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At 13:26 97/11/19 +0900, Hisashi MATSUMURA wrote

> At  4:02 AM 97.11.19 +0100, Rolf Heiner Koch wrote:
>
> >How we can come to know the sex from
> >the name of a japanese scholar? Is there any trick
> >or no chance to find out the sex by the name?
>
> If the first name ends with -ko (short ko, not long koo), it is generally a
> feminine name.  In other cases, unfortunately, there is no definite rule.
> When you come across to a problem, please ask us in the NET. This may be
> the easiest solution.
>

Unfortunately the sex of mine is male.:-)

                    ---  Akihiko AKAMATSU
                              ^^

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                                        Akihiko Akamatsu
                                  Professor of Indian Philosophy
                              Faculty of Letters, Kyushu University
                                  6--19--1 Hakozaki, Higashi-ku
                                      Fukuoka, Japan 812--81
                             e-mail: aakamltp at mbox.nc.kyushu-u.ac.jp
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