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From: tobac@ub-tky.UBSPD.CO.JP (Bach Frederic)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Sumo - Kyushu Basho (Day 10)
Date: 18 Nov 92 04:11:25 GMT
Organization: UBS Phillips & Drew INT'L Ltd. TOKYO, JAPAN

Today was a day for nothing with the tree main contenders winning in no
uncertain terms. Akebono made little work of Mito, who seems to be injured
and has only won one, pushing him out in seconds. Mito injured his foot and
could barely climb back up on the dohyo. He was admitted to a local
hospital and will decide tomorrow whether to continue or not. Kotonishiki
easily pushed Kyokudozan out with his famed tsuppari combination of
left-right thrusts. Musashimaru chased Terao around, eventually thrusting
him out as well. Takahanada racked up his sixth in a row after four losses.
Argentine Hoshiandesu and popular ex-teacher ex-college wrestler
ex-Narimatsu Tomonohana both won their seventh, nearing confirmation of
their brand new sekitori status.

Winner	Wins	Loser	Wins


Kgaume	4	W'Y	2
Ktsubaki8	KriN	6
KasugaF	6	Tatsu	5
Kbeppu	6	Ogi'H	5
Tama	3	H'K	5
KF	4	DshoY	3
Toyo'U	7	Toki	5
Kinazuma5	Mai'U	3
TomoeF	7	Kiraiho	5
Kita	6	T'nami	5
Wshoyo	6	K'W	5
WHda	7	Misugi	5
KuSU	6	Tmisugi	4
Dshoho	6	Ttoriki	3
KN	9	Kyoku	3
Musashi	8	Terao	3
Tochi'W	4	Aki'S	4
THda	6	Daizen	6
Akebono 9	Mito	1

So we have co-lead Akebono, Kotonishiki : 9 ; Musashimaru, Kototsubaki : 8 ;
and three wrestlers at 7 : Wakahanada, Tomoefuji, Toyonoumi !
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: eugene@win29.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene Miya)
Subject: Would like some one to take over the FAQ
Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 19:04:39 GMT

I stopped reading the group many months ago because of the SNR,
[thank god for comp.resarch.japan] but I continued to post the group FAQ
and check for changes.  Due to a developing situation regarding
NASA computer security, I will now have to step down from that role.
I am seeking a volunteer, long-term, whom the group will give a nod
(I can quickly scan for controversy).

The FAQ for this group is fairly simple: one of the simple, once a month,
single file ones (not too long).  Changes appear to come semi yearly.
You will want some one who is impartial, so I will post the name of
that person, and in turn I have to give his or her to Jonathan Kamens
who runs the moderation policy on news.answers where the FAQ is
x-posted.  If you need explanation as to why the FAQ has its "weird"
form, etc. I can answer those.  Once you get it, it's yours, but you
have to be "approved" [no negative votes] from the net.  You
do not need root privileges, but I would prefer to know which News
system you are running.

--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
  Associate Editor, Software and Publication Reviews
  Scientific Programming
  {uunet,mailrus,other gateways}!ames!eugene
Seeking Books to buy:	Bongard, Pattern Recognition
			3 down 1 to go.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: axolotl@socs.uts.edu.au (Iain Sinclair)
Subject: Re: new newsgroup discussion
Reply-To: axolotl@socs.uts.edu.au
Organization: University of Technology, Sydney
Date: 17 Nov 92 08:26:23 GMT

mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM (Mark Crispin) 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:
 >    soc.culture.japan.history		postings related to Japanese history:

soc.history.japan.

 >    soc.culture.japan.popular		Japanese popular culture, including
 >					j-pop, manga, anime, TV, karaoke, etc.

We already have rec.arts.manga and rec.arts.anime... but I suppose
s.c.j.popular wouldn't hurt.

I think there should be a rec.music.japanese.  The mailing list has
been running for ages, and there are ftp sites devoted to j-pop.

 >    soc.culture.japan.traditional	Japanese traditional culture
 >    soc.culture.japan.sports		sumo, baseball, etc.

If the demand is there, we should have these groups.

 >    soc.culture.japan.politics		current Japanese politics
 
talk.politics.japan.

To fit in with the other noise in the talk hierarchy.

 >    soc.culture.japan.technology	matters related to technology in Japan

We already have a comp.research.japan.

What other groups do we need?

I hope that this can go to a formal CFD and CFV as soon as there's some
kind of minimal agreement about how we should split s.c.j.  I don't think
there's any real dispute that s.c.j needs to be split into volatile
rant groups, and actual culture groups.  Either that, or we need a
strong and regularly posted FAQ.

BTW, Is there anyone out there who thinks they have 15 min. a day to
moderate any of these groups?


--
 Iain Sinclair    axolotl@socs.uts.edu.au
Xref: sparky soc.culture.japan:10911 comp.sys.mac.system:14138
From: ozt@cco.caltech.edu (Toshiro Ozawa)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: [Mac] Gomtalk for 7.1?
Date: 17 Nov 1992 02:57:16 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu
Keywords: Macintosh PowerBook KanjiTalk

I recently bought a new PowerBook 160.  I tried to install GomTalk 1.3
but failed.  Do you have any idea to make it fit?  And it also rejects
KanjiTalk 6.0.7.1 floppies.  Now way to use Japanese now.

I'm glad if anyone knows a nice trick to use Japanese except waiting for
that expensive KanjiTalk 7.1.

Thanks,
 _____      ____ _____ ___________ _____
 \___ \    / __ \\___ \\___ \ \ \ \\___ \       Toshiro OZAWA
    / /__ / /_/ / ___ / __  /     / __  /       EE Dept. Caltech
    \/ \/ \____/\____\\____/\____/\____/        ozt@cco.caltech.edu
From: mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Who started all this gaijin myth?! (was Re: Genitals in Japan)
Date: 23 Nov 92 04:40:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: Tomobiki.MS-C.722493658.1103527590.mrc
Organization: University of Washington
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
To: sakimura@sscl.uwo.ca
Mime-Version: 1.0

Sakimura-san -

     Do you know the word ``Jap'' or the word ``Nip''?  Both words are
contractions meaning ``Japanese person''.  However, both words are ``warui
kotoba'' in English.

     ``Japs'' and ``Nips'' are sneaky.  They are dishonest.  They are tricky.
They are liars.  They commit ``harry-carry'' (hara-kiri) if you defeat them.
In spite of their sneakiness and cleverness, they are rather stupid.

     Pretty offensive, eh?  That is why Nikkeijin in North America hate those
words.  But it works in another way.

     ``Gaijin'' are big, noisy, and stupid.  They all have AIDS.  All they
think about is sex with rather plain-looking Japanese women.  They are lazy.
They are dirty and smell bad.  They walk on tatami in their shoes and even lay
their wet clothes to dry on the tatami.

     We find that pretty offensive, which is why we hate to be called
``gaijin''.
From: kenmochi@aso.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp (KENMOCHI Hideki)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Train from Osaka to Tokyo
Date: 23 Nov 92 10:15:16 GMT
	<1992Nov19.123922.28327@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: Dept. of Electr. Eng. II, Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan
In-reply-to: gior@eecg's message of 20 Nov 92 02:39:22 JST

In article <1992Nov19.123922.28327@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> gior@eecg (GIOR Kevin Kyu-Sik) writes:

 |I took 'Hikari-Super-Express-Ticket' for Shinkiansen which costs 12,750 Yen
 |(as of July, 9. 1992) It makes only a few stops and takes about 4 hours from
 |Osaka to Tokyo. If you take the train making more frequent stops, the fare
 |would be cheaper.

  The most rapid 'Hikari' express takes less than 3 hours from
Shin-Osaka to Tokyo. The fare for 'Kodama' express is not cheeper
though it stops at all stations and takes more than 4 hours. 
  The latest 'Nozomi' express which runs twice a day (early in the
morning and late at night) and will be in service every hour
from next March, takes only 2 hours and a half from Osaka to Tokyo.
But it needs a special charge (950 yen) besides the express fare.


--
KENMOCHI Hideki
kenmochi@kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond)
Subject: Japan's military upgrades.
Organization: Integrated International Systems Corp. One Longfellow Place, Suite 3309, Boston, Ma.
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 11:30:00 GMT



	TOKYO (UPI) -- After more than a year of haggling over prices, Japan's
Defense Agency has decided to go forward with the purchase of high-tech
AWACS surveillance planes from the United States, the Kyodo News Service
said Thursday.
	Defense sources told Kyodo that the Japanese Finance Ministry, which
has reportedly balked at the planes' $484 million-per-craft price, had
agreed to OK the purchase if the military acquisced to other budget cuts
sought because of the Cold War's end.
	Thursday, Defense sources said their department had accepted the
deal.
	Kyodo said a Defense Agency official planned to arrive in Washington
next month for talks aimed at finalizing the crafts' costs.
	Japan has hoped to pay $262 million per plane, but the United States
appears unlikely to accept such a deal.
	Whatever the final price, Tokyo hopes to formally purchase the planes
sometime in 1993, Kyodo said.
	AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) are Boeing jetliners
outfitted with special radars and other devices to track enemy aircraft.

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,talk.politics.guns
From: fcrary@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary)
Subject: Re: Yoshi Hattori
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:44:12 GMT

In article <SMITTIE.92Nov19225905@beach.csulb.edu> smittie@csulb.edu (Smittie) writes:
>Here in the States it is not all that uncommon to hear about kids who get a
>hold of a gun and in the course of playing with it (this usually entails
>pointing it at each other) someone gets shot.

Actually, such events are extremely uncommon. There were only 677 such
deaths in 1986, out of a population of over 250,000,000: It would
be literally acurate to call this a "one in a million" accident (ok, about
two and a half in a million...) It is, however, not uncommon to _hear_
about such things, since the news reports such tragidies far more 
frequently that similar, more common, non-firearms accidents.

                                                 Frank Crary
                                                 CU Boulder

Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: michael@izumi.DIALix.oz.au (Michael Studte)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Train from Osaka to Tokyo
Distribution: world
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 14:12:35 GMT
Organization: JAFWA, Cal-Animage Zeta, Perth, Western Australia

Thank you to all the people who replied to me with info about getting
from Osaka to Tokyo. Sadly the emails I got are too numerous to reply
to individually, so I'd like to thank everyone here.

(In other words, you can stop sending info now, thanks.)

--

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: pan@arete.ATMOS.ColoState.Edu (Victor Pan)
Subject: Re: Taipei
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 23:27:55 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523

In article <1992Nov19.083318.11091@leland.Stanford.EDU> underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight  
Joe) writes:
> In article <Bxy6wx.FzI@world.std.com> cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond)
> writes:
> >So what do the Japanese think...
> 
> Care to hear the opinion of an American?
> 
       stuff deleted...
> 
> If the Taiwanese don't have the guts to declare independence, then the USA
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> should not life a finger to help.  We can not help a people who do not want to
                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> be helped.  Similarly, we could not free S. Vietnam because the populace
> of S. Vietnam didn't believe in the cause.
> 
      this is the funniest joke i've ever heard!!   if someone considers everything a matter  
of guts, then he probably has nothing else ( e.g. brain....) in himself.  if so, why don't  
you keep your silence. FYI, Bush sold the planes for the U.S. voters INSTEAD OF "HELP"!  Why  
doesn't he "HELP" Bosnia? like the way he "HELPed" Kuwait? if you don't have the ability to  
"HELP"(can't afford it, more precisely) others, why don't you leave them alone?  if you  
can't afford being a god, don't think you are one. btw,  there are something other than  
military power that could be important, e.g. everybody has a job...
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond)
Subject: Are these Kanemaru's doctors (-;
Organization: Integrated International Systems Corp. One Longfellow Place, Suite 3309, Boston, Ma.
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 04:14:57 GMT






	TOKYO (UPI) -- Prosecutors arrested Thursday a Tokyo University
Hospital surgeon, another doctor and seven company executives on
suspicion of accepting or giving bribes in connection with the selection
of pacemakers for patients.
	Arrested were Goki Shindo, associate professor in the hospital's
cardiac section and Junji Munakata, head of internal medicine at the
Tokyo Metropolitan Komagome Hospital, for allegedly accepting nearly
$81,000 in kickbacks.
	Seven employees of three medical equipment companies also were
arrested on charges of bribing the doctors.
	The case is the first in which an investigationn into Tokyo
University's medical department has led to briberty charges, but it
follows bribery investigations last year of professors at the medical
departments of Chiba University and Yokohama City University.
	Three companies, including the nation's largest medical equipment
supplier, the Tokyo-based Medtronic Japan, and the fourth largest,
Fukuda Denshi, are believed to have offered the kickbacks, prosecutors
said.
	Sources told the Mainichi Shimbun Shindo received bribes from
Medtronic Japan and another company from 1990 to 1992, with the total
amount he allegedly received placed at $48,000.
	Munakata was reported to have accepted more than $24,000 from Fukuda
Denshi.
	The price of a pacemaker, a small electronic device implanted in the
patient's body to stabilize an irregular heartbeat, run about $16,000 in
Japan.
	A spokesman at Medtronic Japan denied providing cash to the Tokyo
University Hospital.
	Satoshi Kawabata, manager in charge of sales and marketing, said, 
``We've covered travel expenses for researchers at the hospital three
times in the past five years, but there is no truth to the charge that
we provided cash gifts.''
	He said the travel expenses were to support academic research ``and
not as kickbacks or anything of that sort.''

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*  cmr@world.std.com	(Temporary) cmr@koneko.shr.dec.com		    *
*  Specializing in UNIX, X, Image Processing, and Communications.           *
From: jcliu@four-lab4.Berkeley.EDU (James C. Liu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Plutonium
Date: 15 Nov 1992 23:30:06 GMT
Organization: UC Berkeley Dept. of Nuclear Engineering
NNTP-Posting-Host: four-lab4.berkeley.edu

In article <15Nov92.161725.20617@granite.ciw.edu>
cohen@quartz.ciw.edu (Ronald Cohen) writes:

  >When I was in Japan a few months ago I watched a documentary on
  >television there that showed that many Japanese are against the
  >Plutonian shipment.  In fact, even according to the Japanese
  >government, there is no economic justification for using
  >Plutonian rather than Uranium in their reactors.  Finally, every
  >Japanese scientist I spoke with is against the shipment.

Out of curiosity, what kind of scientists are you talking about?
Political Scientists?  Your statements are typical of tunnel-visioned
and technically illiterate (in nuclear technology) people who use the
term "scientists ga...to itteimashita..." to gain credibility.  I've met
lots of Japanese *nuclear* scientists and engineers who would disagree
with you.  

  >It seems to me like an absolutely crazy thing to do, as did every
  >Japanese scientist I spoke with while there.  The possible
  >consequences of the material falling some day into the wrong hands
  >are so catastrophic (destruction of Tokyo, Washington, New York,
  >Paris, London ?...)  are just too horrific to imagine.  

You can take out New York, London, Paris, Tokyo and all the "Hard Rock
Cafe's" in each of those cities with uranium alone.  Pu is not crazy,
because there are uses for mix-oxide fuels and it is a way of extending
the fissile fuel resources which Japan lacks.  BTW, fissile material
alone, a bomb does not make...You need to enrich it to very high purity,
you need very sophisticated electronics and controls as well.  If you
saw the movie "Manhattan Project"...starring John Lithgow I can
understand your anxiety...But shinpai nai de.  The movie was full of
b---sh-t.

Jaa James
=======================================================================
James C. Liu |    Sore nara, saru ga, boku no shiri kara tobi dasu
             |    koto ga dekiru!  ....yume no naka de....
=======================================================================
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: zoron@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Soren M Burkhart)
Subject: Japanese Computer Programs for the PC
Keywords: computer PC japanese
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 14:48:32 GMT


Hi,

   I am looking for some programs for IBM compatibles, that I can:

	        *  practice Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji
		*  Word processing software so that I can type in the
			above.

   I know this type of software is available for the mac, but I would
appreciate if anyone could tell me where I could get these applications.

     thanks,

       Soren

*************************************************************************
*
*   Purdue University
*    A.I. & Robotics
*
*   Soren Burkhart
*   EMAIL: zoron@en.ecn.purdue.edu
From: ln4y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Help me buy Jpnse CD's!
Date: 23 Nov 92 23:00:35 EST
Distribution: soc
Organization: Cornell University

Hello!
I've never done this before.... But I have a question, perhaps someone can
help me. I live in the New York Area, and I'm intersted in getting
Japanese popular music CD's. Does anyone know where a reasonable place 
to get them would be? 

I know you can buy them at Yaohan in NJ, but they are kind of expensive.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Yoroshiku Onegaishimasu

Howard Weitzman,
Cornell University
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: coleman@rocky.cs.ucla.edu (Mike Coleman)
Subject: Re: More on "gaijin" (was Re: Please give your opinions...)
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 12:01:08 GMT

dirceu@taurus.cse.kyutech.ac.jp (Dirceu G. Cavendish Jr.) writes:
|Have you noticed the capacity of people on TV have to talk for hours
|without saying anything?


Uh, you mean in Japan, or in America?  Or both?  :-)

-- 
--Mike Coleman (coleman@cs.ucla.edu), Lord High Executioner of Anhedonia-----
         It could be worse--you could be bicycling in Florida.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond)
Subject: Re: Fingerprinting Gaikokujin
Organization: Integrated International Systems Corp. One Longfellow Place, Suite 3309, Boston, Ma.
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 21:28:57 GMT

underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:

>Returning to the original issue, is it appropriate for Japan to 
>fingerprint foreigners even though Japanese citizens are not fingerprinted?
>Yes, it is appropriate.  Even the USA does not treat its citizens in
>the same way that it treats foreigners or even permanent residents.


As I understand it, the problem is not so much that resident aliens get
fingerprinted. It is rather that they get fingerprinted again each year
and that the humiliation of this process has become a symbol of the 
discrimmination felt (in particular) by the Koreans whose ancestors were 
forcibly transported to Japan as slaves (what else does one call forced 
labor and forced prostitution). Other nationalities also feel that the 
process is used to humiliate and that is its primary purpose.

Charlie
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*  Specializing in UNIX, X, Image Processing, and Communications.           *
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,talk.politics.guns
From: pngai@adobe.com (Phil Ngai)
Subject: Re: Yoshi Hattori
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 02:09:07 GMT

In article <SMITTIE.92Nov19140711@tui.csulb.edu> smittie@csulb.edu (Smittie) writes:
>are all but nonexistant" I meant a society where the common man has NEVER had
>open access to weapons and guns have never been available to the public at
>large. As a result Japanese news programs are not filled with and indeed seldom
>(by comparison) contain items where one civilian shot and killed another

In New York City two undercover cops were trying to arrest a woman.
One had her covered with a gun, the other was searching her purse for
a weapon. Three other uniformed cops came along and assumed the
undercover cops were robbing the woman. They told the undercover
cop with a gun to freeze and when he didn't, they shot him. Emptied
a semiautomatic and a revolver into the undercover cop. The one with
a semiauto was reloading in preparation to shoot again before he
realized he had shot another cop.

-- 
My opinions are my own.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan