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From: hiraga@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Yuzuru Hiraga)
Subject: Re: Sumo - Hatsu Basho (Preview)
Organization: Stanford University CSLI
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 10:48:30 GMT

In article <497@ub-tky.UBSPD.CO.JP> tobac@ub-tky.UBSPD.CO.JP (Bach Frederic) writes:
>Akebono : although he is still young and has not yet had two consecutive
>10+ records in makunouchi, a reason many use to refute promotion to
>Yokozuna now, I think he should get promoted this year. The best for him 
>would probably be to not try to win the yusho this time, but go for
>11-12 wins. This would relieve him of pressure, and by winning two tourneys
>later in the year, ensure promotion due to record plus consistency.

Reminder: the criteria for promotion is "two consecutive championships
or equivalent".  If one wins two consecutive tourneys, then he is
(practically) automatically promoted.

-YH
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 15:07:27 GMT

jturley@netcom.com (Jim Turley) writes:
: And another thing.  If talking about Rie is ok for this group,
: then tell me please, what is wrong with showing Rie.  You mean 
: communication by words is the only acceptable form or expression here.
: 
: I just dont get it. 
: 

I challenge you to go into a public computer lab and look at naked pics
in front of everyone in the room. You can scream communication all you
want, more than likely you would lose your account for abusing it. As
a coincidence I was reading Supreme Court rulings and dissenting opinions
on this topic covering many different aspects of "obscene" materials.
I think uncontrolled public viewing of them are not protected under the
first amendment. Also, you better be checking to see if anyone asking
for them from you is 18 and over... ;)  heheheh

-chris barrera     barrera@mtu.edu      
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond)
Subject: Re: Gifts from America to Japan [SUMMARY]
Organization: Integrated International Systems Corp. One Longfellow Place, Suite 3309, Boston, Ma.
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 16:16:49 GMT


hank@westford.ccur.com (Hank Cohen) writes:

>>
>>	*magazines
>>	         With the new law, I suppose one can bring back certain
>>	         magazines if someone requested.  Fortunately no one's
>>	         asked me.  Of course, I wouldn't have the guts to bring 
>>	         it back even if there were requests ...
>>
>>		 Customs Officer: "Ahh, kou iu zasshi omochi kaeri desu ka ..."
>>	 	 Me: "Ahaha, chotto tomodachi ga ... ano, chotto sonna ni 
>>                      misebirakasa naide ..."[2]   (^_^;

>I figure it's a question of odds.  If you carry "pornography" it will
>be confiscated if they catch you.  Japanese citizens are much more
>likely to be searched than Americans in my experience.  Apparently the
>customs folks have VCRs in the back room to see if the video is really
>Babes in Toyland or Debbie Does Dallas.  Anyway Debbie Does Dallas is
>sure to be a big hit with certain segments of the male population.
>It's definitely something that you can't buy in Japan.  The punishment
>is limited to confiscation and possibly having to write a "gomen
>nasai letter" to the head of the Tokyo customs office.  They won't
>revoke your visa or deport you unless they have reason to believe that
>you are smuggling for re-distribution or sale.  This is probably a
>matter of quantity.  1 or 2 videos won't get you in much trouble but
>10 or 20 might. BTW Madonna's book can be imported but they will black
>out certain "offensive" bits.  


I went over to Japan on the 27th, bringing with me gifts for my sweetheart's
family. For the youngest brother (23/24??) I brought an unexpurged copy of
Madonna's SEX. The customs people opened only that bag (they had never before
opened any bag and this was the 7th trip in 92) , they ignored all of the 
other packages and without even opening the giftwrap identified it as that
book.  Maybe they are telepathic!!!  Anyway, she came back here for the New
Year and then smuggled it back in. The presense of the custom seal just made
the gift that much better and he was careful not to damage the seal when he
opened the package.


On the note of what gifts to bring, I brought over:

GlenFarclas (single malt scotch)    For father
Silk & Angora sweaters		    For Mother and sweetheart
8x21 monocular 			    For Younger brother (27???)
10"x14" framed Boston Photo (night) For her.
Fountain/ball pen set
Silk bathrobe

I am not about to put the prices of items out here in public. The silk
items are many times cheaper than in Japan. Email me if you want advise
on places to purchase and prices.

