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From: miklg@acuson.com (Michael Goldman )
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.china,soc.history
Subject: Re: An open letter to the Emperor Akihito of Japa
Date: 30 Aug 92 15:37:04 GMT
Organization: Acuson; Mountain View, California

smittie@beach.csulb.edu (Smittie) writes:

>The US wanted free trade with China because the US did not have the fire power
>nor the resources to crave out its own piece of China. By trying to force the
>"Open Door" policy, the US hoped to circumvent the advantages of Imperialism.

	I have seen this argument before, and it is hard for me to understand.
	The US was far superior in industrial and military capacity to Japan
	at the time Japan was grabbing its sphere of influence in the 1890's.
	In fact, the Russo-Japanese War was largely fought with war ships
	made in the US and the UK to order of the combatants.  By the end
	of the US Civil War the US had the best Army and largest Navy in the
	world, and at any time after that could have carved out whatever
	piece of China she had a desire for.  If Japan could get terrtorial
	concessions from China in the 1890s certainly the US could have as well
	had she wanted them.  That she chose not to could be due to a number
	of reasons, but military inability seems hard to credit.

	- Michael Goldman

-- 
"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have
exhausted all other alternatives." - Abba Eban
	Disclaimer:  All views are solely my own & not the views of Acuson.
	<sun!sono!miklg>  or  [miklg@acuson.com]
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: asano@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (ASANO Yoshiteru)
Subject: Re: mystery fad
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 03:46:01 GMT

robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu (Henry Robertson) writes:

>Is it true, that 20 years ago there was a fad for Japanese women to remove
>a section of their large intestine (about 20cm), since this would lengthen
>leg length?
I don't think so.  I have never heard of it.  I was 14 years old at that time
though...
  y.a.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.china,soc.history
From: masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov (Michiaki Masuda)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Why the Fascination?
Date: 4 Sep 92 05:24:05 GMT
Organization: Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center

In article <laam02INNmu@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> fugitt@tempus.Corp.Sun.COM writes:
>In article 123925RSAYLC@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com, RSAYLC@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com (Larry E. Cravetz) writes:

>> For what it's worth, I believe that what you are seeing is the 'grass is
>> always greener on the other side of the fence' phenomenon.
.....

>From my own experience I would tend to agree with Larry's comments.
.....

   Interestingly, a similar phenomenon is observed in rodents, and this may
be explained biologically. A recent article in the scientific journal 
(Nature, 352:619-621, 1991) showed interesting data and a discussion.
Although the interpretation of this phenomenon is stil controversial (ibid.,
356:293-294, 1992), it seems that the preference in a sexual behavior of mice
is determined by the genetic type of a certain protein called MHC. In other
words, a mouse picks up another mouse with a different MHC type as a partner
more frequently, and the animals with a same MHC mate less frequently than
expected. In this sense, they are also attracted by someone exotic.

   If the "next door's greener grass" phenomenon is something biologically
determined, I wonder why non-Japanese women around me don't admire my sexy 
nerdiness...8-)

Michiaki Masuda
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: smalik@hertz.uwaterloo.ca (Sanjeet Malik)
Subject: DO NOT READ! JUST TESTING!!
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 01:02:05 GMT

Hi! Just testing! 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.china,soc.history
From: jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au (Jim Breen)
Subject: Re: US colonializing (Was: An open letter to the Emperor Akihito of Japan)
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 03:12:24 GMT

thornley@nano.cs.umn.edu (David H. Thornley) writes:

>In article <ROTEN.92Aug31133031@CUBA.gsfc.nasa.gov> roten@CUBA.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Roten) writes:
>>In article <jwb.715225686@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au> 
>>jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au (Jim Breen) writes:
>>>In technology, it lagged behind both Britain and Germany in the 
>>>"Dreadnaught" revolution in naval architecture of the early 1900s.  
>>
>Actually, the first dreadnaught battleships laid down were American.
>They were in some respects ahead of their time, having all guns on the
>centerline in superfiring turrets.  I'd say it was about this time that
>the U.S. started taking the lead in warship design.

I can't deny this, but I'll just comment that it is the first I've heard of it. 
The "Dreadnaught" revolution was named after HMS Dreadnaught which is credited
in (most) naval history circles as being the first ship in the faster/more armour/
bigger guns brigade. There had been ships with centreline turrets for a decade
or so at that stage. [The Russians still claim that Popov invented the radio,
not Marconi.]

