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From: BIOROID@cyberweb.UUCP
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: How to buy these mangas in Lafayette,IN area ?
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 08:19:15 PST

Re: How to buy these mangas in Lafayette,IN area ?
By: yongseok #0 @porpoise.ecn.purdue.edu (Yongseok Park) USEnet      
 
> I have been interested in Japanese mangas for a long time.
> I am wondering if I can buy some in USA.
> I live in West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, which is in the middle of
> Chicago and Indianapolis.
> Is there any mail order possible ?
> I will really appreciate your help.

The place you want to contact is called NIKAKU ANIMART in San Jose
California. They have a good selection and they mailorder--
NIKAKU ANIMART
615 NORTH 6TH STREET
SAN JOSE, CA  95112
TELEPHONE 408 971 2822
From: shin@krusty.ee.udel.edu (Jeong-Gyun Shin)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: WORMS? (was Re: new newsgroup)
Date: 15 Nov 92 19:33:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: udel.1992Nov15.193349.8266
Organization: University of Delaware

In article <7448@bigbird.hri.com.hri.com> blamb@hri.com (Bill Lambert) writes:
>A comparison was being made between the gun/Hattorri issue, and
>the "apology/A-Bomb/shameless" thread, which rages out of control
>and reason (IMHO) here from time to time when usually disconnected
>newgroups are linked up in a flame frenzy. Worms are not the people
>from either newsgroup, but a reference to the chaotic situation.

I don't know anything about "gun/Hattorri issue," and but when it comes
to "apology/A-Bomb/shameless" thread, the fact that it rages so frequently
is an indication of historical uneasiness of those issues, then what's so
surprising in chaotic situation so frequently follows?   Remember the
article of Electronic Engineering Times regarding revision of textbooks
in Japan?  What Koreans and Chinese knew from time ago is being re-
discovered by  Western world and until then chaotic situation the
"apology/A-Bomb/shameless" thread  creates will be nuisance.  With full
load of sarcasm, I might add 'as usual, West leads the way.' Sarcasm off.
From: mrc@shivafs.cac.washington.edu (Mark Crispin)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Genitals in Japan( was Madonna...)
Date: 16 Nov 92 15:01:29 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
To: Mark Evans <mpevans@nyx.cs.du.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0

Mark Evans writes:
>Have the rest of the world admitted the nasty things they did in WWII?
>
>I mean just think if the US said "well we didn't want to allow the red army
>time to get there, and we had a weapon which needed a field test....."

The US would never say such a thing, because it simply is not true.
Truman *begged* the USSR to get involved in the anti-Japanese war,
including going to great effort to find a legalistic way under the
`United Nations' to allow the USSR to abrogate the USSR/Japan
neutrality treaty before it was set to expire in 1946.

The intent of the triple whammy of Hiroshima, the Soviet declaration
of war and rapid conquest of Manchukuo and Cho^sen, and Nagasaki was
to force Japan into submission without requiring an invasion of the
Japanese home islands.

The desirability of not having to invade the Japanese home islands
became clear with the conquest of Okinawa.  The hundreds of `kamikaze'
aircraft each day; the futile resistance of the Japanese Army that led
to fighting until the last Japanese soldier was dead; the sight of
women and children being forced by the Japanese Army to jump from the
cliffs at Okinawa or drink poison -- all this was fresh in American
minds.

There was every reason to believe that the invading US forces would be
faced with civilians with bamboo stakes -- which, in fact, were being
mobilized by the Imperial Army.  The consequences of children with
bamboo stakes charging American soldiers with machine guns are too
obvious to state.  What is less obvious is that those Japanese
children of 1945 are the parents of today's Japanese members of s.c.j.;
those children lived because the atom bombs forced Japan to surrender.

As my 50 YEARS AGO postings will make clear, by 1943 it was clear to
the Japanese government that Japan had lost the war.  The only war
concern to the civilian members of the government was how much Japan
would have to give up in defeat.  Only the Japanese Army held out for
a continuation of the war.  But, at that time, the Japanese Army
controlled the Japanese government, not the other way around; and even
after the fall of the To^jo^ cabinet the Army would not permit a
surrender.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: harkcom@spinach.pa.yokogawa.co.jp (Alton Harkcom)
Subject: Re: call for a new newsgroup
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 01:55:27 GMT
Organization: Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

In article <BxJwIA.DEq@world.std.com> cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond)
   writes:

 =}Each time that you see a "gun" post here on S.C.J use the "r" key and send
 =}it by email back to the offending poster!!! Their own drivel multiplied 50
 =}times in their mail box might just convince them to move the discusion to
 =}talk.politics.guns , where it belongs.

