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From: masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov (Michiaki Masuda)
Subject: Re: A Japanese student killed in Lousiana
Organization: Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 03:24:14 GMT

In article <Bx8tGp.Gsp@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> amirza@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Anmar Caves) writes:
>In article <Bx84DM.ILM@ncifcrf.gov> masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov (Michiaki Masuda) writes:

>>     Do you have any idea how to encourage people to take the training
>>without legislation?

>Yes, I do.  It's called peer pressure.

  Is it working as it should?

>  Peer pressure.  Stop the
>media from portraying firearms as evil, and instead have them
>concentrate on safe handling of them. 

  Wouldn't it violate the US Constitutional right - freedom of expression?

>  I have no problem with the idea of an
>enforced class, or any type of competancy testing *if it were
>anonymous*, and if it were not designed to be so difficult so as the
>average person could not pass.

  Maybe, we are not standing so far away from each other...

Michiaki Masuda
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: k3amichi@student.business.uwo.ca (Kentaro Nakamichi)
Subject: Re: Not so new music
Organization: University of Western Ontario
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 18:10:58 GMT

M20441@mwvm.mitre.org writes:

> I have only recently begun studying Japanese.  I have a great interest in the
> music.  I heard a song by H2O <H two oh> called "Omoide ga ippai"
> I thought it was a very pretty song and wonder if that is a good repre
> sentation of their type of music.  If anyone knows of this song, or this grou
>  please email me with the info you have.  Since this song was on Karaoke, I
> figure that it is fairly old.  I think it was listed as 1987 on the disk.  An
> help would be appreciated.
>  
> Caron
> CRose@MITRE.ORG

I love these guys too; they were big in the summer of 1983, but have been 
pretty silent since.  Anybody know where I can get a CD or tape?

k3amichi@student.business.uwo.ca (Kentaro Nakamichi)
Western Business School  --  London, Ontario
From: keis@psy.uwa.oz.au (Keis Ohtsuka)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Japanese exchange student killed in Louisiana...
Date: 6 Nov 1992 02:30:31 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: wapsy.psy.uwa.oz.au


In article <Oct30.202842.67614@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> ntetsuya@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Nishimura) writes:
>	BTW, I am from the same city where Hattori was from and I know about
>	the school he belonged.  It is one of the best high school in the area
>	and the students there are usually very smart.  I myself cannot believe
>	a student from that school tried *repeatedly* to get into an unknown 

I'm curious as I lived in Nagoya. Which highschool did Mr. Hattori
go?

Phil Ngai writes:

>I understand that in Japan, there is often more than one family in a
>structure and the side door leads to a different area than the
>front door.  Unfortunately, the common behavior in Japan of trying the
>side door was seen as a determined forced entry in the US.

You logic does not make sense. If indeed more than one family lives
in a household in Japan, a "typical" Japanese behavior of trying 
a side door surely get you to a wrong family, doesn't it? Think again.
From: yoichi@carson.u.washington.edu (Yoichi Ii)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Please give your opinions...
Date: 6 Nov 92 12:33:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov6.123334.28854
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

masuda@ncifcrf.gov (michiaki masuda) writes:
>>  The US government calls me "non-resident ALIEN." Yes, I'm from another
>>planet...

chuah@sail.cc.u-tokyo.JUNET (Chuah Yeow Chiang) writes:>
>	Same here in Japan. Go to the immigration office or the airport and
>take a look at the sign board with all the "Alien". All the foreigners in 
>Japan have to carry an "Alien Registration Card" which shows you which planet
>he/she came from!!:)
>	Just wondering why they never thought of using the word "Foreigner"..?

Well, I thought someone said "alien" was changed to "foreigner" in airports
shortly after the release of the movie "Alien"? :-)

"Alien Reg. Card" is English. In Japanese it's something like "Gaikokujin
Touroku Sho".  No "uchuujin" or "iseijin" :-)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: dcroz@twics.co.jp
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Gaijin (was: Please give your opinions...
Date: 10 Nov 92 16:55:12 GMT
Organization: TWICS, Tokyo, Japan

 
<<Changing one word to another will eliminate any emotional attachments to a
word such as "gaijin", but just as quickly, the word then used for
differentiation will be seen in the same way.>>
 
     Well, yes.  Words come into being in response to the need to express a
concept or describe an object, right?  A few years ago you used to hear
"AIDSjin."  Lately we've been hearing "gaitou" (gaijin no gai and ketou no tou)
once in a while.    
 
