On 15 February 2017 at 11:13, Nick Downing <downing.nick(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, I just looked it up too.
I know no Japanese but I could not improve on Noel's and Nick's answers.
My Japanese colleague was born in Japan and obtained his
computer-engineering degrees from Japanese universities so I would
defer to him. (He has lived here a few decades but married a Japanese
woman and they send their kid to a special Japanese school for
ex-patriats on the weekend.)
N.