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From: jcliu@four-lab4.Berkeley.EDU (James C. Liu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Honda vs Ford
Date: 22 Jan 1993 19:12:57 GMT
Organization: UC Berkeley Dept. of Nuclear Engineering
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In article <1993Jan22.145237.17682@acuson.com> 
miklg@acuson.com (Michael Goldman ) writes:

>	Interesting but apples and oranges here.  Trucks are held to
>	a different fuel economy standard than cars.  Also, Ford needs
>	all the sophistication it can get to make a 5.0L car pollute
>	as little as a smaller engine truck.

Is that to pass EPA's standards or CA's?  Our smog test doesn't set
maximums in absolutes, but as percentage.  So a mondo engine can be
"clean" if it produces a low percentage of NOX, CO, and HC.  Does
EPA have absolute max. magnitudes on its numbers?

>	When I worked at the EPA, it was clear that Ford was definitely
>	the most technologically innovative.  They were also under
>	court orders after paying a $1,000,000 fine for being lying
>	bastards. 

I see, hear, and speak no evil of Ford. :-)

>	If the US makers had spent as much time and energy on making
>	clean cars, as they did on fighting the EPA, we'd all be a lot
>	better off.

There'd be too many unemployed Corporate Lawyers...but then Clinton
might more easily find a replacement for his att. gen.

Jaa, James
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From: ee52fbc@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (Maiko Covington)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Racial Discrimination in Hiring English Teachers
Date: 25 Jan 93 00:09:16 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <23JAN93.12864650.0092@VM1.MCGILL.CA> BFLV@MUSICT.MCGILL.CA (BFLV000) writes:
>In Japan, it is not uncommon and yet clearly absurd for a German
>to be hired to teach English over an American with Chinese
>parentage, purely on the strengthof his Aryan complexion.
>I was shocked to read the following story - when the publicity
>photos were being taken for a company brochure, a qualified
>teacher from Hawaii was rudely  asked to step aside from the staff
>portrait.  How do you think about this?

	In Japan there is a wide variety of schools that call
themselves "English Schools". There are some that sincerely care
about the students' learning, hire teachers fairly on the basis of
their English ablities only, and exist to TEACH ENGLISH. However, on
the other end of the scale there are those schools that exist mostly
to promote some sort of image, and even some which actively
discourage attendance (because the students pay one year's fee at
once, if they drop out the school gets the money and can sell that
same seat again)! Of course, there are all sorts of schools in
between these two extremes.
	As far as the ones existing mainly to promote an image go,
they mostly want to sell the image of blonde good-looking US, it
seems. So, in their ads they will only show good looking blonde tall
people, that sort of thing. I most certainly do not agree with this,
and I feel sorry for all those students who fall for this, and those
who end up having to work for one of these.
	How do I feel about it? I think it is terrible. I feel the
same way I did when I interviewed for an English teaching job and
was flatly rejected because my breasts are not big enough and I am
quite short. Yep, I was told this directly. What on earth do the
size of my breasts have to do with my language abilities? (Oh, so
THAT's where the language centers are... ^_^). 
	I guess the motto is, whether you are planning to teach at a
school or study English at one, please be very careful.

	Maiko Covington
From: tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu (Tad Perry)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: HDTV in Japan
Date: 23 Jan 1993 07:58:04 GMT
Organization: unaffiliated
NNTP-Posting-Host: gibdo.engr.washington.edu

In article <93Jan22.145652est.47802@neat.cs.toronto.edu> tlai@cs.toronto.edu (Tony W H Lai) writes:
>In article <1993Jan22.153358.24617@gibdo.engr.washington.edu> tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu (Tad Perry) writes:
>[lots of stuff deleted]
>>Current Japanese HDTV is very nice but the equipment is huge (at least a
>>meter deep and two meters wide) and even given size reductions, a viewing
>>distance of 5+ meters is recommended for best effect. Just how many
>>Japanese homes are big enough for that?
>
>I remember reading in the JEE that some companies built a 5-chip MUSE
>decoder.  Also, the ideal viewing distance depends on the height H of the
>screen.  The ideal viewing distance of NTSC is more than 6.5H.  An HDTV
>system is supposed to have an ideal viewing distance of less than 3.5H.

