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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 22:47:28 GMT

[This morning's mailbox was warm and crisp from all the flames about this thread,
so I will limit myself to the bare essentials in sallies and ripostes.]

miklg@acuson.com (Michael Goldman ) writes:

>	In the beginning of 1865, the US Navy had 530 vessels, with 2,000
>	guns, 51,500 military personnel, 16,900 Navy personnel in Navy
>	shipyards, and there were another 17,000 civilians in other shipyards
>	working on Navy ships.  Your turn - what was the British Navy size at
>	that time?  And the Union Army was over 1 Million men.

Hmmm. [calculate,calculate] That makes each ship had an average of 97 crew 
(assuming they were all at sea), and an average of 3.8 guns each.

Some navy.

-- 
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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  
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: kanekawa@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Nobuyasu Kanekawa)
Subject: Re: Any Japanese Pussy Available?
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 23:25:49 GMT

umsalte2@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Mystery) writes:
: 
: 
: I really need a virgin Japanese, hightec cunt!!!!!!
: 

I recommend you a Japanese state-of-the-art artificial
female sexual dummy doll. You can find the ads in Japanese
skin magazines.  They say that Japanese Antarctica explolers
are using them.

Yasu.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: andy@nff.ncl.Omron.Co.Jp (Andy Krantz)
Subject: Re: More on japanese films
Reply-To: andy@nff.ncl.omron.co.jp
Organization: Omron Computer Systems R&D Labs 
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 01:02:37 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.223815.10935@u.washington.edu>, tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu () writes:
> In article <1992Aug25.083718.22228@omrongw.wg.omron.co.jp> Andy writes:
> >
> > I do have to put a plug in for NHK's channel two. 
> > If they show a movie (or series) it
> > is without commercials and unedited. And rarely is the schedule
> > pre-empted for some sporting event that has gone over its allocated
> > time (like baseball, grrr). 
> 
> Without commercials? Yes! :-) Unedited? No! :-( Rare pre-emptions?
> No! :-(  
> 
> The coverage of pro American football on NHK Two (BS-version) sucks
> pretty miserably too. How is it that with a 2-hour, commercial-free
> format, they always manage to edit out an entire quarter?
> (They also were real bad about showing MacNeil/Lehrer and other
> news shows on a consistent basis.)
> 
> Now, to be fair, I was lucky to get *any* Moonlighting, *any* American
> football and *any* MacNeil/Lehrer in a foreign land. Cheers to
> Japanese broadcasting for trying to please it's native Japanese and
> foreign resident audience who are interested in such programming! BUT
> let's not get all excited and say they do a good job at it. They do a
> fair (as contrasts with good) job as regards a very commendable
> broadcasting practice.
> 
> -- Tad Perry   Internet:    tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu
>                CompuServe:  70402,3020
>                NIFTY-Serve: GBG01266

Perhaps my caveat got cut or I did not stress it enough: I really don't watch
much television here. 

What I stated above is only from limited observation and
seeing how the other channels mutilate shows and schedules I figure that NHK
Two is one of the better ones. (Curses when Star Trek gets cut or postponed:
the dorm has vibrated with a scream or two in the morning as I rewound the VCR
to find that an episode has been replaced by yet another talk show.)

Sumo recaps and some of the Olympics are about the only sporting events I
watch. I am oblivious of most other sports.

-- 
 Andy Krantz   andy@nff.ncl.omron.co.jp   \ Everyone stares at me 'cause I is
 Phone: +81-75-951-5111 x3691 FAX: 956-7403\ gaijin. I understand nobody and 
 OMRON Corp., Computer Systems R&D Labs    / nobody understand me. How could
 Shimokaiinji, Nagaokakyo Kyoto, 617 Japan/   I possibly speak for company?
From: harkcom@spinach.pa.yokogawa.co.jp (Alton Harkcom)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: postal service
Date: 1 Sep 92 09:21:52 GMT
Organization: Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Tokyo, Japan


   An intersting adventure at the post office...  Thought I'd share it...

   I recently had to send something in a hurry to the US.  I wanted to
send it by overnight delivery.  Unfortunately for us working, folk
overnight delivery isn't easily accessible.  You must stay at home all
day waiting for the carrier to come by and pick up your package or
spend the day going into Tokyo or finding a place to send it off...

   So I went to the post office and asked for the fastest possible
delivery to the US.  The clerk mentioned 'international business mail'
($@9q:]%S%8%M%9M9JX(J: kokusai bijinesu yuubin) which would take only 3 days
to the US.  He also said that I need to register to use it.  I filled
out the paperwork and recieved a number to use when sending
'international business mail'.  I sent a business size envelope with 4
pages in it for 1500 yen.  The same letter sent by one of the overnight
delievery services would run about 4000 yen...  (exchange rate is around
125 yen/dollar right now).

