Kimono for a Corpse [antikvár]

Chapter I"Then there will be some individual foreign VIP visitors as usual, of course. Miss Hong Kong will be opening a new restaurant of that name in Kitano Ward on the twenty-fourth, and Professor Anatolii Pozdnyakov of the Soviet Academy of Sciences will give a public lecture at the City Library-Museum on the third of next month"How do you spell that?" It was the twitchy young man from Kansai Television who wrote everything down."It's in the handout in front of you," the head of the Kobe City PR department said patiently, as he found it necessary to do several times every month at the briefing on forthcoming events of interest conducted for the benefit of the local media in a fair-sized conference room in the city hall, overlooking the broad boulevard which extends from the huge Sannomiya Station transport and underground shopping complex down past the New Port Hotel to the harbour. "Professor Pozdnyakov will be speaking about the information sent back by the probes landed on Venus in recent years. In Russian,1