From: mike@neopath.wa.com (Mike Rosenlof)
Subject: [last mod 4Jan93] Soc.culture.japan references
Followup-To: soc.culture.japan
Summary: Stop Think Observe Plan (crontab 0 4 5 * *)
Keywords: who what where when why how FAQ
Reply-To: mike@neopath.wa.com (Mike Rosenlof)
Organization: NeoPath Inc. Bellevue Washington
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 12:00:22 GMT

Archive-name: culture-japan-references

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Read news.announce.newusers.

Japan is certainly an interesting and important topic these days.
Soc.culture.japan CAN BE an important conduit for discussion, but
readers must keep in mind several things.

Consider for instance that learning about the culture thru say the
martial arts is a bit "insulting."  One might not know that
rec.martial-arts now exists, but one might commit a social faux pas as
they say. Similarly, one would not generalize Japanese business with say
The Book of Five Rings.  A bit of email research (asking your news admin)
can avoid this embarassment.  This is but one example why this file exists.

You almost only deal with technical matters. If people want to understand
Japanese culture, they should try to get an opinion by themselves:
living (in Japan -- not so common), reading book, listening music.

This file represents a little polite reminder that...

1) Misunderstanding is EXTREMELY likely.  To paraphrase H. Spencer:
an ounce of understanding beats a pound of flaming.

2) Read news.announce.newusers and comprehend BEFORE posting.

2a) Edit SUBJECT lines, MINIMIZE cross-posting,
and use FOLLOW-UP lines.

3) It is useful on this topic to do some non-network reading
BEFORE posting.  It is particular critical here because there
is a language barrier.  There are many good books such as

%A Edwin O. Reischauer
%T The Japanese Today: Change and Continuity
%I Belknap/Harvard
%D 1988
%O old ISBN 0-674-47178-4

%A Robert C. Christopher
%T The Japanese Mind
%I Ballantine Books
%D 1983
%O ISBN 0-449-90120-3

%A Charles Grinnel Cleaver
%T Japanese and Americans
%I Tuttle
%D 1976

%A Ronald Dore
%T Taking Japan Seriously
%I Stanford University Press
%D 1987
%O ISBN 0-8047-1401-0

%A Frank Gibney
%T Japan: The Fragile Super Power
%I Meridian
%D 1977 
%O ISBN 0-452-00593

%A Chalmers Johnson
%T MITI and The Japanese Miracle
%I Stanford University Press
%D 1982
%O ISBN 0-8047-1206-9

%A David Halberstam
%T The Reckoning
%I Avon Books
%D 1986
%O ISBN 0-380-70447-1

Detroit's Ford Motor Company vs. Japan's Nissan

%A Paul Kennedy
%T The Rise and Fall of The Great Powers
%I Vintage
%D 1987
%O ISBN 0-679-72019-7

Not about Japan per se, but spawned many Japanese titles. Might have
inspired the Ishihara & Morita Book

%A Don Maloney
%T Japan: It's Not All Raw Fish
%I The Japan Times
%D 1975
%O ISBN 4-7890-0028-1

%A Michihiro Matsumoto
%T The Unspoken Way
%I Kodansha International
%D 1988
%O ISBN 0-87011-889-7

%A Akio Morita
%T Made In Japan
%I Signet
%D 1986

%A Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
%T Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan
%I Cambridge University Press
%D 1984
%O ISBN 0 521 27786 8

%A Thomas P. Rohlen
%T For Harmony and Strength
%I University of California Press
%D 1974
%O ISBN 0-520-03849-5

%A Thomas P. Rohlen
%T Japan's High Schools
%I University of California Press
%D 1983
%O ISBN 0-520-04863-6

%A Robert J. Smith
%T Japanese Society
%I Cambridge University Press
%D 1983
%O ISBN 0 521 31552 2

%A John Wharton
%T Jobs in Japan
%I The Global Press
%D 1986
%O ISBN 0-911285-00-8

