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Subject: Yutaka Iwasaki
Category: Relationships and Society > Relationships
Asked by: mannert-ga
List Price: $40.00
Posted: 22 Feb 2005 17:08 PST
Expires: 24 Mar 2005 05:52 PST
Question ID: 479021
This is a second try

In 1942 my Dad commanded a submarine the Grunion. In October of that
year his sub was reported  missing and all the family was told was 
that the loss  was somewhere and Pacific. There  was nothing about it
on either  American or Japanese records.  Officially it was
operational ie non combact problems.

Almost 60 years to that day we found to a note on one of the Grunion
Web sites that a Japanese named Yusaki Iwasaki believed that he knew
what happened to the Grunion.

 We were able to obtain his e-mail address from the Internet.  Yutaka
Iwasaki  spent to an entire weekend translating an article written  by
a commander of a Japanese cargo  ship which had been in a 
confrontation with the Grunion.

 Particularly  important  is that Yutaka provided  a location of that
confrontation.

The plan now is to hire Bob Ballard of Titanic fame to make a search
for the Grunion and to determine what happened to the Grunion at 5:30
am  July 31st 1942. Was it a circular torpedo or what?

 We want to contact Yutaka Iwasak for  two reasons. First to let him 
know  the significance out his kindness and secondly to double check
the location of confrontation, We know that it is north of Kiska
Island at the tip of the Aleutians and that that area is known for
terrible conditions.

The problem is thgat Yutaka Iwasaki's email address has changed. It
used to be at <navy_yard-iwa@mbj.sphere.ne.jp>.

Google says that providing email addresses is personal info. However
if you can find a legitimate address and send a note asking Yutaka  to
reply to mbabele@rcn.com about a search for the  Grunion I am very
sure he will answer.

Several things about Yutaka. He is very interested in WWII Japanese
warships and a search of the Internet will provide a number of hits
including the old email address. He is fairly young and I believe 
works with a newspaper doing Japanes to English translations.

Bruce Abele, son of the commander of the Grunion
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Subject: Re: Yutaka Iwasaki
From: snow_bunny-ga on 23 Mar 2005 13:41 PST
 
To search for his email adress you can go to www.optonline.net and
search the name and japan and there are two email's listed, maybe one
of these is what you are looking for.
Subject: Re: Yutaka Iwasaki
From: guillermo-ga on 23 Mar 2005 14:47 PST
 
Dear Mannert-ga,

I understand that sometimes rules add some difficulty to accomplish
certain searches, but there?s nothing we can do about it. In fact, no
*personal* (as opposed to *business*) contact information -including
email address- is to be posted in Google Answers, not even the
asker?s, thus we can?t proceed as you suggested. Actually, posting
your email address prevents us from answering your question (please
see http://answers.google.com/answers/faq.html#postemail ). For that
reason, it?s quite unlikely that any researcher worked on your
question. I post this comment so you can understand why. Your option
might be to cancel this one, post a new one without the email
addresses, and if a researcher can find a *business* contact
information from the person you?re looking for, then it could be
answered.

Sincerely,

Guillermo-ga

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