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From: harkcom@spinach.pa.yokogawa.co.jp (Alton Harkcom)
Subject: Re: Not a Myth at All
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 23:59:54 GMT
	<1ic4r8INNgp5@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> <C0EBry.KB3@ncifcrf.gov>
Organization: Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

In article <C0EBry.KB3@ncifcrf.gov> masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov
   (Michiaki Masuda) writes:

 =}   It should be pointed out more specifically that one of the most 
 =}significant uniqueness in Japan is a racial homogeneity. It is not a
 =}smoke screen but a fact. As the racial heterogeneity has an influence on
 =}the, say, American mentality, it may well have an effect on the Japanese
 =}mentality.

   The currently accepted theories of the origins of the Japanese do
not have them as 'racially' homogenous.  More of a combination of
Asians from the South, Asians from the North, and the native Ainu...

   However, the Japanese were an isolated community for an extended
period of time ( homogenized? :)...  This has led to a very
culturo-centric (new word:) nation.  (I wonder what rationalizations
other nations will use :)

 =}   I really respect the high road that you are taking, but the owner of the
 =}bar may not be interested in playing a major role in the international
 =}arena.

   But he should be interested in serving customers as that is the
life he chose.  Anyone operating a business that isn't interested
in certain customers based on race or some other such ignorance
is not fullfilling the responsibility he chose to take on...
--
---

   I will be on vacation from 12/18 - 12/27 and will not be able to
read email during that time.  My company will be on vacation from
12/29 - 1/4 and our news and mail servers will be down during that time...

   Sorry for the inconvenience...
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: J105270@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
Subject: Re: Recipe for Okonomiyaki?
Organization: Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 12:23:16 PST

From a Japanese cookbook I have at home, the ingredients are quite simple:

Flour, water, egg "mixed to the right consistency" - slightly thicker than
pancakes...a little salt or kagakucho miryu (msg?) then the usual goodies
on top...shredded cabbage, ao nori, shrimp, etc. and don't forget to pour
on that Bulldog sauce...

MartyG
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: maj@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Email at Obirin University
Date: 5 Jan 93 12:18:34 +1300
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

I have a friend who teaches at Obirin University, in a not
particularly technological department. I want to get him
started using email, but I'm not sure how possible this is.
Some questions that I have are:

1. Is Obirin University connected to Internet ?

2. What charges are incurred by Japanese Universities and
   /or their Departments for sending and receiving email
	messages ?
	
3. How clued-up are Japanese University computer centres
   about Internet and connecting to it ?
	
Please email me if you have information, as I do not usually
read this group.-- 
Murray A. Jorgensen [ maj@waikato.ac.nz ]    University of Waikato
Department of Mathematics and Statistics     Hamilton, New Zealand      
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov (Michiaki Masuda)
Subject: Re: What is culture? (was: Brainwashied
Organization: Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 01:12:43 GMT

In article <7578@bigbird.hri.com.hri.com> blamb@hri.com (Bill Lambert) writes:
.....
>"Japanese people can't be Olympic class sprinters because their legs
>are too short."

   If my memory serves me correctly, there was a scientific report on this
(I forgot if it was done by a Japanese group or an American group or someone
else). Although mentioning the length of legs could be ridiculous, the
report said that the shape of a knee joints and/or a tibial bone was somewhat
different between the Japanese "good" runners and Afro-American "good"
runners examined. Although I don't remember if they ascribed this
difference to a different genetic background or defined it as something 
acquired, the "Japanese" knee joint was said to be less efficient
(from a viewpoint of engineering) in transmitting the energy when they run
fast.

>"Japanese people can't make a decision by themselves."

  Is it true? Maybe not... Could be true, though... Arrgh, I can't decide!

>"We don't like cheese."

  Nor does my mom.

.......
>All from Japanese people, unfortunately.}

  During her childhood, my mother was not living in an environment where she
was able to eat cheese easily, unfortunately. An eating habit in one's
early life seems to have a significant effect on his/her taste more often
than not.

--Michiaki


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From: cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond)
Subject: Re: Offered: GIFs of Naked Rie Miyazawa
Organization: Integrated International Systems Corp. One Longfellow Place, Suite 3309, Boston, Ma.
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 06:01:42 GMT

barrera@mtu.edu (Barrera) writes:

>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...


