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From: smittie@beach.csulb.edu (Smittie)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Japanese Constitution
Date: 5 Nov 92 21:31:11 GMT
Organization: Cal State Long Beach

>I've heard vague things that the constitution is written in American English,
>but have never really heard any facts. Anyone care to inform the ignorant
>(i.e. me)? If not in English (I'd sort of hope that it'd be written in
>Japanese), is there a standard translation?

The current Japanese Constitution was originally written in American English,
by Americans, and then translated into Japanese. A completely copy of the
current Constitution and the Meiji Constitution can be found in, among others,
a book called "Japan's War." I don't remember the author's name but someone
will come up with it I'm sure.

smittie
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From: doi@jrd.dec.com (Hitoshi Doi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: new newsgroup discussion
Date: 10 Nov 92 22:18:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: jrd.BxItys.4or
Organization: DEC Japan Research and Development Center

In article <MS-C.721414192.1103527590.mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM>, Mark Crispin <mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM> writes:
# The responses I've received to my call for a new newsgroup have been very
# positive.  There seems to be a definite groundswell to take back what was once
# a useful facility.  I'd like to solicit some opinions on what would be the
# best way to accomplish this.  I can see several possibilities:

#  4) Newsgroup restructuring/partition.  Split s.c.j. into various parts, and
#     perhaps have some of them be moderated.  Here's a strawman of a possible
#     split:

I like this split the best.

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Xref: sparky soc.culture.japan:10150 talk.politics.guns:23545
From: blamb@hri.com (Bill Lambert)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,talk.politics.guns
Subject: Re: Japanese exchange student killed in Louisiana...
Date: 5 Nov 92 17:21:28 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.japan
Organization: Horizon Research, Inc.


=> In article <HUTTAR.92Oct29165805@ief.itg.ti.com> huttar@ief.itg.ti.com
=> (Lars Huttar) writes:

=> >What kind of excuse is that for killing somebody????

In article <pa142548.398.720914051@utkvm1.utk.edu>, pa142548@utkvm1.utk.edu
(T. Archer) writes:
=> No "excuse" is necessary.  The facts indicate that the citizen had 
=> reasonable cause to feel that he was threatened, and did not have the luxury 
=> of exploring further.  He gave a verbal warning, which was ignored.  In his 
=> perception, he had no choice but to shoot.

The facts indicate no such thing. The facts indicate an unarmed juvenile
was shot when he went to the wrong house. The law does in fact require
an "excuse" before blowing away someone. Please wait until the law
decides the shooter's culpability before acquitting him of any blame.
Just because he was, in his view, defending himself, does not - according
to law - immediately exonerate him from any wrongdoing. There is some
responsibility required and judegment required before shooting someone,
fortunately, and even the police are held accountable to that standard
in most places.

- Bill Lambert
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: smittie@beach.csulb.edu (Smittie)
Subject: Re: Japanese exchange student killed in Louisiana...
Organization: Cal State Long Beach
	<HARKCOM.92Nov10125208@spinach.pa.yokogawa.co.jp>
	<7442@bigbird.hri.com.hri.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 01:07:33 GMT

>I'm glad we could agree on something this week, Half-bro, and I'll
>be happy to have you as my running mate in '96.

you guys got my vote. Can I be Trade Rep??

smittie
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From: a7657@mindlink.bc.ca (Stephen H. Kawamoto)
Subject: Re: call for a new newsgroup
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 19:47:58 GMT

Korean bullies picking on you?
Chinese kids torching your rent-a-car?
Why not enroll in Bruce Lee's Defense classes?
(joke mode off)

 I'm surprised you didn't say you could handle yourself. I guess not all
 Japanese have time for kendo, jui-jitsu, karate and other forms of Jpnz.
 martial arts.


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From: a7657@mindlink.bc.ca (Stephen H. Kawamoto)
Subject: Re: Japanese K-12 students needed!!
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 01:28:19 GMT

Regarding your one time exchange project, Dave:

update me on how it's going.

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,talk.politics.guns
From: ehorne@zeus.calpoly.edu (Eric T Horne)
Subject: Re: Japanese exchange student killed in Louisiana...
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 02:07:14 GMT

In article <Bx8224.HMG@ncifcrf.gov> masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov (Michiaki Masuda) writes:
>In article <1992Nov4.185308.8461@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee) writes:
>>In article <Bx6oH8.IFM@ncifcrf.gov> masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov (Michiaki Masuda) writes:
>>>   It is illegal to drive a car without a license. ...
>>
>>It's only illegal to drive it without a license if you are on public property.
>
>  Can you run over someone in the next door when you are driving in your 
>private property?

If I were to be a technical SOB, I would say YES you CAN, in some 
circumstances. And they would not bust you for driving without a license,
because you didn't break that law. Funny thing about America is that they
only charge you for laws you have broken (in most cases, anyways).   

>  Can you shoot someone in the next door when you are handling your gun in your
>private property?

Once again, under certian circs, you could (ie your neighbor has a flame
thrower pointed at you, you may handle your gun in such a way as to 
ensure your security - it's called self-defense, maybe you've heard of it?).

>
>Michiaki Masuda

Eric
From: tatuya@isea.is.titech.ac.jp (9044430 YAMAMOTO Tatuya)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: BATTLE FOR NICHIREN STATE RAGES OUT OF CONTROL IN HYOGO
Date: 11 Nov 92 04:51:03 GMT
    <1992Nov10.052559.20096@etl.go.jp>
Organization: Information Science, Science, Tokyo Inst. of Tech.
X-Bytes: 167

> What was this article?  American Joke????
> NONSENSE!!!! and not apropreate for s.c.j. newsgroup

His (Henry Robertson's) posts are totally nonsence.
Please ignore.
From: t_yamasi@hoffman.cc.sophia.ac.jp (Yamashiki Tsuyoshi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Sumo - Kyushu Basho (Days 3 & 4)
Date: 12 Nov 92 02:24:12 GMT
Organization: Computer Center, Sophia Univ., Tokyo, Japan

I'm afraid Taka is in a long term slump.  I never thought a man so
strong at last basho was so fragile.  He's young, afterall.
Kotonishiki and Musashimaru, on the other hand, are splendid!
They both deserves yusho.

Somehow audience seems to be disappointed by Taka's bad performance --
I'm not, I like Waka. :-)

I'm rather sorry for Kirishima.  I always am for old wrestler who's
getting weaker.  Life as a rikishi is so short.  *sob*

    Tsuyoshi Yamashiki, lost boy in cyber space.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: amirza@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Anmar Caves)
Subject: Re: Japanese exchange student killed in Louisiana...
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:01:44 GMT

In article <10NOV199221260689@vxcrna.cern.ch> ikeda@vxcrna.cern.ch (IKEDA,M./EP) writes:
>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.

Odd, I've been one of those fast-typing (actually, I type slow)
aggressive group, and I'm not a member of the NRA, nor have I ever
been.  As far as it goes, I am opposed to any form, governmental or
otherwise, of restriction of my right to defend myself.  I'm also
opposed to the idea of trusting my, or any, government to not behave
in an irresponsible manner.

Gun control advocates have had an easy time here in the states, that's
why there are SO MANY LAWS CONCERNING GUN CONTROL.  What those of us
oppose is the erosion of what is left of our rights, rights which
should be defended by the very politicians who are taking them away.

I, as well as most others, have no problem with the concept of "if I
screw up and make an error, and it results in harm or death to an
innocent person, then I should be held fully liable."  No problem
whatsoever.  What we have a problem with is "you might make a mistake
that could cause harm to someone else, you may not own or use guns."

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.history
From: k3amichi@student.business.uwo.ca (Kentaro Nakamichi)
Subject: Re: Japan's textbook-screening system
Organization: University of Western Ontario
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 02:42:02 GMT

ee152fdm@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (Maiko Covington) writes:

> 	On another note... for a really interesting view of the
> brainwashing people in Japan got during the war, try looking at
> kids' magazines. I have an issue of "yoi ko no tomo" from 1942
> December, and among other articles are a letter to children from the
> emperor urging them to "gambare" and be like the soldiers, a poem
> about "that wonderful morning" when Pearl Harbor was bombed, and
> lots of maps titled "where the Japanese flag has gone to" that show
> most of Asia under Japanese rule.

It's common knowledge that textbooks were altered depending on public 
sentiments at the time.  If anyone gets a chance, go to the 
Kyu-Kaichi-Gakko, the Old Kaichi School, in Matsumoto.  It's a school 
that has existed since the late Edo era and has lots of historic stuff 
including textbooks that really show a dramatic change in content right 
around WW2.  Children have often been chanting slogans that they knew 
nothing about.  In the early 1960s, it was apparently popular to walk in 
groups of four and chant "anpo sansei" to support the Security deal 
between the US and Japan.

k3amichi@student.business.uwo.ca (Kentaro Nakamichi)
Western Business School  --  London, Ontario
From: davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: call for a new newsgroup
Date: 11 Nov 92 23:06:02 GMT

d-itasak@nmit.mt.nec.co.jp (Daisaku Itasaka) writes:

>In article <2369@usna.NAVY.MIL>
>	Wm. Douglas Withers -- math  FACULTY <wdw@sma.usna.navy.mil> writes:

>>I posted a query at one time to Japanese readers,
>>asking whether they found the debate interesting.  For what it's worth, I
>>received a single positive response and no negative ones.

>I guess that's because all those who were not interested didn't even
>read the query you posted. On the other hand, there was only 1 person
>who was interested.

Perhaps. It could also be that the people who don't find the thread
interesting have used the time-honored technique of putting it in
their kill file. 

>>I've watched several newsgroups go through phases like this.  It will pass.

>When?
>It seems like a road to nowhere....

Why are you following it then? ;-)

Dave

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From: mj1078@taurus.cse.kyutech.ac.jp (mmanuel pece)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: New newsgroup for foreigner living in Japan
Date: 09 Nov 92 08:18:48 GMT
Organization: Kyushu Institute of Tech., Iizuka, JAPAN.
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.taurus.cse.kyutech.ac.jp
In-reply-to: 


Hello there.

Al last, the long awaited newsgroup fj.life.in-japan has been created.
Please, if you have access to the fj domain, join us.

Manuel Pece
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: stritaris@cc.curtin.edu.au
Subject: Re: AIDS in Japan 
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 08:05:45 GMT

In article <Bwxnvo.AK2@world.std.com>, cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond) writes:
> mj1078@taurus.cse.kyutech.ac.jp (mmanuel pece) writes:
> 
>>In article <justin.720150021@mik.uky.edu> justin@mik.uky.edu (justin sullivan) writes:
> 
>>>> A question though.. Do you not have AIDS and drugs in Japan? Only curious..
> 
>>That's a very interesting question.
> 
>>For the drugs, i'd say that maybe there are, but nobody sees them.
>>They are quite strict about them (i heard a story about Paul McCartney
>>being caugth with drugs in Japan, but i don't remember it).
>>Anyway, they have far less problems wuth drugs than in USA or Europe.
> 
> 
> I was quite surprised to see pot (marijauna) being smoked quite openly by
> the groups of Middle Easteners in the park by Ueno station. 

      If you have ever lived in Yokohama, and you happen to
      know the right people, you can get just about any drugs you
      want. (Quite easily) You can probably get AIDS there too
      if you tried hard enough.
From: st911293@pip.cc.brandeis.edu ("Carmen")
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: JET program
Date: 10 Nov 92 01:48:58 GMT
Reply-To: st911293@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University

I am graduating from college (undergrad) this year and am 
interested in spending a year in Japan teaching English
absorbing culture and becoming fluent (I am in my second
year of nihon'go). My question is, does anyone have any 
recommendations as to which programs are better or worse?
I have heard positive things about the JET program and 
negative things (in general) about the big companies that
send teachers over as a business. Also, what is the best
place to go in Japan to really absorb culture, or does it
matter? In terms of, is one place better than another to 
be stationed? 
thanks in advance...
sarah
From: robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu (Henry Robertson)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Fear of a Forged Planet
Date: 12 Nov 1992 07:13:42 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: headcrash.berkeley.edu

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4. Chinese Monk Discovered America, Says Scholar ........................ 26
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Forwarded by: Liu Jian
Source: JAPAN ECONOMIC NEWSWIRE, 11/10/1992

BEIJING -- Step aside Christopher Columbus, a Chinese monk discovered
America more than 1,000 years before the intrepid Italian explorer was even
born, a research professor said Tuesday.

Faxian (336-422), a Chinese Buddhist monk, landed in a kingdom called Yepoti
in the winter of 412, the official Xinhua news agency quoted Lian Yunshan as
saying. "Yepoti was somewhere near today's Los Angeles on the western coast
of the United States," said Lian, a professor and visiting research fellow
from the China-Pacific Historical Society.

Lian made his claim at an international symposium on the origin of Pacific
civilizations.

Faxian, whose name is a homophone for the word discovery, arrived with a
fleet of three Chinese ships after drifting for 105 days in the Pacific
Ocean, Xinhua said.

And 1,000-year-old handwritten copies of his biography, confirming the feat,
can still be found in China, Japan and Korean Peninsula, it said.

Although their original destination was Guangzhou in southern China,
"monsoons in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific blew the ships off course,"
Lian said. On December 17, they landed in Yepoti, staying there for nearly
four months before sailing back to China, he said.

Western scholars claim Yepoti is the original name of Java Island but after
three decades of painstaking research, Lian has concluded that it was indeed
America, Xinhua said.

Pressed for evidence, Lian says paintings by the ancient Maya people show
Faxian's ships landing. All of which is bad news for the many people on both
sides of the Atlantic who are busy feting Columbus this year, the 500th
anniversary of his "discovery" of America.
From: hash@ikarac5.ctrl.saitama-u.ac.jp (Toshihiko Hashimoto)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Happy Birthday in English
Date: 12 Nov 92 07:12:33 GMT
Organization: Araki Lab., Electronic Engineering, Saitama Univ., Japan

In article <92315.103224RSAYLC@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com> RSAYLC@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com (Larry E. Cravetz) writes:
>I think the original question has been answered, but please tell us (me) more
>about GENPUKU, and KANREKI. Are these also birthday celebrations?

Refering to DAIJIRIN of a big Japanese dictionary,

GEN-PUKU:
a celebration for a boy announcing that he has been of age.
(It is a very old tradition, and now it is not common 
at all, except amoung KOUZOKU, the Japanese Royal Family.
Although this is my personal opinion.)

KAN-REKI:
a word to express the age of 61.
This has got something to do with the ancient Chinese
Calendaring system, ETO.  

KI-JU:
a word to express the age of 77 or a celebration of
the age of 77.
This comes from that the form of a KANJI word, 
"KI(yorokobi)" in handwriting looks like KANJI
words to express 77.

They are all I remember now.  I think there are a little 
more celebrations else.  Does anyone know more?


Thanks,

Toshi
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From: underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe)
Subject: Re: Looking for sources
Organization: Miners for a Heart of Gold
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 92 09:29:25 GMT

In article <SMITTIE.92Nov6130339@tui.csulb.edu> smittie@beach.csulb.edu (Smittie) writes:
>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.

Beef
----
Actually, the claim is that Japanese intestines are _longer_ than American
intestines; hence, they are supposedly geared for the digestion of rice.

Physiological "stuff"
---------------------
I have read two studies on this matter.  One came from "Discover"; the other
source was more reputable, but I forget it's name.  (I read this material years
and years ago, but the material was sufficiently interesting that I still
recall it.)

The theory proposes _nothing_ about physiological differences.  What
it did propose was that those people who grew up speaking Japanese as
the native language, _regardless_ of ethnicity, developed left and
right hemispheres of the brain where more activity is processed in the
left hemisphere than is "normal" for people who grew up speaking,
say, English.  Measurements of the cranial behavior of two European
sisters who grew up in Japan exhibited the same left-hemisphere bias
that ethnic Japanese exhibited.

What happens is that some activity "normally" processed by the right
hemisphere in English speakers is _not_ processed in the right hemisphere
by Japanese speakers; the processing of that activity has somehow been
transferred _permanently_ to the left hemisphere in Japanese speakers,
regardless of ethnicity.

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From: marc@watson.ibm.com (Marc Auslander)
Subject: Re: Trip Information
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 20:35:56 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York

You can also check your luggage onto your flight at TCAT in Tokyo.  I
don't know if you can do it the day before, though.
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: jiazhang@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Jiajie Zhang)
Subject: Volunteers Needed for a Psychological Experiment on Reasoning
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 19:01:49 GMT





We are currently conducting an experiment to study how people solve
very simple problems.  We ask for volunteers to participate in this
experiment.  It only takes about 2 to 3 minutes.  Plus, it is fun and
enjoyable. 

To do the task, simply type:

telnet canyon.psy.ohio-state.edu
Login: psyexp
(No password is needed.)

Then enter your terminal type, such as vt100, sun, xterm, and so on.

Everything is fully automatic and self-explained.

If you have any questions, please feel free to call me or send me
an email.

Thank you for your help.

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