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From: jcliu@four-lab4.Berkeley.EDU (James C. Liu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Plutonium
Date: 15 Nov 1992 23:07:32 GMT
Organization: UC Berkeley Dept. of Nuclear Engineering
NNTP-Posting-Host: four-lab4.berkeley.edu

In article <justin.721814257@mik.uky.edu> justin@nx30.mik.uky.edu
(justin sullivan) writes:

>Why not? Japanese and Europeans seem much more level-headed about things
>like this then Americans. Only ignorance of a thing fuels fear of that thing.

The French are more level headed.  The Japanese are not.  They fear
nuclear power just as much as Americans only they are not as politically
vocal about it...and they have the attitude that as long as it doesn't
affect my daily life...I'm not going to bother.  The reason why both
nations are so pro-fission is mainly economics and energy security.

>Soviet Union had a nasty one, and the US has had several accidents (several
>of which were almost complete meltdowns). 

On the commercial side of nuclear power, the U.S. has had only one 
major accident, and that is Three Mile Island.  TMI was not "almost",
but an ACTUAL meltdown incident.  However, it was an economic disaster, 
but NOT a health hazard.  Only a small amount of radioactivity was
released in the TMI accident, about 20 Curies, which was not of
significant consequence.  The former Soviet Union has had many accidents
and also many releases which were done on purpose.  There is no
comparison between the US nuclear experience and the USSR's.

Japan basically borrows reactor technology and regulations from America.

Jaa, James
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From: cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond)
Subject: Fly Plutonium Airlines
Organization: Integrated International Systems Corp. One Longfellow Place, Suite 3309, Boston, Ma.
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 09:54:46 GMT


I can imagine that the US would require something a little stonger than
ordinary shipping containers! What flight path do you think they will
have to file?



	KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (UPI) -- Japan, which plans to buy 30 tons of
plutonium from Europe over the next two decades, might ship future
allotments by air if designers can create safer casks, a Tokyo diplomat
said Friday.
	Tokyo is currently shipping 1.7 tons of plutonium from France to
Japan aboard a freighter, despite protests from environmentalists who
fear an accident.
	Friday, Yasutaka Moriguchi, first secretary of the Permanent Mission
of Japan to international organizations in Vienna, said the plutonium
would have gone via air had the U.S. Congress not objected to safety
standards of existing casks.
	Moriguchi, who is in Malaysia for a technology seminar, said
Washington has the right to veto any shipment of plutonium processed
from U.S.-mined uranium.
	``We are now improving on the air transport casks so that they will
meet the higher standards imposed,'' said Moriguchi, who added that
Tokyo preferred air transport to sea shipment because a flight from
Europe to Japan only takes two days.

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From: sakimura@sscl.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: _o_
Organization: Social Science Computing Laboratory
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 02:39:45 GMT

In article <FENG.92Nov16202750@agnar.cs.cornell.edu>, feng@cs.cornell.edu (Zhongyang Feng) writes:
> How about this one?
> 
> (~O~) 
> 
> *yawning*
>                         _____
                         |  o/ |
I'm very sad ;_;)        | <|  | Let's go!
Oops! :-p  Just joking!  | / > |
                          -----

BTW, are these expressions originated in Japan? or US? or Else?
I'm interested, because if it is "From Japan," it may be an 
interesting sub-culture to talk about in s.c.j. I see a lot of 
these in networks in Japan. I don't see as many these expressions
in North America.

  ^ ^         | Natsu Sakimura
((@< @))      | sakimura@sscl.uwo.ca
   o          |
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From: shin@krusty.ee.udel.edu (Jeong-Gyun Shin)
Subject: Re: Fingerprinting Gaijin
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:24:25 GMT

In article <1992Nov20.030848.2069@leland.Stanford.EDU> underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:
>The issue is that they are currently foreigners in Japan.  They could
>get citizenship in Japan, but they don't want to.

They, JBKs as a netter called, were Japanese subjects once by decision of
Japan's Emperor so to speak and now are foreigners by decision of Japanese 
government.