%T The Sun Also Sets
%A Bill Emmott
%D 1989
%I Times Books / Random House
%O ISBN 0-8129-1816-9

%A Clyde V. Prestowitz, Jr.
%T Trading Places
%I Basic Books
%D 1989
%O ISBN 0-465-08679-9

%A Karel van\ Wolferen
%T The Enigma of Japanese Power
%I Alfred A. Knopf
%D 1989
%O ISBN 0-394-57796-5

%A Tadanobu Tsunoda
%T The Japanese Brain - Uniqueness and Universality
%I The Taishukan Publishing Company
%D 1985
%O ISBN 4-469-21129-X

%A Sheila K. Johnson
%T The Japanese Through American Eyes
%I Stanford Univ. Press
%D 1988
%O O-8047-1449-5

%A Osamu Mizutani
%A Nobuko Mizutani
%T How to Be Polite in Japanese
%I Japan Times

%A K. Yamamura
%A Y. Yasuba, eds.
%T The Political Economy of Japan
%V I
%I Stanford Univ. Press
%D 1987
%X The Political Economy of Japan covers many aspects of Japanese economics
and Politics and is very easy for the non-specialist to read.

%A Raymond Goldsmith
%T The Financial Development of Japan, 1868-1977
%I Yale Univ. Press
%D 1983
%X Goldsmith's history of Japanese financial markets is very interesting
economic history, but does not describe the current state of the markets
at all.

%A Fred Bergsten
%A William Cline
%T The US-Japan Economic Problem
%I Institute for International Economics, Policy Analyses in
International Economics
%N 13
%D Oct. 1985
%X The Bergsten and Cline represents an excellent presentation of the
current trade friction between the US and Japan.  This monograph is
suitable for non-economists.

%A Jeffrey Frankel
%T The Yen-Dollar Agreement: Liberalizing Japanese Capital Markets
%I Institute for International Economics, Policy Analyses in
International Economics
%D Dec. 1984
%X Frankel's monograph is useful for those interested in trade and market
access issues.

%A Robert Stern, ed.
%T Trade and Investment Relations Among the U.S., Canada, and Japan
%I University of Chicago Press
%D 1989
%X Stern's book contains many useful and non-technical articles for those
interested in US Canada Japan trade.

%A Masahiro Aoki, ed.
%T The Economic Analysis of the Japanese Firm
%I North Holland
%D 1984
%X Aoki's book provides many good essays about industrial organization in
Japan, but is fairly technical.

%A Robert Feldman
%T Japanese Financial Markets
%I MIT press
%D 1986
%X Feldman's book may be a bit difficult for non-economists, but gives a
good overview of the current state of the financial markets in Japan.

%A Nishikawa
%T The Labor Market in Japan

%A Ohkawa
%T Japan and the Developing Economies
%A Ranis

%A Patrick
%A Rosovsky
%T Asia's New Giant
%X The outdated but still useful

Read some books about Japan and the other countries whose relations
with Japan you wish to discuss. This will help eliminate the "gross
generalizations" contained in many posts. This will also minimize
cyclic discussion. Of course, no single book can convey all viewpoints
or perspectives. Read a couple with an open mind.

4) Avoid using inflamatory terms to refer to people of other races.
For example, it is very rude to refer to the Japanese as Japs or
to non-Japanese as Gaijin. There are such terms for all
nationalities and races. Strive to educate!

5) Be mindful of the fact that all of us have different values:
Americans, Europeans, Japanese, Asian Americans of all backgrounds
other news groups exist:
soc.culture.asian.american
soc.culture.korean
soc.culture.china
soc.culture.taiwan
soc.culture.hongkong
soc.culture.usa
soc.culture.europe, etc.
	   comp.research.japan
	   soc.penpals
	The entire fj hierarchy comes to several sites in the US, but
	requires terminals with Kanji support for reading.