   Escalation is not a solution :)  Didn't the cold war teach us anything?
Sending 50 replies would get all 50 replies sent to each of the fifty
posters who sent them...  This costs money also (as does the original 50).

   A better techinique (which is often used to destroy good threads)
is to reply to the posts and go off on a Japan related tangent without
giving any fodder for the poster to reply to in respect to guns...

Al
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: yoichi@carson.u.washington.edu (Yoichi Ii)
Subject: Re: What's REALLY wrong with you guys.
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:20:44 GMT

(Wm. Douglas Withers -- math  FACULTY <wdw@sma.usna.navy.mil>) writes:
  
  [Stuff about looong speeches deleted]

hit@sol.acs.unt.edu (Hisaharu Tanabe) writes:
>The principal of my elementary school was the worst one I had. Whenever he
>walked, it was longer than thirty minutes.  I was glad when I graduated from
>the elementary school but later realized I(and my classmates) were wrong.
>He was invited to all kinds of events at my jr. high school, entrance 
>ceremony, graduation, field day,etc.. 

I think Japanese love of speeches is just a part of greater love of ceremonies.
One just *has* to have ceremonies to begin and end each school quarter.
One *has* to have ceremonies for entrance to and graduation from kindergarten,
elementary sch., jr high sch., sr high sch., colleges, and even companies.
Also miokuri (send-off cerem) and demukae (welcome cerem) are common place.

Aside. I once saw a miokuri ceremony at an airport for a newly married 
couple.  There seemed to be two groups of well wisher, one for the bride
and the other for the groom.  The group for the groom had a big banner
that read "Ganbare (name of groom)!".   Thought that was funny :-)

People like ceremonies, IMHO, because it gives them a sense of orderilness
to life (kugiri).  A chapter in one's life just starting or coming to and
end --- ceremony reinforces that reality.

>One of my classmates always had to  pass out whenever he talked. Of course, 
>he wasn't saying anything meaningful.

I like how he just "had to" pass out (^o^)   <-- symbol for laughing out loud
But seriously, this "passing out" phenomenon was quite common during
speeches given in schools.  Out of 1000 or so student, 1 or 2 would 
usually pass out, more on hot days.  bata-bata.



Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: a7657@mindlink.bc.ca (Stephen H. Kawamoto)
Subject: Re: Asian worms
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:21:17 GMT

>  Maybe,
>
>         UC Berkley is a bit too much for me.
well, that's why Berkeley, California is sometime refered by a few of the
citizens as Berserkley :)

--
Stephen Kawamoto <a7657@mindlink.bc.ca>
    "It is the very mind itself
     That leads the mind astray;
     Of the mind,
     Do not be mindless."
     (an old Japanese folk song)
From: ee152fdm@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (Maiko Covington)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Hayari Kotoba (Fad Expressions)
Date: 17 Nov 92 22:37:58 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

Wow. I'm falling out of style already - don't know most of those
words. ^_^
About "hama" for going to bathroom... in Hawaii there is a similar
thing. When people (esp. old women) have to go to the bathroom they
will say "I gotta five-four-four". Say "5-4-4" in Japanese and it's
"go shi-shi". =^P
	Maiko

Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: hit@sol.acs.unt.edu (Hisaharu Tanabe)
Subject: Re: What's REALLY wrong with you guys.
Organization: University of North Texas
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 04:22:39 GMT

wdw@math2.sma.usna.navy.MIL (Wm. Douglas Withers -- math  FACULTY <wdw@sma.usna.navy.mil>) writes:

>matter how many times I see it, the shock never wears off.  What a parade
>of speakers! Every third cousin and every former roommate has to make a speech
>congratulating the happy couple.  Meanwhile a roomful of wedding guests
>sits stiffly with eyes glazed over as their beers slowly flatten.

I don't like being in a wedding, either.  Drinks get warm while foods get
cooled down...well, they are actually already cooled at the time we are
allowed to eat.  Tehn again, how can we blame the tradition/culture?