>>I'm glad you flamed him about this, Jim, because if you hadn't, I would 
>>have.  There is only one significant naval innovation the U. S. made 
>>before 1900, the ironclad.  And that was _immediately_ copied.  
>>
>I hope you'll consider this as a friendly correction, but didn't the
>British and French pioneer ironclads?  The Monitor was, I believe, the
>first "modern" warship designed with absolutely no provision for sails,
>but was thoroughly impractical for oceanic operations.  In any case,
>within ten years after the Civil War, the U.S. Navy was hopelessly
>antiquated.

Yes the Brits and French had been tinkering with "ironclads" for years, but
what made the Monitor, etc. unique was the total reliance on engine-power. It
was a case of the "necessity" of the Civil War being the Mother of this 
particular invention. In one swoop, much of the naval hardware in the world
was made technologically obsolete. It was hardly a lead by the Union/Confederacy,
because their sail-less ships were only viable in rivers and estuaries. The
Europeans quickly built better versions.
-- 
Jim Breen                           JIS:$B%8%`!!%V%j!<%s(J
Department of Robotics & Digital Technology. Monash University. 
PO Box 197 Caulfield East VIC 3145 Australia (ph) +61 3 573 2552 
(fax) +61 3 573 2345  AARNet/Internet:jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au
From: vsanjeev@us.oracle.com (Vasant Sanjeevan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: savings accounts
Date: 3 Sep 92 21:28:28 GMT
Organization: Oracle Corporation
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by an unauthenticated user
              at Oracle Corporation.  The opinions expressed are those
              of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.


It cost me Y2000 to transfer Y1000000 from my Citibank Japan account to
a US bank.  This was about 3 years ago, though.

Vasant
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: billd@gdstech.GRUMMAN.COM (Bill D'Camp)
Subject: Re: Long Distance Company
Organization: Grumman Corporation
	<7113@bigbird.hri.com.hri.com><BtK14s.LEx@world.std.com>
	<SMITTIE.92Aug25182614@beach.csulb.edu>
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 22:43:50 GMT

I've used SPRINT, MCI, and am now back with AT&T.  I not only call
Japan, I call Korea, Britain, Germany, Australia, and South Africa.  I
wasted lots of time and money with the other long distance companies.
There was usually noise on the line, sometimes so much that faxes
could not complete, frequently causing multiple transmissions to get
clean copies delivered.  The times I've used MCI or SPRINT either to
or from Seoul there was normally a heavy echo on the satellite
channel, something I've never had with AT&T.  I spend less with with
AT&T's "reach out world" plan than I did with either of the other two
services, and my discounts are not limited to single countries.
--
    _   /|
    \`o_O'
      ( )    Aachk! Phft!
       U
billd@gdstech.grumman.com
-- 
    _   /|
    \`o_O'
      ( )    Aachk! Phft!
       U
From: kim@magneto.physics.auburn.edu (Han-jung Kim)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Japanese gov't --- was (Re: An open letter)
Date: 29 Aug 92 05:12:46 GMT
Organization: Auburn University, Auburn, AL
Message-I.D.: <2520@aegis.or.jp>Lines: 32


 In article <2520@aegis.or.jp> davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane) writes:
>kim@magneto.physics.auburn.edu (Han-jung Kim) writes:
>
>>>On just about anything, I feel that the Japanese politicians
>>>make very few definite statements and mumble all the time. 
>>>eg. 'mae-muki ni kentou shite mimasho' (which means 
>>>'we will consider this in a positive light' !??). so typical.
>>>As long as the WWII issue does not become a big issue
>>>somewhere they will keep on ignoring it or duck under hoping
>>>it will go away. (Except the right wingers doing their thing 
>>>and the left wingers doing their thing.)
>...
>>>                        Kenichiro Aoki. aoki@physics.ucla.edu
>
>> Electic shock to me!!!
>
>[* rest omitted *]
>
>
>IMHO, the "electric shocks" and view of Japan as a "chameleon"
>is coming from the idea that Japan and the Japanese move as one.
>In fact, there are many factions and groups and they have quite
>different ideas ... although they tend to all call themselves
>"we Japanese" :-)
>
>Dave
>
>--

