Coin Op. Journal

DIGEST OF THE COIN JOURAL
prise letter of advice from
Mr. Nakamura said, may be
In the meantime, Mr.
Nakamura's written letter was
sent from the secretariat as had
been required by Kitanaka.
The content of the letter is as
a magazine including incon-
Nakamura.
follows:
Sept. 30, 1982
To Mr. Kobayashi, president of
About an hour later, we
were visited by Mr. Mori,
the reason. Does he mean that
president of Esco Trade, and
Mr. Fukuda, president of Data
East, who also suggested either
withholding the sale of the
magazine until Kobayashi of
Coin Journal appeared at the
committee, or writing a note in
which we would promise them
spicuous advertisements would
be alright? He must clarify this
point, otherwise he must put
an immediate stop to dis-
crimination based upon his
private
feelings against an
exhibitor.
Coin Journal
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The committee of the Amusement
Machine Show notifies you herein
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that the committee has decided
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to suspend the selling of Coin-
Op Journal temporarily until Mr.
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Kobayashi attends the committee
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of the show to defend himself.
Reason:
gambling devices defined ac-
association's aim.
Masaya Nakamura, chairman of
the committee
The above letter presents an
obvious logical contradiction.
It says that the committee
"suspends the selling of the
magazine until Kobayashi at-
tends the committee of the
show to defend himself," but
we can't understand against
what we defend ourselves,
since it doesn't touch upon any
accurate reasons that would
necessate a defence.
"The magazine includes
conspicuous advertisements of
gambling devices," which, as
.....
cording to the association's
standard, is contrary to the
.....
.....
.......
The magazine, which includes
conspicuous advertisements of
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Mr. Masaya Nakamura
The committee must be
always be fair and disinterested
to every member of the associ-
ation, however, we doubt it is,
because it hasn't been ascer-
tained yet whether or not the
to terminate all advertisements
of gambling devices inserted
in the magazine within a few
months.
Mr. Mori and Mr. Fukuda
committee has sent the same
urged us, with a high-handed
attitude, to choose between
We decided to accept it,
missing to terminate adver-
letter to another trade publish-
er, Game Machine.
but, needless to say, we re-
fused to accept the suggestion
of temporary suppression of
Coin-Op Journal in considera-
tion of the reasons mentioned
before.
temporary suppression of the
magazine or the note pro-
tisements, and moreover they
required our prompt reply.
What an ill-mannered be-
havior to an exhibitor who
followed the regular pro-
ceedings! Besides, they did this
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