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From: dwalton@athena.mit.edu (Dave Walton)
Subject: Hanafuda rules - help please
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 00:12:18 GMT

HELP!!!

I got some hanafuda cards from a friend, but there were no instructions
included.  She tried to tell me the rules, but got very frustrated and
told me to just go look them up.  Well, I did find some, but they were written
in Japanese, which doesn't help me very much because I'm a typical American
who hasn't spent the time or effort to learn Japanese yet (no commentary
please.  That was a joke.)  

Anyway, enough of making a fool out of myself.  If you have any rules of how to
play Hanafuda (In Japanese or English - I'll get my Japanese-speaking friend
to try and translate it) please send them to me personally at
dwalton@athena.mit.edu (I don't read news often, so please mail it to me
rather than posting it).

Thankyou in advance,

- Dave Walton
From: hank@westford.ccur.com (Hank Cohen)
Subject: Re: Recommend History Books/Authors?
Summary: I stand educated
Organization: Concurrent Computer Corp.  Westford, MA
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 00:31:10 GMT


I wish to thank Mark Crispin and Jim Breen for filling a gap
in my understanding about the Kobe incident.  My only information
was from a brief visit to the forementioned Shrine in Kobe in 1979.
Many brain cells have died since then. :^)

I am glad that my uninformed post did provoke those who really knew
what happened to enlighten the rest of us.
-- 
Hank Cohen
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Yanagibashi 2-19-6 Taito-ku 	Tokyo 111, Japan
Denwa: 03-3864-5714 	Fax: 03-3864-0898
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: hiraga@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Yuzuru Hiraga)
Subject: Re: on extraterritoriality
Organization: Stanford University CSLI
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 02:50:17 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.210048.20631@Csli.Stanford.EDU> I wrote:
>In article <MS-C.726401582.377401575.mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM> mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM (Mark Crispin) writes:
>>One of the purposes of Iwakura Tomomi's mission to the West in the early Meiji
>>years was to convince the western powers that the barbaric feudal system had
>>been overthrown and thus there was no longer a need for extraterritoriality.
>
>The main aim of Iwakura's mission was not on the unequal treaties issue
>or a matter of convincing (though I won't deny that there was such an
>element), but mostly to survey on the Western countries.

Oops! Needs correction.
Iwakura mission's initial aims did include negotiation on treaties,
but it soon became clear that they were completely ignored on that matter.
So they switched their objectives to sightseeing only -- a nearly
two-year "Grand Tour".

>>It was premature, and thus unsuccessful; ...

Thus, the above is correct.

-Yuzuru Hiraga
From: bobbyr@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Bobby Richardson)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Offered: GIFs of Naked Rie Miyazawa
Date: 10 Jan 93 23:17:03 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA

jturley@netcom.com (Jim Turley) writes:
> I have some very sexy GIFs of RIE Miyazawa...outstanding.
> 
> If you can take 100K+ Email...I'll mail one to you uuencoded.
> 
> Jim Turley... 

I think I am going to have  one. Please send it to me. Thanks.

Bobby          bobbyr@csugrad.cs.vt.edu
From: jmfuchs@unix.amherst.edu (jesse fuchs)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Japanese Bands
Date: 11 Jan 93 00:55:34 GMT
Organization: Amherst College
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]

Manjit Bedi (Manjit_Bedi@mindlink.bc.ca) wrote:
> One way of finding about Japanese bands it to read magazine likes Tokyo
> Journal and Kansai Time Out.  The more noteable and popular Japanese
> bands are bound to be mentioned in theses magazines.  Now the problem
> is finding these magazines. Finding the Tokyo Journal, I think is a
> bit easier.  I can get it at least one place here in Vancouver, Canada.
	Do you have an address for this? Also, is it in English?
> 
> 
>                 ( Manjit_Bedi@mindlink.bc.ca or manjit@inde.bc.ca )
> 

--

"Where imagination is sucked out of children by a cathode ray nipple
 T.V. is the only wet nurse that would create a cripple
 On television, the drug of a nation
 Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation."
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: mike@clubmezz.Berkeley.EDU (Michael T. Itamura)
Subject: Re: FLASH NEWS!!
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:28:56 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.035757.19162@omrongw.wg.omron.co.jp> tnishi@lsa.ncl.omron.co.jp writes:
>
>	I'm interested to see how much the U.S. press takes up this news.
>Could someone keep us up to date on U.S. reactions?   if any?  thanks

	According to the San Jose Mercury News (7 Jan), the Crown
Prince was turned down by Owada when he proposed to her on 3 October.
She eventually agreed to marry him on 19 December.   The paper also mentions
that Masako Owada's grandfather was the former chairman of Chisso
Corporation - the chemical company responsible for the Minamata mercury
poisioning scandal of the 1950's.
			Mike Itamura
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: kambiz@thecube.tcs.com (Kambiz Homayounfar)
Subject: Jobs Offered
Keywords: Speech Coding, DSP
Organization: Teknekron Communications Inc.
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:24:13 GMT

Positions Available 

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development and licensing company with a staff of 180 most of whom are  
engineers and scientists.  We work on a variety of  R&D projects in areas  
of wireless communications (cellular, cordles, PCS) and telecommunications  
software (network management systems, operational contol).  
 
Senior Scientist, Speech Coding
Requires MS or Ph.D in electrical engineering with minimum of 10 years  
experience in design and implementation of speech compression algorithms  
for telecommunications and consumer electronics products. 
Responsibilities include:
* Formulation of novel speech compression algorithms at bit rates below 16  
kbps
* High-Level (using C-language) and CAD-based (COSSAP, WAVES) simulation  
of speech coding algorithms
* Objective and subjective evaluation of low bit-rate speech coders
* Real-time implementation of speech coding algorithms on general-purpose  
DSP chips (TI TMS family, AT&T DSP1600) 
* Design of processor architectures for custom implementation of speech  
compression algorithms
* Analysis of standard (CCITT, TIA, ETSI) speech coding algorithms for  
low-power implementation on custom DSP architectures

DSP Application Engineer
Requires BS/MS in Electrical Engineering with minimum of 5 years of  
product development experience in wireless or consumer electronics  
industries. Sales engineering experience and knowledge of Japanese  
language highly desirable. 

Responsibilities include:
* Assembly-level DSP software development
* Design and construction of DSP-based hardware prototypes
* Consult with customers' engineers to assure compliance with customers's  
needs and specifications

Contact: 
Kambiz Homayounfar
Senior Manager, Wireless Communications
Teknekron Communications Systems Inc.
2121 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
Fax # (510) 848 8851
Internet: kambiz@tcsi.com
From: dali@stein.u.washington.edu (David A. Lee)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Miho Nakayama
Date: 12 Jan 1993 05:16:39 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
NNTP-Posting-Host: stein.u.washington.edu

Forget Miho Nakayama!  Check out her beautiful younger sister Shinobu.

Now there is beauty.

David

-- 
"There are hundreds of tiny balls in every machine, and hundreds of machines
in every pachinko parlour, and a pachinko parlour on every block in every
town in Japan; so there are billions of little balls falling forever, like a
chromium-plated hailstorm that never melts."  - from "Clive James in Japan" 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen)
Subject: Re: Eigo kara nihongo no jisho
Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
	<1993Jan4.001717.9108@news2.cis.umn.edu>
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 08:54:29 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.001717.9108@news2.cis.umn.edu> molenda@i1.msi.umn.edu 
(Jason Molenda) writes:

   >Your time is better spent learning more kanji or jukugo instead of
   >learning pitch accent.

  You write in response to me; however, it was the original poster who was
interested in pitch accent. Also, we had the pitch accent wars just a
short while ago - or so it seems to me - and I hope it's not yet
time to repeat it all.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond)
Subject: Re: Opinions on the book, "The Hollow Doll"
Organization: Integrated International Systems Corp. One Longfellow Place, Suite 3309, Boston, Ma.
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:27:21 GMT

I am going to buy this book now!!!

As for fears that someone might base all their ideas about Japan on this one
book....   how about Dave Barry's book??????? (-;


Charlie
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: "steven baldassarra" <steven.baldassarra@canrem.com>
Subject: racist nintendo
Reply-To: "steven baldassarra" <steven.baldassarra@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: soc
Date: 5 Jan 93 18:55:33 EST

  To: Henry Robertson

HR>  Newsgroup: soc.culture.japan
HR> Message-ID: <1hu394INN357@agate.berkeley.edu>
HR>    Subject: RACIST NINTENDO

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

HR>Has anyone seen any arcade games?  99% of them have racist aspects to them.

HR>My favorite is Mortal Kombat, where Sub-Zero can rip his opponent's heads off
HR>with the spine still attached...or that Bruce Lee guy can fly around like
HR>a monkey & kick his opponents 3 stories into the air.

  The examples you cited are extreme violence, not racism, unless you are
suggesting all the martial artists in Mortal Kombat are Orientals and none of
them is Occidental, which is false.

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From: Tetsu@sicsun.epfl.ch
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Cars - EURONEWS
Keywords: automobile
Date: 9 Jan 93 09:37:18 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.japan
Organization: SIC - EPFL

When I watched Euronews, which is now offering its pilot programs now,
there was a festival of Ford corp.  Many workers shows "No.1" cards,
but the image has shown "FORD TORUS".  I've heard "TORUS" is made of
a lot of parts by MAZDA, which construct many cars for "Japan
FORD".  "PROBE" is also. 

Other news, "Opel Astra" will be sold in Japan.  Opel will be 
able to sell many Astras in Japan, I think.

By the way, the president of Asahi beer said, "the comsumers can decide what
they buy, not the presidents   of the companies" and ...

GOSOUZOU ni omakase shimasu.


From: ajeans@hplred.HPL.HP.COM (Albert Jeans)
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 17:03:32 GMT
Subject: Re: Gifts from America to Japan [SUMMARY]
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan

I found that a video I had made of my life in the U.S. (homes, shopping, etc)
was quite popular with the Japanese, since many of them had only been to the
U.S. as tourists. (Note that many stores do not like you taking videos inside
for security reasons.) Although Tower Records is in Japan, it might still be
worthwhile to bring CD's to Japan since they may not have a good idea of which
groups are "good". Almond Rocca seems to be popular.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: barrera@mtu.edu (Barrera)
Subject: Re: Offered: GIFs of Naked Rie Miyazawa
Organization: Michigan Technological University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 03:35:47 GMT

jturley@netcom.com (Jim Turley) writes:
: Chill out.  Rie chan is definately current events, world wide.  Just look
: at *any* Japanese newspaper, mag, tv show, evening news, morning news....
: get with it.       
: 
: So you think that her recent book Santa Fe is porn?  Dont inject your 
: warped Western morals here.
: 
: 

I never said any book was porn. I said your offer of gifs was. And as I pointed
out, there are newsgroups set aside exactly for the purpose you intend for
this group, which this group does not at all have that purpose. As for my morals
don't make presumptions about something you have no knowledge about and is 
none of your business. The issue is not morals, it is which newsgroup to put
the appropriate posts in.

Talking about Rie is appropriate for this group. Talking about exchanging
nude pictures of Rie or anyone else belongs in other newsgroups. I can't
prevent you from doing it here nor will I try, but I would think people knew
better...

-chris barrera        barrera@mtu.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au (Jim Breen)
Subject: Re: Recommend History Books/Authors?
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 23:08:58 GMT

fester@island.COM (Mike Fester) writes:

>In article <jwb.726385740@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au> jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au (Jim Breen) writes:

>>>During 1853-1890s, there
>>>were momentous events in the USA; the Civil War, which perhaps gave
>>>Japan an extra time to shape up the nation because the USA was
>>>going through a painful process of division/reunion of the nation.

>>Hmmm, possibly only true if the US had been the sole player. You have
>>taken the typical US-centric view of things, but in fact Britain, Russia
>>and France had also been chipping away too. It was just that Perry turned
>>up with the most guns and arrogance.

>Hmm. How had they been chipping away? While there is no doubt that they wanted
>some sort of treaty with Japan, it is a fact that it was the Americans who
>caused Japan to reconsider its status; the efforts of the other countries were
>ignored.

A bit like saying the camel's broken back was solely due to the last straw.

If you stick to elementary school histories you will get the:
Japan-was-closed-but-brave-Commodore-Perry-arrived-and-opened-it line.
In fact many countries had been sending ships for about 30 years before,
as well as messages and entreaties via Nagasaki. Perry's finally 
successful visit was by no means the first from the US. The reason
the US succeeded was that no-one else had the arrogance to turn up
with a complete fleet and demand entrance at gun-point.

The shougunate's closure of Japan had been weakening for years. It was
about to give way.

>>
>> Britain also supplied most of the shipping and Navy.

>Not according to Chamberlain; the French played a very prominent role, as did
>the US.

Get a list of the Japanese ships that whipped the Russians at Tsushima,
and see where they were built.

-- 
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PO Box 197 Caulfield East VIC 3145 Australia (ph) +61 3 573 2552 
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe)
Subject: Re: Cultural Relativism (Re: My Thought on Wife Beating and more)
Organization: Miners for a Heart of Gold
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 23:34:13 GMT

In article <7598@bigbird.hri.com.hri.com> blamb@hri.com (Bill Lambert) writes:
>In article <1993Jan10.063532.27182@leland.Stanford.EDU>, 
>underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:
>=> I copied the following post from another newsgroup.  It's topic has little
>=> relevance to Japan per se, but it does highlight an extended discussion
>=> that has been occurring in this newsgroup.
>=> 
>=> Those who agree with Mr. Lee, who claims that wife beating is not necessarily
>=> as bad in Korea as in the USA, believe in cultural relativism.  Mr. Lee
>=> argues that wife beating is a defendable practice, depending on the culture
>=> (this being Korean culture).
>=> 
>=> The following people have argued in favor of cultural relativism:
>=>      blamb@hri.com (Bill Lambert)
>=>      yoichi@carson.u.washington.edu (Yoichi Ii)
>=> So, these people believe that Mr. Lee is correct.  In other words, they
>=> believe that wife beating is defendable, depending on the culture.

Note that I have not stated my opinion of cultural relativism anywhere,
at least not in this newsgroup.

>That was a big leap, Dwight Joe. In particular, my point is that
>something cultural is defendable by the culture that does it,
>and difficult to argue with by those within a different culture.

Then, Mr. Lambert must necessarily agree with Mr. Lee, who claims precisely
the same thing.  He insists that wife beating is a defendable practice in 
Korean culture and that it is inappropriate for Americans to judge this
practice by the standards of American culture, which condemns wife beating.

This is also known as cultural relativism, to which both Mr. Lambert and
Mr. Lee subscribe.  At least, Mr. Lee claims to subscribe to this belief.

>It doesn't mean that I particulary defend wife beating by anyone,
>Korean or otherwise.

But this statement is inconsistent with the above assertion by Mr. Lambert.
Previously, he claims that wife beating is defendable in some cultures but
not in others.

How can he make this last statement?
     >It doesn't mean that I particulary defend wife beating by anyone,
     >Korean or otherwise.
This statement suggests that wife beating is _not_ defendable in _any_ culture.
Therefore, Mr. Lambert can't possibly believe in cultural relativism.

>- Bill Lambert

I'm a little confused.  Does Mr. Lambert believe in cultural relativism or
doesn't he?

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: What is culture? (was: Brainwashied
From: Peter.Weekes@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 05:47:06 GMT
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange

In article <1993Jan6.054254.12992@actrix.gen.nz> Peter.Weekes@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
> In article <7568@bigbird.hri.com.hri.com> blamb@hri.com (Bill Lambert) writes:
> 
> Features all societies have in common: 
> 
> > 	1) An explanation for "Where did we come from?"
> > 	2) A wish for a better life for themselves and
> > 	descendents.
> > 	3) A recipe to achieve 2) above.
> > 	4) An accepted notion of social correctness.
> > 	5) An accepted notion of what constitutes
> > 	public safety and security and how to maintain it.
> > 	6) A definition of what constitutes a family unit,
> > 	an the member's reponsibilities within that family unit.
> > 	7) An commonly accepted attitude about relationships
> > 	to other cultures or peoples.
> > 
>
 > (others, I suppose...)

        8) INTERNET


>


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From: yeonwook@hardy.u.washington.edu (Mark Choi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Recommend History Books/Authors?
Date: 12 Jan 1993 05:52:37 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
NNTP-Posting-Host: hardy.u.washington.edu

In article <ricko.726813238@ee.uts.EDU.AU> ricko@ee.uts.edu.au (Rick Jelliffe) writes:
>yeonwook@hardy.u.washington.edu (Mark Choi) writes:
>
>>NEVER use a the verb "transcends" in its active form! NEVER!
>
>Why not? I condescend, you ascend, they descend, he transcends? 
>What new principle is this?

You totally took it out of my entire response. I did not like how
it was worded, because it sounded like he was implying Korea and
Taiwan were still colonies by using "transcends" in the active form.

>>No, it is not a shame. Baseball is not a national sport, it is an
>>international sport. I think the U.S. should be proud that one of
>>her cultural institutions is so popular overseas.
>
>Where is it played? US (and old colonies) & Japan(& old colonies) That
>just leaves Africa, Europe, South America, Australia, the Middle East,
>India and most of Asia uninterested in it. So it's really only marginally
>international, unlike, say, soccer (football) and cricket. 

Please refrain from calling labeling nations as "old colonies". This is
silly. Those nations have rightful names. By referring to Korea, Taiwan,
the Phillipines and other nations as "old colonies" sounds a bit 
unintelligent. How would you like it if British politicians went around 
and said, "English is the standard language in our former colony". This is
a bit minor, too, when compared to the colonized nations of East Asia by
Japan, because those nations have their own histories, longer than Japan.
So by grouping nations under their former colonizers and referring to those
nations as "old colonies" is a bit foolish.
From: dali@stein.u.washington.edu (David A. Lee)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Japanese women, foreign men
Date: 6 Jan 1993 10:04:00 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
NNTP-Posting-Host: stein.u.washington.edu

In article <YfGcefe00Uh_84yPAn@andrew.cmu.edu> ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rikiya Asano) writes:
>
>In looking from the outside, can tell you that these relationships are
>not very individual(see that the foreign man-western treats the woman as
>a "prized" piece of property)she can very rarely have strict
>disagreements with her husband without alway compromising to his
>standard. American men(caucasiasn) are more likely now to be with a
>international Asians woman that with an independant American woman
>because of the 'still' traditional doudle standard in which she holds in
>reverence that "this is a man's world"(this is a joke, but many people
>were tricked into thinking this). But, on the otherhand(ying-yang), more
>and more American and European(caucasian) women are dating, marrying and
>perferring 
>Black American and Asian men. Especially, Black American. So, Mr. Libon
>and those who share his delight are really inadequate in the perferrence
>of their own culture's women. 

I disagree.

In my experiences in dating and having long conversations with Japanese,
Taiwanese, Korean, Chinese and Indonesian women, I would say that these
women are for the most part stronger mentally and emotionally than 
their American/Western counterparts.  Some say they believe it is a 
mans world, but it is social and cultural conditioning which quickly
wears off after a year or two in America where they come to see
the light.

This is just one man's opinion.

David

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in every pachinko parlour, and a pachinko parlour on every block in every
town in Japan; so there are billions of little balls falling forever, like a
chromium-plated hailstorm that never melts."  - from "Clive James in Japan"