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Varvikello Great thanks for your quick reply.

Hi, I am searching for the position of Nokia House, Keilalahdentie 4,Espoo,Finland. Google map does not help me. Please someone let me know the GPS position (lon. and lat.) of the Nokia House. Thank you.

Hi, Certainly there are some geocachers in Tokyo area. Japan's very first event cache was held in central Tokyo early April, that was successful. Unfortunately I could not join that party as I am in 1000 Km west of Tokyo. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...97-bf514c5e935a Do search caches in Japan. You may want to contact some geocachers in Tokyo.

ID:atarum seems to live in Nara; http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=50...9a-964f35f13b02 This guy hid some cache in Nara.

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Hi. There are two virtual caches already on the summit; http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...83-e4f9d631aa11 http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...b0-8a3687b8f522 IN MY OPINON, Placing traditional cache either on the summit or on trails to the summit seems difficult. It is very busy during usual climbing season. It is very difficult to maintain the cache under harsh climate. As you may know there is civil movements attempting to register Mt. Fuji as a world heritage. There are cleaning (trash out) campaigns everywhere at the mountain in everyyear. It is likely that cache may be trashed away in such event.

Hi, I thought you are in Okinawa, as you say "South of Japan". I discovered you are in Iwakuni, me in Fukuoka. Local people around you usually refer the area to "West" but not "South" . South of Japan implies Kyushu and Okinawa. Anyway I know that yet many geocachers and caches in Japan are associated with US military installations. A weekly magazine "Aera" has one-page article about geocaching in Japan in the issue December 15 2003. The magazine claims that only 500 or so are participating in geocaching in Japan. Let's hope more people will join us. I am planning to hide a new cache in Fukuoka near future.

More correclty this should mean "Japan local information portal site". As the last character is missing, machine traslation did his job very honestly. The last two characters read "Sai", It should have been "Saito" meaning "site". Once the last character "to" is missing, the word "Sai" happens to mean "rhinoceros", an animal. Funny enough!

Thank you for all responses, I appreciate that multi language issue has been already discussed and considered for future develpment project. I can see Cornix's Japanese post correctly. It means "Japan local information site" But the last one character of the posted message is missing when it was copied and pasted here. I can still easily guess the missing character

Hi all. I am a Japanese geocacher. It is sad to see low profile of Geocaching activity in Japan. I suppose one reason, language barrier for non English speaker in Japan to joining Geocaching. A potential way to boost the participation is for Groundspeak.com to allow use of local languages in description of logs and caches along with English version. I know that some cache pages are writtten in both local language and English. But I don't think that writing in Japanese characters does work in Geocaching.com site. I tested this with no success. I suppose that Japanese characters are represented in two byte in computer world. I hope Geocaching.com can help in this issue. Thanks.

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