HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: osan@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (Mr. X)
Subject: Re: Yoshi Hattori
Organization: Twilight Zone
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:18:37 GMT

In article <SMITTIE.92Nov18141241@beach.csulb.edu> smittie@csulb.edu (Smittie) writes:
>>Frankly, most people with even the most rudimentry intelligence can
>>understand that it might be best to 1) stand still, 2) run away when
>>someone points a gun at them.  The last thing you would expect an innocent
>>person to do in this situation is walk toward an armed man.
>
>This is completely logical for someone who has grown up in a society where guns
>are commonplace. However, it is not necessarily logical to someone, especial a
>young person, who grows up in a society where guns are all but nonexistant.
>
	I don't buy that for an instant.  Unless he was some sort of brain
	impaired idiot, he knew what weapons are, even guns.  They DO show
	them on TV.  Japan is full of weapons.  I'm sure he knew what swords
	were, and knives and tanks and bombers and grenades etc. and so forth.
	That he would not know what a gun was is almost inconceivable.  This
	sounds like you're making excuses for someone else's utter and
	inexcusable stupidity, if indeed he was warned away as has been stated
	here.

	-Andy V.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: "barry ross" <barry.ross@canrem.com>
Subject: plutonium
Reply-To: "barry ross" <barry.ross@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: soc
Date: 18 Nov 92 09:54:43 EST


HM>I believe it was Ralph Nader who originally described plutonium as
HM>``the most toxic substance known to man''.  Being that good ol'
HM>Ralph didn't really do his homework, one wonders how much credence
HM>to place in anything else he says.  Let's see now, here's a small
HM>comparison:

                                     (First Day)              (30 years later)
    Substance               Lethal Doses per Spoonful
=================           =========================     ==================
Arsenic Trioxide                       50                                 50
Botulinus Toxin               125,000,000                        125,000,000      
Plutonium oxide (ingested)              0.5                      200,000,000

Ralph Nader has sources you do not have access to.

HN>Malaysia are most concerned about the ships passing through the straits of
HM>Malacca.

France has given them good reason to be concerned.
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From: dgt@phy.duke.edu (Dinko Eduardo Gonzalez)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Greenpeace
Date: 20 Nov 92 02:53:08 GMT
Organization: Duke University Physics Dept.; Durham, N.C.

I did some research once on fast breeder reactors.  The reason that the program was dropped in England was that there was no economic justification for it (for
the moment).  There is plenty of Uranium available and proven reserves to keep
conventional nuclear reactors going for a long time.  I never came across any
reference to safety problems with fast breeder reactors.  Moreover, this kind
of reactor uses "recycled" fuel, so they are very efficient.          
-- 
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dgt@phy.duke.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,talk.politics.guns
From: robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu (Henry Robertson)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Fingerprinting Gaijin
Date: 18 Nov 1992 22:18:40 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: headcrash.berkeley.edu

Smittie said

While it is technically possible for JBK to become Japanese citizens for those
whose ties are to North Korea it is all but impossible. Since there are no
diplomatic ties between North Korea and Japan, there is no way for JBK to get
the required documents from North Korea. Hence in many cases these people
cannot even leave Japan since they have no passport and have no means of
getting a passport.

But in fact there is a large population of JBK returnees to Pyongyang, whose
treatment by the Sung gov't is directly proportional to the donations
that their remaining JBK relatives give, from the businesses they run in
real estate, pachinko, restaurants, or whatever.  Hence, their lifestyles
range from royal to slavery.  JBK's take trips (illegal or not) to
North Korea all the time, and there is even a drive to bring back Japanese
wives trapped in North Korea.  I saw a can asking for donations which showed
a cartoon of Japanese wives wearing rags trapped in North Korea, at a
fast-sushi shop in Sangen Jaya (north of Shibuya).  There was the famous case
of the Japanese cabaret hostess who was abducted to North Korea, and offered
to receive royal lifestyle in exchange for teaching Japanese to North 
Korean intelligence agents.  She in fact served breakfast to Kim Jong Il
in his residence, who had woken up at noon and motioned for her to put
the food in his mouth.  My relatives in Toyama-ken were also telling me
about a couple that was nearly abducted by NK spies as they were walking along
the seashore, but broke loose.  NK patrol boats also routinely capture
Japanese fishing boats and strip all the radar equipment so they can use it,
though I can't speak for whatever terrorist activities the West & Japan
does inside North Korea.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond)
Subject: Re: How bad are Japanese drivers?
Organization: Integrated International Systems Corp. One Longfellow Place, Suite 3309, Boston, Ma.
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 19:06:01 GMT

Kenichiro Tanaka <kt12+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

>On 20-Nov-92 in How bad are Japanese drivers?
>user Charles M Richmond@world writes:
>>I guess that I'm not the only one to feel this way...
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>	TOKYO (UPI) -- Japanese driving instructors are ten times more likely
>>to suffer from mental illness than security guards, according to a
>>survey on stress in the workplace published Friday.

>>[stuff deleted]

>I don't think this is due to the drivers being bad but from ....



I should perhaps explain that my impression is formed in part by the driving
of my fiancee's family; father , mother , and brothers. None of them seem
to be aware of the vehicles around them and they seem to hesitate in a way
that greatly increases danger. An example would be their habit of slowing down
prior to merging into the _faster_ lane. I have driven all over the world
(Ok, Europe, US, Japan , but I was a passenger in the Middle East!) and the
Japanese seem to be no better and no worse than other countries , but I have
never felt as nervous about being a passenger (ie lack of confidence in the
driver) as I have in Japan.

Charlie

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From: shah@orange.tutee.tut.ac.jp (Q. H. Shah)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Green Peace a band of Hypocrites
Date: 18 Nov 92 03:37:51 GMT
Distribution: soc.culture.japan
Organization: Kanto Lab., Dept. Ener. Eng., Toyohashi Univ. Tech.


Why green peace is so much concerned about plutonium shipment to Japan
where it is going to be used for peaceful purposes?
Where was this GP when US forces bombed Iraq and Kuwait destroying
those two countries and causing fire to so many oil wells?
What about French nuclear experiments and what about US's nuclear armament?
They protest so much about this shipment only because Japan is not
a western country. They are (GP) extremely irresponsible people when
they collided their ship with the Japanese ship. Was it safe and secure
action if there had an large scale accident due to this collision?
Why GP isn't doing anything for the thousands of children dying in the 
world because of hypocritical policies of western governments?

There are many more questions but green peacers may answer only these
for the time being so that we can judge their sincerity.
--

         Shah


         Every time I did it, I thought I wouldn't do it again.
From: keis@psy.uwa.oz.au (Keis Ohtsuka)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Social Democratic Party
Date: 18 Nov 1992 08:49:32 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: wapsy.psy.uwa.oz.au

Reading Richmond's quotes on Kanemaru affair,
I noticed both SDP and DSP appeared in UPI dispatch.

What is Social Democratic Party?  When was it established?
Did Japanese Socialist Party changed its official name
recently?  Did the right-wing members of the former JSP
join with Rengo (United Labor) supporters?
What about poor Japanese Communist Party? Do they still
exist pretending to be a last bastion of endangered
species called Marxist-Leninist.
From: tobac@ub-tky.UBSPD.CO.JP (Bach Frederic)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Sumo - Kyushu Bash0 (Day 12)
Date: 20 Nov 92 00:08:41 GMT
Organization: UBS Phillips & Drew INT'L Ltd. TOKYO, JAPAN

Musashimaru's loss came to shake off the dead-lock, leaving only three
wrestlers in the top-two slots. Musashi charged as usual against 
Tomoefuji, who is suffering from a lingering knee injury. The young
maegashira countered and both wrestlers were soon in the middle of the
dohyo, pulling and pushing. Tomoefuji moved forward, bringing the
Hawaiian on one leg at the edge (a not so uncommon sight). When the
sekiwake countered, Tomoefuji just had to slip his hand on the sash
and, using his foe's momentum, nicely spin him around and down. In the day's
final bout, Akebono beat Kyokudozan, who tried to escape sideways at the 
outset. A year ago, the young ozeki would have been caught off balance,
but he showed remarkable stability, grabbed his foe's sash thanks to
his long arms, reaching over the shoulders, and proceeded to march
Kyoku out despite his attempts to trip him. Excellent control!
Kotonoshiki needed but a handful of thrusts to Daishoho's chest to send
the no. 1 maegashira off the ring. Takahanada extended his streak to 8
by beating Kotonowaka after a long face-off in the middle of the ring.
He eventually managed to push out the young and quite bulky maegashira,
in a remarkable showing of strength and technique combined. In juryo,
newly promoted Tomonohana is now sharing the lead with veteran Komafudo
at 9-3, while Argentine and fellow new juryo Hoshiandesu failed at his
third attempt to reach kachi-koshi, now standing at 7-5

Winners	Wins	Loser	Wins

Kgaume	6	Kyokugozan(j) 6
KiriN	8	H'K	4
T'nami	7	W'Y	3
Tatsu	6	Kiraiho	5
Ogi'H	7	KF	4
Kbeppu	8	Tama	4
Toki	6	DshoY	4
KsugaF	7	Mai'U	4
Toyo'U	9	Wshoyo	6
Kita	7	WHda	7
Tochi'W	5	Kinazuma5
Ktsubaki10	KuSU	6
Tmisugi	6	Dzen	6
KN	11	Dshoho	7
Terao	5	Ttoriki	3
Misugi	7	Aki'S	4
THda	8	K'W	5
TomoeF	8	Musashi	9
Akebono	11	Kyoku	8

So we have now Akebono and Kotonishiki at 11 ; surprise Kototsubaki 10 ; and
Toyonoumi and Musashimaru 9. None of the top three have yet fought 
Takahanada, so keep your eyes open. Monday being a holiday, I am afraid
I might not be able to post before Tuesday...

Tomorrow's main bouts :

Toyonoumi	Akebono
Musashimaru	Takahanada
Kotonishiki	Takatoriki
Kototsubaki	Wakahanada
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: Haitong Wang <s209457@cc.gettysburg.edu>
Subject: Info about Japanese MBAs in U.S.
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Organization: Indiana University
Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:05:59 GMT

I am posting this for my friend, who is a Japanese.  Her undergraduate
degree is a B.A. from a liberal arts college.

She would like to talk to those Japanese women who currently enroll at
B-schools.  Any kind of info, stories, phone#, ....  are welcome.

Thanx in advance.


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From: jvh@nature.Berkeley.EDU ()
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,talk.politics.guns
Subject: Re: Yoshi Hattori
Date: 22 Nov 1992 19:16:24 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: nature.berkeley.edu


[part deleted]

]	Indeed, it was, and it's no less a mournful death because of it.
]Still, one has to wonder not only what he was thinking, but why he
]went towards a man holding a gun on him.  It is possible he didn't see
]the gun, it is possible he saw it as an offering to go shooting, it is
]also possible that he was sleepwalking.  None have been refuted, and we
]will never truly know why he did what he did.  The idea that he did not
]know it was a real gun, however, points to a terminal lack of common sense
]in this case, and one for which I suspect most of us are quite sorry about.

	My own personal theory on this event-we-do-not-have-
enough-information-on-to-judge is that the two youths were
dressed for a Halloween party, thought they had found the
Halloween party, and if he saw the gun, Hattori thought someone
from the party was trying to scare them with a fake.  It may
have been explained to Hattori that Halloween is a time people
dress funny and try to scare each other.  It may even account
for any reported boisterous behavior when the wife of the shooter
answered the door. 

	Since it was many days before the actual Halloween date, the
homeowners would not be expecting trick-or-treaters or thinking of
Halloween in any way.  If it had been actual Halloween, the woman
might not have been as frightened at the door, but again she might
have been, since Halloween has been used as a cover for crimes.

	In any case, theories aside, anyone with common sense can
make a fatal mistake -- none of us are immune, I think.

Joan V
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: smittie@csulb.edu (Smittie)
Subject: Re: Who started all this gaijin myth?! (was Re: Genitals in Japan)
Organization: Cal State Long Beach
	<RHB.92Nov23134346@world.std.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 03:42:25 GMT

>How about referring to them by their country of national origin? In my case I
>would not mind being called "Amerikajin" or even "Beikokujin." Similarly, I
>don't think other nationalities would have a problem with "Doitsujin"
>"Huransujin" and so on. It is certainly preferable to a word meaning, in
>essence, "foreigners."