I do agree that this is an inappropriate place for the offer to be made and
for the exchanges to be arranged. I have had the images since the first week
of November and never found it necessary to advertise their presence. Lest
anyone get the wrong idea, I will not provide them or any other "erotic"
images to any person responding to this post either in s.c.j or via EMAIL.
I am already embarrassed enough by the result of providing these images to
Jim Turley. Gomen nasai. 




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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: harkcom@spinach.pa.yokogawa.co.jp (Alton Harkcom)
Subject: Re: Gifts from America to Japan [SUMMARY]
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 00:17:28 GMT
	<1idvrjINN180@shelley.u.washington.edu>
	<1993Jan6.083326.14453@westford.ccur.com>
Organization: Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

In article <1993Jan6.083326.14453@westford.ccur.com> hank@westford.ccur.com
   (Hank Cohen) writes:

 =}>Giant chocolate bars (those 1 lbs Hersheys) seem to impress people.
 =}>"Iyaa!, sasuga Amerika saizu desu nee ..."[1]  :-)
 =}
 =}The size will impress people but the quality of Hershey's chocolate
 =}will not.  Japanese chocolate is much better.  However a bag full of
 =}mini-snickers bars would probably be a big hit.

   That's surprising.  Of the US chocolates that I've brought back
Hershey's was the most popular due to it's flavor (I was often told
it tasted better than Japanese chocolate).  Snickers have gotten the
least approval because it is 'gooey' (the caramel and that other stuff
are usually called 'too much').  The simpler chocolate bars (almond
w/chocolate, etc) or ones without the gooey stuff seem to be accepted
more easily.  The oreo cookie bar is a hit in Japan.  Bar None is
one that always gets an "encore!"...  Hershey's kisses get gobbled
up rather quickly by the little ones...
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   I will be on vacation from 12/18 - 12/27 and will not be able to
read email during that time.  My company will be on vacation from
12/29 - 1/4 and our news and mail servers will be down during that time...

   Sorry for the inconvenience...
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: takahash@ntmtv.UUCP (Alan Takahashi)
Subject: Re: NHK Dramas on Videotape?
Organization: Northern Telecom Inc, Mountain View, CA
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 00:03:13 GMT

In article <PRENER.92Dec24025058@prener.watson.ibm.com> prener@watson.ibm.com (Dan Prener) writes:
>In article <27402@sybase.sybase.com> herb@sybase.com (Herb Lison) writes:
>
>> Does anyone know if NHK Dramas are available on videotape?  When
>> living in the San Francisco area recently I noticed that a UHF
>> station, Channel 26, had these programs on regularly with English
>> sub-titles.   [...]
>
>In the New York area, the tapes are available for rent from some local
>Japanese grocery/general stores.

If you're still talking about the SF Bay Area, then there are two video
rental shops in San Francisco...one in the 1st floor of the Kinokuniya
Building of Japan Center and the other about two blocks away.  Sorry,
but I don't know what *either* of the shops are called.

In San Jose, there is the Video Eye shop inside of the Yaohan grocery
store.

Note that the tapes have apparently been recorded directly off TV
broadcasts in Japan, hence no subtitles...

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From: fester@etorofu.island.COM ()
Subject: The new Crown Empress
Originator: fester@etorofu
Organization: Island Graphics, Marin County, California
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:38:53 GMT

A small item in the paper today:

Apparantly, the council that approves Royal marriages was opposed to the
choice of Masako Owada as the Empress-to-be. One reason: one of her grand-
fathers was Yutaka Egashira, president of Chisso Chemicals, when that company
was implicated in the Minamata mercury poisoning of the late '50s.

