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From: vinita@redbird.pa.dec.com (Vinita Bhatia)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Survey of international students
Date: 25 Jan 93 07:09:59 GMT
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This is a request for help in a survey of facilities provided to internation
students on different campuses.  I need the information for a class project.

I will appreciate you sharing your experiences of the International Students
Offices in your university with me.  Please let me know of any program that
you thought was useful to you when you joined the school.  Also, if you felt
there was something for which you really needed help and was not addressed
before or after you joined the school.

Thanks for your help.

Vinita
-- 
Vinita Bhatia
vinita@redbird.umsl.edu
From: jcliu@four-lab4.Berkeley.EDU (James C. Liu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: a woman's ankle?
Date: 22 Jan 1993 19:04:04 GMT
Organization: UC Berkeley Dept. of Nuclear Engineering
NNTP-Posting-Host: four-lab4.berkeley.edu
Keywords: elephantitis-ankles to dikon ashi DAME

In article <1993Jan22.063615.437@omrongw.wg.omron.co.jp>
tnishi@lsa.ncl.omron.co.jp writes:

  >	Well, I wouldn't exactly go so far as to say that (Japanese) men
  >think about a woman's ankles.  It's more like, how could you NOT notice?

You could walk like a man and look up and forward instead of down at
the ground! :-)  BTW, did you also notice the little Ralph Lauren Polo
logo on the socks the school girls wear?  Seems like standard issue.
:-)

  >In Japan, we do ALOT of walking...to the station, to the company, to the
  >store, to the post office, etc. etc.,..not necessarily the "get in your 
  >car and drive to the office" kind of setting.  Of course, walking alone
  >doesn't make you notice women's ankle's.  It is more common for Japanese
  >women to wear dresses or skirts, even though slacks and jeans are
  >quite popular.....

I wonder...is the amount of walking and carrying loads while walking
responsible for all the mondo calf muscles I see on some young gals?
It seems like a possible phyisiological manifestation.

  >[stuff about #4 , #5 ankles on Japanese gals]...Not exactly the 
  >most appealing.  And you know how unappealing things tend to "JUMP"
  >at you even though you don't want to see it?

Some of the nicest gals I've met were between pudgy and elephantitis.
It may become appealing if you look at in the way that the physically
attractive gals, pretty much know it and flaunt it and tease with it,
while the less physically appealing gals are perhaps more genuinely
nice.  Case in point being a Japanese gal I used to meet at a local
hangout.  VERY attractive by anybody's standard.  Legs, ankles, feet
torso, and the face...she had Moritaka Chisato beat, and nice teeth too.
I saw her one night, tease, and then reject the advances of two men
and then laugh about it to her friend/roomate.  She tried it on me,
but couldn't get me to go for the bait.  Don't want to make all
attractive gals seem like...you know, the B-word, but IMHO, I
had dinner with her roomate (who is somewhat less attractive), and
discovered a very intelligent, honest, open and artistic person.
I guess, beauty is in mind of this beholder, (as long as she cutely
covers her mouth when she giggles)! :-)

Jaa, James
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: hyung@twg.com (Henry Yung (The Last In Line))
Subject: U.S. Engineers in Japan
Reply-To: hyung@twg.com
Organization: The Wollongong Group, West Coast Operations
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:31:01 GMT



Folks,

	Yesterday, one of the S.F. Bay Area's newspapers (San Jose Mercury News)
published an article about Japanese-speaking U.S. engineers working in
Japan.  It talked about two Stanford graduates who are fluent in Japanese,
working in Japan and about the numerous job offers made to them.  I especially
like the part where they described Japanese-speaking U.S. engineer as
"a diamond in the rough", highly regarded by both U.S. and Japanese firms.

	Although I do not have a degree in Japanese like the
Stanford graduates described in the newspaper, I consider myself as
relatively fluent in Japanese.  Well, at least fluent enough to be offered a
job as a software engineer by a electronics/computer giant in Japan
a few years ago.  However, I did not receive the "numerous offers" given to
those Stanford graduates as described in the newspaper (But then, I am no
Stanford graduate 8-).  What's more, the headhunters I've talked to usually
don't pay much attention to the fact that I speak Japanese.

	I suspect a good number of the readers of this newsgroup are
engineers and perhaps fluent in Japanese.  I can tell from your email
addresses that some of you are actually working in Japan.  Now, I have
a number of questions for those of you who are working or worked in Japan:

	1) Did you receive a lot of offers from companies who need
	   Japanese-speaking U.S. engineers?  I am trying to find out
	   if what the newspaper wrote is generally true or if the paper
	   was talking about just a few special cases.
	2) How did you get your job working in Japan?  Did you pursue
	   the companies or did they pursue you?  Headhunters?
	3) Did you get the job because you speak Japanese?  Or
	   because of your engineering skills?  Or both?

	Although I haven't actively pursued it, I am considering
returning to Japan and work there for a few years.  What would be a good
approach?  I know that there are headhunters who specialize in
Japanese/U.S. recruiting but is that the right approach?  Would it be
more fruitful to just send resumes to the major US/Japanese companies?

Your thoughts, please.

Thanks in advance.

Hank

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From: kuroda@sun04.o-asted.tis.co.jp (Noriko Kuroda)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Rie Miyazawa and Takahanada
Date: 28 Jan 93 07:03:41 GMT
Organization: Toyo Information Systems Co.,Ltd., Osaka, Japan.
In-reply-to: seb@stein.u.washington.edu's message of 25 Jan 93 19:11:52 GMT


    
   I think that Rie's mom is Japanese,but Rie's dad is hollandar.
--
                                                kuroda
						kuroda@sun04.o-asted.tis.co.jp
						06-821-1068(72-1068)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond)
Subject: Re: Speaking of Y. MIshima
Organization: Integrated International Systems Corp. One Longfellow Place, Suite 3309, Boston, Ma.
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:55:54 GMT

ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rikiya Asano) writes to Mr. CMorton 

>........................ But, there will a song and you will be the
>singer. And you'll sing ,  Lawd, Lawdy, Lawd, lawd! Plessse git mah
>Black ass out o' dis fire! I ma sorry Lawd! I ma sorry! Plessse git mah
>Black ass  o' dis fire! But,  it'll be too late! ....................


Am I the only one who finds this to be excessively offensive?  I am really
sorry that I have allowed myself to read this person's posts! I recently
recommended that we just ignore him and I think I will do just that again,
but the temptation to complain to CMU is VERY strong.

Oh well , back to kill files...


Charlie
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: tnt@netcom.com (Terry Turner)
Subject: Re: Apologizing for WWII--yet again
Organization: Watch the Skies
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 02:21:23 GMT

In article <1993Jan24.235952.26265@leland.Stanford.EDU> underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:


   In article <1993Jan24.4303.16653@dosgate> "micky wong" <micky.wong@canrem.com>
   writes: ...
   >if Japan as a nation has sincere remorse for her war atrocities, to prevent
   >the crimes be repeated by Japan's later generations, it should be part of
   >the history education.

   (I nearly choked on my O-cha when I read this.)

   I deleted most of this post, but the rest of it is typified by the above
   quotation and the one to follow.

   I fail to see how "Japan as a nation" should have "sincere remorse for her
   war atrocities".  This is fairly typical of Chinese-cu thought.

while your post is in part quite logical, it is impossible to overlook
the strong emotional content which makes one wonder what is really on your
mind. for example, do you disagree with the proposition that ideally
people would feel remorse for any atrocity committed by one
person/group/government upon another? or that if we are not reminded of
the evil that we have done, and how people in power manipulated the masses
into doing these deeds then we will be reliving these evils forever? 

if you agree with these two principles, would you not wish to see the
_government_ of one peoples admit that there was a wrong in the interest
of healing the wound and preventing future instances that might be enabled
though ignorance of our past? while i do not agree with all of mr. wong's
post, i do get the feeling from your post that you may not agree with the
necessity of reminding ourselves of the evil _we_ have done not just the
evil done to _us_.

if right wing militarists were to rise up and form a movement in japan now
(impossible without a military, and that is a good enough reason for me to
be against a japanese military), how many people there would recognize the
fact that history was repeating itself? we need look no further than
germany to see the danger of forgetting our history.
-- 
terry
	tnt@netcom.com
From: BFLV@MUSICT.MCGILL.CA (BFLV000)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Looking for a Japanese Word Processor For MS-DOS
Date: 22 Jan 93 01:32:10 GMT
Organization: McGill University

Could anyone tell me the ftp addresses from which I can get a
good Japanese word processor?  ThanX!


                                            M.Y.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: yoichi@carson.u.washington.edu (Yoichi Ii)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Chuukakuha
Date: 28 Jan 1993 05:39:30 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
NNTP-Posting-Host: carson.u.washington.edu

Rikiya Asano <ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
> [...] The Chu'kakuha! Now this will probably
>turn a lot of Japanese off but I like the Chu'kakuha. I think that
>something can be done with this group if it's organization was well
>structured and more mature. [...]

What exactly is chuukakuha and what are thier goals?
Are they related to sekigun (red army)?
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: jturley@netcom.com (Jim Turley)
Subject: Re: Akutagawa Ryuunosuke
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 04:58:25 GMT


Get your facts straight Rikya-san, Akutagawa did not win the nobel
prize. The *only* Japanese author to win that prize was Kawabata Y.


Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: f54713@sakura.kudpc.kyoto-u.ac.jp (Ellis Yan-Chee Lau)
Subject: Re: JWP for mac
Organization: Data Processing Center, Kyoto University, Kyoto, JAPAN
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 08:56:07 GMT

In article <RHB.93Jan21105125@world.std.com> rhb@world.std.com (Robert H Brueckner) writes:

 >Sure, there are several. I've been using EG Word for a few years now
 >and it's satisfactory for most things. But I'm gearing up to get
 >Solowriter, which is produced by Nisus Software. It requires the
 >System 6 Japanese operating system or the new Japanese language module
 >(excuse me if this is not the correct way to describe this) that will
 >be available for System 7.1. It costs about $400, but if it's as good
 >in Japanese as Nisus is in English, then it will truly be a dream come
 >true.
 >

I think SoloWriter is the best Japanese word processor. However, it runs
very slow in 68000 cpu. It costs about 44000yen in my university.


--
                <========================================>
                 From:  Ellis Yan-chee Lau   $@N-(J $@28;|(J
                        f54713@sakura.kudpc.kyoto-u.ac.jp
                        KYOTO UNIVERSITY, JAPAN
From: davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: email access in Japan
Date: 24 Jan 93 23:56:17 GMT
Distribution: soc.culture.japan

bunt0003@student.tc.umn.edu writes:

>Does anyone know how I can find out about  email access inJapan?  I'm
>looking particularly into Toyota company near the city of Nagoya.  I
>wonder if they have any email system that connects with the internet.
>Any answer will be appreciated.

I'm not completely sure what you mean.  Or do you wnat to know if
some particular Toyota company near the city of Nagoya has an email
system that can do that?  Do you want some place that somebody can
send email to the internet (that is, to various networks outside of
Japan)? 

If the former and you have access to the Internet, then you might
try whois to nic.ad.jp.

If the latter, attached is some information of the current options.
But please note that things will change materially in April when
Mombusho (National Education Ministry) cuts off links to all .or/.co
sites and the networks in Japan get reorganized.

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

---- Internet Mail in Japan 92/12/06 -------------------------------

1) Join CompuServe in the U.S. and access it via TYMPAS (TYMNET) for
~ 70 yen/minute. Some people also call direct at 110+ yen/minute
(depending on time of day) with high speed modems and claim they
it's better for large file transfers than TYMPAS which is only 2400
BPS. CompuServe can also be accessed via FENICS and instead of
CompuServe you might consider any host outside Japan you can get to
via X.25 Public Data Network. 

2) Join Aegis in Kyoto for a UNIX host + BBS-like front end. 5,000
yen signup, 2,000 yen/month, no charge for network mail within
Japan, 20 yen/K to other addresses. Access via direct dial-up or
TYMPAS (TYMNET Personal Account System). Send me mail, I'm sysadmin. 

3) Join TWICS in Tokyo for a VAX/VMS-host with PARTI/CAUCUS and an
AUS USENET newsreader. 15,000 yen deposit/signup + 3,000 yen/month,
mail inside Japan at no extra charge, charges for mail outside of
Japan free for the first 24K/month and 45 yen/K afterwards. TWICS is
well connected to other systems via DASNET at varying additional
charges. Access via direct dial-up, TYMPAS, DDX. Send mail to
burress@twics.co.jp for details. 

4) Set up your own UUCP host and join Juice. 5,000 yen to join plus
1,000 yen/month, mail within Japan OK, not sure about international
but most probably via KDDlabs' Inet Club which is 30 yen/K. Access
via direct dial-up. Send mail to juice-admin@juice.co.jp for details. 

For international netmail, you will need to subscribe to KDD's
InetClub. Charges are ~2,000 yen/month and up according to how many
people are at your site, plus 30 yen/K. Also, you may need to call
their site in Saitama directly, unless you want to route through
somebody else, thereby making them subsidize your traffic. Contact
konish@kddlabs.co.jp for details. 
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond)
Subject: Re: Dai-Nippon Teikoku and the Jews
Organization: Integrated International Systems Corp. One Longfellow Place, Suite 3309, Boston, Ma.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 02:41:04 GMT


>Mr. MCrispin writes:

>Their absurd notion -- and let this be a lesson to those who think the
>Japanese are incapable of utter stupidity -- was to import massive
>numbers of Jews from Europe....

Having seen a comment on this in the group, I thought that I should help
those who are confused by this sentence. Crispin-san is not generalizing
here. Quite the opposite, as he is chiding those that do generalize.

Charlie
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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 11:33:39 MST
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: honda: america's choice!
Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo UT USA
From: luke@newt.ee.byu.edu (David Luke)

In article <RHB.93Jan17231036@world.std.com> rhb@world.std.com (Robert H Brueckner) writes:
>In article <199317.4303.16387@dosgate> "edward nakagawa" <edward.nakagawa@canrem.com> writes:
>   I'm sorry for budding into this arguement but this is exactly the
>   type of thinking that will destroy you. With the European Common Market
>   and now the North American Free Trade Agreement you have to seek ways
>   to expand your market. I agree that Japan has been a poor trading
>   partner but Japan would be a huge market if it was exploited properly.
>                                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>How is that? By letting Japanese firms buy the rest of America and
>then begin selling our manufactured goods? Japan is now considering
>importing a meager 100,000 tons of foreign rice at an 800% tariff --
>is that how we "exploit" the market? They insist that only "wagyuu"
>(Japanese beef) is digestible by Japanese intestines -- until they buy
>a few ranches in the US and then magically the impediments to beef
>exports disappear (for those ranches).

Actually, Australian beef seems to be selling very well.  I've never seen
commercials for "Wyoming beef", but there are "Aussie beef" commercials on
TV all the time.  It seems as if, even after beef imports are allowed,
Americans just figure that the Japanese will buy it without any effort on
the part of the US.  Maybe we should take marketing lessons from the 
Australians...
-- 
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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: ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rikiya Asano)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: This Week..
Date: 21 Jan 93 16:27:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.QfLpibm00iV3I91VY9
	<C15u39.FHJ.1@cs.cmu.edu>
Distribution: soc
Organization: Masters student, Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

>Today is Thursday January 21, 1992. 
> 
>
> 
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
> 
>January 18   Dr Daniel H. William performed first successful open heart
>                operation, born 1856
>             Robert C. Weaver became first Black presidential cabinet
>                member when sworn in as Secretary of Housing and Urban
>                Affairs under the Johnson Administration, 1966
>             Congressman William L Dawson is elected chairman of the
>                House Committee on Government Operations 1949
> 
>January 19   Freed Blacks orgaize Savanna Ga's first Baptist church 1788
> 
>January 20   W.R. Pettiford, Founder of Alabama Penny Savings Bank,
>                born 1847 
>             Earliest human fossils found at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania 1959
> 
>January 21   Freedom Journal, first Black paper 1827
> 
>January 22   Nat Turner born 1800
>             Toussaint L'Ouverture, Haitian Liberator, enters Santiago
>                to battle the French 1801
> 
>January 23   Dr. Daniel Hale Williams founded Provident Hospital in Chicago,
>                1889
>             Paul Robeson, athelete, lawyer, singer and activist dies
>                in Philadelphia 1976 
>             ABC-TV begins televising the ALex-Haley inspired
>                miniseries "Roots" 1977
> 
>January 24   Martin Delaney, ethnologist, dies (1812 - 1885)
>             Jackie Robinson becomes first Black player inducted into
>                the Baseball Hall of Fame, 1962
>             Congress passes the 13th amendment, abolishing slavery
>                in the US 1865
> 
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
> 
> 
>--
>Peace.
>          "I have more respect for a man who lets me know where
>           he stands even if he's wrong... than the one who comes
>           up like an angel and is nothing but a devil."
                                - Malcolm X
From: robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu (Henry Robertson)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Loong list of Japanese BBSs
Date: 28 Jan 1993 01:56:36 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: hailstorm.berkeley.edu

In article <RHB.93Jan27105811@world.std.com> rhb@world.std.com (Robert H Brueckner) writes:
>Thanks for the list, but is this current? I ask because of all the
>300bps modem speeds listed. The "fast" modems are 1200 and only an
>occasional 2400 or 4800. I would have thought Japan would be current
>with v.32bis technology everywhere.
>
DON'T KNOW DON'T KNOW......
The list was recently uploaded to a local BBS....as they say, take everything
you see on computer nets with a grain of salt.

:P
From: hishimoda@vaxsar.vassar.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Youth Hostels in Japan?
Date: 27 Jan 93 13:34:37 +1000
Organization: Vassar College

Hi all....this is a follow-up to a previous post, but now I need more
speciiic info.

I need the addresses of certain Youth Hostels in Japan. These are:
Higashiyama, in Kyoto
Nara
Tokyo (no specific locations --- any of them will do)
Nikko

American Youth Hostels in DC said that they cannot give out addresses over the
phone. and that I would need to order a guidebook of some kind. Personally,
I don't think there's moral problems with asking for some addresses, and
besides, I am in kind of a hurry.

BTW, I am just trying to get a job at one of these locations --- that's all.

So if you want to give a poor college student a hand in getting a job this
summer, please drop me a line e-mail.

Thanks in advance.....

Hiraku Shimoda


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