So, if I line up a Chinese woman, a Japanese man, a Philipina, a Thai man, and
a girl from Singapore, you will be able to determine who is from which country
and then properly address them? I doubt it. Furthermore, can you distinguish
someone who is French from someone who is German? How do you know they are not
Americans? How about someone from Colombia, someone from Peru, and someone from
Brazil? What if the Brazilian and the Peruvian are enthic Japanese?

No, I think this proposal is quite ludicrous.

smittie

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From: ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rikiya Asano)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.korean
Subject: The confessions of Nat Turner
Date: 23 Nov 92 06:08:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.cf4E7Zu00iV3M2S2Mw
	<Uf4CK1_00iUyQ1XWA7@andrew.cmu.edu>
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Freinds, 

          Recently, I've had the opportunity to read the delightfully
forced autobiography of Nat Turner called the "Confessions of Nat
Turner. This book will definely give the Asian International great
insight to the American dream.
I recoomend this book to everyone. As a short intro. Mr. Turner and his
band of "Merry men" killed something like Fifty to sixty white people.
Now, let me state 
here that I do not advocate killing anyone. Human life all human life is
very valvable. So, with this in mind, let me continue with: The killings
were motivated by the disgusting invention of African "Black" slavery in
America. And, might I add that this account is good reading. This book
has won many famous awards within the American cuture and I strongly
recommend that you all read this book. In fact, books like these should
be a standard in Japanese Schools. I remember when I saw "Roots" the
mini-series(novel by Late Great Alex
Haley)back in Nippon when I was a kid. I remember that My father cried
very hard. Also, My teachers were very upset(one broke down and cried in
the classroom) everyday that it was on. I think that they had a complex
because this part of "Western" History went almost untouched. So, I have
decided to include
with my posts a short paragraph from the said book. Remember, Black
Slavery was very much intact when Comm. Perry came to Nihon. I hope that
you will enjoy this book.  
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: justin@nx30.mik.uky.edu (justin sullivan)
Subject: Re: internment camps, could it happen again?
    <19921115015939IYI4DTN@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU> 
    <1992Nov15.172040.12109@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
X-Path: nx30.mik.uky.edu!justin
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 18:48:29 GMT

In <1992Nov15.172040.12109@cbfsb.cb.att.com> wa2ise@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (robert.f.casey) writes:

>In article <19921115015939IYI4DTN@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU> IYI4DTN@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU writes:
>Makes me wonder if the USA government could get away with doing this
>again in the near future (internment of some nationality ethnic group,
>not specifically Japanese).  I would think that there would be enough
>people outside of the target group protesting and saying it's illegal
>nowdays.  I suspect there are enough Americans around that won't blindly
>obey a bad government order now.  Maybe a higher percentage of Americans
>have graduated college and harder to dupe?
>Hope I'm not wrong on this one  :-)

The government shouldn't have gotten away with it in the first place.. I don't
think us spoiled Americans are aware just how fragile our 'rights' can be.
What's worse is that the federal courts upheld the government's right to
imprison US citizens without any evidence of wrongdoing (after seizing
their property, of course). Justice must not be completely blind, since a 
federal judge threatened the military with contempt of court if they didn't
let that fellow (homosexual) go back to work (and they almost didn't).
  
You'll always have people that will blindly follow wherever Uncle Sam goes.
"America, right or wrong.." Remember? Americans like a good (preferably 
unfair) fight, but they don't like commies, foreigners or minorities, and have
always treated each of these groups like pond slime without rhyme or reason.

