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From: rehir@gauss.med.harvard.edu (Hirokatsu Watanabe 432-2275)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Help with art needed
Date: 12 Sep 92 14:39:50 GMT
Organization: Harvard Medical School


> Hi, I need help with a Japanese painting/woodcutting etc.
>I can't seem to find the name of it anywhere. I have exhausted
>all local resources etc.

> It is a huge wave, tidal wave, tsunami(?) with a small boat at
>the base about to be crushed. I would like to locate a copy of it
>somewhere, if someone could give me the name of it and the artist,
>I would be very thankful. A book in where it is shown would be
>even better!

> Please reply by e-mail.

   The picture which you said sound like 'Ukiyoe' drawn by 'Katsushika
Hokusai'. It is one of a series of pictures whose title is 
'Fugaku 36 kei', 36 scenes of Mt.Fuji. Its title is 'Kanagawa-oki
Namiura'.
   And the big wave is a kind of deformation. Don't believe that
you can play surfing there. :-)

   Sorry, I'm not sure where the picture is. Maybe you can find it
at the department of Oriental arts in the library near your home.

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*      Hirokatsu Watanabe      *
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From: miklg@acuson.com (Michael Goldman )
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Japanese immigration
Date: 10 Sep 92 14:50:42 GMT
Organization: Acuson; Mountain View, California

blamb@rodan.hri.com (Bill Lambert) writes:

> in more than 40 passes through Narita, I've only been asked to open a bag once,
>when I had a pair of scissors in my briefcase going through the security
>gate on departure. Narita is certainly not ideal, and is often crowded,

	You dress better than I do. ;)

	I usually figure it is better to dress casually when taking
	long flights, but when I did this on a trip to Japan, the
	official looked me over, asked me what city I came from and
	when I said San Francisco, he had me open _everything_ and
	he closely went through everything but my tooth paste.  Ever
	since, I dress _very_ well, say I'm from some city outside
	San Francisco, and have had no trouble.

	- 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: luke@platypus.ee.byu.edu (David Luke)
Subject: Re: Mr. Baseball
Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo UT USA
Date: 10 Sep 92 13:47:11

In article <18nu65INNdi0@agate.berkeley.edu> lindaa@sooth.Berkeley.EDU (Linda Absher) writes:

>I wanted to respond to Bill Lambert's comment on Hollywood's sterotypes of the 
>Japanese.  I think that after some thirty-odd years of Japan's tremendous
>technical and social progress, Hollywood could get beyond images of hunky
>white men being bathed by fragile Japanese women.  Aren't these the same
>images we saw in "Teahouse of the August Moon"?  

Of course, the Japanese won in the end in that one...

>But then again, I know I expect *way* too much from mass media....

No matter how little you expect, you're still probably expecting 'way too
much!  :)

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|  David Luke                      "There's nothing worse than a brilliant     |
|  luke@wombat.ee.byu.edu           image of a fuzzy concept."                 |
|                                                               -- Ansel Adams |
From: harkcom@spinach.pa.yokogawa.co.jp (Alton Harkcom)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: savings accounts
Date: 6 Sep 92 22:56:52 GMT
	<HARKCOM.92Sep2084829@spinach.pa.yokogawa.co.jp>
	<514@kgupyr.kwansei.ac.jp>
Organization: Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
In-reply-to: z91005@kgupyr.kwansei.ac.jp's message of 3 Sep 92 22:59:20 GMT

In article <514@kgupyr.kwansei.ac.jp> z91005@kgupyr.kwansei.ac.jp (z91005)
   writes:

 =}In article <HARKCOM.92Sep2084829@spinach.pa.yokogawa.co.jp> harkcom@spinach.pa.yokogawa.co.jp (Alton Harkcom) writes:
 =}>
 =}>   The tax and interest on most accounts will not be different enough to
 =}>be significant.  For any account of less than 3 million yen (I think) there
 =}>is no tax.  The interest rates on savings accounts are very low and there is
 =}>almost no difference between the banks and post office in this respect.
 =}>
 =}WRONG.
 =}There are practically no tax-free bank/postal office accounts.
 =}20% of the interest is automatically deduced.

   I just read Mr. Nakasima's post as to the change in the laws regarding
taxes on savings accounts.  I apologize for posting out-dated information.
From: davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Followup: Chinese communists & Japanese Imperial Army
Date: 5 Sep 92 08:37:18 GMT
Organization: Aegis Society, Kyoto Japan

yunson@lpf.umd.edu (Yunson Du) writes:

>In article <2551@aegis.or.jp> davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane) writes:

>>The other person is now about 55 and was thus 10 at the time: he
>>remembers begging chewing gum from American G.I.'s in the streets of
>>Osaka. He said that a few years ago NHK had a special TV documentary
>>on the infamous Marco Polo brigde incident in which it was claimed
>>that after some shots were fired, the local commander looked around
>>and found 2 or 3 of his men missing. While actually they had gone to
>>take a piss (always a good idea under stress :-), he reported them
>>missing to his commander and the commander ordered him to open fire.
>>The Chinese nationalists claimed that no shots had been fired, but
>>later, according to a secret document, it was shown that the Chinese
>>communists had fired the shots to bring the JIA into their war
>>against the nationalists. He says further evidence can be found in
>>//Sekimatsu Kara Mita Daitoa Senso// (loosely translated as "The
>>Great East Asia War: Views from the End of the Century") and
>>contains a collection of articles by various professors at Japanese
>>universities. 

>Again, this is a version of Japanese. As I remember, this 
>incident was prepared by the Japanese secret agent to find
>an excuse to invade the rest of China. There are enormous
>history books to support this. Actually, that is long-practised
>way to justify the invasion. If that version was carried in
>the Japanese history books, then this is another 
>seriously-distorted piece of history of WW2.

I don't know what it actually says in Japanese history books as I
don't read Japanese and even if I could there are many. In any case
I would guess that history books published in Japan don't all say
the same thing and neither do those published elsewhere. If so, why
would there be more than one? 

In addition there are other problems with responding to your
follow-up. Your statment that if version in Japanese history books
don't agree, they would be "seriously-distorted" assumes that you
have access to the true facts. While this allows you to dispose of
opinions which differ yours, I don't think it helps move towards any
kind of agreement as your mind is already made up: you're right, and
people who disgree with you are distorting things. Since they
probably feel exactly the same way so we can probably look forward
to another 50 years of arguments. 

[* details based upon the truth-distortion metaphor omitted *]

For those of you who read my "Wrong Way Home" post and suspect that
I'm simply going down the checklist of behaviors of back-seat-rider
behaviors ... you're right, I am. 

Dave

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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: lohse@rhrk.uni-kl.de (Frank Lohse)
Subject: International PM - exchange wanted
Reply-To: lohse@rhrk.uni-kl.de
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 12:53:54 GMT


A friend of mine asked me to post the following into this newsgroup. The topic
says it all. He is looking for international mail exchange. Please send your
replies to the address below.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hello everyone!

Since I find it a little bit difficult to get appropriate addresses thru
my local BBS, I'm looking for people from Japan interested in corresponding
with me by Internet by this means:

You should be a political sciences or law student (just as I am) and be
interested in exchanging views on current political affairs,
in English or French.

All other "arts" students would as well be welcome for correspondance.