Charlie
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From: ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rikiya Asano)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Japanese women, foreign men
Date: 7 Jan 93 21:47:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.0fHH6Wu00UhWA51ZIo
	<7574@bigbird.hri.com.hri.com>
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Mr. BLambert writes,

.

> 
>My Love is a Japanese woman. I never had any special
>preoccupation or predisposition toward Asian women in
>particlar. In fact, my idealized female image was
>perhaps the Teutonic Princess - blonde, buxom and fair
>skinned (Ok... without the helmut with horns).
> 
>As the accidental tourist in Japan one enchanted
>evening, I was smitten by a dark-haired slender
>midget. No explanation was ever possible, and
>things such as manners and mystique came in to
>play later as vain and futile attempts to explain
>the ultimately unexplainable.

Love is a many stange and slindered thing. Although, my love would be
younger and more inexperienced, I find it very interesting that you
could make this type of comparsion. To me, the smite of true love is the
beauties of beauty and "midget" is unheard of. But that's only to me.


>I've always been amazed at those who get their
>recipes for mates from cookbooks and try to fit
>every person they meet into some mold, and try
>to dissect every potential partner's ingredients
>piecemeal instead of tasting the finshed product :-)
> 
>Just passing thoughts while passing gas.

Maybe you shouldn't do both at the same time.

>- Bill
> 
>(PS - In order to be "smitten" one has to believe
>that "smittening" is entirely possible. My apologies
>to Smittie... wherever you are.)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: ricko@ee.uts.edu.au (Rick Jelliffe)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Baseball (was Re: Recommend History Books/Authors?)
Date: 11 Jan 93 08:58:30 GMT
Organization: University of Technology, Sydney
NNTP-Posting-Host: rossi.ee.uts.edu.au

keis@psy.uwa.oz.au (Keis Ohtsuka) writes:

>jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au (Jim Breen) writes:

>>I was under the impression that baseball was a post-war (dainijitaisen)
>>arrival. Certainly I can't imagine it being tolerated in the 1930s.
>>Has anyone firmer dates on this?

>During a height of xenophobic hysteria in 1939-45, the
>government tried to force umpires to use native Japanese words for
>"Strike" (Yoshi), "Ball" (Dame) and so forth but they often made
>a call in English then meekly corrected in Japanese. People hated
>it as it was not natural. The Koushien HS Baseball Tournament was
>interrupted at the final years of WWII because of a logistic 
>problem and lack of resources to invite HS baseball clubs to
>Koushien ballpark.  

Seidensticker's great Tokyo Rising (Knopf) has some details about baseball,
which (for other foreigners) is a rather dizzy form of cricket:

"Baseball was required to pretend, as the Crisis depended, that it had
ever been anything but a Japanese game. All the American terms, "strike"
and "ball" and "pitcher" and the like, part of every young person' s
vocabulary, were translated into Japanese. There is a very funny scene in
a movie about the war in which a game has trouble proceeding because no
one can remember the words with which to make it do so. ...
In 1943 baseball players changed to unnumbered kharki uniforms, and were
required to salute one another. " pp121,122

-ricko


Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: dali@stein.u.washington.edu (David A. Lee)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Souvenir from Japan [SUMMARY]
Date: 4 Jan 93 07:58:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: shelley.1i8qn8INNiji
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
NNTP-Posting-Host: stein.u.washington.edu

Great list!  I saved it to a file for my archives.

Now, will somebody please post a list of good American gifts
to get for Japanese in Japan?

Things made in America or that you can't get in Japan...

Perhaps a person from Japan can suggest good things, or someone who 
has such experience.

Thank you so much.

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"
From: fester@etorofu.island.COM ()
Subject: Pioneer Layoffs
Originator: fester@etorofu
Organization: Island Graphics, Marin County, California
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 20:28:34 GMT

Haven't seen this posted yet:

As reported in the Jan 9 SF Chronicle and Jan 11 Wall Street Journal (as
well as Jan 9 NHK news).

Pioneer has announced that 35 managers had been given the option of early 
retirement or being fired. While the large Japanese businesses have always
had the reputation of offering lifetime employment, businesses have always 
had subtle ways of forcing employees out of the company, to avoid making it
look like employees were being "laid off" or fired. Smaller companies have 
made no such pretenses. Pioneer is apparantly the first large company to 
bluntly announce that they are giving their employees no choice. Most of the
managers were 'madogiwa zoku', or managers who had window seats, but nothing
useful to do (many of them had no direct subordinates). Still, the very fact
that they are being publically forced out is expected to have a ripple down 
on other large companies this year.

Mike
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one disagreeing is obviously either a) a snivelling, whining, mentally-
deficient, weak-willed, inconsequential, namby-pamby tool of some vague but
conveniently defined conspiracy, or b) my wife.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov (Michiaki Masuda)
Subject: Re: FLASH NEWS!!
Organization: Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:15:09 GMT

In article <jwb.726379460@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au> jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au (Jim Breen) writes:
>masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov (Michiaki Masuda) writes:
>
>>In article <1993Jan6.121648.6879@Csli.Stanford.EDU> hiraga@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Yuzuru Hiraga) writes:
.....
>>>The bride of the Crown Prince (Hironomiya) is decided to be Masako Kowada.
>
>>   By whom?!
>
>I suppose it was a collective decision of the gnomes of the Imperial
>Household Agency, and announced to HRH by a bevy of chamberlains.
>
>Is there any other way?

  It seemed that there was for his younger brother (Prince Akishino?).

  If that "collective decision" did not include that of Crown Prince
and Ms. Owada and they were made to engage [snap!] just like this, I 
think that it is a shame.

  As I heard that the Prince has been making a proposal to Ms. Owada for
the last three years, I want to believe that this engagement is based on a
mutual understanding and agreement at a personal level.

--Michiaki
From: wdw@math2.sma.usna.navy.MIL (Wm. Douglas Withers -- math  FACULTY <wdw@sma.usna.navy.mil>)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: What is Culture?
Date: 12 Jan 93 18:05:38 GMT
Organization: U.S. Naval Academy

In article <7603@bigbird.hri.com.hri.com> blamb@hri.com (Bill Lambert) writes:
>I even made my own case for an objective morality, (which no one else,
>including those who are so upset by racism, would do) and still don't want
>to apply it to aspects of cultural comparisons. This is not inconsistent.

Perhaps I've missed some things, but I don't remember seeing this case.
I would still like to see you give an example of what you consider an
objective moral judgment and explain why you consider it objective.

BTW I did give my own standard of validity for moral principles (the survival
criterion).
-- 
Els Withers                   email: wdw@math2.sma.usna.navy.mil
          phone: (410)267-3192 / fax: (410)267-4883
		  
The real difference between humanity and other animals:  birth-control pills.
From: prener@watson.ibm.com (Dan Prener)
Subject: Re: Brainwashed
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 07:23:45 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York

In article <34802@twics.co.jp> dcroz@twics.co.jp writes:

> Dan Prener (prener@watson.ibm.com) writes:
>  
> <<If you take natural selection and evolution (both of humans and of bacteria)
> into account, it is far from clear that antibiotics and prohibitions against
> violent crime make life better except in the short run.>>
>  
>      You would argue that unchecked darwinism is "better" than a society that 
> takes into account peoples' humanitarian leanings, since medicine and the 
> strictures of society thwart evolution by promoting the survival of the less 
> fit?

  [ ... omission ... ]

Well, actually I didn't argue that.  I disputed your statement that the
converse was true "in an absolute sense".
--
                                   Dan Prener (prener@watson.ibm.com)
From: tobac@ub-tky.UBSPD.CO.JP (Bach Frederic)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Sumo - Hatsu Basho (Day 2)
Date: 12 Jan 93 00:42:33 GMT
Organization: UBS Phillips & Drew INT'L Ltd. TOKYO, JAPAN

Very few surprises today. Akebono proved that he is very much in the run
for the yusho by blasting Daizen in little more than 2 seconds. In the
last bout of the day, Konishiki also proved that he is back on track
with a quick disposal of komusubi Daishoho. Another quick bout saw
Takahanada charge in and low, grab Kushimaumi's sash and force him
out in a matter of seconds. Musashimaru at last showed the form that lifted him
to sekiwake, two waves of thrusting and neck-grabbing being enough to
expell slightly injured Tomoefuji from the ring. Kotonishiki dropped his
second in a row, and his chances of promotion to ozeki for this
tournament have all but disappeared. He fell to Terao after taking
one step to many in his charge.

Winner		Loser (all wrestlers with 1-1 unless specified)

Nami'H		Mai'U
DshoY 2		Kyokugo 0
KF 2		Mito 0
Ogi'H 2		Tatsu 0
T'nami		Kiraiho
Kgaume		Kita 0
Tochi'W 2	KiriN 0
Kyokudo 2	Tama 0
Kinazuma 2	Ttoriki 0
KasugaF 2	Toyo'U
WHda		Toki 0
Wshoyo		Kbeppu
Misugi 2	K'W 
Aki'S 2		Tmisugi 0
THda 2		KuSU
Musashi		TomoeF
Terao		KN
Akebono 2	Daizen 0
KoN 2		Dshoho

Today's main bouts

Akebono		Terao
Toyonoumi	Konishiki
Takahanada	Tomoefuji
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From: hiraga@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Yuzuru Hiraga)
Subject: Re: FLASH NEWS!!
Organization: Stanford University CSLI
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 00:48:13 GMT

In article <C0GIA3.8uF@ncifcrf.gov> masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov (Michiaki Masuda) writes:
>In article <1993Jan6.121648.6879@Csli.Stanford.EDU> I wrote:
>>The bride of the Crown Prince (Hironomiya) is decided to be Masako Kowada.
>
>   By whom?!

As a matter of fact, I don't know.
What I heard in the news was something like:
"Koutaishi-hi ni Owada Masako-san ga naitei shimashita."

In the same news, about the rumor of Taka&Rie breaking up:
  * Fujishima Oyakata (Taka's father): no comment
  * Taka himself: busy at keiko.
  * Rie's mother: I haven't heard anything!! Who's spreading those lies!!

Some others:
  * The plutonium ship Akatsukimaru arrived safely at Tokai harbor (Ibaraki).
  * A Japanese female teacher in South Africa was killed, presumably by a
    robber.  It seems that in every day of this new year, Japanese
    citizens abroad are being killed by murder or in accident
    (including the Cancun bus accident that killed 25 people; 1 Japanese).
  * Tokyo stock exchange is showing no sign of recovery.

-YH (no, not with the Japanese Press)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: ntetsuya@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Nishimura)
Subject: Re: Brainwashed
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 08:55:43 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523

In article <34803@twics.co.jp> dcroz@twics.co.jp writes:
>
>Tetsuya Nishimura writes:
> 
>=}But you still sound to me you are talking about "whether it's convenient for
>=}your life or not."
> 
>     Amazing.  I just can't get through.
> 
>     You have been arguing that it is *never* possible to determine whether
>anything or any culture is better than another.  I am arguing that it is at
>least sometimes possible to determine whether one thing is better than another
>from a standpoint that is valid for the vast majority of humanity, or even all
>of humanity, independent of personal or cultural bias.


Mr. Bill Lambert writes:
[begin quote]
The discussion about whether or not particular cultures are better
than others is somewhat interesting, however, I wish that in this
discussion, the participants might be more careful so as to separate
what are truly cultural elements from other aspects of society
that are economic or perhaps technological when making such
comparisons. Advances in medicine, and such, for example, 
are societal... not cultural. 
[end quote and the rest of the posting deleted]

	I agree with Mr. Lambert, and I think this is what I wanted to say.
	This is why I wanted to separate civilization and culture, even if my
	definitons were weak and somewhat sloppy (or VERY sloppy). 
	I don't think I have a lot more to say about this topic now.

	What do you think, er... Mr. dcroz?


						Tetsuya Nishimura
From: mbell@unixg.ubc.ca (Marcus H Bell)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Teaching English
Date: 9 Jan 93 02:24:04 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
NNTP-Posting-Host: unixg.ubc.ca


	I made a decision two days ago, on a whim, that really felt right.
 I am going to travel to Japan at the beginning of March and teach English
in Japan.  I am just finishing my undergraduate degree in agricultural
science and am looking for a change of scene.  I wouldn't mind just
forgetting about the agricultural sciences for a while.
	Does anyone have any suggestions or tips for getting into a good
"situation" over there?  Any sort of information will be welcome (I am
new to this news group and wouldn't be surprised if this is a common type
of posting). Some questions that come to mind are:

	- What is the pay like?
	- Are there training programs over there?
	- Is it commonly one-on-one instruction or a classroom setup?
	- Personal preferences aside, are there any advantages to
	  being located in a large city as opposed to a smaller town?
	- Are there other jobs available that the knowledge of English,
	  a degree in agricultural science, and the willing to do anything
	  and go anywhere are strong assets? (A friend yesterday mentioned
	  that tall, blond people like myself can get modelling jobs 
	  without much difficulty - Me, modelling? Ha!!)