  Aside from this, I think one way something like this could happen again is
that the government has those unmentionable agencies that are supposed to
"protect" us.. By reading our mail, tapping our phones and putting us on 
lists, and the left hand is just going to ignore the fact that the right one
is beating up on America. NATIONAL SECURITY just means that they can do
whatever they like.. TO hell with you AND your rights.
<sigh>
From: chopin@twics.co.jp
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Slow News Day on "Today's Japan"
Date: 19 Nov 92 14:53:41 GMT
Organization: TWICS, Tokyo, Japan

On what kinds of TV stations is "Today's Japan" aired in the U.S.?  Here in
Japan we can see it only on NHK's satellite news channel, BS-1.
From: davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Train from Osaka to Tokyo
Date: 22 Nov 92 07:23:12 GMT

gior@eecg (GIOR Kevin Kyu-Sik) writes:

>davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane) writes:
>>michael@izumi.DIALix.oz.au (Michael Studte) writes:

>>>So, what I'm wondering is, how easy is it for a minorly fluent (oh
>>>heck, I guess I'm smart enough NOT to get myself lost completely)
>>>student of the japanese language to get from Osaka airport to Tokyo
>>>(via Shinkanzen would be easiest/fastest, I assume). 

>>I would say it wouldn't be difficult without any knowledge of
>>Japanese as all the signs are in English and Japanese. I'm not sure
>>what's the easiest way to get to Shin Osaka (the Shinkansen station)

>It takes about 40 minutes from Osaka airport to Shin Osaka station via
>JR train (about 530 Yen)

I didn't know the JR had a station at Osaka International. What's
it's name? 

>>but you could ride the airport bus to Kyoto and it will let off
>>right in front of Kyoto station. 

>>>How much money would be involved in return train tickets to Tokyo?
>>Something on the order of 25,000 yen, I would say.

>I took 'Hikari-Super-Express-Ticket' for Shinkiansen which costs 12,750 Yen
>(as of July, 9. 1992) It makes only a few stops and takes about 4 hours from
>Osaka to Tokyo. If you take the train making more frequent stops, the fare
>would be cheaper.

Really? 12,750 yen for a round trip?

Dave

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: isc30176@nusunix1.nus.sg (CHEN JIA TYAN)
Subject: Re: Is it true? (was Re: RIGHT-WING EXTREMISTS MASSACRE 47....)
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 06:34:11 GMT

> >If it is a joke, the netters should NOT allow such joke in the news group.
> >Sometimes, I read this group to get the informations about my country, and
> >I give them to my friends who can not accese to this newsgroup...
> Actually I found the article both interesting and amusing, in a
> black comedy fashion.  It was obviously false; in fact it was
> riddled with factual errors which anyone with a passing knowledge
> of Japan, not to mention the geography of Tokyo, should have
> noticed.

Oh I found it amusing alright.  But I think Robertson should spare a
thought for the Japanese (or any newbies) that got a shock at these
'news'.  Maybe he could put a P/S _after_ the post. 
--
CHEN JiaTyan
isc30176@nusunix1.nus.sg
chenjiat@nusdiscs.bitnet
From: robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu (Henry Robertson)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Silicon Revolution?
Date: 19 Nov 1992 08:24:10 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: headcrash.berkeley.edu

Forwarded by: Huijie
Source: AP-DJ, 11/18/92

WASHINGTON -- China plans to buy up to two billion dollars of U.S. equipment
to manufacture computer chips over the next two to three years, according to
a report in the Washington Post.

The newspaper, citing industry sources, said in Wednesday's editions that
high-ranking Chinese officials had raised the purchase possibility in a
meeting with U.S. business executives in Beijing in May and reconfirmed it at
a semiconductor convention in Austin, Texas, last week.

Semiconductors, or chips, are the basic components in all modern electronic
gear, and the Post said the Chinese decision appears to signal Beijing's
intention to become a power in the computer industry.

Until many U.S. restrictions were relaxed last year, the sale of most such
equipment had been banned for export to communist countries.

Chinese officials indicated they did not want to rely on Japan for a key
technology and instead were offering their business to the United States,
which controls just over half of the world market for chip-making equipment.

"The Chinese really made it clear that they want to work with U.S. companies
as opposed to other nations," Peter Younger, general manager of the
semiconductor equipment division of Eaton Corp., told the Post.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: marc@watson.ibm.com (Marc Auslander)
Subject: Re: Train from Osaka to Tokyo
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:39:47 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York

Have you considered spending the two days in Kyoto instead?  I personally
much prefer it to Tokyo - and you'll spend a lot less time traveling.
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                     (Internet)<marc@watson.ibm.com>