   For those who are in a hurry and don't have easy access to overnight
services (or easy access to the money to cover the fee) go to the post
office and use 'international business mail'...
From: harkcom@spinach.pa.yokogawa.co.jp (Alton Harkcom)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: telephones again
Date: 1 Sep 92 03:54:14 GMT
Organization: Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Tokyo, Japan


   Somebody asked, so here's a description of the getting a phone in Japan.
If you're not interested please skip it instead of flaming...

   The concept of telephones in Japan is a bit different from what most
Americans are used to.  In the US you buy or rent a telephone.  When you
want telephone service you pay a deposit and get a number.  You then pay
for the telephone service until you discontinue service.  At this point
you get your deposit back.

   In Japan you buy or rent a telephone too.  But getting and discontinuing
service is different.  To get service you must buy a kanyuuken (or 'the
right' to have a phone).  This costs almost 8 man yen (from a 3 year old
memory: 78,000 yen).  With this 'right' you can request service and get a
number.  You then pay for the telephone service until you discontinue
service.  Upon discontinuing service you lose the number but still have
your 'right' to get a number.

   NTT (the Japanese telephone greed monster :) [smiley for the humor
impaired] won't buy back the 'right'.  They don't even seem willing to
offer a document which certifies that you have such a 'right'.  However,
they are willing to let you transfer that 'right' to another person.
So there is a market for 'used rights'.  Some discount stores deal in
these 'used rights' and charge about 60,000 yen.  They will buy a
'used right' for about 50,000 yen.  These prices vary greatly so one
can sometimes see a 'used right' for about 40-50,000 yen.

   After one attains the 'right' it is very easy to get service.  Just
drop into an NTT office M-F during business hours and give your address,
date of requested service, and any other info needed (like automatic
billing info and such).  You will be issued a telephone number.  One can
also call 116 to get the same service.  Unfortunately 116 is only
accessibe during the same hours as NTT (before August 1st 1992, NTT and
116 could be accessed on Saturday also).

   Suspending service is easy too (sometimes it happens when you don't
want it :)  Just call NTT and tell them the date of discontinuance.
After that date you no longer have claim to that telephone number.
I don't know if they will allow you to temporarily suspend service
keeping the same number.  My guess would be that they won't.  (Could
somebody who knows follow up on this?)

   I don't remember about international access, but I seem to recall
having to ask for it.

Hope this helps someone...
From: cb522@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Cathy Atwood)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Rent Japanese films by mail
Date: 4 Sep 1992 03:31:23 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc5.ins.cwru.edu


In case this has not been posted before:
Home Film Festival (HFF) is a company that rents all types of
films to those of us who are out in the boonies of filmdom.  They
have a *lot* of Japanese films, almost all of them subtitled in
English.  They have been sending me three videos a month for a
couple of years, and there are titles still on my waiting list.
There is a membership fee, but I signed on once when there was
a "sale".  The rental fee is reasonable, IMO.
Home Film Festival
P.O. Box 2032
Scranton, PA 18501
U.S.A.
(800) 258-3456

Cathy Atwood
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Why the Fascination?
From: Larry E. Cravetz <RSAYLC@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 12:39:25 EDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Rohm and Haas Company


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. If someone is a little bit
 different, that may be enough to arouse interest. I freely admit, I also find
Amerasian/Eurasian women GENERALLY more attractive than the average Caucasian,
but I don't let it run my life, or my relationships in the way you describe in
your posting. Good luck !
From: ravich40@wharton.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: San Francisco Musicians need help!
Date: 27 Aug 92 06:33:01 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


 
     *------->   San Francisco jazz musicians need help!!!   <-------*
                 *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *
 
        I am posting the following message on behalf of my friend, Dr. Phil
Crumley, who is also a cornet player in "NGJB" Jazz Band. As I do not
regularly read this newsgroup, please send your replies or any suggestions
to my email box <ravich40@wharton.upenn.edu>, and I will prompltly forward
them to Phil.
 
===========================================================================
Dear netters,
 
     Our band is going on a jazz tour to Kobe-Osaka area in Japan. We  will
be  playing there from October 3 until Oct. 11. During this time,  we  will
need to rent a full-sized double B flat tuba. Any of you jazzers over there
able  to help? Suggestions or phone numbers would really be appreciated and
all that jazz.
 