Thanks alot for your replies.

					Marcus Bell
					mbell@unixg.ubc.ca
From: jcliu@four-lab4.Berkeley.EDU (James C. Liu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: NASA and the Japanese Space Program
Date: 13 Jan 1993 03:47:19 GMT
Organization: UC Berkeley Dept. of Nuclear Engineering
NNTP-Posting-Host: four-lab4.berkeley.edu

In article <justin.726891104@mik.uky.edu> justin@nx30.mik.uky.edu 
(justin sullivan) writes:

  >It's amazing ANY economy holds up under the ridiculous taxes Uncle Sam
  >sucks out of me to pay for all this bullshit. If you want to convince me
  >that freedom and democracy wouldn't exist without MX missiles, feel free.
  >But I really don't think I'd mind bowing to an image of the Emperor, or
  >yelling 'Heil, Hitler!' if it meant freedom <hehehe> from highway
  >robbery by a government who's supposed to be acting for my BENEFIT. 
  >
  >I've been through a lot of shit in my life, so don't preach to me about
  >'injustice.' If someone else wants the US to go to bat for them, let THEM
  >pay for it! I can't afford it..

Look, I'm not about to defend the inefficient use of defense dollars in
this country and outside of the US.  But careful consideration is
required about the use of foreign policy and it's instruments which
include trade AND military.  You cannot simply say, 'Oh..we can't afford
it..why bother.'  People in other nations with much less material
posession that you or I would die for the freedoms we enjoy and the
system of government we take for granted.  Japan and NATO and their 
economies would have been for nothing if the US had not demonstrated 
it's military side of foreign policy.

I don't want to waste more bandwidth on something more akin to
talk.politics or some other newsgroups...only, if you don't like the
way we spend our tax dollars, run for public office and change it from
within.  Don't say no, until you've tried.

Jaa, James
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: ryoichi@athena.mit.edu (Ryoichi Hashimoto)
Subject: A bilingual almanac on Japan
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 06:31:42 GMT

I recently got an almanac on Japan written in Japanese and English.

 "Japan Almanac 1993," Asahi Shimbun Publishing Company, Tokyo 1992.
 318 pages, size of most compact paperback novels.  1553 yen + tax.
 ISBN4-02-219593-2.

I have several complaints, but I have never seen a similar book, so  
some of you might be interested in it.

--  ryoichi
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: mike@neopath.wa.com (Mike Rosenlof)
Subject: Re: 1993 Japanese national holidays
Organization: NeoPath
Distribution: dfw
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 16:36:25 GMT

In article <1992Dec31.212023.22943@digi.lonestar.org> snovak@digi.lonestar.org (Stan Novak) writes:
>If someone knows the national holidays that will be
>observed in Japan during 1993 would they please post them.
>
>                         Domo


1  Jan  gan jitsu                   new year's day
15 Jan  Seijin no hi                ??
11 Feb  Kenkoku kinen no hi         national establishment day
20 Mar  Shunbun no hi               vernal equinox
29 Apr  Midori no hi                "green day", previous emporer's birthday
3  May  kenpo kinenbi               constitution day
4  May  kokumin no kyuujitsu        citizen's holiday
5  May  kodomo no hi                children's day
15 Sep  keiro no hi                 respect for aged day
23 Sep  shubun no hi                autumnal equinox
10 Oct  taiiku no hi                physical education day
3  Nov  bunka no hi                 culture day
23 Nov  kinro kansha no hi          (thanks for) labor day
23 Dec  tenno tanjobi               emporer's birthday

This is from my Japanese calenday. Any errors in pronunciation of names
are mine, as are the translation of the holidays' names.

-- 
mike rosenlof                   (206)455-5932
mike@neopath.wa.com     NeoPath, Bellevue Washington USA
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