A simple way to begin is: get a large-scale map of Japan and learn
the geography: city locations and names, distances, directions, etc.
This is a less painful way to introduce the language, and culture.
Other maps can show cultural features like where industry is located,
rail maps, etc.  Where?  Find a map or book store, check the phone book in
the "Yellow Pages"[tm].

Subject: Japanese videos

Here's something I've found in The Japan Times today:
"Japanese videos in English"

Donald Richie, the article writer, mentions the following book:

Beverley Bare Buehrer, "Japanese Films: A Filmography and Commentary,
1921-1989," McFarland & Co., Box 611, Jefferson, N.C. 28640 ($41.95
PP, to Japan, I assume).  It supposedly has the complete listing of
Japanese films.

And then he lists some videos along with where you can get them.  In
the order of the most quoted places: (the first 4 are probably the best bet)

Sony Video Software, 1700 Broadway, N.Y., NY 10019
Balzac Video, 1253 Tanager Lane, West Chester, PA 19382
Embassy Home Entertainment, 1901 Avenue of the Starts, L.A., CA 90067
Connoisseur Video Collection, 8455 Beverly Blvd., Suite 302, L.A., CA 90048
Video Yesteryear, PO Box C, Sandy Hook, Conn. 06482
New Yorker Films, 16 W. 61 St., N.Y., NY 10023
Historical Films, PO Box 29035, Chicago, IL 60629
Media Home Entertainment, 5730 Buckingham Parkway, Culver City, CA 90230
Pacific Arts, 50 N. La Cienega Blvd., Suite 210, Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Corinth Films, 34 Gransevoort St., N.Y., NY 10014
Republic Pictures Home Video, 12636 Beatrice St., L.A., CA 90066

Lastly, please remember that different cultures each approach mail
and news a little differently. Although not many people post to s.c.j
from Japan, I can assure many people in Japan do read it.  We are not
going to solve interculture flame wars here, but it would help if we
didn't get involved and sought real solutions instead.  Recently, one
correspondent was chastized by his Japanese company for posting to the
net. This could have been anybody, but it was this group.

One of the most frequent asked questions (faq) on this net has been:
"Does anybody know the e-mail address to xxx in Japan?"

The first place to look at should be the uumap of Japan.  An example 
of an entry in the uumap is as follows:

#N      beck.cc.titech.jp
#S      SUN-2 4.2BSD
#O      Tokyo Institute of Technology, Computer Center
#C      Jun Murai
#E      jun@cc.titech.junet
#T       81 3 7261111 ext3299
#P      2-12-1, O-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152, JAPAN
#L      35 42 N / 139 46 E city
#R
#U
#W      asami@kddlabs.junet; Oct 28 16:49 1986
beck = beck.cc.titech.jp, beck.cc.titech.jpn, beck.cc.titech.junet
#


- FAQ: How can I get a Japanese text editor for my computer?
-  (information subject to change - please send corrections!)

Several good things for Macintosh, MsDos, and others are available on 
ftp.uwtc.washington.edu in /pub/Japanese.


Macintosh users: Contact APDA (Apple Programmer's and Developers
Association, 800-282-2732, or 408-562-3910), and ask for Kanjitalk.
This is a kanji version of the Macintosh System and Finder, about $65.

other software
ASLEdit   - an english/kanji text editor
NinjaTerm - terminal emulator
from ftp.uwtc.washington.edu

1)  Kanji Talk 6.0.4 is $70 from APDA.

2)  You can't run (American) MacWrite or MacDraw on KanjiTalk.