Please address your E-mail to me at:

Markus_Schlegel@bn.maus.de

Hope to hear from you soon!
Markus
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Or "voice" me in Germany at
                            +49 228 677124
                                            for first info and contact
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

-- 
Frank Lohse
University of Kaiserslautern
Germany
lohse@rhrk.uni-kl.de
From: robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu (Henry Robertson)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: the four northern islands and why Russia wants to keep them
Date: 15 Sep 1992 06:46:45 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: monsoon.berkeley.edu

From what I heard in the U.S. news about a year ago, there is a new
capitalist community on Sakhalin, composed of young Russian entrepreneurs
(their closest counterpart of yuppies) that is growing its own food
& trying to become a player in the Pacific Rim economy.  I guess it would
have to rely on Sino-Soviet trade first.  Then again, some engineer at
an Arizone engineering institute did draw up serious plans for linking
the Bering Strait with an undersea tunnel composed of three sections, each
about 20 miles long.  I don't remember the engineer's name, but he was
a Hungarian defector to the U.S.

I guess we've about dissected the issue to a million inanimate pieces of
raw data.
From: masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov (Michiaki Masuda)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Mythology Gods
Date: 12 Sep 92 00:03:22 GMT
Organization: Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center

In article <1822@hsdndev.UUCP> rehir@gauss.med.harvard.edu (Hirokatsu Watanabe 432-2275) writes:
.....
>      I add a few Gods from other myth.
>       "Ebisu"
>            God of Commerce
.....

  Now that you mentioned one of the "Shichi fuku jin" (seven blessing gods), 
let me finish this by adding the other six.

  Daikoku-ten     God of food 
  Bishamon-ten    God of (northern) security 
  Benzai-ten      Goddess of music and entertainment
  Fukurokuju      God of bookkeeping of our life span
  Jurou-nin       God of longevity
  Hotei           God of ? (What's in his huge bag anyway?)

  BTW, as I understand it, Yebisu beer is named after Ebisu, and Ebisu Station
close to the brewery is named after the beer. Is that correct?. Does anyone
know if and where I could find Yebisu beer in the mid-Atlantic region in 
the US?

Michiaki Masuda
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,rec.arts.anime,rec.arts.manga
From: Dave.Li@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Dave Li)
Subject: Hentai magazines
Summary: How to get em?
Keywords:  hentai magazines
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 01:13:39 GMT

Hi net folks,

     How can I get Japanese "adult" (i.e. hentai :-)) magazines here in
the United States?  I remember one netter posting about an importer that
sells subscriptions to a few softcore magazines (Beppin, Suppin, etc.).  Does
anyone know of importers or stores that deal with a wider selection of
Japanese hentai magazines or with more hardcore material?

     Most of the readers of this newsgroup probably aren't interested in this
topic, so please reply with comments, information, or flames by e-mail.

          Dave Li          e-mail:   Dave.Li@lambada.oit.unc.edu

P.S. Am willing to summarize results if there is interest.
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: chosei@mokuren.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp ()
Subject: Re: telephones again
Organization: Dept. of Info. Sci., Kyoto Univ., Japan.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 11:01:38 GMT

What happened if I move from one ken to another one (from 
Kyoto  to Osaka, for example)? Do I have to sell my line and 
buy another there? Or is it simple to just change the fone number ?


Claudio Iara
From: rehir@gauss.med.harvard.edu (Hirokatsu Watanabe 432-2275)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: telephones again
Date: 11 Sep 92 22:15:47 GMT
Organization: Harvard Medical School

In article <1992Sep10.110138.753@kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp> chosei@mokuren.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp writes:
>What happened if I move from one ken to another one (from 
>Kyoto  to Osaka, for example)? Do I have to sell my line and 
>buy another there? Or is it simple to just change the fone number ?
>
   You don't need sell it. You need just to call the moving service
of NTT (I'm sorry. I forgot the phone number. If you ask NTT, they
will tell you about it). If you have already get your new address,
you tell NTT it and get your new phone number. 
   When I moved from Tsukuba to Osaka a few years ago, I called 
the service, and told my new address. NTT gave me my new phone number 
at that time.  I needed just to bring my phone and connect it to 
the connecter in my new home.
   But if your new home don't have the connecter of telephone, you
need to order it to NTT. 

   I hope this is helpful for you.

