answer isn't kaysersberg, though I'm sure that's the place. I'll be rounding up all the satoshi's over a nice bottle of gewurtztraminer. EDIT seems that albert schweizer's birthplace specialises in Tokay.
They like their multiparticle dynamics in Kaysersberg, or at least they did in 1977. satoshi matsuda and satoshi yamazaki were both there. Haven't tried either as I'm sure that wasn't the burberry scarf style back then.
Details of the Hotel de Ville
HOTEL DE VILLE
39, rue du Gal de Gaulle
68240 KAYSERBERG
Tél. 03 89 78 11 11
Fax. 03 89 78 11 12
infoSPLATville-kaysersberg.fr
I can fax/phone them tomorrow, but I wonder if there's someone with fluent French, who might sound less of an idiot.

[BBuck]

[aliendial]

Too young to be those Satoshi's. Even if the mulitparticle physicists were just grad students in 1977 they would be over 50 by now; our Satoshi does not look that old.

[rose]

thanks Cath

[jayito]

Wow I'm impressed - that second picture is even from about the same angle!

Nice excuse for a little summer trip to Alsace, anyone?

[Thomas Bookmore]

[isca]

Tourist? Try here:

http://www.ville-kaysersberg.fr/

[ixalon]

Wow catherwood! Nice find indeed!

I'll update billion2one.org when I get a moment tomorrow!

[deBaggio]

French speaker

[deBaggio]

...er and does he happen to have a small off-world, bizzarly marked cubey thing sitting on the bar in front of him??....

[catherwood]

Just up (or down) the river from Kaysersberg is the town of Kientzheim which is home to a Japanese college!
Seijo College of Kientzheim or Le Lycée japonais Seijo
Apparently this region of Alsace in France is a nexus of Japanese culture.

[Cinana]

Nice job Catherwood!!

With the way photos can be transformed, couldn't the background of the Kaysersberg river be a picture taken in 1977, and then Mr. Satoshi being super-imposed onto the picture (that was taken, say 5-8 months ago?)

At any rate, we are instructed to "find" him. With what Catherwood just wrote, maybe we should begin honing on some of the variances of that area for the answer.