3)  ASLEdit has a simple terminal emulator also


The japanese fonts used by Moke (KD) are available from
mindseye.berkeley.edu [128.32.232.19] in pub/kanji/kd100.arc

Moke 2.0 is a commercial product and is available from 
J.J. Edwards, KiCompware, 1812 N. Erb St., Appleton, WI 54911, or
Mark Edwards, #405 Konya manshon 4-12-6 Gono kami,
Hamura-cho, Nishitamagun, Tokyo, Japan 190

hterm, hemacs (kanji for ibm pc) are available from
azabu.tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp [130.69.16.7]

Unix users: The standard X-windows distribution contains kanji fonts,
Look in the contrib area of your copy of X-windows.
Kinput, kterm (terminal program) etc. Get Nemacs and Wnn from:
clover.ucdavis.edu  [128.120.57.1]  

The following is useful, but has only been copied, not verified.
Corrections or additions are welcome.

JAPANESE SOFTWARE FOR MSDOS:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
HTERM (A communication program for MS-DOS which will display ASCII, JASCII,
JIS1, and JIS2)

Download Source:
JAPAN

utsun.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp [133.11.11.11]
location        fj/hterm2.6.0.0
version         2.6.0.0

ftp.cs.titech.ac.jp [131.112.16.39]
location        JAPAN/hterm/hterm2.6.0.0
version         2.6.0.0

azabu.tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp [130.69.16.7]
location        hterm/hterm2.6.0.0
version         2.6.0.0

[and others]
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KD (Kanji Driver) by Izumi Ohzawa
University of California, Berkeley
izumi@violet.berkeley.edu or ...!ucbvax!violet!izumi

Kanji viewer/ front-end-processor for Kermit.

"mindseye.berkeley.edu",
[128.32.232.19] in directory /pub/kanji.
The archive file is "kd100.arc".
Version 1.


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MOKE (Mark's Own Kanji Editor -- a simple text editor for kanji, kana, and
ascii text.
Version 2 is commercial and is available for $49.00 (+$10.00 foreign
shipping) from:


KiCompWare
Attn: J.J.
1812 N. Erb St.
Appleton, Wis. 54911

Version 2.0 claims an "improved user interface and faster entry for
kanji."  A little vague ...
----------------------------------------------------------------------
There is also a high-end word processor called EW+ (about like WordPerfect?)
for the IBM PC available from:

Information Technology Laboratory
415 Madison Ave.
19th Floor
New York, NY 10017

Tel: 212-832-5300      (Yuki Maruyama)
Fax: 212-832-6677

Price: $850.00   ($499.00 for Universities).

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There is also a lower-end word-processor (I've never seen) called JWP-PC from:

Yamazaki Intercom Corp.
42-403 Shimizugaoaka
Yatomicho, Mizuho
Nagoya, Aichi 467

Price $150.00   ($20.00 for demo disk).

Here are some other useful anonymous FTP site for Japanese related software:

azabu.tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp [130.69.16.7] Japanese related programs for PCs
jp-gate.wide.ad.jp    [133.4.1.1]     Lots of interesting stuff
miki.cs.titech.ac.jp  [131.112.16.39] For Macs, PCs, Unix etc. fj.sources
utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp [133.11.7.250]  jTeX, MOKE, Lots of interesting stuff
ftp.cs.titech.ac.jp   [131.112.16.39] GNU, comp.sources, fj.sources
jp-gate.wide.ad.jp    [133.4.1.1]     japanese, bind, gated, sendmail
ricohgwy.ricoh.co.jp  [133.4.5.2]     jTeX, X11R4
scslwide.sony.co.jp   [133.138.199.1] X11R4
clover.ucdavis.edu    [128.120.57.1]  Nemacs (nihongo emacs), Wnn
ftphost.cac.washington.edu [128.95.112.1] Kanji for NeXT machines, X11
ftp.uwtc.washington.edu               Lots of good stuff
mindseye.berkeley.edu [128.32.232.19] Some stuff for PC's, jstevie, kanjips
crl.nmsu.edu          [128.123.1.14]  Listing of other japan ftp sites,
Japanese X11 fonts

FAQ: How can I get copies of Japanese research papers?