You're not wrong here, but a one *meter* minimum diagonal size is
recommended for HDTV screens to begin with. Anything less and
consumers cannot visually detect the benefits compared to a normal set
of the same dimensions, and, not detecting the benefits, won't buy it.
So it still works out to huge room sizes as I stated.

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From: hisashi@lpd.sj.nec.com (Hisashi Naganuma)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Re: Yaohan...
Date: 25 Jan 93 17:56:30 GMT
Organization: NEC Technologies. San Jose.

In article <1jslap$hqp@agate.berkeley.edu>, robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu (Henry Robertson) writes:
|> Yaohan was founded as a mom&pop grocery store on the island of Atami.  The
|> couple were devout Seicho-no-Ie followers, and their enterprise expanded to the
|> multinational monster company by the strength of their conviction.
|> 
|> 
|> 

Atami is not an island.

Hisashi
From: hit@sol.acs.unt.edu (Hisaharu Tanabe)
Subject: Re: Lazy, Ded Chaplin, Loudness, J.D.K. Band
Keywords: Looking for people who like these bands.
Organization: University of North Texas
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:20:58 GMT

gundam@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (Brent Bowman) writes:

>		According to the CD International catalog, there
>	are 4 CDs available by the band, Lazy (featuring Akira Takasaki,
>	before his Loudness days).

Well, well, well,... this was the only band I knew other than Loudness.
I'd say it's not worth buying their album(heck, I didn't even think they
had those on CD).  Lazy was an "idol band."  Takasaki really hated what he
was doing back then.  No heavy-metal.  Just an idol band.  I know I'm not
explaining enough, but if you're thinking about somthing like Loudness, I'd
suggest you not to take any risk.

I hope this helps...
-- 
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University of No Hexes                   htanabe@world.std.com (if in Japanese)
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.hongkong
From: underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe)
Subject: Re: Yaohan...
Organization: Miners for a Heart of Gold
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 00:39:33 GMT

In article <1jsn7b$i39@agate.berkeley.edu> robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu (Henry
Robertson) writes:
>In article <1johin$21t@agate.berkeley.edu> bhchan@soda.berkeley.edu (Billy H.
>Chan) writes:
>>In article <1993Jan22.055329.17532@leland.Stanford.EDU>
>underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:
>>>Sounds like too much Monosodium Glutamate.  Try some Japanese, Korean, or
>>>American food, for a change.
>>>MSG is nasty stuff; only shifty people use that.
>But Dwight, do you assume I never eat Japanese, Korean, or American food?

Now that I look back on my statement, perhaps, I think that I overstepped
myself.  I meant to say that Mr. Robertson should increase his consumption
of those foods but should proportionally decrease his consumption of foods
from a culture that uses a heck of a lot of MSG.

>Anyway, plenty of those foods are laced with MSG.  A warning to people going

Yes.  If one looks at the ingredients of some American foods, one finds
that they too are tainted with MSG.  If I recollect correctly, "Accent"
is a flavoring that is almost purely MSG.

My point is that Japanese, Korean, and American foods, on average, have
much less MSG.  Sure, this depends on the one who prepares the food; she
could opt to use MSG or not.

But, at restaurants, Japanese, Korean, and American foods tend to contain
much less MSG than foods from a certain other culture.

>to Japan, most of the small-bottle "power" drinks sold for Y300-Y600 is
>*loaded* with MSG.  My brother drinks it because he claims he gets highs off
>of the MSg in them.

That's not a good sign.  When nutritionists tell us to lower our sodium
intake, they mean not only the sodium in salt but in other things as well
--MSG, for example.

>Mexican food, I don't know of any that uses MSG.  Save for American-made
>salsas.  Which means, Mexicans are God's chosen naturalistic people.

Whatever.