>up to and including an official from the Japanese consulate.  All this for
>graduation from *kindergarten*.  We saw a similar phenomenon on Field Day.
>After seven hours running around and knocking each other down in the hot sun,
>someone decided that what these kids really needed was to stand in a
>rectangle and listen to three or four speeches.

The principal of my elementary school was the worst one I had. Whenever he
walked, it was longer than thirty minutes.  I was glad when I graduated from
the elementary school but later realized I(and my classmates) were wrong.
He was invited to all kinds of events at my jr. high school, entrance ceremony,
graduation, field day,etc..  One of my classmates always had to pass out
whenever he talked. Of course, he wasn't saying anything meaningful.


-- 
Hisaharu Tanabe                 E-Mail : hit@sol.acs.unt.edu
University of North Texas                htanabe@world.std.com (if in Japanese)
Denton,Texas
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,talk.politics.guns
From: schabel@calspan.com (Dave Schabel)
Subject: Re: Yoshi Hattori
Organization: Calspan Advanced Technology Center
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:41:30 GMT

In article <BD.92Nov18133022@fluent.UUCP> you write:
>
>If an unarmed Asian was walking toward me (wearing a tux, I heard?)

Well, a tux of sorts.  I believe he was wearing an old, ratty
tux as part of a Holoween costume.  This presents a slightly
different view, doesn't it?

>I wouldn't be pointing my gun at him and telling him to stop, I would
>ask him how I could help him.
>
>But that's beside the point.  I'll grant that we don't have all
>the facts, but from the facts we do have the guy acted incredibly
>irresponsibly.  If someone was breaking into my house I would 
>leave by the back door and go to the neighboor's house where I 
>would call the cops.

And leave your wife and (I believe) 3 young children to
deal with "someone breaking into [your] house" alone?  Not I,
my friend.

>
>I would not shoot him, despite the fact that I have the gun and 
>know how to properly use it.  None of my possesions are worth 
>killing over.

Agreed.  But how about the lives of your wife & children?
Look, I'm not saying that the shooting  was justifyable in any
way.  

I'm just saying that we shouldn't color our opinions
with conjecture.  Wait for the facts to come out.  Don't
"knee jerk". 

>From what we know so far, the shooter had no reason to think a
>life was in jeopardy, and that is the only condition on which
>it is justified to kill an intruder.

Agreed.  But the key phrase is "from what we know so far".  Let's
all keep this in mind.


				Dave Schabel



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From: mitch@lsil.com (Mitch Sako)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Gifts from visiting US student
Date: 17 Nov 92 20:45:19 GMT
Reply-To: mitch@lsil.com
Organization: LSI Computing Systems

In article Fa8BuB1w165w@wuntvor.pillar.com, jp@wuntvor.pillar.com (J.P.) writes:
>David O Hunt <bluelobster+@CMU.EDU> writes:
>> There's a very good chance I'll be going to Japan for two months next summer
>> Although I read the former thread, could someone please give me some ideas o
>> gifts to give to people?
>
>       I may also be in Japan next summer.  I would like to know who it would
>be appropriate, or polite, to give gifts to.  Thanks for the help.
>
>       -JP 
>
If you are on a limited budget, might I suggest t-shirts, sweatshirts, notebooks,
and folders from the local university?  These are always appreciated.

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: smittie@beach.csulb.edu (Smittie)
Subject: Re: Trip To Japan - SEMICON-JAPAN
Followup-To: soc.culture.japan
Organization: Cal State Long Beach
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:51:51 GMT

Where will SemiCom be held???

smittie
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From: news@sys.uea.ac.uk
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Mr. Rikiya Asano
     Cheers , S.
        (A reader who is neither Amerikajin nor Nihonjin but Igirisujin!
Date: 16 Nov 92 14:13:26 GMT
Organization: UEA School of Information Systems, Norwich, UK.

This article was probably generated by a buggy news reader.
From: robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu (Henry Robertson)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Fusion (was RE:  Plutonium)
Date: 17 Nov 1992 05:40:27 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: headcrash.berkeley.edu
Keywords: cold fusion?