[further tape playing deleted]
From: blamb@hri.com (Bill Lambert)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Fingerprinting Gaijin
Date: 23 Nov 92 19:03:51 GMT
Organization: Horizon Research, Inc.

In article <1ecr6eINN2a3@agate.berkeley.edu>, robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu
(Henry Robertson) writes:
=> As for treatment of Korean-Japanese, it is common knowledge that kaishas
=> use detective teams to sort out a person's background in terms of 
=> caste and ethnicity.  But, of course no rejected applicant can ever prove such
=> a thing.  Consequently, Hitachi Electric avoids becoming Eta Electric,
=> Japan Bank avoids becoming Ketou Bank.  Well, if it gives the island folk an
=> ego trip to make non-islanders stamp their fingers, then let them have an
=> orgasm over it.

As someone who knows a few large Japanese company members of Korean
descent, I like it to be known that what is stated above is not
universal by any means, although maybe not rare either. In the cases
of the people I have known, they have Japanese surnames, but are
descendents of Korean people in Japan since the war.

- Bill Lambert
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From: fester@etorofu.island.COM ()
Subject: Re: Children vs Corporation
Originator: fester@etorofu
Organization: Island Graphics, Marin County, California
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 16:55:01 GMT

In article <7934@skye.ed.ac.uk> T.Duncan@ed.ac.uk writes:
>In article <1992Nov16.162431.2241@island.COM>, fester@island.COM (Mike Fester) writes:
>
>|> An interesting aspect of this is that if you have a child in Japan, and the
>|> child can be considered legally Japanese, most cities pay you a 
>|> "congratulatory" sum of anywhere from Y120,000 to Y200,000. 
>
>Most cities?  I don't think so.  Maybe a few underpopulated areas (due to the
>large number of younger generation who have moved to Tokyo area for jobs) will
>offer "congratulatory" payments to encourage settlement, but you won't find that
>in any of the larger cities (eg: Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, Nagoya etc).  However, it
>is quite common for health insurance unions to give congratulatory sums.

Unless you define Tokyo as underpopulated, then yes, what I wrote above is
absolutely true. My daughter was born in Tokyo-tou, and that is what we
received (Y140,000) from Koganei-shi for her birth. A friend of mine's
daughter was born in Minato-ku, and he received Y130,000. 

The process is (or was, 2 years ago) this: you take the hospital records to
the shiyaku-shou (city hall), where you register your child (if one of the
parents is Japanese, the child must be registered under that parent's family
registry). When the registration is complete, you are given a voucher, which 
you take to the city treasurer (in Koganei-shi, this is a small building behind
the main building) where they give you your money. This is entirely separate
from any insurance, or was as of 2 years ago.

Mike

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From: fester@island.COM (Mike Fester)
Subject: Re: Try it again - RE: Please give me your opinions...
Organization: /usr/local/rn/organization
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:57:29 GMT

In article <7444@bigbird.hri.com.hri.com> blamb@hri.com (Bill Lambert) writes:
>
>=> With regard to company/customer relations:
>=> 

{My own examples deleted}

>I suppose your experiences are different than mine. On two occasions, I
>bought something that was tested by the shop and found to be defective
>*before* I left the premises, and immediately replaced. I've also had
>home appliances installed when *I* wanted (which was off 9-5 hours).
>And in spite of lack of a consumer protection mechanism, isn't it
>amazing to have that level of quality. In Japan, if a company's
>product is not up to snuff, word gets out pretty quickly, and
>nobody will buy it, hence you rarely will find the equivalent of
>an exploding Ford Pinto.

Not quite true, again. Most large Japanese companies put out what we in the
US would consider an abnormally high number of different models of almost
every product. These products also have a much smaller life-sycle than
similar products here. In that time (particularly on autos and motorcycles)
each model can be crammed with every conceivable device, many of which are
expected to break, and the device/auto itself may break (not as uncommon as
thought, particularly on lower-end goods). If all this happens, generally you
are simply out of luck. The manufacturer is usually not required to do anything
about it. Also, with regard to my "exploding Pinto" example; the cheaper
Japanese car are still available. You can get one for about $3,000 brand new.
They are small, and have no frame of any kind. This last fact is not unique to
the cheaper cars, as anyone who has seen the aftermath of a serious auto
crash in Japan will attest. I saw one car scrunched like an accordian. The 
policeman told the car was going way too fast; about 58 kph.

Mike
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From: henry@trilithon.mpk.ca.us (Henry McGilton)
Subject: Re: Fly Plutonium Airlines
Organization: Trilithon Software
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 01:59:59 GMT

In article <By0E7B.BH9@world.std.com> cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond)  
writes:
    *  
    *  I can imagine that the US would require something a little stonger than
    *  ordinary shipping containers! What flight path do you think they will
    *  have to file?
<<<<<  Rest of Article Deleted >>>>>

There was an article in the paper Thursday mentioning
that without fanfare, a shipment of plutonium had already
been flown from Germany to Scotland.

	........  Henry
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: isc30176@nusunix1.nus.sg (CHEN JIA TYAN)
Subject: Re: Let's take a poll (increasing S/N ratio)
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 05:40:26 GMT

> Do you think Asano-kun's posts merit an audience in this group?

And why not?  I don't think it's fair for anyone to exclude anyone else
from saying something.  We're not playing communists, are we? 8-) 
I had ignored a many posts by reading the subject headings and pressing K 
(instead of kill files), especially the Louisiana ones.  
You can't choose who to talk, but you sure can choose who to listen to.
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CHEN JiaTyan
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chenjiat@nusdiscs.bitnet
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Lawyer wanted! Immediately! 
From: smittie@csulb.edu (Smittie)
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:33:05 GMT
 u><1992Nov18.045848.1000626@sue.cc.uregina.ca> <BxxA5C.G5v@ncifcrf.gov>
Organization: Cal State Long Beach

masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov (Michiaki Masuda) wrote:
>BTW, Smittie-san's image is already shining very brightly. (Oooo, mabushii!)

Sou to omowanai kedo arigato.

smittie

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From: bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,talk.politics.guns
Subject: Re: Yoshi Hattori
Date: 16 Nov 92 12:57:25 GMT
Reply-To: bd%fluent@dartmouth.EDU
Distribution: usa
Organization: Fluent Inc., Lebanon NH

joel@upchrch.UUCP (Joel Upchurch  ) writes:

>cecchini@acsu.buffalo.edu (Julie A Cecchini) writes:
>
>> The very sad thing is, that he will probably be convicted due
>> to diplomatic pressure.  Furthermore, I have seen NO evidence
>> that he *wasn't* trying to break in.
>
>While diplomatic pressure may have caused him to be prosecuted, I don't
>think it will have much effect on the jury's decision to convict or not.
>Of course the man is ruined either way. Defending himself against the
>manslaughter charge will probably take everything he has. then there is
>the prospect that Hatori's family may bring a civil suit against him.
>Even if he is acquited of the state charges, he may face the cheerful
>prospect of being charged with violating Hatori's civil rights by the
>federal government.

In light of all this hassle, maybe it's not too smart
to kill unarmed people who are not making any actual threats
to your life?
-- 
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                         bd%fluent@dartmouth.edu        
             I don't speak for them, they don't speak for me
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Subject: Re: I WANT TO WORK IN JAPAN : Need help
Date: 19 Nov 92 17:23:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: cibbs.9HNguB2w165w
Organization: DataSoft Consulting (Toronto, Ont. Canada)

>One of my friend is planning to go to Japan. She want to go their and 
teach Engl
>(She thinks this is the only employment available to gaijins).
 
Well As someone who's leaving the end of this month I can say that 
Teaching English isn't the only job foreigners can do.  But generally 
it's a place to start from.  She can also be a Hostess(Not advisable) 
model, act etc...  Or do a regular job aswell.  
As for getting jobs you can do it through several ways... 1. Simply get a 
Working Holiday VISA and a plane ticket and go there!  2. Apply to JET 
which pays your way there and gets you a job before hand (Info at 
Japanese Consulte) 3. Apply to numerious companies advertising for jobs 
here... (OR where you are, Several English teaching companies have 
offices in major cities to recuit people) 4. Same as #1 but do it under 
SWAP (Student Work Abroad Program) 
These are many of the options that are open to you...  
If you want more info e-mail me...
Sunhan Eren 
S-ko... (E-mail adress uunorth!cibbs!s-ko)  (Not a registared address 
yet!)

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: harkcom@spinach.pa.yokogawa.co.jp (Alton Harkcom)
Subject: Re: Fingerprinting Gaijin
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 00:07:40 GMT
Organization: Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

In article <18NOV199217192360@vxcrna.cern.ch> ikeda@vxcrna.cern.ch
   (IKEDA,M./EP) writes:

 =}Discussions on fingerprinting has gone through scj before, but I am still
 =}a bit mystified by Ms. Morikawa (and other Americans) who think that
 =}fingerprinting is so horrible.  In fact it seems incredibly hypocritical.
 =}The US requires fingerprints of *permanent residents* of the US and not

   That's not hypocritical as those people have shown no support for the
US fingerprinting policy.  To bitch about one system while condoning the
other would be hypocritical.  To bitch about one system while saying
nothing about the other is not hypocritical, but is questionable.  To bitch
about both systems is normal...

 =}I am very glad that the new law in Japan no longer requires fingerprinting
 =}of permanent residents though.

   If memory serves me correctly, the new law only applies to Japanese of
Korean decent who are above 2nd/3rd??? generation...
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: fester@island.COM (Mike Fester)
Subject: Re: Plutonium
Organization: /usr/local/rn/organization
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:36:40 GMT

In article <justin.721814257@mik.uky.edu> justin@nx30.mik.uky.edu (justin sullivan) writes:
>In <SMITTIE.92Nov13163653@beach.csulb.edu> smittie@beach.csulb.edu (Smittie) writes:
>
>>Interesting, at least to me, that one of these plants is in Hiroshima. I would
>>have thought the people there would never allow it.
>
>Why not? Japanese and Europeans seem much more level-headed about things
>like this then Americans. Only ignorance of a thing fuels fear of that thing.

Given that the Japanese protests against these things re at least as massive as
anything in the States, it seems that either the Japanese are as ignorant 
as we, or we are as level-headed as they. The government simply ignores the
protests.

>>Where are the nuclear power plants in Japan? I damn sure don't wanto to live
>>near one. [near is defined here as anything less than 100 miles.]
>
>Why not? They're a proven technology. France is completely dependent on 
>nuclear power (well, 90% :) and hasn't (to my knowledge) had a single
>incident involving one of their nuclear reactors. On the other hand, the 
>Soviet Union had a nasty one, and the US has had several accidents (several
>of which were almost complete meltdowns). In both nations, each incident can
>be attributed to incompetence and/or failures in the beuracracy.

The Japanese have had several, including one very recently, attributed to
"operator error". In France, while I am not certain about their safety record,
there was an incident several years ago where "terrorists" got ahold of 
plutonium and placed under the driver's seat of the car of the director of 
one of the reactors. he didn't notice for several weeks.

>I just can't wait until Japan perfects the fusion reactor.. I can hear it

You might have a long wait. So far as I am aware, the only 'break-even' tests
have been done in New Mexico (and BTW, fission and fusion are very different
technologies).

>now: "Run for your lives! Tha Japs have The Bomb!" Believe it or not 
>(I didn't at first), but evidently, there's a group of pseudo-rednecks in
>California (where else?) that are arming themselves to the teeth (both with
>legal rifles, handguns, and automatic weapons of very questionable origin :)

Such groups are common all over the US. That's the price one pays for living
in a nation where everyone is free to pursue whatever hairbrained scheme 
someone else dreams up.

Mike
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From: tanaka@til.til.com (Yokichi Tanaka)
Subject: Re: Banana Republic (Re: US vs. Japan (was: Try it again - ...)
Organization: Togai InfraLogic, Inc.
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 02:04:16 GMT

In article <Bxo24C.2K4@ncifcrf.gov>, masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov (Michiaki Masuda) writes:
|> In article <1992Nov13.163406.25007@u.washington.edu> yoichi@carson.u.washington.edu (Yoichi Ii) writes:
|>
|>    Yes, it seems to be very popular among young Japanese and pretty
|> expensive. A T-shirt of B.R. would be appreciated as a nice gift or souvenior.
|> (Other than T-shirts, there are not so many US-made clothings at B.R. at
|> least in my area.)
|> 

I know enough has been said about the derogatory nature of the
term "Banana Republic", so I won't comment on that part.  As
for the store itself, it offers far more than T-shirts.  Its
offerings range from shirts & sweaters to Docker-type pants to
Safari-style to socks to even women's dresses.  A few (3-4) 
years back, they predominantly carried outdoor/safari-style clothes.
Lately they seemed to have diversified.

To the Japanese tourist, I don't think it matters where the
clothes were made.  The important thing is that it has the BR
logo on it.  From what I hear, the Gap was the "in" store for
the tourists until about last year.  Now, I guess it's BR.

BR clothes, in general, seem to have high-quality.  They are
rugged and last a long time.

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tanaka@til.com             Irvine, California, USA
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From: Mark Crispin <mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM>
Subject: Re: otoko-rashii Riki-chan
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
To: ross-c@scs.leeds.ac.uk
Organization: University of Washington
Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 14:43:52 GMT

Hmm.  Nasty, perhaps, but not necessarily jesting.  I don't particularly like
being threatened with lawsuits, even by a raving lunatic...
From: lkawamot@zeus.calpoly.edu (Len Kawamoto)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: ftp sites
Date: 21 Nov 92 20:14:21 GMT
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo


Hello to all in the net... or should I say hajimemashite ?
anyways, there was a post earlier this month or maybe last month about
JWP ( a japanese word processor for windows ) and it had an ftp site
listed (not the one at kilroy.nasa.gov) I was wondering if anyone still
remebers the ftp site I'm talking about. It had other Japanese stuff on
there and I would like to take a look at them, and unfortunately I mis-
placed the site name... So if somebody can e-mail me the address or post
it again, I would be greatful. 
Thanx in advance!!

Len Kawamoto

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From: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
Subject: Re: Green Peace a band of Hypocrites
Organization: Johns Hopkins University CS Dept.
Distribution: soc.culture.japan
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:33:04 GMT

In article <SHAH.92Nov18123751@orange.tutee.tut.ac.jp> shah@orange.tutee.tut.ac.jp (Q. H. Shah) writes:
>Why green peace is so much concerned about plutonium shipment to Japan
>where it is going to be used for peaceful purposes?
>Where was this GP when US forces bombed Iraq and Kuwait destroying
>those two countries and causing fire to so many oil wells?
>What about French nuclear experiments and what about US's nuclear armament?
>They protest so much about this shipment only because Japan is not
>a western country. They are (GP) extremely irresponsible people when
>they collided their ship with the Japanese ship. Was it safe and secure
>action if there had an large scale accident due to this collision?
>Why GP isn't doing anything for the thousands of children dying in the 
>world because of hypocritical policies of western governments?

I have news for you.

Greenpeace makes it their business to protest mostly western governments, and
has protested all of the things you mention above.

They apparently protest Japan because they think of Japan as a western
government.

If you actually want examples of things Greenpeace doesn't protest, try Saddam
Hussein's oil slick; this one _wasn't_ a western government, so they shut up.
--
"the bogosity in a field equals the bogosity imported from related areas, plus
the bogosity generated internally, minus the bogosity expelled or otherwise
disposed of."  -- K. Eric Drexler

Ken Arromdee (arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu, arromdee@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu)
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