Free japanese tech searches: An American research can request a search
by calling the NACSIS (Japan's National Center for Science Information
Systems) operator between 1:00 and 4:00 PM EDT at (202) 357-7278 or
sending an electronic mail message to nacsis@nsf.gov (internet) or
nacsis@NSF (bitnet).  Searches can also be requested by writing to
NACSIS Operator, National Science Foundation, Room 416A, 1800 G Street
N.W., Washington, DC 20550.

The databases include information about research projects sponsored by
Japan's Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture; papers presented
at electronics and chemistry society conferences; doctoral theses; and
Japanese- and foreign-language holdings of periodicals and books in
the libraries of 1100 Japanese universities.

Translation is fairly expensive running at this time (1990) at $50-80
per page of text.

Optional references on specialized topics discussed in s.c.j:

%A Yoshihiro Matsumoto
%T Some Experiences in Promoting Resuable Software 
Presentation in Higher Abstract Levels
%J IEEE Transactions on Software Engineeering
%V SE-10
%N 5
%D September 1984
%P 502-513
%X Dated.

%A Denji Tajima
%A Tomoo Matsubara
%T The Computer Software Industry in Japan
%J Computer
%D May 1981
%P 89-96
%X Dated.

%A Yoshiro Matsumoto
%A Yutaka Ohno
%T Japanese Perspectives in Software Engineering
%I Addison-Wesley
%D 1989
%O ISBN 0-201-41629-8.
%X Theoritical, practical and managerial issues in software
engineering from a Japanese perspective.  Chapters 7 and 8 deal with
testing/quality assurance issues, including some description of testing tools.
Reply-To: shimeall@cs.nps.navy.mil (Tim Shimeall)

1) H. Ishida: Current status of the N1 (Japanese Inter-University)
network with access to supercomputers, Proc. of Pacific Computer
Communications Symposium, pp.571-578 (1985)

2) J. Murai & A. Kato: Researches in netwrok development of JUNET,
Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM'87 Workshop (1987)

3) J. Murai, A. Kato, H. Kusumoto, S. Yamaguchi & T. Sato: Construction
of the Widely Integrated Distributed Environment, Proc. of IEEE
TENCON'89 (1989)

4) S. Yamaguchi, K. Okayama & H. Miyahara: Design and implementation of
an authentification system in WIDE internet environment, Proc. of IEEE
TENCON'90, pp.653-657 (1990)

5) K. Murakami & T. Sugawara: ISDN Internet for FIPTH: Fast IP to the
Home, Proc. of INET'92 (1992)


freq: month, date: 5th

=====TAG LINE=====

Date: Sat, 7 Mar 92 16:00:25 JST
From: newton@koto.seg.kobe-u.ac.jp (Newton Kiyotaka Miura)
To: eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov
Subject: Re: [l/m 1/6/91] Soc.culture.japan references

 Maybe you already know... When you listed softwares which deal with
Japanese you didn't mention the DOS/V(~US$140 here), the Japanese
version of MS-DOS for PC ATs. It was released here in Japan in 1991,
now it's in version 5.0. There are already many commercial softwares
for this OS, including text editors. The V of DOS/V is from VGA (It
only works on VGA), and it is fully compatible with MS-DOS for
IBM-PCs. Actually it's the MS-DOS with some device drivers for
processing fonts and input. It also has commands to switch quickly
between Japanese and English. As an example of commercial text editor,
there is a DOS/V version of Ichitaro the best-selling editor in Japan.
The Dash version which has less functions than the complete one costs
about US$200.  There are also many Japanese version of English
programs for PCs such as Windows 3.0, Lotus 1-2-3, MS-Works, etc.

 I've got DOS/V and it's pretty good.