OK, cold fusion may never become a practicality as an energy source, but
it does have plenty of potential to open up an interesting new branch of
chemistry, namely electrochemistry.  The discipline is more complex than
it sounds, because many different reactions go on at once, resulting in
nonlinear equations, so it is the kind of discipline that hopes to 
advance with new computing power in fuzzy logic circuitry.  Fuzzy logic
invented by a Berkeley professor was not taken seriously by anyone in the
US, and now the Japanese have come forth with various marvelous products,
so I sure hope we will not abandon cold fusion because it isn't "cool" enough
for the scientific establishment.
From: hiraga@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Yuzuru Hiraga)
Subject: Re: Hayari Kotoba (Fad Expressions)
Organization: Stanford University CSLI
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 02:22:40 GMT

In article <1992Nov17.005754.12193@u.washington.edu> yoichi@carson.u.washington.edu (Yoichi Ii) writes:
>The following is a sample of faddish expressions used by Japanese teenagers.
> ...
>1. kabu-ku:  - to look flashy
>             - From kabuki. Kabuki actors wear colorful costumes.
>             - eg. Aitu kabutte iyagaru.

This is interesting because it has some relevance with the etymological
origin of KABUKI:  "kabuku" (vb.i) means to be off beat, off balance,
eccentric, ***...
The founder of kabuki, OKUNI of IZUMO (female) was said to perform
eccentric dances and plays, i.e. it was a "kabuita shibai",
hence it came to be known as "kabuki shibai" (shibai = play).

>3. sukatan:  - to wear skirts shorter than allowed by school regulation

Sukatan by itself is also a derogatory term synonymous to BAKA, AHO,
MANUKE...

>               *** Anyone know what W.C. actually stands for?

Water Closet.

-YH
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: magnus@jaist-east.ac.jp (Magnus Halldorsson)
Subject: Sumo -- Day 8 Highlights
Organization: School of Info Science, JAIST Hokuriku, Japan
Distribution: soc
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 15:20:54 GMT

Takahanada won 4th time in a row, upping his record to 4-4, this time
convincingly against Kyokudouzan.

Kotonishiki beat Kushimaumi with a neat foot sweep after some pulling.
Koto gets my vote as the best technician of the crowd.

Musashimaru lost his first bout. Overreacting at the 'tachi-ai', he
jumped 'into the wind' when Wakahanada stepped aside, for an easy push-out.

Akebono beat Akinoshima. Akebono's belt technique has definitely
improved considerably from the last basho. 

Other bouts: Mainoumi lost for Kotobeppu, Kasugafuji lost, Tomoefuji
lost, Daishoho won, Takatoriki lost for Wakashoyo, Terao beat Mitoizumi.

Earlier, ozeki Kirishima bowed out of the basho after hurting his
right ankle.  However, since he walked out on his own after
yesterday's bout, he could not be declared as having been hurt during
a fight, according to the announcer. Given his 'kadoban' or
probationary status, he falls down to the sekiwake rank in the next
basho.  Apparently, 10 wins or more in next basho will suffice to
recover the ozeki rank.

The score:
  7-1  Kotonishiki, Musashimaru, Akebono
  6-2  Daishoho, Wakahanada, others.

Magnus
From: cb522@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Cathy Atwood)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: bamboo
Date: 23 Nov 1992 00:12:42 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Has the newsgroup discussed bamboo yet?  All the wonderful uses-
tools, fences, interior decoration, gardens, etc.  I have three
kinds of bamboo in pots, waiting until I live in a climate where
they will be happy outside.  Does anyone else grow bamboo?

One source in the U.S. is Steve Ray's Bamboo Gardens, 909 79th
Place South, Birmingham, Alabama 35206
(205)833-3052   They do mail order, or you can visit (call first!)

Any other U.S. sources for bamboo?  How hard would it be to get
live bamboo out of Japan next time I visit?   [took some susudake 
through Narita in 1982, when the airport was particularly heavily
guarded--they seem to be worried that the 4 foot pieces were
weapons, or contained weapons!]  Maybe the snag would be getting
the live bamboo past California plant inspectors.

Cathy
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: hit@sol.acs.unt.edu (Hisaharu Tanabe)
Subject: Plutonium
Organization: University of North Texas
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 04:32:11 GMT

Is Kiyoshiro Imawano saying anything about this?
Has he "covered" any more classic rock songs?


