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• Acknowledgments •

The advice and time of a lot of people went into this project and I would be remiss if I did not thank each one for their kind help. Thanks to: Donald Knode for getting the ball rolling; Osamu Minashima and Haruo Erikawa for keeping it rolling; Teruo Noguchi and Ryuichi Hayashi for showing me the Sofia pachinko factory; and Kenji Kishima and Akira Teshigawara for hosting me on my trip to Gunma Prefecture. Thanks also to: everybody at Parlor Joy Green for their patience in answering my many inquiries and in letting me get "behind" their parlor; Dr. Sunil Dutta for applying his knowledge of materials science to pachinko balls and nails for me; Robert Collins for advice and assistance in the early stages, not to mention the Foreword; Barbara Bayer, the editor, for all her advice and patience;Jeffrey Behr for reading through my manuscript and putting some of my tips to the test; Kozo Ogi and Makiko Nakajima for their help and support in professional matters over the last couple of years; and to Paul Ainlay and Takeshi Fujita, without whom I may never have remained in Japan. Special thanks to Yasuo Hirako, Hirotaka Reizei, and other staff members of Pachinko-Jutsu magazine for answering my inquiries and for donating many of the pictures used herein. Biggest thanks go to Hiroko Kusakabe for giving me all the necessary computer assistance and support to process the words in this book, for using her computer graphic know-how for the diagrams, and for staying with me through all the ups and downs.