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From: neilf@natinst.com (Neil Feiereisel)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Job Opportunity: Applications Engineer for NI Japan
Date: 11 Nov 1992 08:25:01 -0600
Organization: National Instruments, Austin, TX
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: eagle.natinst.com

Wanted: Applications Engineers for Japan Office of National Instruments

National Instruments, located in Austin, Texas, is a rapidly growing company
that provides hardware and software tools for the measurement and
instrumentation industry.  Our hardware and software products are some of the
most advanced in the world.  We have branch offices and distributors
throughout the world, including a branch office in Tokyo.

We are currently looking for individuals with a BS or MS degree in engineering
(preferably Electrical Engineering or Computer Science).  Fluency in both
written and spoken Japanese and English is required.  

The successful candidate would be hired as an applications engineer (more on
this later) and come to Austin, Texas for a training period of 6 to 18 months
before being permanently relocated to Japan.

Training
     It is important to spend time in Austin training on our extensive product
line and getting familiar with the resources available.  Although there will
be an initial training period of 6 months to 18 months, the exact schedule is
highly flexible.  You could spend almost the whole time in Austin, with
occasional 3 week trips to Japan, or you could bounce back and forth from the
states to Japan for 3 months or 6 months at a time over a longer period. 
After being relocated to Japan, you will come back to the states once or twice
a year for sales conferences and further training.

What is an applications engineer?
     An applications engineer is in more of a customer support role than a
design engineer.  Applications engineers regularly interface with the
engineers who actually design the products, and the customers who use them. 
Applications engineers support customers over the telephone, teach classes,
visit customer sites, and work on various projects for the rest of the
company.  Since our products are so highly technical, and our users are
usually engineers at other companies, it is important that our applications
engineers be highly qualified engineers themselves.  You will have endless
opportunities to learn more about computer platforms such as the PC, Mac, and
Sun workstation, various programming languages, and the wide variety of
hardware used in our products and in the test and measurement industry.

If you're interested in such a position, or have any further questions, please
call me at the number below:

Neil Feiereisel
800-433-3488
(mention that you are not calling for technical support, but need to talk to
me about recruiting and were specifically asked to call.  If I am not
available, ask to leave voice mail (I'm at extension 5345).  Please leave a
detailed message including what numbers you can be reached at and when you
should be available.  Be as specific as you can - you'll have plenty of time
to leave a nice long message)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: d-itasak@nmit.mt.nec.co.jp (Daisaku Itasaka)
Subject: Re: call for a new newsgroup
Organization: NEC Microcomputer Technology Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
Distribution: world 
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 08:16:05 GMT

In article <MS-C.721377466.1103527590.mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM>
	Mark Crispin <mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM> writes:

>The signal/noise on this newsgroup has deteriorated to the point where it has
>become useless.  Between the ranting about guns and the ranting of Rikiya
>Asano, this newsgroup has become impossible to read even with advanced
>newsreading tools that help you find the 2 messages out of 156 that are worth
>reading.

I agree with you 100%.
I am TOTALLY sick and tired of seeing those articles.

>I think it is time for a new newsgroup, preferably a moderated one, in which
>Japanese cultural, historical, and social issues can be discussed in an
>intelligent fashion.  We can leave this newsgroup for Asano to vent his
>paranoid, racist, and historically inaccurate blather along with the gun
>flamers.

What a wonderful idea!!

>Surely I can't be the only person who is disgusted with 150+ messages/day on
>this newsgroup, mostly trash.

You're absolutely not. Here is another one.

-- 
A wrong guy in a wrong place at wrong time...
						 Daisaku Itasaka
				      d-itasak@nmit.mt.nec.co.jp
				NEC Microcomputer Technology Ltd.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: cmort@NCoast.ORG (Christopher Morton)
Subject: Re: A Japanese student killed in Lousiana
Reply-To: cmort@ncoast.org (Christopher Morton)
Organization: North Coast Public Access *NIX, Cleveland, OH
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 13:28:12 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.japan

As quoted from <1992Nov3.151706.11219@nntp.csl.sony.co.jp> by kono@csl.sony.co.jp (Shinji Kono):

> In article <JJAS.92Nov2222300@acs.nntp-read.bu.edu> , 
> 	jjas@acs.nntp-read.bu.edu (Jason Stephenson) writes 
> 
> > "Politicians prefer unarmed peasants."
> 
> Japanese LDP prefer unarmed peasants because of the democracy. What's wrong?
> Do you think Communist Party in CCCP defeated by armed citizen? 
> Why Meiji-Isin Revolution is possible under gun-control? 

In terms of individual liberty, it was more a coup than a revolution.  Up until
the defeat in '45, the private citizen was little more than a commodity vis a
vis the government.  To whit the Peace Preservation Law.