Mike
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conveniently defined conspiracy, or b) my wife.
From: ee52fbc@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (Maiko Covington)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: It's Hangin' Time!
Date: 8 Jan 93 21:09:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: sdcc12.43195
Organization: University of California, San Diego


	I was reading a book "Nihon no Kangoku" (Prison System in
Japan) and it mentions the treatment of death row inmates. In there
it mentioned that as of 1992 there were 49 people scheduled to be
hung, and perhaps a 50th one had just been sentenced but the author
wasn't sure. The impression I got from the book was that once you
fail your second appeal, the time left until the actual execution is
very short. 
	Another thing of interest (or maybe not) is that once you
fail your second appeal and are definitely scheduled to be executed,
you are no longer to receive ANY communications at all, not even
from family members. Basically you are just waiting to die, so the
system apparently doesn't think you need to be reading letters I
guess... Kinda scary.
	I don't know what happened to Miyazaki either. Anyone out
there know? It's always a big story when these sorts get arrested,
but then I never find out what happens to them.

	Maiko Covington 

Peeve: Getting huge amounts of line noise while typing this, making
massive re-editing necessary. =^P
From: timd@ed.ac.uk (Tim Duncan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Murakami Haruki's Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of World
Date: 6 Jan 93 11:37:22 GMT
Reply-To: T.Duncan@ed.ac.uk
Organization: AI Applications Institute, University of Edinburgh

In article <1993Jan3.113518.4922@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk>, b124767@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk (Albert Lam) writes:
|> I am looking for publication information of the Japanese original 
|> of 'Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World'- publisher's
|> name, price and ISBN are sought.  Also, anyone knows if there is a 
|> paperback version of the book in Japanese? Thanks for all response.
|> 
|> albert lam


The original was published by Shinchosha Ltd under the title "Sekai no owari to
Hard-boiled Wonderland".  I do not have the ISBN, sorry.

For anyone else who is interested, there is an English translation published by
Kodansha International Ltd, 1991, which has recently been published (at least in
the UK) by Penguin. The ISBN for this is 0-14-015435-3.

	-- Tim
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: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 22:21:42 GMT

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

>Japanese obviously had a foresight to learn baseball from Americans
>before they got bogged down in the Civil War.  I can't imagine
>Japan without baseball.

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?

>>> Japanese sent massive numbers of young students to 
>>>Western countries (hedging risks) and imported what they considered
>>>suitable for the countries. (The decimal currency and a system of
>>>the central bank from the USA; 

>>Actually lots of European countries were decimal then, and as for
>>a central bank, well Hamilton will be spinning in his grave. I think
>>you'll find the Olde Lady of Threadneedle Street was the model.

>I certainly won't as I suspect you're not correct unless the Olde
>Lady lived on Wall Street. Again Japanese were uncannily forward-
>looking in modelling the yen currency system to the US currency
>system controlled by Federal Reserve Bank. Japanese compared
>various systems and chose the US system as a model by themselves.

I think you are looking at the *modern* US system, not the one which
was operating in the early Meiji years. Political sentiment in the US
was against a strong central bank (hence my allusion to Hamilton).
At that time most European countries had far stronger central banks than
did the US.

I'll try and dig out some references for the development of Japanese 
banks.
-- 
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From: yoichi@carson.u.washington.edu (Yoichi Ii)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: FLASH NEWS!!
Date: 7 Jan 1993 05:03:17 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
NNTP-Posting-Host: carson.u.washington.edu

hiraga@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Yuzuru Hiraga) writes:
>>>JUST HEARD: from a friend.
>>>The bride of the Crown Prince (Hironomiya) is decided to be Masako Kowada.

>masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov (Michiaki Masuda) writes:
>>   By whom?!

jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au (Jim Breen) writes:
>I suppose it was a collective decision of the gnomes of the Imperial
>Household Agency, and announced to HRH by a bevy of chamberlains.

Some Q's:
o What's HRH?  
o What is this deal about Japanese media being "scooped" by 
  Washington Post ("as was in the case of Emperor Akihito")?
  Were they gagged or just being asleep?
o Would it be unconstitutional for her to continue her work in
  the foreign ministry?  The I.H. Agency would want her to quit
  regardless, I suppose.
o Do I care?
From: blamb@hri.com (Bill Lambert)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Japanese women, foreign men
Date: 6 Jan 93 17:20:28 GMT
Organization: Horizon Research, Inc.

In the discussion about phemerones, manners, mystique
and such, I'd like to offer the strange and currently
unpopular proposition that men and women just meet and
fall in love.

