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From: cathy@techbook.com (Cathy Gaupo)
Subject: dietary habits
Organization: TECHbooks --- Public Access UNIX --- (503) 220-0636
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:45:14 GMT

I hope this is the right newsgroup to post this in.  I'm hoping to
recieve some information about cooking for a Japenese student who will
be living in my home for 11 weeks.

I just recently found out that the man will be able to live with my
family and he will be here in just a few days.  I would like to know
what to serve him for the first meal.  I assume he will be very tired
and probably nervous and not very hungry.  I want to be able to provide
something light and something he will feel comfortable with.  

Also for typical breakfast meals, what's normally eaten?  I will need to
cook breakfast and dinner for him while he's here.  I will probably cook
for dinner what I normally cook for everyone, but breakfast tends to be
a hit and miss item in my house.  As I will need to make it a normal
feature for him,  can someone tell me what is a typical breakfast.

As of yesterday morning, I had no idea that this man would be here.  I
would appreciate all the ideas you can give me.  I want to make it
comfortable for him.   Can you tell me about is customs I should know
about?  What are some typical problems with Americans and Japanese?
What can I do to avoid potential conflicts?  Any ideas would be greatly
appreciated.

Please send directly to cathy@techbook.com as I do not read this
newsgroup very often.    

Thanks,

cathy@techbook.com

Cathy Gaupo

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From: timd@ed.ac.uk (Tim Duncan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: SEXISM IN JAPANESE WORKPLACE!!!!
Date: 22 Dec 92 11:51:34 GMT
Reply-To: T.Duncan@ed.ac.uk
Organization: AI Applications Institute, University of Edinburgh

In article <BzMsxA.GnE@jrd.dec.com>, doi@jrd.dec.com (Hitoshi Doi) writes:
[...]
|> # > Who says equality is good?
|> 
|> Do you want to deprive women of maternity leave?
|> Do you want to force women to work overtime 50 hours/month?


Or you could look at it the *other* way round -- allow men to take paternity
leave, and reduce the hours that men are "forced" to work.

	-- Tim
From: herb@sybase.com (Herb Lison)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: NHK Dramas on Videotape?
Date: 21 Dec 92 22:26:19 GMT
Organization: Sybase, Inc.

Does anyone know if NHK Dramas are available on videotape?  When
living in the San Francisco area recently I noticed that a UHF
station, Channel 26, had these programs on regularly with English
sub-titles.   The programs were very high quality and a real pleasure
to watch (except for the frequent commercial interruptions.)

The ones I'd like to obtain most are "Nobunaga, King of Zipangu"
and one about Ashikaga Takauji (forgot the series name).

Any help appreciated.

Herb Lison
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe)
Subject: Re: Comfort girls?
Keywords: rape of nangking
Organization: Miners for a Heart of Gold
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 23:21:25 GMT

In article <1992Dec30.165154.1750@island.COM> fester@island.COM (Mike Fester)
writes:
>In article <1992Dec30.023046.17816@leland.Stanford.EDU>
>underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:
>>Is that anything like Mr. Fester's hatred of homosexuals?
>Perhaps you would care to find a post of mine criticising homosexual culture,

I didn't say "criticize homosexual culture"; I said,
"Mr. Fester's hatred of homosexuals"

>criticising them for have "homosexual names", or whatever.

Perhaps, Mr. Fester would care to find a post where I criticize
"Asian-cu names".

> No doubt, you will
>have as difficult a time doing that as you do confining your remarks to 
>things Japanese on soc.culture.japan.

No doubt, Mr. Fester will have as difficult a time doing that as he does
confining his remarks to things that match the subject line "Re: Comfort
girls?".

>In Japanese-related news: the figures released by the Japanese regarding chip
>sales in Japan of US chips shows a slight decrease in US market share from 
>about 16.1% to 15.9%. The initial increases came after Bush's "disasterous"
>trip to Japan, and was the biggest quarterly increase on record. The current
>adminsitration plans no action, but the 1992 quarterly sales for the fourth
>quarter will become public in March, and could well be one of Clinton's first
>imoportant trade issues.