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From: keis@psy.uwa.oz.au (Keis Ohtsuka)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Japanese transliteration of the United States of America
Date: 28 Jan 1993 04:33:10 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia
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robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu (Henry Robertson) writes:

>[deleted]  Otherwise, if the Confederacy
>had won the civil war, and Alexander Graham Bell's AT&T venture never succeded,
>we could just as well be a continent of 50 republics.  The confederacy 
>advocated among other things state autonomy.  Bell's AT&T venture created a
>monopoly by suffocating local telephone start-ups.  A confederate government 
>would probably have created more barriers to interstate commerce, preventing
>national monopolies.  There could have been more spectacular regional wars
>like California vs. Inland states, New England vs. Midwest.  

Excuse me to digress to an interesting question I have been
pondering:

Have you noticed that the Japanese transliteration of the United States of
America is uncannily correct ("Amerika Gasshukoku" note "shu" is "people"
not "state") and orthdox "Unionist" interpretation that the union is
that of people not of the individual states. I am watching a re-run of
Ken Burn's "The Civil War" on SBS (in Australia) and start wondering 
when Japanese settled on to the current transliteration: before or after
the Civil War?  Does anybody know?  Whoever come up with it had a
basic understanding of the US Constitution, I suppose.
From: keis@psy.uwa.oz.au (Keis Ohtsuka)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Racial Discrimination in Hiring English Teachers
Date: 28 Jan 1993 02:49:40 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia
Distribution: world
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d-itasak@nmit.mt.nec.co.jp (Daisaku Itasaka) writes:

Reading Maiko Covington's ordeal:      

>I am so sorry to read that.
>But I dare say, pinup-girl type of women can attract more students
>than non-pinup-girl type of women can do. English schools are not
>compulsory, that is, making money is their purpose. For that purpose,
>they should hire those who can make more money. That's the way they
>do their business, not a racial discrimination at all.
 
Despite your cursory sympathy expressed at the beginning of your
posting, you don't seem to get the definition of discrimination at all.
In fact, you literally condone the practice of hiring someone based
on physical appearance so long as it is justified by making profit.
(and private businesses, as you suggest, have no obligation to live up
with a standard unless the laws and regulations dictate them not to.)

There are two confounding issues here: 
On general level,
please think again about it substituting "pinup-girl type of women"
with your favorite majority group label, "non pinup-girl type of
women" with a label of a minority group to see if your comment make
sense.      

And what would you say if you applied for a job and then being
told:

"man with a longer dick" can attract more students than "man with
shorter counterpart." Our English school is a private business and
has to make money. Sorry, I can't hire you. Guess you accept it
as a valid reason. (If you don't like my inflamatory example, think
in terms of a tall candidate and a short candidate.)
: 
o-
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: bunt0003@student.tc.umn.edu ()
Subject: email access in Japan
Organization: University of Minnesota
Distribution: soc.culture.japan
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 06:24:56 GMT


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.

Regards.

Thian.
From: robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu (Henry Robertson)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Some Thoughts on s.c.j
Date: 25 Jan 1993 02:43:51 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: locusts.berkeley.edu