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*        Hirokatsu Watanabe        *
************************************
From: blamb@rodan.hri.com (Bill Lambert)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Mr. Baseball
Date: 10 Sep 92 18:06:10 GMT
Reply-To: blamb@rodan.hri.com (Bill Lambert)
Organization: Horizon Research

In article <18nu65INNdi0@agate.berkeley.edu>,
lindaa@sooth.Berkeley.EDU (Linda Absher) writes:

> I wanted to respond to Bill Lambert's comment on Hollywood's
sterotypes of the 
> Japanese.  I think that after some thirty-odd years of Japan's tremendous
> technical and social progress, Hollywood could get beyond images of hunky
> white men being bathed by fragile Japanese women.  Aren't these the same
> images we saw in "Teahouse of the August Moon"?  

The very same, but much less artful. And M*A*S*H, Gung-Ho, Revenge of
the Nerds, Black Rain, Blind Date,some James Bond Movie, and many
many more.

> But then again, I know I expect *way* too much from mass media....

If you expect them to do other what they think sells, yes, you are
expecting too much. Probably they'll even acknowledge that they are
enforcing stereo-types, but "so what" to them. As long as they believe
Tom Selleck getting soapy with a couple of giggly Japanese ladies
(I didn't see Mr. Baseball, but I assume the scene) is what people
like, then it's into the tub with Tom, and soap up those Nihon no
Bijin.

Hey.... I agree with you. But there are novels by Tolstoy, and Batman
comics. Students of literature will discuss the former and ignore the
latter. One contains ideas, the other images. One enlightens, the
other entertains. There's not a whole lot you can do about it except
to vote with your feet and the money for your theatre tickets.

Or.... write a famous and influential novel :-)

Thanks, Linda - Bill
From: An-Ly Yao <anlyyao@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Date: 08 Sep 92 19:47 PDT
Subject: Re: Any Japanese Pussy Available?
Nf-ID: #R:1992Aug31.031359.12423@ccu.umani:-1468160778:cdp:1473500057:000:513
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!anlyyao    Sep  8 19:47:00 1992


Hi Bill,

thanks for the intduction into american slang. Oops! Well, in German
we also have slang, but I better won't elaborate...

Of course I described some stereotypic behaviour. Those conflicts may
be the reasons for the work of my divorce lawyer friend. - My message
was by the way from me (Goetz Kluge), my wife is An-Ly Yao  :-).
I think, we don't suffer from these contradictory expectations and
won't have any business contact with my friend in Hamburg.

Claws? You never know in these days!

bye, Goetz

Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: kiisaka@csi.uottawa.ca (Ken Iisaka (the mad pianist))
Subject: Re: Attractive, Wealthy Japanese Woman Sought
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Ottawa
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 20:38:37 GMT

In article <1992Sep11.051708.21470@usl.edu> pssres12@ucs.usl.edu (Vignes Gerard M) writes:
>          Because they are exquisite creatures,
>           with deep, beautiful, almond eyes
>            and soft shiny, silky hair
>             and slender bodies.
>                                   And yet,
>                       they seem not ashamed
>                of their natural intelligence
>        unlike many American women I have known.
>
>
>-- 
>
>pssres12@ucs.usl.edu	Gerard Vignes, USL PO Box 42709, Lafayette LA 70504 USA
>

BBBBBBBB      OOOOOO      OOOOOO      !!
BB     BB    OO    OO    OO    OO     !!
BB      BB  OO      OO  OO      OO    !!
BB     BB   OO      OO  OO      OO    !!
BBBBBBBB    OO      OO  OO      OO    !!
BB     BB   OO      OO  OO      OO    !!
BB      BB  OO      OO  OO      OO    !!
BB     BB    OO    OO    OO    OO    
BBBBBBBB      OOOOOO      OOOOOO      !!

I take offense by your ignorant, insulting, and absolutely blind statement.

Japanese women are creatures?  Excuse me?  What does that make you, then?
Japanese women come in many different shapes and sizes as any other women, or
men.

You must have known very few women.  I've met some intelligent ones, and those
who are not so as much.