As this dicussion goes on, everythign shows up clearer and clearer to me.
Thank you, again, Mr. McLane.
From: mdewitt@btr.btr.com (Mark DeWitt  mdewitt@btr.com)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: HELP IN FINDING JAPANESE SOFTWARE LOCALIZATION EXPERT
Date: 4 Sep 92 17:20:34 GMT
Organization: BTR Public Access UNIX, MtnView CA. Contact: Customer Service cs@BTR.COM

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
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From: lindaa@omen.Berkeley.EDU (Linda Absher)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Any Japanese Pussy Available?
Date: 31 Aug 1992 18:58:27 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization
NNTP-Posting-Host: omen.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Aug31.031359.12423@ccu.umanitoba.ca> umsalte2@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Mystery) writes:
>
>
>I really need a virgin Japanese, hightec cunt!!!!!!
>

I find this little comment unbelievably offensive...

Go away.....



-- 
   $  Linda Absher		$ "You can't drink champagne $
   $  lindaa@info.Berkeley.EDU	$  out of a paper cup..."    $
   $				$    -Linc, "The Mod Squad"  $
From: davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Smell of Food (Was: What do most of Japanese ...)
Date: 25 Aug 92 16:27:57 GMT
Organization: Aegis Society, Kyoto Japan

ntetsuya@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Nishimura) writes:

>In article <1992Aug25.033206.1970@u.washington.edu> yoichi@milton.u.washington.edu (Yoichi Ii) writes:

>[stuff deleted]

>> o smell after a shower (as in rain)  What is that smell anyway?

>	Two possibilities, I can think of.

>		1.	smell of wet soil

>		2.	smell of dead FROGS hit and smashed by cars on the roads				      ^^^^^(I mean BIIIIG ones)	
>					
>					:-{   (Oooooh, gross!!)

Ehh? When I read that I thought of the smell you get on a summer's
day when it's been really hot and there is a small rain-shower. Very
fine smell it is but I wouldn't how to call it.

(Dead FROGS? That's another story :)

Dave

--
Dave McLane 
JUNET: davidg@aegis.or.jp (ONLY within Japan: post otherwise)
Nagaokakyoshi, Kyoto Japan Tel: +81-75-951-1168 Fax: +81-75-957-1087
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: yoichi@milton.u.washington.edu (Yoichi Ii)
Subject: Re: mystery fad
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 04:48:50 GMT

>robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu (Henry Robertson) writes:
>>Is it true, that 20 years ago there was a fad for Japanese women to remove
>>a section of their large intestine (about 20cm), since this would lengthen
>>leg length?                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

asano@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (ASANO Yoshiteru) writes:
>I don't think so.  I have never heard of it.  I was 14 years old at that time
>though...

I can't believe any sane surgeon would perform a major abdominal surgery
for a simple cosmetic reason ... but how would a removal of a segment of
an intestine lengthen ones legs?!  

I have seen ads for various contraptions that's supposed to lengthen your
legs, however.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: shin@krusty.ee.udel.edu (Jeong-Gyun Shin)
Subject: Re: Japanese gov't --- was (Re: An open letter)
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 16:51:12 GMT

In article <2520@aegis.or.jp> davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane) writes:
>IMHO, the "electric shocks" and view of Japan as a "chameleon"
>is coming from the idea that Japan and the Japanese move as one.
>In fact, there are many factions and groups and they have quite
>different ideas ... although they tend to all call themselves
>"we Japanese" :-)

Possibly true.  A faction and/or groups do come forward certain things
for the best of Japan, then this faction/groups die out and then the
remaining of Japan claims no responsability, then other faction/groups
come forward and do certain best things for Japan, then this faction/
groups die out, then ... and in between time, Mr. Kim from Alabama
keep watching it in sheer awe.

My point is that inner mechanism of how Japanese society is structured
or how it works is completely immaterial to victims of militaristic
Imperial Japan prior to 1945.  That only shows how fledgingly shaken
Japan's peace pledge is (untill next military comes forward and decide
to do something for Japan, hypothetically speaking).
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: tony2@prefect.uucp (21131-gozdz)
Subject: Kos^ice
Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 16:18:33 GMT

