It is more than likely this has already been covered, but I can't find it so...
While looking through some Shenmue code files the other day I was looking at the notebook text. Right at the end was two entries that you never actually get to view in the game (at least to my knowledge) so why would they have been included in code? The entries are:
Nozomi gave me
an amulet
Take care, Nozomi
and everyone...
Master Chen gave
me a letter of
introduction for
Tao Li Shao-san,
a martial arts
master who lives
in Hong Kong.
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I guess it kind of explains the amulet thing you start with in Shenmue II. But am just curious about this above anything...