I'm bloody offended by the view you have on Japanese women and other women.


(A stray Japanese engaged to a beautiful, intelligent, American woman...)

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From: robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu (Henry Robertson)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Women's Movement in Japan
Date: 14 Sep 1992 01:35:12 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: headcrash.berkeley.edu

Ain't it so typical of we Berkeley intellectuals (scoff) that we should never
meet, despite being in the same field, but only in international discussion
settings.  As a matter of fact, Japanese have been blowing smoke for
well over a century.  It was already fashionable in the late Edo period
(19th century), along with the introduction of opium piping, fallout
from the drug-crazed Chinese empire.  Speaking of which, when I mentioned on
a live radio interview via phone from Japan, of how PLA troops who had fired on
protestors in Tiananmen Square had been injected with amphetamines, I was
censored off the air for 4 months, since the news was not official in
the Japanese press.  Anyway, I'm sorry about your grandmother.  And also,
Japanese salarymen should at least import certs from the US.

Japanese salarymen should at least import certs
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: patric@iat.holonet.net (PATRICK)
Subject: RACISM BY JAPANESE--CURRENT
Organization: HoloNet (BBS: 510-704-1058)
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 15:09:12 GMT

I am taking a short class in Japanese Culture at a local City College and
would like to do a paper on racism by japanese--as a current topic.  The
class includes a few Japanese and a Japanese instructor.  They are all
curious about the topic from a sense of trying to understand the
foreigner's perception of a "racist" attitude.  I have found historical
information on racism and one current reference (in Edwin O. Reischauer:
The Japanese Today).  

If any one has any current reference sources that I can access--I would be
extremely grateful.  This paper is due by 9/22/92 and I am not going into
a great deal of detail--but just want to touch on key points to help them
(and myself) understand.  I don't want the paper to be written to extend
hostility but to inform and open discussion on the topic.

Also, if anyone has a short story on a personal instance of racism by
Japanese--perhaps that could be part of the story.  (I have read some of
the other articles on racism on this topic and do understand that there is
racism in all cultures.  I am not trying to stir things up--only trying to
discuss and inform!!)

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me out!!
Patrick Hanley in San Francisco 

p.s. this is my first post since I joined in May and hope I have done it
correctly!!!
From: lindaa@sooth.Berkeley.EDU (Linda Absher)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Yo!  Need a new news group!!!!
Date: 9 Sep 1992 19:39:46 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization
NNTP-Posting-Host: sooth.berkeley.edu

In article <189qoaINNduu@agate.berkeley.edu> robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu (Henry Robertson) writes:
>All this stuff on 19th century/early 20th century Japanese military history
>is getting out of hand!  We need to form a new newsgroup called
>soc.history.japan.
>
I agree; much as I love Japanese history (hey! I read "Shogun"!), I think we have enough
material to form a new newgroup.

Now about that new Tom Selleck movie, "Mr. Baseball" wherein Mr. Selleck confronts those
"crazy" Japanese their "wacky" attitudes about life and baseball (complete with the pre-
requisite scene of Mr. Selleck being bathed by beautiful and petite Japanese woman), any
thoughts and/or comments?


-- 
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   $  lindaa@info.Berkeley.EDU	$       deep thoughts?"                   $
   $				$    -Tori Amos, Silent All These Years"  $
From: tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Mr. Baseball
Date: 12 Sep 92 02:54:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Sep12.025443.13629
Organization: clearer than blir

Is it any worse that many women who go see this movie do so because
they think Tom Selleck is a hunk? Oh, sorry, I forgot which side of
political correctness this thread was on. Lusting after beautiful
naked women (bad). Lusting after beautiful naked Japanese women
(worse--even more so if you're not Japanese yourself.) Lusting after
Tom Selleck the hunk (perfectly natural female response--don't
interfere.) Oh, forget it. The noise will drown me out anyway.

-- Tad Perry   Internet:    tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu
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