CTAN has a new package: pgf-soroban

[CTAN Announcements]

The material below has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be
in place at your local mirror.

Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: pgf-soroban
Author's name: Alain Delmotte
Location on CTAN: /graphics/pgf/latex/
Summary description: creates images of the Japanese abacus using TikZ/PGF
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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Allows to create the Japanese soroban (abacus) using TikZ/PGF
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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/latex/
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pgf-soroban
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 
appear).  We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .  
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .