> This is big news. If I understand your message well, you are not only telling > us that Nishi now fully retreated from ASCII corporation but also that ASCII > is not a publicly-traded company anymore but a privately owned company? Exactly. However, according to Unison Capital press release, they will privatize ASCII "before October 2002". At this point, you can still view latest ASCII stock price here. http://stock.www.infoseek.co.jp/View?pg=basic_view.html&sv=ST&qt=%A5%A2%A5%B 9%A5%AD%A1%BC
The price is 81 yen when I'm typing this. Nishi, until November 29, used to own 910,000 stocks personally. > Who is this investment group "Unison Capital"? Their website; http://www.unisoncap.com/english/ however did not give a hint what this company was about. At least it's not a computer company, nor is a publishing body (of which ASCII is). This "John Ehara" owner (he is simply mentioned "Ehara Nobuyoshi" in Japanese portion of this website, by the way) has a branch in London. Nishi has several unknown ties with UK (like Madge corporation and also his latest;) wife being a anglo-japanese), but I don't know if this is coincidence or has something to do with him. I found a US corp with similar policy, but have failed to locate any link with; http://www.unisoncapital.com/default.htm > What are their plans with > ASCII? Total liquidation? Big restructuring? Latter. Unison Capital declared they'll cutback anything other than magazine publishing division and game development, and they'll fire most of current ASCII employees. But they haven't announced the very motive why they bought ASCII, which everybody wanted to know. By the way, at this point, 1ch.tv I mentioned as "a joke" earlier is not a joke anymore. Some people already phoned police. Stay away from it. Takamichi -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