> (US people accepts this without question? Unbelievable....) From your
> opinion, to finish the undeclared civil war in U.S, U.S. needs  to
> change the consitution and gun-control.
> 
We need no change to our constitution, at least in THAT regard.  If we wanted 
to be passive objects to be manipulated by the government, we'd have changed
it LONG ago.  We don't want that.  Hopefully we never will....


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From: mitch@lsil.com (Mitch Sako)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Trip Information
Date: 6 Nov 92 21:42:23 GMT
Reply-To: mitch@lsil.com
Organization: LSI Computing Systems

Are there luggage forwarding services in the Tokyo area that will ship my luggage
to Narita from Tokyo?  I know that there are services from Narita to Tokyo and I
plan on using those.  What about the reverse case?  I would like to ship my
suitcase a day before departure and pick it up there if possible.

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Disclaimer:	Opinions expressed are mine and only mine
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Date: Sat,  7 Nov 1992 20:26:49 -0500 
From: Rikiya Asano <ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: My opinion about Japanese major
	<1992Nov7.085109.26161@athena.mit.edu>

               

               I have no doubt that Nippon will never go back.
Especially, to a military form of government. Major Shinsaku Yanai is
much like Mishima Yukio. There are still those individuals who have a
fantasy about the power and control
of the old Imperial days. Just as with King Authur and the world
"knight" business, some are conditioned to think of these dark days as
"romantic". How I don't have the least idea. There will never exist in
Nippon a Government directed by the Military. Now my person opinion is
that this Major was thinking with the best intentions. He, like I, is
feed up and piss off at the scandals with in our higher leadership of
our Government. So, I dont think that his intentions are bad. But, he is
suggesting something something very extreme. If this were to and this is
very hard for me to imagine, I would be concerned if the military would
give power back to the people once they've taken it. 


                                I think that the solution would be for
the people to vote to change things. A more radical idea that I'm having
right now. Is for the people to ask theb military to proform a
coup(under the complete direction of the civilian sector) and  once that
is done a new party can be elected. But, practically speaking I think
that it should be should at the voting booth. But, I agree in part with
the Major. The LDP Gotta go! preferrably
by the vote. My feeling toward this party and the legal system in Nippon
that deals with these people are a joke. 

                                          The joke being: 
           An elected official begins to illegally take money. but,
Since it's realitively small amounts no one says anything. So, this goes
on for a while until this person makes the big score. He says, "After
this four Million, I'll retire, I..I mean resign." Is that good?
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: smittie@beach.csulb.edu (Smittie)
Subject: Looking for sources
Organization: Cal State Long Beach
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 21:03:42 GMT

My apologies to all for interrupting the current flame wars.

I remember reading sometime ago about a study, done in Japan, that supposedly
found that Japanese could not properly digest beef because their intestines
were shorter than other people. In the same vein I have heard mention of other
studies which have found, among other things, that the Japanese were uniquely
equipped to speak the Japanese language because differences in physiological
makeup.

I would like to find English language documentation on these kinds of theories.
If anyone could provided references I would be grateful.

smittie
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From: d-itasak@nmit.mt.nec.co.jp (Daisaku Itasaka)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Major League vs All Japan (game 5)
Date: 6 Nov 92 06:11:45 GMT
Organization: NEC Microcomputer Technology Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

Game 5 (Thursday, at Heiwadai Stadium)

	                 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 hits
	Major League 10  0 1 0 4 5 0 0 0 0   9
	All Japan     2  0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0   7

	Swindell(W) - Patterson - Ward
	Wakatabe(L) - Maeda - Watanabe - Kawamoto
	homerun: Grace(2,3), Tettleton, Ikeyama

"Amazing" Grace hit 2 homers and ensured their win over All Japan
in the 7-game series. 3 wins, 1 losts and 1 tie. They have 2 more
games on Saturday and Sunday at Tokyo Dome.

-- 
A wrong guy in a wrong place at wrong time...
						 Daisaku Itasaka
				      d-itasak@nmit.mt.nec.co.jp
				NEC Microcomputer Technology Ltd.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: smittie@beach.csulb.edu (Smittie)
Subject: Re: Try it again - RE: Please give me your opinions...
Organization: Cal State Long Beach
	<1992Nov10.000753.13204@oakhill.sps.mot.com>
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:08:06 GMT


rvkl60@aus18a25.sps.mot.com (Tom Mathes)'s rhetoric deleted.

It is tempting to try and discredit opposing views by calling into question
their foundation. Hence, statements like "unrealistic academic world," "hands
deep in Japanese pockets" etc. I think it more purdent to look at the views
presented and see if they have merit.

>Why is Japan not labeled "racist" when high-level government
>officials call Americans "dumb and lazy"?

Japanese media and many members of the Japanese government decried within hours
of their being uttered. Much of the world press did in fact call the statements
racist.

>Why is it not protectionist when American rice farmers aren't allowed in the
>Japanese market?

The Japanese openly admit that they are protecting their rice market. No one
questions that this is protectionism, not even Japan. The question is are
Japan's reasons for protecting the market legitimate.

The examples of Toys 'R' Us and Motorola are good examples of areas where there
was in fact protectist policies. But we should also one that the policies have
been changed. Motorola is in Japan and doing well. Toys 'R' Us is also in Japan
with it's large retail chains.

>Whenever I hear the term "Japan bashing", I almost always
>find someone with their hands in Japanese pockets or
>someone who hasn't studied the subject.  The only ones
>who call the article inane are ones who still live in
>a fantasy land of academic unreality.

I receive no money from any Japanese concern at the moment though I will be
going to work for Japanese company in January. I can assure you Mr. Mathes that
I have studied Japan extensively. I do not limit my sources to Business Week. I
take the time to read the Japanese views on things as well. It should be
pointed out that if we are to determine baises here, your have far more
motivation to be bais, working for Motorola. I currently do not work for
anyone. I chose to work for a Japanese company because they offer me a
salary comparable to or better than any American company and they offer me at
least the hope of excellent job security. Something that few American companies
offer. Lastly, I do not live in anyone's fantasy land.

My criticism of the paper posted here is not that it is full of lies. I didn't
say that, implicitly or explicitly. I said the paper was garbage because it is
completely and utterly onesided, as are your comments Mr. Mathes. May I suggest
sir, that you try and broaden your scope a bit. That may require you to be
occasionally critical of America, something too few people are willing to be.

smittie

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: miklg@acuson.com (Michael Goldman )
Subject: US vs. Japan (was: Try it again - RE: Please give me your opinions...
Organization: Acuson; Mountain View, California
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 15:02:07 GMT

jcliu@four-lab4.Berkeley.EDU (James C. Liu) writes:

>3rd Point:  America is still No. 1 is a lot of things.  Most
>importantly, it is the No. 1 market for all the world's products.  Japan
>has no resources of its own.  I relies on trade surpluses to put cash in
>the bank for a rainy day.  When the giant national debt bites the
>American consumer back and lashes out with lowered standard of living

	The US national debt as a fraction of GNP is slightly greater
	than Germany's, and slightly smaller than Japan's.  Within
	the industrialized world, the US debt/GNP is about average
	at ~0.7.  Italy's is ~1.1, Belgium's ~1.25.  Canada's is
	higher as well.  THe US used to be very low in the list
	at around 0.33-0.36 from the 50s until 1980, when Reagan
	took office and it is the trend which is most disturbing.
	Don't mistake trade deficits for internal budget deficits.
 
>4th point:  America rebuilt Japan after WWII.  But let's give some credit to
>to hard work that almost 2 generations of Japanese workers put into that
>rebuilding too. Now that Japan has caught up in terms of standard of living,
>what was the purpose of bashing Japan? To put Japan back into poor house
>again so America can gloat about being number 1 again?  Business is war
>regardless of what companies and what countries are involved.  I'm
>curious; how many Japanese companies and other nations' companies are
>partly owned by American companies?

	Until a few years ago it was illegal for US cos. to own more
	than 49% of Japanese cos.  Exceptions were made for IBM and
	Texas Instruments because of patent rights, etc.

	- Michael Goldman

-- 
"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have
exhausted all other alternatives." - Abba Eban
	Disclaimer:  All views are solely my own & not the views of Acuson.
	<sun!sono!miklg>  or  [miklg@acuson.com]
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: miklg@acuson.com (Michael Goldman )
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.history
Subject: Japan's textbook-screening system
Date: 10 Nov 92 15:04:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: acuson.1992Nov10.150456.21569
Organization: Acuson; Mountain View, California


	From the Oct. 26, 1992 Electronic Engineering Times, pg 22)

	Today the Tokyo High Court will begin its final hearing on
	Japan's textbook-screening system...

	For nearly 30 years, an emminent Japanese historian, Saburo
	Ienaga, has been writing textbooks that include descritptions
	of Japan's occupation of Korea, the takeover of Manchuria prior
	to WWII, the rape of Nanking, and biological warfare
	experiments in China.  Censors at the Ministry of Education
	have been deleting those texts or replacing them with gross
	alterations of historical fact.

	...millions of Japanese support Ienaga, but earlier court
	decisions have supported the Ministry... system.

	Here are examples of changes in Ienaga's textbooks:

	In describing Kporea's 1919 'March 1 movement' against the
	Japanese occupation, Ienaga wrote: 'more than 7,000 Koreans
	were killed, and large numbers of churches burned, in a wave of
	oppression by the Japanese army and police.'

	The Education Ministry changed the section to 'the army and
	police strictly suppressed uprisings.'

	A description, with photographs, of Japan's biological warfare
	Unit 731, located on the outskirts of Harbin, China, was deleted.
	References to the the invasion of Manchuria were radically
	altered, and the murders and rapes in Nanking were glossed over
	because, as the Ministry of Education argued, 'it is
	common...for troops to rape women during the war, so it is not
	appropriate to refer to only the acts of the Japanese Army.'

	A more modern day theme, the deforestation of Indonesia and
	other... nations...was also changed substantially.  ...a
	photograph of a protester carrying a sign saying, "stop the
	corrupt Diet members' was airbrushed out, deleting the sign
	altogether.

	...Japanese students should be allowed to read the accurate
	accounts of what happened a half century ago.  The Tokyo High
	Court decision will be an important indicator of Japan's
	progress toward becoming a free and open democracy.

	------- end of quote ----

	- Michael Goldman

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From: walsha@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (Everytime I think I manage to lose my mind, there it is again, sneaking up behind me.)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: movie about life of Buddha
Date: 5 Nov 92 10:48:56 EST


a friend of mine once told me that the most beautiful movie he'd
ever seen was a japanese movie about the life of the Buddha.

does anyone know of such a move - name or availability in the US?

thanks for any info.

   ando.
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From: n9020351@henson.cc.wwu.edu (James Douglas Del-Vecchio)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,talk.politics.guns
Subject: Re: Japanese exchange student killed in Louisiana...
Date: 7 Nov 92 04:08:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: henson.1992Nov7.040858.22280
Organization: Western Washington University

harkcom@spinach.pa.yokogawa.co.jp (Alton Harkcom) writes:

>   True, this is one of the greatest problems.  And as with cars, we need
>some sort of regulation to require that proper training is attained before
>an individual is allowed to own/operate a gun.

	That is not true about cars.  The law requires no training to 
own or operate a car.  The law only requires a (almost token) test of
competence to legaly use a car on public roads.  Any 12 year old can
buy a car if he has money, just as any 12 year old may drive a car on his 
parents property.

>   We need regulations similar to those governing a motor vehicle
>license in the US.  A good examination policy of requiring that one has
>at least learned the basics of operating a gun, maintainging a gun, and
>unserstands all of the relevant laws pertaining to guns would be a good
>start.  Then a penalty system could be developed for those who abuse
>their license.

	Ok, but like for cars, this license would only be reqired for
use of the gun on public lands, right?


>   I started driving as soon as I was able to see over the dashboard.
>This was done on private property, not public roads.  Gun laws could be
>similar.  The possesion of a gun could require a simple procedure for
>registering the gun (already exists).  A license to operate a gun would
>be required for operating a gun for anything other than practice on
>private property.  This license of course could not have the (IMHO:
>ignorant) age restriction that a motor vehicle operator's license does
>as that would remove a lot of young hunters.  Of course a 'chauffer's
>license' could be for carrying/operating a gun in public (already exists)
>and this license could carry age restrictions...

	For cars, the purpose of registration is to collect tax revenue.
What would be the purpose of registration of guns in your above plan?

>Al

Jim Del Vecchio
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,talk.politics.guns
From: ikeda@vxcrna.cern.ch (IKEDA,M./EP)
Subject: Re: Japanese exchange student killed in Louisiana...
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 20:26:00 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.062123.7756@nntp.csl.sony.co.jp>, kono@csl.sony.co.jp writes...
>In article <SMITTIE.92Nov9190630@beach.csulb.edu> , 
>	smittie@beach.csulb.edu (Smittie) writes 
>>The class taught that if you thought someone was trying to break into
>>your home the best course of action was to muster everyone in one
>>room, preferably a roo m with only one entrance.   ...
>>Had Hattori's killer been thru such a class as this Hattori would still be
>>alive. 
> 
>This sounds very reasonable. 
> 
>Saying "freeze!" with the gun is far from self-defense.  Peirs shot
>Hattri with clear intention of killing before break-in or starting
>fire. It is very close to a murder.  I'm very impressed by that fact
>that many readers of s.c.j protect the irrational shoot.

Actually there has been a significant number of posts (at least initially
when the incident was reported on scj) that strongly criticised the
shooting.  What you are seeing is actually a microcosm of the US about
the gun debate.  A very loud (or in the netnews sense, very fast typing)
and aggressive group who are probably card-carrying NRA members use the
natural fear of crime as way to encourage people in the US that any form
of gun-control will take away the right for Americans to kill anyone from
dangerous criminals to suspicious intruders to less-than-suspicious looking
tuxedo-wearing boys.  You now see why gun-control advocates have such
a difficult time in the US.

-- Makoto
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,talk.politics.guns