In article <Aug24.051921.27463@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> ntetsuya@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Nishimura) writes:
>In article <2465@aegis.or.jp> davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane) writes:
>
            [stuff deleted]
>>
>>Speaking of Czechoslovakia I've been corresponding with some people
>>from Kosice (has an accent over the 's' and is pronounced Ko-sh-i-ke
                                                            ^^^^^^^^^^
                                        should be:          Ko'shi-tseh
>>as far as I can make out) and they say they are definitely Slovak,
            [stuff deleted]
>>As for the spelling of the
>>name of the country, on the stamps it's 'Ceskolsvensko' with an
>>accent over the 'c'.                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
      after recent changes, it should be:  Cesko-Slovensko,
in September we may have two separate words :-(

                 [stuff deleted]
My 2c
Tony
From: claude@trc.mew.mei.co.jp (Claude Huss)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Nifty-serve/PC-Van connected to Wide-Net
Date: 4 Sep 92 02:56:11 GMT
Distribution: soc
Organization: Matsushita Electric Works Ltd., Tokyo, Japan.


I just confirmed it, but since September 1st. Nifty-Serve and
PC-Van have been connected to Wide-Net. They have plans to
Connect ASCII-net as well.
In this first stage, only some sites in Japan will have 
access to Nifty/PC-VAN (Keio University, Junet.ad, wide.ad,
I think), but it give us hope that someday we can be accessing
internet from Nifty/PC-VAN as we can do it now at Compuserve.

Ciao,

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: japlady@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Rebecca Radnor)
Subject: Re: Need recipe...
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 19:37:11 GMT


I have a recepie for Sekihan (rice cooked with Azuki beans) is that what
you want?

By the way, I finally found my Doria recepie, no thanks to anyone out
there.  Mrs. Naito, wife of Eaisi pharmeceutical's CEO, sent it to me as a
gift.  Doesn't anyone out there cook?
-- 
Rebecca Radnor                \\ I know everything,
NU Anthroplogy Department     \\ I know nothing
JAP= Jewish.American.Princess \\ I used to put sticks under the back porch 
     & Japan specialist	      \\      and wait for them to petrify.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: xiong@fzi.de (Xiong Xun)
Subject: Re: Is MAZDA a Japanese word?
Reply-To: xiong@fzi.de
Organization: Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), Karlsruhe, Germany
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 13:19:07 GMT

In article <TOZAKI.92Sep2033953@radish.math.keio.ac.jp>, tozaki@math.keio.ac.jp (Hidekazu TOZAKI) writes:
|> In article <14767@mindlink.bc.ca> twt@mindlink.bc.ca (Tom W. Tomlinson) writes:
|>  |Hi.  My friend Stan is the happy owner of a Mazda 626.  Is Mazda a
|>  |Japanese word or name?  The sequence /zd/ does not normally occur
|>  |in Romaji: is the name actually Matsuda?  What is the origin of the
|>  |name of this brand of car, and how is it represented in Kanji (if
|>  |it can be)?
|> 
|>  I hear it comes from Persian 'Ahura Mazda', God of Zoroastriansm, but
|> I'm not sure. At first, they made lamps.
|> 
|>  I add its kanji notation in my last lines (except my signature). If
|> your terminal can handle JIS Kanji, you'll read it. It is the family
|> name of the founder.
|> 
|>  Does anyone confirm it?
|> 
|> Regards,
|> 
|> $@>>ED(J
|> --
|> Hidekazu TOZAKI
|> Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan.
|> E-mail: tozaki@nak.math.keio.ac.jp

Someone had just told me the following:

MAZDA comes from MATSUDA = MATSU-DA
MATSU: pine tree
    #     # #
  #####  #   #
   ###  #  #  #
  # # #   #  #
  # #    #  ##
    #    ###  #
DA comes from TA: paddy field

    #######
    #  #  #
    #######
    #  #  #
    #######
From: dranidis@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (Dimitris Dranidis)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Mythology Gods
Date: 2 Sep 92 19:17:21 GMT
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)

Hello,

We are giving our workstations names of Gods from mythology. 
We are also interested in Japan Gods.
Can anyone mail me a list of at least 11 God names?

Thank you

Dimitris

P.S. I hope I didn't ask something wrong. No insults.
From: wohfuchi@splash.Princeton.EDU (Wataru Ohfuchi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Phobia (was Re: The Russo-Japanese War (part 2))
Date: 29 Aug 92 21:41:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: Princeto.1992Aug29.214112.16815
Organization: Princeton University
Originator: news@nimaster


  I report two case studies here. About myself and PJC (Princeton Japan
Club).