An age old mystery at best, that has defied logical
explanation since the times when logical explanation
passed from grunts to words.

"Boys will be boys, and girls will be girls."
(Translation from "Ooga booga ugh ugh.")

(my apologies to the language police)

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.

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.

- Bill

(PS - In order to be "smitten" one has to believe
that "smittening" is entirely possible. My apologies
to Smittie... wherever you are.)
From: trent@cs.utexas.edu (Scott Ross Trent)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: American-cu Cannabalism
Date: 8 Jan 1993 11:38:23 -0600
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: tokio.cs.utexas.edu

In article <2610@usna.NAVY.MIL> wdw@math2.sma.usna.navy.MIL (Wm. Douglas Withers -- math  FACULTY <wdw@sma.usna.navy.mil>) writes:
->In article <C0IB9B.8zy@newsflash.concordia.ca> davec@ECE.Concordia.CA (Dave Chu) writes:
->>In article <2601@usna.NAVY.MIL> wdw@math2.sma.usna.navy.MIL (Wm. Douglas Withers -- math  FACULTY <wdw@sma.usna.navy.mil>) writes:
->>>What form of cannibalism is practiced not infrequently in the USA?
->>
->>I believe it is the eating of the placenta after a woman has given birth.
->
->Bingo!  Dave wins a jumbo placentaburger with all the trimmings!

Are you guys serious????

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

  Omoshiroi-ne.
  The Japanese perform the Red-White Singing Contest on the western New
Year instead of the traditional New Year of the Asian lunar year. It seems
nowadays the western New Year is more significant than the lunar New Year.
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From: azegami@flab.fujitsu.co.jp (Azegami Kengo)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Offered: GIFs of Naked Rie Miyazawa
Date: 12 Jan 93 17:56:20 GMT
	<1it66eINNhba@shelley.u.washington.edu>
Organization: Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Atsugi, Japan.

In article <1it66eINNhba@shelley.u.washington.edu> seb@stein.u.washington.edu (-s e b a s t i a n-) 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... 

   >Look folks! There is a different newsgroup for this sort of thing!
   >It is called alt.binaries.pictures.erotica and alt.binaries.pictures.
   >erotica.d !!! This type of thing is not at all related to japan other
   >than the figure in the pictures happens to be japanese. What it is
   >related to is porn and too high hormone levels. This group is not
   >appropriate for either!
   >-chris barrera     barrera@mtu.edu

	   c'mon, some of us just don't get those pic.erotica newsgroups,
	   ok?! if u don't like it just skip it. some of us are trying
	   to get some awesome gifs here....please do not interrupt our
	   activity. thank you. --appropriate or not, who cares?

	   maybe i'll start posting gifs to this newsgroup --- haha, only kidding!


That's it, pal! I am sure that there are many guys wishing for her
pix. But let me tell you all.....
       I WANT IT TOO!!!!!! :-)

I have one of her pix, but do you want it ?? I can send you the
UUencoded stuff!! (real good!!)

Hope my boss is not reading this stuff...(giggle)

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From: rhb@world.std.com (Robert H Brueckner)
Subject: Re: DOES AMERICA SAY YES TO JAPAN? - Off track!!
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 04:32:46 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.041125.5726@pegasus.com> tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan) writes:

   rainbow@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Jennifer Lynn Hammond) writes:

   >If tomorrow all the
   >social security was no longer taken out of your pockets prices
   >would soar to absorb your new-found wealth at exactly the same
   >rate of increased prices.

   I guess somebody has to ask.  Is this the "Hammond Effect" we've heard
   so much about but nobody has heretofore identified ?

   "Prices rise to the level of the compensation that people receive"

   I didn't know that.

   tom

This presumes that all that money would be spent on goods. Suppose a great deal of it were saved, or invested in the stock market. If the latter, then the price of stocks might rise, but so would their value, meaning no loss of wealth. Similarly, if the prices of goods rise, the producers of those goods (and their employees) would benefit. Assuming the producers were American (not a safe assumption), where would be the harm? More money would even go to sales tax and thereby help schools, etc., in the indiv
idual states, which currently are getting less and less from the federal government.

RB
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