Asahi does translate as "Morning Sun" but it is a river, at one time I had heard that water taken from that river could be used to develop B&W film with no additional chemicals, however either that wasn't true or water quality has improved considerably since the 1950s.
Bob W wrote: > I've always thought it means 'sunrise'. > > >> Asahi is the name of a river, a lot of different things are >> named after >> it, much like say Washington. Washington Mutual Insurance >> has noting to >> do with the Washington Nationals< (baseball team), which has >> noting to >> do with Washington and Lee University, except for the name... >> >> Scott Loveless wrote: >> >>> http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23810400-2,00.html >>> >>> > > > -- Vote for Cthulhu. Why settle for a lesser evil... -- Dr. Jerry Pournelle -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