Case in point.

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From: davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,fj.life.in-japan
Subject: fj.life.in-japan
Date: 26 Dec 92 07:38:30 GMT
Reply-To: davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane)
Followup-To: soc.culture.japan
Organization: Aegis Society, Kyoto Japan

Subject: Yoshihiro Hattori Memorial Service

[* The following letter is the English translation of what Mieko and *]
[* Masaichi Hattori said at the memorial service for their son,      *]
[* Yoshihiro, on October 20, 1992. It's a bit late, but even so I    *]
[* thought it was worth typing in. --Dave McLane                     *]

AFS Japan Association, Inc.
Nishi-Shimbashi K-1 Bldg.
19-4 Nishi-Shimbashi 2-Chome
Minato-Ku, Tokyo 105, Japan

October 20, 1992

Dear Friends,

My wife and I should like to take this opportunity to thank you all
for what you have done for our son, Yoshihiro, since he came to live
in Baton Rouge two months ago with AFS. We are especially
appreciative of your gathering here tonight to remember Yoshi as a
member of your community. We can never tell you how sorry we are
to have to confront such a regrettable situation as this. As Yoshi's
natural parents, we are particularly sorry that he had to leave this
world with much undone.

The friendship he cherished the past two months should not be
allowed to end because of this unfortunate incident. We feel we
should make every effort to maintain and let grow the intent and
wish which Yoshi came to this country with. We are eager to do
whatever we can to strengthen the ties he had made with people in
this warm and friendly country. We are sure that Yoshi was
ultimately aiming at gaining knowledge and understanding of another
culture and that through this experience he would be able to serve
as a bridge between out two countries.  Now that we are in the land
of Louisiana ourselves, we are increasingly aware how rewarding
Yoshi's experience had been owing greatly to your friendship and the
support you offered him. 

The American lifestyle let him try many new things, for which we are
truly grateful to you all. We are especially grateful to the
Haymakers, who accepted Yoshi as a real member of their family from
the first day he arrived at their home. 

We should like to express our heartfelt appreciation of kindness
and thoughtful support given to us by everyone we have met. We
really don't know how to thank you enough for what you have done
for us the past two days.

Last, but not least, we should like to mention that we are sorry
in our awareness of Mr. Peairs' suffering for this most unfortunate
incident. We cannot help but wonder why a lethal weapon, like guns,
are so easily accessible in this society. Without them, Mr. Peairs
would not have been put in the position he is in right now.

[signed] Mieko & Masaichi Hattori
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From: yoichi@carson.u.washington.edu (Yoichi Ii)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,misc.invest,misc.entrepreneurs
Subject: Diapers (was: Kodak vs. Fuji (which was: DOES AMERICA SAY ...)
Date: 29 Dec 1992 06:03:57 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
NNTP-Posting-Host: carson.u.washington.edu

hank@westford.ccur.com (Hank Cohen) writes:
>Second , as one who has faced this dilema head, or rather bottom, on
>as has already been established there are no diaper services in Japan
>so the choices are between disposables or home laundery.  Since
>washing machines in Japan are exclusively cold water wash devices my
>concern was with killing bugs.  Without hot water I felt that it would
>just be safer to use disposables rather than face the problems with
>bacteria that would almost certainly result from cold water washing.

That's why you're supposed to "sun" the diapers.  The UV light
kills the little buggers. Or at least that's what I heard :-)
With the increased popularity of the disposables, I guess it has become 
less common to see monohoshi-zao full of shiro-hata (white flags) waving 
under the sun ...
From: z_ablesrl@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Import/Export research
Date: 29 Dec 92 00:14:23 CST
Organization: Stephen F. Austin State University

Hello all,

	We are doing research on various items that international countries
would be interested in exporting and importing.  The items can consist of
anything from clothing to large machines.  Of course, they must be a legal
product to enter and exit the different countries.  These are some questions 
that we are trying to find the answers to:
 
1.) How would we gather information concerning the legal regulations on
	shipping to or from Japan? 