                       Newton Kiyotaka Miura
                       newton@kbssp5.seg.kobe-u.ac.jp


Article 14925 of soc.culture.japan:
From: davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: How to connect with JUNET?

rehir@gauss.med.harvard.edu (Hirokatsu Watanabe 432-2275) writes:

Can't help you with SUN, but JUNET is undergoing a reorganization
right now and you will need to join the JUNET Society. Here is
a translation of something from the (voluminous!) documents:

   When you want to join JUNET Society, you need an introduction by one
   of JUNET technical committee members who was designated by JUNET
   Society rule. In this file we call the organization which wants to
   join newly, new organization and call an applicant of new
   organization, applicant, and a technical committee member who
   introduces, introducer. 

For more information you can email the secretary or send them
hardcopy (don't know the tel):

   JUNET Society secretary.
   Tokyo University Computer Center
   2-11-16 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113
   <secretariat@junet.ad.jp>

> A scientist will make a new institute in Japan. He wish Sun
>station to connect with JUNET.

Please ask him to contact the JUNET Society. I don't know if they
speak/understand English but all the documents, etc. are in Japaese
(naturally). 

> If you know abot it, please send me E-mail.
> I will appreciate any information.

Sorry, it costs me extra to send mail and I thought maybe somebody
else might be interested so I have posted my reply here.



Article 7558 of sci.lang.japan:
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: hash@CTRL.SAITAMA-U.AC.JP (Toshihiko Hashimoto)
Subject: Re: LaTeX and TeX in Japanese

I use NTT-JLaTex(Japanese LaTex by NTT) which is free on PC.
Please note that you need at least 5M harddisk remainder for
Japanese 118-dpi-PK fonts to preview the texts, and another
about 30M HD remainder for 300-dpi-PK fonts to print out the
texts.


Article 7563 of sci.lang.japan:
From: turabe@GRAD1.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Toshiyuki Urabe)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Re: LaTeX and TeX in Japanese

A1.
You can get it from anonymouse ftp on U of Tokyo or Tokyo I.T. ftp site.

site : utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
file : fj/nemacs3.3/nemacs-3.3.2.tar.Z

site : miki.cs.titech.ac.jp
file : JAPAN/nemacs/nemacs-3.3.2.tar.Z

A2.
kterm will help you.
kterm is also available on u-tokyo and titech.

A3.
Sorry. I've no idea.

Anyway, I've never compiles yet. If you success to install them,
I'd like to know how to install.


From: jalbert@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Francois Jalbert)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Re: LaTeX and TeX in Japanese

Toshi he,

emTeX is from Eberhard Mattes, I believe a PhD student in Stuttgart, Doitsu.
I was there last month, I should have visited him to thank him personally for 
his splendid work! Maybe next time I'm there... 

emTeX is available from several sources. My FTP site list mentions:

> emTeX           ymir.claremont.edu      tex/ibm_pc/tex/emtex/disk[1-6]
>                 134.173.4.23
> 
> emTeX           terminator.cc.umich.edu msdos/text-mgmt/TeX/emtex/disk[1-6]
>                 141.211.164.8
> 
> emTeX           msdos.archive.umich.edu version 13.08.90
>                 35.1.33.8               get emtex.README before beginning.
> 
> emTeX           ponder.csci.unt.edu     /pub/TeX
> 
> emTEX           ftp.cs.ruu.nl       TEX/emtex/INDEX
>                 131.211.80.17
> 
>     emTeX is a full TeX implementation, with previewer, LaTeX, METAFONT,
>     lots of printer drivers, etc. For MS-DOS and OS/2.
>     By Eberhard Mattes (mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de)

and none of these are in Japan. But I am almost certain that utsun in Tokyo 
(see below) has this somewhere. Check there first! 

You can obtain JemTeX version 2 (14 April 1991) from:

  SIMTEL (tenex) (192.88.110.20) file tex/jemtex2.zip
  wuarchive (binary) (128.252.135.4) file mirrors/msdos/tex/jemtex2.zip
  utsun (binary) (133.11.11.11) file TeX/jemtex2.zip
  ymir (?) (134.173.4.23) file tex/babel/japanese/jemtex2.zip



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