     It is, as you suggest, not important which particular word is being used
to convey these concepts at any given moment.  What is important, I think, is
understanding what concepts are being communicated, whatever the terminology.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: New era in American politics....
From: smittie@beach.csulb.edu (Smittie)
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 18:33:17 GMT
Organization: Cal State Long Beach

I too find this rather misleading. Yes, in the electoral college Mr. Clinton
won by a landslide but a good many of the State that Mr. Clinton won were VERY
close. If one wants to talk about a mandate from the people of the US one MUST
look at the popular vote. Mr. Clinton did not even win a majority.

smittie
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: jimmy@tokyo07.info.com (Jim Gottlieb)
Subject: Re: Safety of Japanese cars (Was: Re: A Japanese student killed in Lousiana)
Reply-To: jimmy@info.com (Jim Gottlieb)
Organization: Info Connections, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 08:40:37 GMT

In article <1992Nov7.014856.6324@u.washington.edu> tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu () writes:
>
>strength of the steel involved is very important in passing these
>tests. You owe your thanks to Ralph Nader for this. You really are
>being protected. Amazing.

I read that there are no set safety standards for automobiles in Japan.
Supposedly, the law is a typically Japanese "Manufacturers should make
cars reasonably safe." without specifying how to go about it.

I think the domestic models do now use safety glass.  This was not true
at some time in the past.
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From: htakeda@Bonnie.ICS.UCI.EDU
Subject: Cheap foods
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Date: 5 Nov 92 20:19:12 GMT

You actually have to look.  But I believe I saw a tv show that
did something about a 100 yen ramen places in Japan.  I think it
was "Naruhodo the World".  They found about 30 I think about a year
and a half ago.  They did do the same special report about 5 years
ago I think and they hab

had about 50 stores.  There criteria was

1)  It was priced at 100 yen or less.
2)  It was a full ramen dish.  I think they used a measure.
3)  It had to be real ramen, not the instant kind.

I beleive there were several stores in the Tokyo area.
Near Funabashi there is a place that had 100 yen but went
up to 200.  I think it's still that price.

I am not sure about the exact data on this.
Can anyone confirm?

You have to look.  It's there.  Japan isn't really that expensive
if you know your way around :)
HIRO




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From: keis@psy.uwa.oz.au (Keis Ohtsuka)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Sumo - Kyushu Basho (Day 2)
Date: 13 Nov 1992 02:51:07 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: wapsy.psy.uwa.oz.au

Hi Fred,
Thank you for your live report on Sumo wrestling!  I have a few
suggestions which might be of your interests. First, news
readers outside Japan such as myself may not be familiar with
the current rankings of Sumo wrestlers. When you paraphrase
wrestler's name with a title (i.e., The Maegashira), please
make sure it is understandable from the context.
Second, I don't appreciate calling two Ozekis, Akebono and
Konishiki, and one Komusubi, Musashimaru, Hawaiians. Personally,
I am rather tired of parochial mentality of Japanese Sumo
fans pitting Japanese Sumo wrestlers against "them."
Look, 66% of the second highest rank (and currently the
top rank as the highest rank, Yokozuna, has not been filled
for some unconcevable reasons) are currently held by Americans
who came from the great state of Hawaii. 1/3 of the third
highest rank, Komusubi, is also held by an American.
Isn't it time to recognize their merit as Sumo wrestlers
as it is: great Sumo wrestlers. I don't care where they
come from so long as they are good at it.       

Keis Ohtsuka
From: keis@psy.uwa.oz.au (Keis Ohtsuka)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Japanese political reform (used to beNew era in American politics....
Date: 10 Nov 1992 02:41:11 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: wapsy.psy.uwa.oz.au

underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:

>One of the first things that Japan should do is to reform the position
>of prime minister by making it a _directly_ _elected_ position and renaming
>it "president".  This will have the twin beneficial effects of (1) making

1. Direct election of the Japanese prime minister

Direct election of the Japanese Prime Minister enables voters to
select best candidate for the job. As is, it seems the most
incompetent ones get nominated to the job after lengthy infighting
among LDP factions. However, I do not agree with DJ regarding renaming
the post to "the president."  At best, such change is merely cosmetic
and the Japanese bicameral assembly system closely resembles to
that of the UK is fine only if voters could get their message
across more efficiently.

2. Introduction of absentee voting system for overseas Japanese
citizens for national elections

Japan is one of few industrial democracies where citizens 
living overseas have no input in the political decision
making process of a country. Quite a large number of the
Japanese citizen live and work outside Japan nowadays who
have the first hand opportunity to witness how Japan
and Japanese culture is perceived by others. It is a pity
that the experiences and expert opinions of these people
are completely ignored. As a Japanese citizen, I demand
my voting right not to be wasted.