2.) Who would an individual contact within that country or here in the USA 
	about shipping requirements?  

3.) What kind of licences or paper work does a company need to enter
	that foreign market place?


I really would appreciate any help concerning this matter.  Thank you very
much for your time and hope to hear from you soon.




Sincerely,


Ron Ables

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From: proberts@informix.com (Paul Roberts)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.usa,soc.culture.african.american,sci.electronics,misc.consumers,misc.education,misc.entrepreneurs
Subject: Re: DOES AMERICA SAY YES TO JAPAN? - Off track!!
Date: 19 Dec 92 00:00:30 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.

In article <1992Dec17.151058.20274@oakhill.sps.mot.com> rvkl60@aus18a25.sps.mot.com (Tom Mathes) writes:
>In article <1992Dec17.085537.11269@leland.Stanford.EDU> underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:
>>
>>President Clinton should send a formal request to Japan, demanding that
>>formal and/or informal barriers to trade be removed.  No more $24,000
>>Pontiac Grand Ams in Japan.  If they don't comply within 30 days, there will be
>>an across-the-board 10% additional tariff that will slapped on all Japanese
>>imports for _each_ month that there is no compliance.
>
>Nicely put Mr. Joe.  

I can see that there is lots of enthusiasm for America getting what it 
wnats in the world by sheer bullying, but doesn't it occur to you that
this tactic works well only against weak countries?

What do you do when Japan responds to your 10%, 10%, 10% tariffs by
failing to show up to one month's T-bill auction, and the US immediately
goes bankrupt?
From: keis@psy.uwa.oz.au (Keis Ohtsuka)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: brainwashed
Date: 4 Jan 1993 04:19:39 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: wapsy.psy.uwa.oz.au

RE: Japanese female news anchorpersons

Reading several posts on this subject, I can surmise the difficulties
Japanese female professionals would face in the workplace.
Never mind how brilliant Ms Andow is as a journalist on the Fuji Evening
News. Whimsical viewers switch channels to other TV stantions to
watch X-"chan" because she is more esthetically pleasing.  
Have you ever wondered what the marital status of a male anchor person
is?  
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:36:58 -0500 
From: Rikiya Asano <ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: The Second Great Ressurection! pt. 2
	<BzM42w.94M@unix.amherst.edu>

Associates,

            Thank God that it over! The last term I got by that is. Now,
I have to study for the next term. After my recent, demise from my
friends it gave my much time to think about what I'm going to do with
you all. What I came up with was a solution. And, here it is! You(euro-
Americans) don't say anything insulting about my people and I show a
gentleman's attitude. Because, I will go on forever and in fact "splash"
over the internet with your idosyncracies. If we're going to play by the
internet "book" we're also going to play by the mutual respect of
everyone. Notice that my current post are without color and profanity.
When you insult me as a Japanese a hotter hell will this will be. Take
this any way that you want.

My classes for the next term will be:

Soil Mechanics
Solid Mechanics
Dynamics and Kinemetics 
Vibration of Mechanics
Stress Analysis 
Ceramics II
(tenative)
 
And, there's a great possibility that I will audit a few classes. So, I
won't have as much time in the future to converse with you all. I do
have a few new surprises in store. On a reflective tip, let's forget
about the misunderstandings of the past. In fact, they are just vague
and flimsy shadows
in my memory anyway. Let's be a diverse group of people with hardly no
connection whatsoever with the unkind surealities of greed and evilness.
Let us find love and happiness in one another on this beatiful planet
that we call home. Let's be happy! That we're alive! I have the
confidence that you can achieve a far better standard of morality then
of that which you currently hold now. Now, wait! Don't do it! Remember,
the future. I didn't mean any offense by this. You perceive your
morality as high already. I have no problem with that. But, let's take
it higher. Like "Sly and the Family Stone" sings: "I'm gonna take ya'
higher". Now, I have trouble nailing down exactly what that means. I
think that it has to do with being on an upper level. Let's go higher!
That's let us go higher. The Native American Indians have saying. And,
it goes like this: "We walked from plateau to plateau out there in the
sky with the great eagle"!

So, lick your wounds! Stand up, like the men we are. I think that we
will come up out if this! Good luck!!!!!
From: swami1@troy.cc.bellcore.com (swaminathan,kashi r)
Subject: Re: New Alien Registartion from Jan. 8th
Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
Distribution: soc
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 15:27:59 GMT

In article <THOMAS.92Dec16184908@beat.aic.co.jp> thomas@aic.co.jp (Thomas Johannsen) writes:
>Permanent residents and special permanent residents will no longer be
                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> required to be fingerprinted at the time of their application for 
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Good! I hope the US immigration will follow this example, and stop
the obscene practice of fingerprinting the immigrants every time
they go to the INS office to make any enquiry.


> registration. Instead, these residents will be required to register
>Thomas
>


Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov (Michiaki Masuda)
Subject: Re: BEWARE!! (Re: RACIST NINTENDO)
Organization: Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 19:48:12 GMT

In article <1992Dec31.083936.2510@Csli.Stanford.EDU> hiraga@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Yuzuru Hiraga) writes:
>In article <1992Dec30.224334.18880@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> carasso@Turing.ORG (Roger Carasso) writes:

>>Has anyone seen the Nintendo game "Bart v.s. the World"?
>>There are many racist anti-chinese aspects to it.

>For those innocent readers of scj that may not know --
>this Roger Carasso is a known notorious flame-bait thrower.
>
>If you're in doubt; check the X-refs and followup-to lines:
>  >Newsgroups: soc.culture.china,talk.bizarre,soc.culture.japan
>  >Followup-To: soc.culture.china,talk.bizarre,misc.test,rec.pets,
>  >		soc.culture.japan
>
>Watch out!!

  Thanks. I was gonna respond by saying:

  "As most of you might know, Nitendo is not the only company that sells
the software for NINTENDO. Since Bart (Simpson) is a popular character 
originated in the US, I suspect that it was not programmed or sold by
a Japanese company. Although I don't know this particular game or 
which company is responsible for it, if Nintendo is not the one who
should be blamed, the title of this thread might be giving a wrong
impression."
 
   Anyway, if NINTENDO is banned in the US because of his posting,
Roger will have to have a hard time living as a public enemy of American
kids B-).

--Michiaki
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: Olli-Jukka Paloneva <opaloneva@abo.fi>
Subject: Re: Are Japanese "yellow cabs" common?
Organization: Turku School of Economics
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 00:51:46 GMT

In article <4534@sicsun.epfl.ch> YONEZAWA Tetsu,  writes:
>some Japanese girls, say that we are less attractive
>than foreigners.  (We don't say "I love you" so much,
>we aren't strong....and so on.)

I think that Japan can avoid a lot of governmental
expenditures by emphasizing family ties at the cost
of Western "femimine" freedom. This disciplined way
to handle citizens' lives had made it possible to deve-
lope rapidly in export industries. This may have postponed
Japanese ladies possibilities to achieve Western freedom,
but sometimes I think if it is corruptive to let family-ties
break down like in West. Market relations and best trade-off
between past, present and future partners may cause enormous
stress for the children, although I admit that a lot of American
sexism is only an illusion of Hollywood.

It is said in Finland that real man neither talks nor kisses.
That is not very nice saying, but may be true.

Olli
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: timd@ed.ac.uk (Tim Duncan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Not a Myth at All
Date: 21 Dec 92 17:38:41 GMT
Reply-To: T.Duncan@ed.ac.uk
Organization: AI Applications Institute, University of Edinburgh

In article <BzM42w.94M@unix.amherst.edu>, jmfuchs@unix.amherst.edu (JESSE MICHAEL FUCHS) writes:
|> 
|> 	On the subject of whether or not the Japanese exhibit large-scale
|> tendencies toward racism, I have one word for you all:
|> 
|> 	Burokamin.
|> 
|> 							-jesse 


Pity you couldn't spell it right then :-)


	-- Tim
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: rhb@world.std.com (Robert H Brueckner)
Subject: New Year
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Distribution: soc.culture.japan
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 22:19:44 GMT

MINA-SAMA!

SHINNEN AKEMASHITE OMEDETOU GOZAIMASU!!

Wishing you and yours a very happy new year. May 1993 be the best yet.

RB
-- 
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| have loved it." -- George Santayana  // Opinions expressed here, when |
| clear and persuasive, are my own. --Rob Brueckner (rhb@world.std.com) |
From: robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu (Henry Robertson)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: SEXISM IN JAPANESE WORKPLACE!!!!
Date: 22 Dec 1992 14:20:56 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: tsunami.berkeley.edu

Well, see, it's always been the tradition for men to be fanatically devoted
to their work, compared to women & children who are worth about twice
the value of furniture.  So goes a famous proverb, that I learned from 
fascist literary-analysis Japanese Studies major here, that some famous painter
let his house burn on purpose, so he can learn how to draw flames well, while
his wife & kids burned to death inside.  That's pretty fucked up, folks.
But then, read Hojoki, by i don't remember his name, where the author
chronicles the annihilation of Kyoto & making grotesque humor about how people's
assets just flew away in the wind, and the best aprt of town got flooded by
sewage; referring again & again to his theme, that men & wealth is like foam
in the river that keeps forming & popping....an exaggeratedly Buddhist theme,
diametrically opposed to Christianity.  You see, in an island nation that
is constantly beset by natural disasters, people tend to feel a fanatic 
devotion to their roles.  Men, as worker ants, women, as human sacrifice.
Even today, we can't really control the fate of natural disasters, so 
shut up&take it is a strong theme in their culture.  By comparison, Americans
treat natural disasters as an added element of anarchy to their lives, 
contributing to determinism; society on its own (w/all the traditional
roles) offer no hope.  So there you have diametrically opposed values.

roles
From: torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: SEXISM IN JAPANESE WORKPLACE!!!!
Date: 22 Dec 92 13:04:12 GMT
	<1992Dec21.105820.4725@spcvxb.spc.edu> <BzMsxA.GnE@jrd.dec.com>
	<8076@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista

In article <8076@skye.ed.ac.uk> timd@ed.ac.uk (Tim Duncan) writes:

  >Or you could look at it the *other* way round -- allow men to take paternity
  >leave, and reduce the hours that men are "forced" to work.

  Well, in Sweden at least, parents can divide between them as they choose
their paid paternity/maternity leave. It isn't unusual for men to take
paternity leave.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov (Michiaki Masuda)
Subject: Re: brainwashed
Organization: Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 06:02:08 GMT

In article <1hno9fINN4i@agate.berkeley.edu> jcliu@four-lab4.Berkeley.EDU (James C. Liu) writes:
>In article <1hnhtkINNbqt@shelley.u.washington.edu> yoichi@carson.u.
>washington.edu (Yoichi Ii) writes:

>  >Whats-her-face on the Fuji network news certainly does not take 
>  >any back seat to her male co-anchor.  In fact, she tend to have
>  >more commanding prescence.  Also she's no less than a Berkeley 
>  >grad extraordinaire, Liu-san :-)  She looked great reporting from 
>  >the field during the Persian Gulf situation.
>  >
>  >Unfortunately, she hasn't done the "American thang", yet.  I believe
>  >she's still single.

>I almost forgot completely about her...:-) whats-her-face...But I have
>my new Moritaka Chisato Poster Calendar.  Chisa-chan no hoo ga kirei da
>to omou.  

  I actually forgot about her completely and am even clueless which 
"what's-her-face" you guys are talking about.
  But I second your opinion about Chisato-chan anyway 8-).

--Michiaki