  I'm very uncomformtable if I talk to Japanese friends in Japanese
when there is any other friend who doesn't understand Japanese. So I
hardly spoke Japanese at the dining room at my dorm. (Well, there
weren't many Japanese anyway.)
  It doesn't matter for me if other people are Chinese or American.
I just want them to know what we're talking.
  I have Japanese friends here, as well as American, Chinese or other
friends. I, however, might look like a person who didn't want to make
friends with other Japanese students.

  PJC closed it's 8-year history this summer. It was established among
Japanese students who were good friends with each other. Apparently they
didn't have the feeling that we're talking about.
  I had observed PJC for the last 3 years. Many recent Japanese students
apparently didn't want to deal with PJC. I, as vice-president of the
club for the last 2 years, was a little disappointed.
  President and treasurer of PJC left Princeton this summer. I wasn't
motivated to keep PJC. That's the end of PJC.
  Some netters wrote that those people even don't want to make friends
with their fellow countrypersons because they want to absorb the culture
of the country where they live now. It seems a fair observation to me.

  I found some Japanese here were as interesting as other people. I am
not motivated to exclude these Japanese from my life.

...Wataru
-- 
  ...Wataru Ohfuchi
     Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University
     w1o@gfdl.gov _or_ wohfuchi@splash.princeton.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: ikeda@vxcrna.cern.ch (IKEDA,M./EP)
Subject: Re: What do most of Japanese think of Korean (Re: An open letter..)
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 08:50:00 GMT

In article <2489@aegis.or.jp>, davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane) writes...
>aoki@physics.ucla.edu (ken aoki) writes:
> 
>[* cut a lot of stuff to make it less confusing *]
> 
>>As for 'gai-jin', I never use that phrase because it seems
>>to have bad impression on some people. As somebody said earlier,
>>'gai-jin' is an abbrev for 'gaikoku-jin' and as such
>>it has no original bad meaning.  The word always reminds me
>>of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot always explaining why
>>he is a 'foreigner' in Queen's English.  There are other derogatory
>>phrases (also in Japanese) which were born as such.
>>I do not think 'gai-jin' compares to a word like 'nigger'.
>>MHO, of course.
> 
>Probably not, but there seem to be a lot of people who get upset by
>it. Not me, mind you. As long as people don't throw stuff or attack
>me bodily I'm OK. 
> 
May I ask who gets offended by being called a 'gaijin'?  If one is
constantly told the Japanese equivalent of "you furners just don't
understand", then I can see how the word 'foreigner' itself can become
offensive.  Has the word become an offensive term among non-Japanese
or expatriate Japanese who returned to Japan?

-- Makoto
From: ntetsuya@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Nishimura)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: What do most of Japanese think of Korean (Re: An open letter..)
Date: 23 Aug 92 17:10:19 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523

In article <2454@aegis.or.jp> davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane) writes:

[stuff deleted]
>
>For further reference, here in the Kansai there are three sub-divisions
>of 'gaijin':
>
>	futsu gaijin	just off the boat, don't know anything about Japan
>
>	henna gaijin	"strange" gaijin: can use chopsticks, can
> 			speak Japanese better than many native
>			speakers, know more history than many natives,
>			disliked by many people because of this
>
>	kawai gaijin	"scary" gaijin, likes to seduce Japanese 
>	^^^^^^		women (often comes to Japan for that purpose)
>	 /^\ 
	  |    you meant "kowai,"  didn't you?


>Dave
>
>--
>Dave McLane 
>JUNET: davidg@aegis.or.jp (ONLY within Japan: post otherwise)
>Nagaokakyoshi, Kyoto Japan Tel: +81-75-951-1168 Fax: +81-75-957-1087

	I didn't know about "futsu" and "kowai," but "heNna gaijin" is popular
	nationwide.  Especially on TV comedy shows, hosts like Tamori and 
	Takeshi usually make fun of "gaijin" guests like Dave Spector and Kent
	Dellicot (spl?).
	The word like "heNna gaijin" has two distinguished connotations, I
	think.  One is sounds-offending-but-actually-showing-friendliness type, 
	and the other is no-foreigner-can-really-understand-our-culture type.
	So if your good friends use the expression, it most likely connotes the
	former, and if someone that doesn't know you use it, probalby the 
	latter.

	BTW, Dave, which of the three categories you posted do you think will
	apply to you?   :->  (no offense intended)

					Tetsuya Nishimura