If the speculation and rumour is correct then Hikki is preparing to release ?9 Sai no Omoide? on the 21st August, what this means to TITO, and I am only making wild guesses, so my take on this is that all the silence, could entail lengthy negotiations surrounding Hikki future contractual commitments to Universal. A fact not lost is the label chosen to release ?9 Sai no Omoide?.

So taking account the prolonged recovery from peri tonsillitis, the last Hikki blog, clearly indicating ?near the end of the recovery stage?, and what one can surmise from the release of ?9 Sai no Omoide? clearly not in the hands of Universal, however this was ?penned? when Hikki was 9, long before any formal contractual Commitments, so we?re to presume Hikki has been take a rest and working on new material.

How IDF fits into all of this is baffling though, promotional activity appears to have totally stalled, without any rational explanation, had TITO not been released in Japan then for IDF the whole project could have dire financial consequences.

To halt all support and commitment to a CD release with promotion and hospitably that entailed the hire of private jets, huge organisation and business planning, costly hiring of PR and media support professionals, is evidence in itself that to suddenly stop this would be financially suicidal, and subject to scrutiny on audit.

Completed a whole study term on company fiscal reporting procedure.

Mentioned was that Hikki in the yahoo Japan interview indicated that she would withdraw from blogging for a while, (I am actually in the court attendance office at the moment on the monitors computer knelling on the table clocking to see if I?m about to be summoned so I hope I?m making some sense)..Hikki never said why?