>I bet they say it takes a lifetime of study, apprenticeship, practice, and
>learning, pretty much as it does here.

You must have had some negative experience with someone Japanese.
I suspect something wrong relation between this mailing-list and Japanese
proffesionals of computer science,  because I have no reply on my querry 
on Toshiba's floppy drive, which is very familiar machine here.
I got, however,  a Japanese book describing "Japanese standard" of floppy 
drive, and may be able to find something.

Anyway, I found more than 40 peoples got my update of Japanese106 
keyboard for plan 9 in these several days, which is not neccessary for
others who is not running Plan 9.  Therefore, I think there are some more
people who is running Plan 9 here, even if they may not be any proffesional
on computer science, thay may help our future, I believe.

Kenji