In article <1993Jan25.001528.28280@nmit.mt.nec.co.jp> d-itasak@nmit.mt.nec.co.jp (Daisaku Itasaka) writes:
>In article <1jul2gINN2hn@shelley.u.washington.edu>
>	kaygee@hardy.u.washington.edu (Kevin Giansante) writes:
>
>>This very verrrrrrry not correct!!!  Bullshit!  God (In The Bible If You
>>"Read") saids the holy word: FUCK "N" Key.  Before time of GOdazilla,
>>JIm Morrison : When the music's over turn out the lights.  Now HIstory
>>of Human man reveals Hitler was right!!!!  Say this, say that.  Don't
>>say this, don't say that.  Hit this key, hit that kaey.  You right, I
>>wrong.  You wrong, I right.  Fuuuuucccckkkkkk Motorola!!!  The worm of
>>your "existence: has turned".  DO not say this just because you are
>>ignerint fucker.  REad the Bible!!  Tired of your racist talk.
>
>Are you alright?
>You ate something rotten last night or what?
>
You don't understand.  The Rikiya virus is spreading....and all who come into
contact, get all the subliminal messages implanted into their brains.  It
won'g activate right away, but a few months later, you may start seeing
bright lights at night.  You may develop a compulsion to access internet
constantly, an uncontrollable feeling of anxiety and insecurity if you don't
read another Rikiya post.  To make up for it, you may begin writing angry  
polemics.  Mr. Giasante is in the advanced stage of the Rikiya syndrome,
marked by an inability to complete sentences.  The only antidote I can
recommend, is to get Henry fever instead.  This way, you may not be able to
write in separate paragraphs, and you may develop severe Japan-bashing rage
in you; Your sentences will flip from one subject to another.  Well, it's
your choice really, it's too late to say no to both.
From: tom@crane.imagen.com (tom lowdermilk)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Taka and Rie Split Up
Date: 27 Jan 93 16:39:34 GMT
Organization: imagen


     In a press conference yesterday Miyazawa Rie said that her
engagement to Takahanada has been called off. She described the
decision as mutual (personally I think this break-up has 
Rie-chan's mom written all over it).

- tjl

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: hiraga@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Yuzuru Hiraga)
Subject: In (partial) defense of Rikiya Asano
Organization: Stanford University CSLI
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 01:39:52 GMT


In all fairness (on my part),
I must say that Rikiya Asano's postings,
absurd and vulgar as they are (though some have good points,
and are improving in a number of aspects),
have started a number of good threads, whether intentionally or not.

In this sense, I'd say that he's productive, even contributing
to the newsgroup.
This marks a critical difference with his dedicated bashers,
who only prove themselves to be none the better than he is.

No kidding.

-Yuzuru Hiraga
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: tlai@cs.toronto.edu (Tony W H Lai)
Subject: Re: HDTV in Japan
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Date: 24 Jan 93 05:03:02 GMT

In article <C1BsoH.FtB@world.std.com> cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond) writes:
>tlai@cs.toronto.edu (Tony W H Lai) writes:
>>But, if you have a screen measuring 1.2m diagonally, the screen height is
>>less than 60cm with a 16:9 aspect ratio, so the ideal viewing distance
>>should be around 2m.
>
>Sorry to include all of the above but it does seem necessary.
>
>If we accept the basic premises of :
>
>	A. a viewing distance of 3.5H
>	B. a diagonal of 120 cm.
>	C. an aspect ratio of 16:9.
>
>Then correcting the math.   (D)120^2 = (H)72^2 + (W)96^2 
>
>  3.5 x 72 = 252 cm
>
>I am not going to take sides in this, but I will point out two facts. Most
>Japanese homes have enough room for a 2.5m viewing distance and a TV that
>is has a screen 96x72cm (deep??) is a big piece of furniture. I think that I
>will wait for flat screen.

With a 16:9 aspect (W/H) ratio, the dimensions are roughly
    (D)120^2 = (H)58.8^2 + (W)104.6^2.

So the ideal viewing distance is around 3.5 x 58.8 = 205.8 cm.

I agree that you'd want a flat panel or projection display for HDTV.
From: yoichi@carson.u.washington.edu (Yoichi Ii)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: a woman's ankle?
Date: 22 Jan 1993 22:11:09 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
NNTP-Posting-Host: carson.u.washington.edu
Keywords: elephantitis-ankles to dikon ashi DAME

tnishi@lsa.ncl.omron.co.jp writes:
>|>       1) Big and bony 
>|>       2) Small and bony
>|>       3) Standard
>|>       4) Pudgy
>|>       5) Elephantitis

>	Another idea that came to mind was something that my sister
>noticed first.  Until moving to Japan, I never even noticed or thought 
>about women's ankle's.  That was until my sister said, "Niichan, Japanese 
>girls don't have ankles!", I didn't quite understand what she meant at the
>time but she apparently was surprised at the number of Japanese women with
>"fat" (or #4 or #5 on the above list) ankles.

As you mention in the "key words" this phenomenon is generally 
known as daikon-ashi (not "dikon").  Daikon is a type of giant 
radish, ashi = leg.  For some reason this "honor" is given only
to women. 

>Something that I never even noticed or thought about in the States. 

I think Hilary Clinton has a slight case of DA.   8-()


Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: hiraga@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Yuzuru Hiraga)
Subject: Shougun (was: Re: Cities and Suburbs)
Organization: Stanford University CSLI
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 06:25:31 GMT

In article <RHB.93Jan27235317@world.std.com> rhb@world.std.com (Robert H Brueckner) writes:
>In article <1k7n00$ikq@agate.berkeley.edu> robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu (Henry Robertson) writes:
>
>   ... in fact, shogun has a meaning, "he who fights the barbarians" ...
>
>Really? According to the kanji, it just means "leader" or "general"
>(shou) of the "army" (gun).  Is there something I'm missing (always a
>possibility)?

You two are both right, and robohen was short in his words.
He meant not an ordinary "shougun", but a particular title:
"Sei-i Taishougun".  This was first awarded (I believe) to
Sakanoue no Tamuramaro (good grief, I forgot when; somewhere
in the 9-th or 10-th century); but later became an honorary
title given to the supreme leader of a military government
(Bakufu: Kamakura, Muromachi/Ashikaga, and Edo/Tokugawa).

Synopsis -- Sei-i: "sei" is for "conquer", and "i" means a barbarian.
The use of "i" to designate a barbarian is of Chinese origin,
which assigned separate kanji (hanzi) for each of the four
directions (Tou-i, Hoku-teki, Nan-ban, Sei-juu).  "Tou-i"
means "the barbarians of the east", and (from the Chinese view)
designated Japan (!).  Nanban later came to be used in Japan
to mean Westerners, more specifically Portuguese and Spanish --
"the barbarians that came from the south" (16C.).
"Tai" in "taishougun" is simply "dai" for "big", meant as a glorification.

When the title was first awarded (to Tamuramaro), it specifically
meant "the general who conquers the barbarians", where barbarians
here designate those in the current Tohoku.  The "i" in "sei-i"
is the same kanji for "zo" in "Ezo": where "Ezo" collectively
meant the natives in the east, north of Kanto, including Tohoku
and Hokkaido.  Some identify the "Ezo" people with "Ainu", but
this is not universally agreed upon ("Ezo" later became the
name of Hokkaido itself).

-Yuzuru Hiraga
From: herb@sybase.com (Herb Lison)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Japanese Discriminations against foreigners?
Date: 18 Jan 93 16:08:55 GMT
Organization: Sybase, Inc.

From reading of various threads in this newsgroup it
seems that the Japanese are constantly discriminating against
foreigners. If only to restore some balance I feel it necessary
to briefly describe my own experience in Japan.

In one year of living in Japan I never experienced any obvious
discrimination, either in public or at work or any other venue.
I was able to establish friendships (which last to this day) among
both co-workers and people I met outside of work.

At the time I arrived in Japan (1980) I spoke almost no Japanese and had
a truly embarassing lack of knowledge about the culture. However,
I wanted to learn more and there were many people willing to help.
Although I was informed by several people in the gaijin community
that I would never be invited to a Japanese home, the opposite was
true.  

Local shopkeepers were very welcoming and helpful, carefully explaining
via dictionary what I was contemplating purchasing.  Several time
merchants appeared at my apartment with items I had forgotten at their
shops.

Perhaps Japan is a very different place today than it was in 1980.  I
really cannot say.  

Herb Lison
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: ksbeh@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Tere K.S. BEH)
Subject: Re: Japanese name !! Thank you all !!! 
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:46:50 GMT

Thanks for those who reply.

I get some of the idea now.

So , I can't quite tell for "SURE" by name that he/she is a guy/gal since

the parents can give any name they feel like it.


Anyway , thanks a lot.

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