Thanks in advance,
                        Phil.
 
 
C/O Ilya Ravich <ravich40@wharton.upenn.edu>
===========================================================================
From: davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: telephones again
Date: 1 Sep 92 15:23:10 GMT
Organization: Aegis Society, Kyoto Japan

harkcom@spinach.pa.yokogawa.co.jp (Alton Harkcom) writes:

>   Somebody asked, so here's a description of the getting a phone in Japan.
>If you're not interested please skip it instead of flaming...

...

>   In Japan you buy or rent a telephone too.  But getting and discontinuing
>service is different.  To get service you must buy a kanyuuken (or 'the
>right' to have a phone).  This costs almost 8 man yen (from a 3 year old
>memory: 78,000 yen).  With this 'right' you can request service and get a
>number.  You then pay for the telephone service until you discontinue
>service.  Upon discontinuing service you lose the number but still have
>your 'right' to get a number.

Last time I got a line (5 months ago) it was 72,800 yen. 

...

>   I don't remember about international access, but I seem to recall
>having to ask for it.

It used to be so, but I'm not sure it is anymore.

>Hope this helps someone...

Here are some more details which may help as well.

First off, local calls cost 10 yen/3 minutes go up from there in
terms of how many seconds you get for 10 yen. International calls
are charged in units of 6 seconds with varying amounts (U.S. is
least expensive, less than Korea). "Nearby" calls are quite
expensive compared to the private companies (I use 0070 and 0088). 

Another factor to consider is that the kanyuuken brings the line to
the *outside* of the house where it ends in a fuse-box. If you want
NTT to bring it *into* the house you have to pay: ~10,000 yen.
Further, NTT will charge you rent on the line they install from the
fuse-box to the modular jack. 

However, it isn't absolutely necessary to have NTT do the work and
you can have somebody else do it for less. 

In my case, this was me.  Not with the first line, not on the
second, but with rest. At first it was easy as I just threaded the
wire through the same hold the existing lines came though the wall
in, but later on I had to make new holes and I had to find the same
kind of grey plastic pipe they used. A bit of nuisance but I've
added 5 more lines and that's 50,000 yen: not bad for a bit of
fiddling with this and that. 

Also to be considered is that you can get answer-only lines for only
36,400 instead 72,800. However when you do, you get charged
commercial rates instead of as an ordinary user and thus you wind up
paying the same amount after about 2 years (sorry, don't have exact
figures). 

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: Phobia (was Re: The Russo-Japanese War (part 2))
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 04:53:25 GMT

ntetsuya@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Nishimura) writes:
>[lots deleted]
>What do you guys think?

I was confused by the word "phobia", but I see know that it meant "self-hatred"
(of ones culture/race etc).  With this understanding, I agree with Nishimura-
san's comment and with Musada-san's assertion that "phobia" exists.  

I imagine that such attitute was more common in post-war era. Among the 
younger generations who grew up in a more affluent Japan, however, such 
whole-sale admiration is rare (I think).  For example people might admire the
individuality and the bigger houses of the Americans, but at the same time 
scorn at their selfcentered-ness and the higher crime rate in the neigborhood.
(Don't flame me, it's just my observation (apology to Nishimura-san) :-)

>[order switched]
>And actually it is these people who are not eager to teach their kids 
>Japanses.  (able to speak "fluent" English with "native-like accent" is one 
>of the biggest social statuses in Japan, you know  :-/ )

I admire people who has mastery of both languages, but just being able to 
speak English doesn't do it for me :-).
From: shibuya@mailhost.bl.cad.slb.com (Hiroto Shibuya)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Any Japanese Pussy Available?
Date: 2 Sep 92 14:42:35 GMT
Reply-To: shibuya@mailhost.bl.cad.slb.com
Organization: Schlumberger Technologies CAD/CAM Division

In article <1992Aug31.031359.12423@ccu.umanitoba.ca> umsalte2@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Mystery) writes:

>
>   I really need a virgin Japanese, hightec cunt!!!!!!
>

	% finger umsalte2@ccu.umanitoba.ca
	[ccu.umanitoba.ca]
	Login name: umsalte2                    In real life: Daniel Saltel
	Directory: /home/student/umsalte2       Shell: /usr/local/etc/expsh
	Last login Tue Sep  1 13:57 on ttyd17
	Unread mail since Tue Sep  1 15:25:59 1992
	No Plan.

Mr. Daniel Saltel,

	If you have to masturbate like this on net, you need serious help.
Stay off the net and do it in your bedroom.
--
				Hiroto Shibuya
			
				Schlumberger Technologies 
				CAD/CAM Division
From: coyote@sti.com (Ron Lussier)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Repair of Pachinko Machines on the Bay Area?
Keywords: pachinko repair help cia assasination
Date: 29 Aug 92 16:31:00 GMT
Organization: National Man-Smurf Love Association

Howdy,

Is there any shop in the Bay Area which will repair and recondition Pachinko
machines?  I've recently gotten one which is somewhat broken, lacking a power
supply, and lacking quite a few balls.  It would be nice to get it working
again.

Thanks in advance for any information.

Peace,
Ron
-- 
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coyote@sti.com                 / |      1601 Saratoga-Sunnyvale Rd, #100
(408) 973-8081 x315           /__\                   Cupertino, CA 95014
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Addresses in the from line
From: smittie@beach.csulb.edu (Smittie)
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 02:10:12 GMT
Organization: Cal State Long Beach

We recently had a similar incident here at CSULB. A friend of mine noticed a
post to I believe this newsgroup which had his address on the "Sender:" line.
The person who wrote the post had signed it and so a message was sent to his 
sysadmin but nothing more has been said. The person who actually posted the msg
is not even in the same state and therefore could not possibly have used a
machine that my friend was signed on to. Some other method was used. If one was
to check back thru the messages about apologies from Japan one will find that
quite a number of the messages have addresses in the "Sender:" line that don't
appear to coincide with the signature. Some could well be authorized use of
someone else's account but in light of recent events one has to wonder.

smittie
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GEnie, MCI, AOL:Smittie | If all of us were as smart as we think we are the
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Xref: sparky soc.culture.japan:7611 soc.culture.china:24590 soc.history:7984
From: miklg@acuson.com (Michael Goldman )
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.china,soc.history
Subject: Re: US colonializing (Was: An open letter to the Emperor Akihito of Japan)
Date: 2 Sep 92 15:56:58 GMT
Organization: Acuson; Mountain View, California

jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au (Jim Breen) writes:

>miklg@acuson.com (Michael Goldman ) writes:

>>jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au (Jim Breen) writes:

>>>It was busy at the time snatching colonies off Spain: (Philipines, Cuba, ...)

>>	You realize, do you not, that this will result in a 27-part series on
>>	the Open-Door policy, the Spanish-American War, and the US Civil
>>	War?  I'm sorry sirrah, that it must come to this, but you leave
>>	me no choice!   :-)

>What a good thing I didn't add "..and annexing independant neighbours, like Hawaii."

	In 1898, Teddy Roosevelt (Secretary of the Navy) was afraid that Japan
	was going to annex Hawaii which would have put the US on the defensive
	in the Pacific, with virtually no potential coaling stations between
	California and Hawaii.  Roosevelt actually saw a war coming with Germany
	before Japan, but he believed, as did most people at the time, that with
	industrial production outstipping consumption, that every industrialized
	nation needed industrially undeveloped markets, though not necessarily
	as part of an empire.  The US could not rely on the peaceful intentions
	of other powers.

	- 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]
From: claude@trc.mew.mei.co.jp (Claude Huss)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Buy books from Japan.
Date: 27 Aug 92 07:16:17 GMT
Distribution: soc
Organization: Matsushita Electric Works Ltd., Tokyo, Japan.


Does anyone kno a good bookstore in the US that I can
Fax/Phone/E-Mail and order books (not technical books,
something like romance, literature,etc.) using a 
credit card for dispatch to Japan?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond)
Subject: Re: Long Distance Company
Organization: Integrated International Systems Corp. One Longfellow Place, Suite 3309, Boston, Ma.
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 03:26:06 GMT

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

>I tried MCI. ......
>...(disaster recounted)...
>..... I am now back with AT&T.

>I tried Sprint once too but that's another story. While I have MCI I frequently
>had line noise so bad that I had to hang up and call back, a problem that I
>have never had with AT&T.

>I hasten to remind everyone that all of this is only my experience. Maybe I was
>just unlucky or whatever. I'll NEVER tried any other long distance service
>though.

>smittie
>-- 
>___________________________________________________________________________
>GEnie, MCI, AOL:Smittie | If all of us were as smart as we think we are the
>smittie@beach.csulb.edu |  current world problems would be yesterday's news.
>________________________|___________________________________________________


This was just about what hapened to me, except they managed to get one
of my lines disconnected while THEY owed me $100. N.E. Tel had to eat
some expense in that situation, because they had been negligent in following
the carriers directions. NET was very nice and I did not really blame
them (I did however accept their credit to my bill *smile*)

Charlie
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