-- 
Hisaharu Tanabe                 E-Mail : hit@sol.acs.unt.edu
University of North Texas                htanabe@world.std.com (if in Japanese)
Denton,Texas
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From: doi@jrd.dec.com (Hitoshi Doi =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCRVowZj9OO1YbKEI=?= )
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: pro baseball info
Date: 16 Nov 92 00:36:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: jrd.Bxs9oD.3q6
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Japan, R&D center
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
X-Phone-Reply-To: 045-336-5358 (work)/045-320-0492 (home) [in Japan]
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The pro baseball draft is 11/21 (this saturday).
One of the number 1 choices will be Matsui (18 year old, high school
slugger, 3rd baseman).  Matsui wants to go to the Tigers, Hawks,
Dragons, or Giants.
Other choices may be the two sluggers from Nihon Sekyu (also
on the Japanese Olympic team).
Wakabayashi (26 years old, 3rd baseman) hit .394, 2 HR, 6 RBI in
the Olympics.  In the 3 major amateur baseball tournaments this year
he is batting .333 and has 5 HR.
Tokunaga (24 year old, 1st baseman) it 4 HR in the Olympics.  He also
has 7 HR in the baseball tournaments.

The Lotte Marines signed Mel Hall (Cubs, Indians, Yankees) for an
estimated $2M.  Hall has a lifetime .277, 134 HR, 615 RBI in his
12 year career.  Hall is 32 years old.

The Lions and Carp had a trade.  Maeda (28 years old, lefty pitcher)
went from the Lions for Ohtsuka (24 years old, lefty pitcher).
Neither pitcher has much experience except for minor league play.

The Central League game average was 3 hours 19 minutes.
They want to speed up games next year.
There was a "15 second" rule which said that the pitcher must throw
the ball within 15 seconds of the batter getting set.
This will change to the pitcher must throw the ball within 15 seconds
of getting the ball back from the catcher.
The problem players for this rule are Ikeyama (Swallows) and
O'Malley (Tigers), because they usually step out of the batters
box on every pitch.

Some other rule changes.
1) the umpires will be more consistent on 1/2 swings.
   (I think they mean they will call more strikes)
2) if the ball goes into the camera seats and bounces back,
   it will be in play.
3) when the coach or manager goes out to talk to the players,
   they must take off their jacket to show their uniform numbers.

Taiyo Whales changed their name to the Yokohama Bay Stars.

The Daiei Hawks got new uniforms.  All black, I think..
--
Hitoshi Doi, International Open Systems Engineering        doi@jrd.dec.com
Japan Research and Development Center               decwrl!jrd.dec.com!doi
Digital Equipment Corporation Japan                     doi@decvax.dec.com
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe)
Subject: Re: Fingerprinting Gaijin
Organization: Miners for a Heart of Gold
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 23:29:36 GMT

In article <1992Nov23.170702.1786@island.COM> fester@island.COM (Mike Fester)
writes:
>In article <1992Nov20.030848.2069@leland.Stanford.EDU>
>underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:
>>If they [Koreans] don't want to change their names, then tough.  Other
>>foreigners are subjected to the same pressures.  They acceded and obtained
>>Japanese citizenship.  I see no discrimination here.
>But then, you admittedly don't like Koreans.

This statement is as true as the statement, "But then, you (Mr. Fester)
admittedly don't like Americans."

I fail to see how one can make the leap of logic from

    (1) my criticism of discrimination against Korean-Japanese
        (Koreans with Japanese citizenship)
    (2) my assertion that Japanese immigration laws don't discriminate
        on the basis of ethnicity

to

     "But then, you admittedly don't like Koreans."

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From: ee152fdm@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (Maiko Covington)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: kanji on Star Trek TNG
Date: 16 Nov 92 19:53:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: sdcc12.41082
Organization: University of California, San Diego

The kanji in "Aliens 3" was "tetu" which means "iron". Perhaps the
place had once been used as a refinery (in the story)? But look more
closely. In that movie there were LOTS of little stickers on the
walls and instructions for stuff that were written in Japanese.
Kinda neat. ^_^ I think in the book the place has a partly Japanese
name so that might explain the sets.
	As far as "Star Trek the Next Generation" goes... there are
references to Japanese in there, or perhaps more accurately Japanese
animation. Apparently some of the people working on the show are big
fans of anime, which explains such things as having elements named
"Kei-um and Yuri-um."  Maiko rolls eyes... @_@

		Maiko
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan