Fake or real letter? You decide.

bluejeannot · Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 5:39 pm Post subject: Fake or real letter? You decide.

http://www.strat-talk.com/threads/tokais-mystery-box.448480/ from Felix's Tokai mystery box.
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mdvineng · Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2018 12:30 am Post subject:

that letter was never written by a Japanese native

wulfman · Guitar God Joined: 07 Feb 2010 Posts: 908 Location: Ottawa

I worked as a translator in Japan for several years doing Japanese to English translation and also did lots of correction of English translations by Japanese. That letter reads exactly like a translation of Japanese to English done by a non-native. Just my opinion of course.

mdvineng · Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2018 12:10 am Post subject:

so the plot remains

brokentoes · Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2018 10:23 am Post subject:

I don't know if its real or not, but i wonder whats the point of the letter, maybe it would become clear on Pg. 2 ??

Harima_San · Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 1:48 pm Post subject:

I'm a lover of the Japan culture and society. I was several times in remote locations within Japan. The documents that I saw, translated into english, where of this grade. In my eyes, it has a possibility to be legit. Also the characters of the typwriter are Tokai Legit. I had a very old letter from Tokai, and they used the same kind of police long ago.

luis · Guitar God Joined: 15 Sep 2001 Posts: 2359 Location: Spain

I have some letters from early 80s sent to Peter Mac from the factory (Old plant manager) and I would say the format is very similar. Maybe he can tell something about it.