The upstream dictionaries required to build this module appear to be no longer available.
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[Lingua-JA-Romanize-Japanese-0.23] $ make
"/usr/home/jkeenan/var/tad/testing/perl-5.29.7/bin/perl" -Ilib -MLingua::JA::Romanize::DictJA -e 'Lingua::JA::Romanize::DictJA->update();'
Updater: Lingua::JA::Romanize::DictJA (0.23)
Path: lib/Lingua/JA/Romanize/Japanese.bdb
Loading module: DB_File.pm
Loading module: LWP::UserAgent
Loading module: IO::Zlib
Loading module: Encode.pm
External dictionaries:
http://openlab.jp/skk/dic/SKK-JISYO.L.gz
http://openlab.jp/skk/dic/SKK-JISYO.jinmei.gz
http://openlab.jp/skk/dic/SKK-JISYO.propernoun.gz
http://openlab.jp/skk/dic/SKK-JISYO.geo.gz
http://openlab.jp/skk/dic/SKK-JISYO.station.gz
Do you wish to download these files? [y] y
Fetching file: http://openlab.jp/skk/dic/SKK-JISYO.L.gz
Loading dictionary: skk/SKK-JISYO.L.gz
No such file or directory - skk/SKK-JISYO.L.gz
*** Error code 2
Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/home/jkeenan/var/tad/testing/perl-5.29.7/.cpanm/work/1547991774.30708/Lingua-JA-Romanize-Japanese-0.23
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I get an "Unable to connect" at http://openlab.jp/skk/dic/
Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan