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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Date: Wed,  6 Jan 1993 02:45:48 -0500 
From: Rikiya Asano <ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: First Love

Freinds,

.

    The first few days of this year I fell in love. But, now as I look
back it was only infatuation. But, I did love her. I would have given
her my virginity but I found her crack pipe by the toilet instead. There
it was, Spike Lee's "Glass dick".(He called it this from the movie
Jungle fever-'Suckin' on the glass dick') She had to know I found it
because in anger I broke in up and left.
From: blamb@hri.com (Bill Lambert)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Recipe (Not Okonomiyaki)
Date: 11 Jan 93 18:22:12 GMT
Organization: Horizon Research, Inc.

In article <1iq8oeINN5qd@shelley.u.washington.edu>,
yoichi@carson.u.washington.edu (Yoichi Ii) writes:

=> However, the really big question remains: Are we part of somebody's
=> big experiment?  If so, what has this entity found out so far? :-)

Answer to Q1.: Yes... ours.

Answer to Q2.: Doodleysquat.
From: ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rikiya Asano)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Japanese women, foreign men
Date: 7 Jan 93 22:10:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.EfHHPq_00UhWI51bR8
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Mr.Silly Quick("Anonymous")whiles,

.

>I have a funny experience to relate on why some Japanese women like foreign
>men. The most violent sexual response I have ever got from a woman was when
>I (as a joke, initially) rubbed the bridge of my (definitely gaijin) nose
>directly on my (Japanese) girlfriend's clitoris. I just about had my
ears torn 
>off (she was giving me "directions"), but the spasms going through her body
>had to be seen to be believed.

Is this what this group is about? Silly, there are two sides to a coin.
Maybe your nose is bigger than your penis. In this case, I can see why
improv is needed. But modern sexual reality is is that it is very rude
and almost insulting to me that you "feel" comfortable in discussing
sniffing habits as a
direct relation to why Asian waman like "foriegn" men. I think that it
shows your intelligence if you think that oral sex is not common place
in Japanese societal sexual relationships. And, I also think that in a
general sense, this is an imagination of the
Euro-American(caucasian)male as sexuality  superiour to Asian males.
This is silly as your 'Anonymous" id. Everyone know the
historic/contemporary habits of this group. Don't fool yourself!

>Anonymously,

Interesting.
From: wdw@math2.sma.usna.navy.MIL (Wm. Douglas Withers -- math  FACULTY <wdw@sma.usna.navy.mil>)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: bad idea to post pictures of Miyazawa Rie
Date: 12 Jan 93 14:22:25 GMT
Organization: U.S. Naval Academy

In article <MS-C.726817061.1103527590.mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin) writes:
>2) You are hurting the feelings of any number of female netters, by injecting
>   her pictures into this forum.  When you buy Ms Miyazawa's book, you are in
>   a matter that is between you and Ms Miyazawa (as represented by her agents
>   the publisher and the bookseller).  But, when you broadcast her pictures
>   you are involving a whole cast of other, unwilling participants.

There was a cartoon once in MAD magazine about an old woman who calls the
police to complain about a man taking a shower without pulling the shades.
The cop arrives, and she points out the window:  "Look over there.  He's
not wearing a thing!"  The cop is confused.  "Lady, I can't see a thing."
She retorts, "Well, you're not using these binoculars."

I sent a message to Jim Turley requesting a picture.  He emailed one back to
me, which I uudecoded and then viewed.  I found that some of the picture was
missing, so I sent another message requesting it be sent again.  I uudecoded
the new message and viewed it; this time the picture was complete.  Needless
to say I was deeply offended.  I only wish there were some way to protect
myself from this kind of thing.

>Incidentally, a couple of weeks ago my girlfriend and I were at a small coffee
>house in Nezu (Shitamachi, To^kyo^) which had Ms Miyazawa's book in its
>customer reading library.  We took a look though it.  Ms Miyazawa has a
>remarkable lack of cellulite but is rather ordinary-looking as Japanese women
>go.

Some of us find women more attractive when not airbrushed, siliconed, hair-
dyed, or blow-dried.  Which one of us has `contempt for women in general?'

Let me remind you also that there was a lengthy discussion of pubic hair in
this newsgroup not too long ago, in which Rie Miyazawa figured prominently,
and I don't remember anyone protesting then.

I am sincerely concerned with the feelings of female readers of this newsgroup.
But I think disguising the fact that men find women attractive is a bit too
much to ask.
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From: rvm20@melsun0.mel.go.jp (Prasad Akella)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Book on Toyota Corp?
Keywords: got the ref?
Date: 6 Jan 93 09:02:42 GMT
Reply-To: prasad@mel.go.jp (Prasad Akella)
Organization: Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, AIST, MITI.

i was once pointed to an "excellent" book discussing the production
techniques that Toyota Corpn used during its rise to fame. I have
since lost the citation. Would anybody be able to provide me with
pointers to that book? name, author(s), isbn, cost?

domo arigato
-prasad

Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: jturley@netcom.com (Jim Turley)
Subject: Offered: GIFs of Naked Rie Miyazawa
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 07:41:24 GMT

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...
From: johan@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Johan van Zanten)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Opinions on the book, "The Hollow Doll"
Date: 4 Jan 1993 09:29:17 GMT
Organization: UT Austin Computation Center, Unix Services
Distribution: world
Reply-To: johan@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Johan van Zanten)
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Originator: johan@tramp.cc.utexas.edu


  I would be somewhat interested in anyone's opinion of a book called,
"The Hollow Doll (A Little Box of Japanese Shocks) by William J.
Bohnaker.  The book claims to be a "...astute, funny, and deeply
disturbing ... inside view of Japanese life, customs, and culture that
no American traveler ever gets to see."   Bohnaker tries to shield
himself from "Japan-bashing" accusations in the preface (for at least an
entire page -- something which should have forwarned me) but i have
stopped reading the book about 1/2 way through.  Some of the comments
and observations he makes are interesting, but i really feel he is
portraying Japanese people singularly in a very negative light, and
pitching his book for an American audience who will read his
descriptions and think less of Japanese people afterwards.

  If anyone has any opinions or information on the book, i would be
interested in reading them.

Thank you.

ps. (I disliked the book enough that i am trying to come up with some
useful way of recycling it that does not involve it being read ever
again.  On this matter, too, i would happily entertain suggestions.)
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: bbs.lar@tsoft.net (Larry Greenfield)
Subject: *TOHO NEWS*
Organization: The TSoft BBS and Public Access Unix, +1 415 969 8238
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 03:42:33 GMT

Hi all. *sigh* after posting that "please help me" post about Toho last 
night, I heard that the email at my site is down. Pleas, if you can help, 
send email to this address instead of just auto-replying, as it's a good 
chance I won't get it here until the email is back up. Thanks.
  Please send email ti:
larry.greenfield@ofa123.fidonet.org
Thanks!
:::::Larry:::::

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au (Jim Breen)
Subject: Re: *Subaru Gone?*
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 00:42:13 GMT

fester@island.COM (Mike Fester) writes:

>In article <1iqq2cINNp04@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> keis@psy.uwa.oz.au (Keis Ohtsuka) writes:
>>bbs.lar@tsoft.net (Larry Greenfield) writes:
>>
>>>I know that Daihatsu has left the U.S. car market, that Isuzu will be 
>>>leaving the car market (but still make sport utility vehicles).
> 
>>Incidentally, both Daihatsu and Isuzu thrive in the Australian car market
>>concentrating on a compact car niche market. Daihatsu's ads here are
>>much more positive, "a smart car," underscoring a merit of the product,
>>a fuel efficiency and a low maintenance cost, an important factor in a 
>>car market where petrol is not cheap.

>Interesting. Isuzu is planning to cut back its Japanese car manufacturing 
>facilities as well, and will concentrate on trucks (causing GM a headache
>with the GEO parts). 

It is a little strong to say Isuzu is thriving here. The only Isuzu-badged
vehicles are trucks, and they have a very small market share. The
Australian General Motors subsidiary sold a lot of rebadged Isizu vehicles
in past years (e.g. Geminis), but in recent years they have been shipping
Suzuki stuff, and now have a formal joint-manufacture deal with Toyota.

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: maierj@edmund.cs.andrews.edu (Joey Maier)
Subject: Re: Hanafuda rules - help please
Organization: Andrews University
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 16:08:50 GMT

In article <1993Jan10.001218.15233@athena.mit.edu> dwalton@athena.mit.edu (Dave Walton) writes:
>HELP!!!
>
>I got some hanafuda cards from a friend, but there were no instructions
>included.  She tried to tell me the rules, but got very frustrated and
>told me to just go look them up.  Well, I did find some, but they were written
>in Japanese, which doesn't help me very much because I'm a typical American
>who hasn't spent the time or effort to learn Japanese yet (no commentary
>please.  That was a joke.)  
>
>Anyway, enough of making a fool out of myself.  If you have any rules of how to
>play Hanafuda (In Japanese or English - I'll get my Japanese-speaking friend
>to try and translate it) please send them to me personally at
>dwalton@athena.mit.edu (I don't read news often, so please mail it to me
>rather than posting it).
>
>Thankyou in advance,
>
>- Dave Walton

If anyone responds to this, send them to maierj@andrews.edu  also
please
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: DOES AMERICA SAY YES TO JAPAN? - Off track!!
Date: 9 Jan 93 00:28:55 GMT
Reply-To: lstowell@pyrnova.pyramid.com.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corporation

In article <1993Jan8.230830.7952@island.COM> fester@island.COM (Mike Fester) writes:
>
>Personal aside to Mr Day: I respond to this series from soc.culture.japan. I
>have seen seen my rebuttals show up on all the groups in the above Newsgroups
>line, as well as in other groups. If you will edit out the groups you are not
>reading (other than scj), we can continue this without annoying the people in
>other groups, who may not have as much an interest in it as you or I.
>
>Mike

   Personal aside to Mike.  >:-)

   Here is the newsgroups line, intact from your posting where you
   made this suggestion.....you can also set the follow-up to line
   to trim the distribution a bit....

Newsgroups: misc.consumers,soc.culture.japan,sci.electronics,soc.culture.african.american,misc.education,misc.entrepreneurs
From: azegami@flab.fujitsu.co.jp (Azegami Kengo)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Roman Hikou (was: Pheromones,otoko,and cabs)
Date: 5 Jan 93 15:13:57 GMT
	<1hu3ebINN39u@agate.berkeley.edu>
Organization: Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Atsugi, Japan.

In article <1hu3ebINN39u@agate.berkeley.edu> jcliu@four-lab4.Berkeley.EDU (James C. Liu) writes:


   Well I'm glad someone thought it made sense.  Doomo.  But to get to
   the point at hand. The original Japanese person (Yonezawa Testu-san)
   who posted this was complaining about how he didn't understand why 

    (further texts omitted since it's dead-long !! :-)


This post made me laugh like h*** that I thought I'll bring up.
Anyway, it was funny. Thanx. One thing I couldn't get along was that
your description was based on ``Japanese men doesn't have attractive
stuff within''. Let me tell you that many Japanese youngsters
thesedays get along well with Gaijin gals, you know :-) I say that
it's easier to get along with Gaijin gals than Japanese gals. Maybe
because the Gaijin gals express their thoughts more frequently
compared to the domestic gals!! :-)

  Looking forward for your 2nd post Amigo!!

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From: mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM (Mark Crispin)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Ten-chan's o-sho^gatsu speech
Date: 7 Jan 93 07:51:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: Ikkoku-K.MS-C.726450703.1103527590.mrc
Organization: University of Washington
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Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

There were body and baggage checks, two of them in fact, before being allowed
onto the inner palace grounds.  But it was very quick, even faster than an
airport scan.

Yes, Ten-chan and the family were behind glass.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: cmort@NCoast.ORG (Christopher Morton)
Subject: Re: It's Hangin' Time!
Reply-To: cmort@ncoast.org (Christopher Morton)
Organization: North Coast Public Access *NIX, Cleveland, OH
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 01:34:49 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.japan

As quoted from <IfHGt8C00UhW451Xgc@andrew.cmu.edu> by ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rikiya Asano):

> Friends,
> 
> .
> 
>         Now that it over and the life of Westley Allen Dodd is over I
> would like to give an opinion as seen by one who is Japanese. What Mr.
> Dodd did is beyond reason but not beyond humanity. Whether one likes it
> or not a human being did this.(kill three children and repeatly raped

And significantly, a human being VERY much of similar character to Rikiko....

> and murder children in this case of the same sex)is practically unheard
> of in my country, it may pop up at any moment because we are all
> humans.(I say we because my ascension was never complete and
> transfixtion was impossible. So I must be patience) Mr. Dodd chose
> hanging as a statement but this statement was reverse psychology in
> nature. He made all of us as wicked as he was. At least in his own mind

Fortunately for you, you had a jump on the rest of us in the "wickedness"
department.

> that can be expressed within human thought. Mr. dodd is dead but we are
> not. We, in the form of law and justice, took and eye for any eye. I am
> convinced that this is also evil. Mr. Dodd knew that he could find an
> escape
> from us but we have found an escape from us too. Life was our best punishment
> for Mr. Dodd. 
> 
> Death is everyone punishment! 

Ah yes, Rikiko is so versatile.  Now it's an advocate for child molestors.
How quaint....
> 
> This is only my opinion and the politics of Capital Punishment is as all
> politics to me. Devoid of commonsense!
> 
Then everything Rikiko posts is "politics"...?

> 
>         


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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Date: Fri,  8 Jan 1993 03:24:03 -0500 
From: Rikiya Asano <ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: First Love
	<C0H36B.528@unix.amherst.edu>

Mr. Jesse Fuchs(deep combination of names) writes,

.

         	Boy, oh boy, oh boy. It is not certain, but pretty darn likely, that 
>our naive buddy Riki thought that a bong (a device used for the smoking of
>pot, and ranked by me as being directly behind the wheel and the portable 
>rolling machine in measuring the worth of human civilization.) Being a 
>resident counselor here at lovely Amherst College, I have ran into more than 
>one freshman who made the same mistake, with hilarious results. Poor Riki...

This was not intended to be a synthetic "high' story. This  was not an
event where drug use it popular or the thing to do. As a matter of fact
drugs play a very low-keyed part in this. But, it's impact was nasty. I
now count it as my responsive ability to get her off of crack. It would
stain my honor to let this 
weak "material" to continue to ruin a life in which I considered
precious. I find it unproductive to get her the old "this or me"
ultimatum. I would probably
lose since her knew him longer. Plus, I don't want her anymore. But, I
have a plan! But school starts in a couple of days. So, I hope that
there's time.
From: susaki@icot.or.jp (Kasumi Susaki)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: flash news
Date: 8 Jan 93 01:08:21 GMT
Distribution: soc
Organization: Institute for New Generation Computer Technology, Tokyo, Japan



I am a Japanese female working at Tokyo.  I also has a big surprise 
on the news of marriage of Crown Prince.  I also read many kinds of 
news papers.  

And I think this marriage is not really based on mutual understanding.  
Ms. Owada rejected it again and again.  The last rejection is the middle
of Oct. 1992.  But the messenger between them is an old boy of Foreign 
Affairs and also was a vice precident of it.  
I think there is some pressure on her. 

I think we lost a good diplomat who probably makes a footstep for us 
women as a world wide career.  


Kasumi Susaki
From: dcroz@twics.co.jp
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Brainwashed
Date: 8 Jan 93 15:23:45 GMT
Organization: TWICS, Tokyo, Japan

Yoichi Ii writes:
 
=}I suppose it is possible for a "societal" element to induce a totally new
=}pure "cultural" element. In such a case, one cannot even begin to compare two
=}cultures (one with and one without the "societal" element) because there is
=}nothing to compare.
 
     Of course there is:  you can compare whether things are better or worse
with the new cultural element.
 
=}Even if one accepts this, you still have the daunting task of defining what
=}"works best"
 
     Does the fact that this is a daunting task mean that it should not be
attempted?
 
=}and if "best for largest number" is the correct way to go.  Recalling a
=}lecture from philosophy 101 :-), take the example of a society with a small
=}number of slaves.
 
     Oh, come on now.  Nobody is proposing that the preferences of the minority
be completely ignored.
 
=}A proponent of cultral superiority might argue that a culture without slavery
=}is "better", even if average life of its people is harder than those with
=}slaves, based on some higher "rules".
 
     Yes, I'd argue from both from a utilitarian standpoint and based on higher
rules that a culture without slavery is better than one with.
 
     Are you arguing that slavery is not an absolute evil?  Do you wish to
propose that there are some circumstances under which it is permissible?
 
=}My feeling is. . .
 
     Feeling?  What do feelings have to do with this?  Is this also your
considered opinion, after bringing your reason to bear on the problem, or is it
just, as you say, your "feeling?"
 
=}. . .that humanity might be able to gradaully collect such "rules" over the
=}millenia. . .
 
    But has been totally brain-dead over the last hundred or so millenia? 
Everything that happened before you were born was just so many dead white men
oppressing everybody in sight through bogus philosophies?
 
=}but most of what people claim to be such rules _now_ is something akin to
=}religion (and in many cases it is).
 
     Only most?  Well, that's an improvement.  Now we can start that "daunting
task" of separating the wheat from the chaff.
 
=}Nothing wrong with religion, but you cannot "prove" superiority based on it.
 
     I'm no friend to religion, but some religious strictures might just turn
out to be "higher rules," even if only by coincidence.  You can't discredit a
proposition just by saying, "Religion XYZ believes this so it must be wrong."
 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: davec@ECE.Concordia.CA (Dave Chu)
Subject: Re: American-cu Cannabalism
Organization: ECE - Concordia University
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 23:15:11 GMT

In article <2601@usna.NAVY.MIL> wdw@math2.sma.usna.navy.MIL (Wm. Douglas Withers -- math  FACULTY <wdw@sma.usna.navy.mil>) writes:
>Dwight's article reminds me of a little puzzle:
>
>What form of cannibalism is practiced not infrequently in the USA?
>I'm serious here.  `Cannibalism' to be defined as the eating of human flesh
>by humans.  In fact I have had the opportunity to do this but I chose not to.
>
>If anyone wants the answer, I'll post it in a few days.
>-- 
>Els Withers                   email: wdw@math2.sma.usna.navy.mil
>          phone: (410)267-3192 / fax: (410)267-4883
>When orbiting particle-beam weapons are outlawed, only outlaws will have
>orbiting particle-beam weapons.


I believe it is the eating of the placenta after a woman has given birth.

Dave
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