3. Revision of the Japanese Constitution regarding Chap. 9
(specifically on the definition of the size/role of JSDF)

I strongly believe that it is more dangerous to fudge
and skirt around the Japanese Constitution and interpret
it as you please regarding the national defence.
I would like to see the role of the JSDF clearly defined
in Chapter 9 and how they participate in UN peace
keeping activities as full participating members.
As the second largest economy, Japanese must realize that
the country has no choice but bear cost, responsibilities,
and initiative to keep the world safe place for all
people to live. I don't see any problem for defining 
a condition in which JSDF is deployed outside Japan
if it is under the command of the United Nation
for a specified period based on the UN Security Council's
decisions.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: cutler@equator.com (Ben Cutler)
Subject: Re: call for a new newsgroup
Organization: Equator Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 19:48:01 GMT

In article <MS-C.721377466.1103527590.mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM> mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM (Mark Crispin) writes:
>I think it is time for a new newsgroup, preferably a moderated one, in which
>Japanese cultural, historical, and social issues can be discussed in an
>intelligent fashion.  We can leave this newsgroup for Asano to vent his
>paranoid, racist, and historically inaccurate blather along with the gun
>flamers.

Here's my vote for a moderated group.
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Date: Mon,  9 Nov 1992 23:40:45 -0500 
From: Rikiya Asano <ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: 50th Anniversary of Japanese Amer. Internment
	<BxGMKo.1BC@inews.Intel.COM>

Fellow Counrtymen,

                      Don't not think it strange for those of the
Caucasian American Culture to treat the Non-Caucasian as "enemy alien"
or as "Nigger"(Yellow Nigger, Sand Nigger or Nigger Nigger) this culture
has a long history of this kind of treatment. We the Japanese are really
the fools- for ignoring this "killing of Humanity" when we ourselves
were doing the same things to alot of other Asians(people). The American
concentration of Japanese-Americans was a hideous crime to their own
people. It is how America worked for a long time. Some would argue that
it still is at work. Yoshihiro hattori's parents may feel
forgiveful(althought, I doubt it)but they are alive. Yoshi is dead.
Dead! He like those of the Internment(very convient considering the time
period)"camps" felt the blunt of racism. They died, had their homes
taken, businesses taken-happines taken. Everything in fact were taken.
If it was 
for President Jimmy Carter, they might been forgot by the American Government.
These were Americans.  JAP Americans as it turned out. 

 Now, after all this time there are some among you who believe that
America was right. This is a joke. but, it's for real. The majority of
Caucasian Americans
are just like the Majority of Japanese feel "no problem" about Ko-ryu
and Zhong Guo. We must change from this attitude. In the past the
Japanese Military tried to be like "them". And, they set us up with
Pearl Harbor. Then, drop the bomb on us. And, even turned us in to
Nokasonian saying "Yes, Yes Yes"! Remenber, one of the Japanese
conditions of the unconditional surrender was " That you will not make
our people slaves"! If the sad Japanese military( at that time)could
have recognized the Caucasian way and we are not able than we are
sadder.(well, more Sad). I now that the likes those individual of some
individuals would take this 
opportunity to call me a racist. But the context in which I was talking
is total equality. My instinctive feeling after being moved by Ms.
Dagoberg is to verbally scold you Mr.(s) Reese, lambert well I have to
go now> I don't feel so well.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: a7657@mindlink.bc.ca (Stephen H. Kawamoto)
Subject: Re: call for a new newsgroup
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:42:40 GMT

I suggest that the powers that be create an area called
soc.culture.deadair.jap and the moderator step in NOW
and WARN all participants in the Lousiana holy war to
unjoin this group and JOIN the new group.

 Then if we get anything like this again, some SYSADMIN
 should twit them!

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a7657@mindlink.bc.ca.


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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Japanese exchange student killed in Louisiana...
From: smittie@beach.csulb.edu (Smittie)
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 21:42:32 GMT
Organization: Cal State Long Beach

>Hattori did try to get in repeatedly. Front door and side door.

I suspect that the law doesn't define walking up and knocking on a door as
attempted forced entry. Moveover, I haven't seen any reliable source indicate
that Hattori-san ever made it to the side door. Given this feeble definition of
attempted forced entry, many deliver people (UPS, FedEx, etc) could be accused
of attempted forced entry.

smittie
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: a7657@mindlink.bc.ca (Stephen H. Kawamoto)
Subject: Re: call for a new newsgroup
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 19:53:55 GMT

Maybe the sysadmin is on holidays this week :)

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: sam@wa4phy.ampr.org (Sam Drinkard)
Subject: Re: call for a new newsgroup
Organization: Unix Business Solutions
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 20:42:15 GMT


I agree with Mark Crispin.  I've been watching this newsgroup since I
started receiving it, and I've even attempted a post for info, but with
all the hogwash I've seen, I doubt I will even continue to be an observer.
I have a Japanese wife.. I'd like to learn a bit more about the culture
from another perspective, but all I've seen lately is trash.  I vote yes,
and have it moderated.

sam

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: sakimura@sscl.uwo.ca
Subject: Word Gaijin (was Re: Please give your opinions...)
Organization: Social Science Computing Laboratory
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 23:26:42 GMT

In article <BxKLqn.8DG@ncifcrf.gov>, masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov (Michiaki Masuda) writes:
> In article <10NOV199220284420@vxcrna.cern.ch> ikeda@vxcrna.cern.ch (IKEDA,M./EP) writes:
>>In article <BxH0y1.CnK@ncifcrf.gov>, masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov (Michiaki Masuda) writes...
> .....
>  
>>  But language does evolve and I hope gaijin
>>will just mean non-Japanese by plain citizenship.  I know some Japanese
>>who use the word that way.
> 
>    I believe that "gaijin" was originally used that way if it's derived
> from "gaikoku-jin."
> 
There is a strong tendency for a Japanese to contract a word of more than
or equal to 5 syllables to 3 or 4 syllables word. 

e.g. 

Television (5 syllables in Japanese pronunciation) -> Telebi (3 syl.)
Word Processor (8 syllables in Japanese) -> Waapuro (4 syl.)

Gaikokujin (6 syllables) -> Gaijin (4 syl.) might be another example(^_^).

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: tanaka@til.til.com (Yokichi Tanaka)
Subject: MLB vs Japan All Stars
Organization: Togai InfraLogic, Inc.
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 22:40:37 GMT

I know it's been a while.  But can someone post or e-mail me
the results of the 7th and 8th (if there was one) games of the
baseball series between the MLB all-stars and the Japan all-
stars.  Or, if you're really kind ... for all the games.

Thanks.

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: miklg@acuson.com (Michael Goldman )
Subject: Re: internment camps
Organization: Acuson; Mountain View, California
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 16:09:52 GMT

bam@bnr.ca (Bruce Matsugu 1629654) writes:

>Another book on the internment of people of Japanese
>cultural origin during WWII is "Bittersweet Passage" by
>Maryka Omatsu. It describes the Canadian experience of
>the Japanese living on the west coast of British Columbia
>before WWII and also the steps leading up to the 1988
>redress compensation to the Japanese-Canadians by the
>Canadian Government.  The story is told from a personal
>perspective by author who both endured the internment and
>participated in the redress.

	On the Canadian internment and virtual slavery as
	farm workers for years _after_ WWII ended see
	"Obasan", which has been translated into Japanese.
	Despite its grim subject, it is almost poetic in
	tone.  I forget the author right now.

	- Michael Goldman

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	Disclaimer:  All views are solely my own & not the views of Acuson.
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Xref: sparky soc.culture.japan:10245 talk.politics.guns:23662
From: blamb@hri.com (Bill Lambert)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Trip Information
Date: 9 Nov 92 19:42:05 GMT
Organization: Horizon Research, Inc.


=> mitch@lsil.com (Mitch Sako) writes:
=> 
=> >Are there luggage forwarding services in the Tokyo area that will ship my luggage
=> >to Narita from Tokyo?  I know that there are services from Narita to Tokyo and I
=> >plan on using those.  What about the reverse case?  I would like to ship my
=> >suitcase a day before departure and pick it up there if possible.

In article <1dktirINNhd1@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>, keis@psy.uwa.oz.au 
(Keis Ohtsuka) writes:
=> Yes, there is. And I don't leave home without it.
=> Call "ABC Kouku Tenimotsu Service" at 3545-1131 (add 03 if outside Tokyo)
=> to arrange a pickup. [I'm not sure if a reservation desk has English
=> speaking personnel. Does any soc.japan.culture reader know the
=> answer?] 

Yes... abc has english speakers available manning the phones.

- Bill
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From: smittie@beach.csulb.edu (Smittie)
Subject: Re: Enka Music!
Organization: Cal State Long Beach
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 03:57:29 GMT

I love Enka!!

Yoshi Ikuzo is my favorite. And Sake Yo is my favorite song by him. I could
type in the words if enough people are interested.

smittie
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From: arnet@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Arne Thormodsen)
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 18:50:35 GMT
Subject: Re: Re: Gaijin (was: Please give your opinions...
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino