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From: hash@ikarac5.ctrl.saitama-u.ac.jp (Toshihiko Hashimoto)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Silent Night
Date: 16 Dec 92 04:26:26 GMT
Organization: Araki Lab., Electronic Engineering, Saitama Univ., Japan

In article <1gkughINNbq7@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> kms10@po.CWRU.Edu (Kevin M. Squire) writes:
>Ohayou gozaimasu!
>
>Every year, my church has the tradition that it sings Silent Night in
>a variety of languages at Christmas mass.  I was wondering if anyone
>had the words to Silent Night in Japanese?  If you do, could you post them
>or mail them to me?  I would really appreciate it!  
>
>Siturei simasu.  Arigatou gozaimasu.
>
>Kevin

You are talking about the song "Silent night, Holly night...",
aren't you?  We have a translation of it, and I used to sing it
when I was a little boy.

---- KIYOSHI KONO YORU -----
Kiyoshi, Kono yoru
(Silent night...)

Hoshi wa hikari
(All is...)

Sukui no miko wa
(Ride yon???...) 
	<- I heard this is old English from my high school teacher
	and I forgot some parts of the English lylic.

Mihaha no mune ni
(Holly...)

Nemuri tamou
(sleep in heavenly...)

Yume yasuku
(sleep in heavenly...)
----------------------------

The Japanese lylic is a little different from the original one.
It means like:
"This holly night, the stars are shining
The child of savior is sleeping and dreaming
in peace in his mother's arms."

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Toshi

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From: colo@odie.ee.wits.ac.za (Illan Colombick)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Help with connecting to Japan network
Date: 20 Dec 92 15:08:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: odie.colo.37
Organization: Wits Electrical Engineering (Novell Users).

Hi, I'm going to be really painful and ask for help without searching
FAQ's etc. I am currently living in Japan (or will be) and am out here
(South Africa) on a brief visit.  I want to get international email, and
have determined that Compuserve in Japan is about the simplest way. However
I would like to know if anyone has any other suggestions, especially 
regarding a local email connection that will let me correspond with 
someone at Tohoku university (without going through the Compuserve 
international link, of course). I couldn't find a way to get detailed,
comprehensive info about local e-mail while I was last there (in English).

What I would really love is someone who has done this (found the best 
international
and local connection methods) and can send me e-mail instructions, or 
even better, give me their phone number so that I can talk to them when
I get back in about 2 weeks. 

Needless to say, I will need access through my home phone line. I have heard 
of
Juice, which seems to be the kind of thing I want, but could get no English 
help.

Mildly desperate, so please help if you can, replies by EMAIL ONLY to
colo@odie.ee.wits.ac.za before 2nd Jan, or phone me in Tokyo  at 03 3988 
5495 after 4th Jan (home mostly at night). 

Thanks
Illan.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.asian.america,soc.culture.usa,misc.education
From: irvine@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Brent Irvine)
Subject: Re: education (was: Re: DOES AMERICA SAY YES TO JAPAN?)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:12:01 GMT

In article <HARKCOM.92Dec15133424@spinach.pa.yokogawa.co.jp> harkcom@spinach.pa.yokogawa.co.jp (Alton Harkcom) writes:
>In article <Bz88t5.37A@news.cso.uiuc.edu> irvine@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu
>   (Brent Irvine) writes:
> =}(no additional costs if you go to a state school)
>
>   I'm afraid I must disgree with that 'no additional costs' bit.  Even
>public education is a financial hardship on the 'economically poor'...
>School supplies, transportation (in some places), and access to study
>materials are often neglected for lack of funds...

Yes, but it is certainly negligable when compared to the public school
tuition schemes that have been proposed and implemented in other nations
[like the UK].  Transportation isnot a problem, at least in St. Louis, they
have had successful voulentary bussing programs from the city to the
county for nearly 10 years, certainly there is money for other more local
transportation.

> =}but in application, while students *do* attend until 16 or later,
>
>   Though it is required by law, some young people do not attend school
>up to the age of 16.  Many young people are suspended for such things as
>not attending school (great punishment for someone who doesn't want to
>go to school, isn't it :) ...  Or they are in areas where complying
>with or enforcing the law is not possible due to economic, social or
>physical conditions...  These people may be rare, but they exist...
>(Drop outs aren't really that rare though...)

People quitting before 16, I have never heard of here.  Even the "burn
outs" who cause a lot of trouble, wait with baited breath for 16, don't
leave earlier.  Suspension is temporary [a few days to a week], and
expulsion is permanent (varies by district, but in mine yopu could only
be expelled if you were over 16, don't ask how I know....).

> =}I think the quantity is there (number of people in the system), but
> =}the quality needs to be improved in some way.
>
>   Quantity has more meaning than just the number of bodies we place
>at desks.  It also has to do with the bodies that can't be placed in
>desks, and the education offered the bodies which can be placed at desks...
>A solution which only aims at fixing the current 'quality' aspect of
>education will only further increase the educational gap between those
>with money and those without...  And that does nothing to solve the
>education problem...

The dropout rate is not that high.  

Gone 12/20-1/4


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From: bell@cs.tamu.edu (Will Bell)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,alt.sex,soc.culture.usa,soc.culture.african.american,sci.electronics,misc.consumers,misc.education,misc.entrepreneurs
Subject: Re: D O E S   A M E R I C A   S A Y   Y E S   T O   J A P A N ?
Date: 11 Dec 1992 22:24:06 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
NNTP-Posting-Host: solar.tamu.edu

In article <Bz3zK9.un@news.cso.uiuc.edu> irvine@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Brent Irvine) writes:
>In article <1992Dec11.165330.3368@island.COM> fester@island.COM (Mike Fester) writes:
>>In article <Bz0D9J.4x2@fc.sde.hp.com> fritz@fc.sde.hp.com (Gary Fritz) writes:
>>>christopher m. wolf (cmwolf@mtu.edu) wrote:

Folks, please check the newsgroups line, does this discussion really belong in all
these groups?  I submit it does not belong in:
	alt.sex
	soc.culture.african.american
	misc.consumers
	misc.entrepreneurs

Please get it out of here!  Thanks

WBB

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From: lairdb@crash.cts.com (Laird P. Broadfield)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,talk.politics.guns
Subject: Re: Yoshi Hattori
Date: 14 Dec 92 03:12:17 GMT
Organization: "Well, a head on top, an arm on each side, two legs...."

In <Bz65G0.Aw6@news.cs.andrews.edu> maierj@edmund.cs.andrews.edu (Joey Maier) writes:

>Sorry.  The signal to noise ratio on this topic had gotten a little low,
>and I had reached the conclusion that the whole world was out to japan.

I'm afraid I'm further decreasing it, but:

 "This sentence no verb."

Huh?

-- 
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.usa,misc.education
From: cshi@cs.ulowell.edu (Chunde Shi)
Subject: Re: DOES AMERICA SAY YES TO JAPAN? - Off track!!
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 02:16:13 GMT

I have a theory(might not be the first one point it out) that U.S. consumer 
electrioinics industtries declined partially becasue U.S.'s defence build-up 
that lured U.S. consumer electrionics firms to to switch to produce defense 
related products, because that where the eassy money came from.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: lpoza@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu (Luis Poza)
Subject: Re: Telephones in Japan
Organization: San Francisco State University
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 08:05:54 GMT

 > What does it cost to get a phone installed in Japan?

I believe it's around Y70,000 to Y80,000; much of this is the deposit,
and you can either sell it back to NTT or you can sell it to someone
else, transferring ownership.

 > How about monthly charges?  Are all calls by the minute?

I forget about the monthly charges, but there are no free local calls;
it's just like using a payphone (Y10/3 minutes, long-distance extra).


Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe)
Subject: Re: Saying "Yes" to Japan
Followup-To: world
Organization: Miners for a Heart of Gold
Distribution: soc.culture.japan
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 02:53:28 GMT

In article <JJAS.92Dec12213956@acs.nntp-read.bu.edu> jjas@acs.nntp-read.bu.edu
(Jason Stephenson) writes:
>America bent over and said "yes" to Japan in a major way.  To some extent, we
>deserve to the economic war with the Japanese because we asked to get fucked
>up the ass.  However, it is now time to end the charade and take this war to
>the arena where the United States will win: military and politics.  It is
>time that we return the "favors" they have done us in the past.
>	I am beginning my phase of the war by posting this one last message and
>unsubscribing this group.--I am one gaijin who will not take it up the ass.

There are 4 categories of Americans in relations to the Japanese:
(1) those who support Japan at all cost
(2) those who hate Japan at all cost (most of the rednecks fall into this
    category)
(3) those who like Japan but are able to see it as it really is
(4) the indifferent

The trouble is that the people in #3 is so small as to be negligible.
Most people in #3 know that a sure-fire way to force Japan to open its
markets is to have direct tit-for-tat retaliation.  Then, people from #1
stand up in an uproar, saying that #3 folks are just Japan bashers.

But that just isn't so.

Forcing Japan to open up its market will definitely help the USA but
will also _help_ _the_ _Japanese_ _consumer_.  Currently, the average
Japanese spends 22% of her income on food; the average American spends
6%[1].  Note that in terms of calories, the average Japanese actually buys
less food for that 22% figure; in other words, for same amount of food
that an American buys, a Japanese must spend more than 22% of her income.

Frankly, that's food for thought.

[1] This information comes from "Firing Line", in which "protectionists"
(4 people) on one side debated "free-traders" (4 people) on the other side.
The "22%" figure submitted by the "free-traders" was not disputed by the
"protectionists", one of whom was James Fallows.  I just the program today.

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,talk.politics.guns
From: tanaka@til.til.com (Yokichi Tanaka)
Subject: Re: Yoshi Hattori
Organization: Togai InfraLogic, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 01:26:04 GMT

In article <1992Dec8.225128.5582@cbfsb.cb.att.com>, osan@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (Mr. X) writes:
|> In article  ...
|> >Are you out there, Rikiya-san?  Do you accept your guilt?
|> 
|> 	I doubt it.  Last I heard, he was out fucking his neighbors cat.
|> 	Poor cat.
|>

This kind of cowardly post serves no purpose.  It is totally uninteresting.
If you want to pick a fight with Mr. Asano, take it to e-mail.

-- 
Yoke Tanaka             Togai InfraLogic, Inc.             "fuzzy"
714-975-8522            5 Vanderbilt
tanaka@til.com          Irvine, California, USA

"A plate of shrimp."
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: hit@sol.acs.unt.edu (Hisaharu Tanabe)
Subject: Re: Top 10 Excuses by the TSU band for Shoplifting in Akihabara.
Organization: University of North Texas
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 00:21:59 GMT

yoichi@carson.u.washington.edu (Yoichi Ii) writes:

>I hope the following doesn't come across as too pointed.  It's my
>attempt at a David Letterman style humor :-)
[list ommitted]

How can they think of more than two or three excuses?
You know, Texas is ranked "47th" in 50 states for the educational 
standard(seriously), and TSU is....., well, where in the hell is TSU?



...and that's why even a lazy kid like I can survive in Texas.-- 
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University of North Texas                htanabe@world.std.com (if in Japanese)
Denton,Texas
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From: wolfone@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Patrick Chester)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,talk.politics.guns
Subject: Re: Yoshi Hattori
Date: 15 Dec 92 21:14:25 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.japan
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

In article <0f_5Jq600iV280Z0hk@andrew.cmu.edu> ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rikiya Asano) writes:
]Mr. Theodroopouulos writes:
]
]> 
]>my god. 
]
]"my" and "god" are suppose to start with capital letters. "My God". Did
]you know that this is a phase?

Solid, liquid, gas or plasma? Oh, you mean *phrase*! :)

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#^%$!! Militarist          |  going to the stars." Robert A. Heinlein
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From: k3amichi@student.business.uwo.ca (Kentaro Nakamichi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Tit-for-Tat Retaliation
Date: 15 Dec 92 07:10:12 GMT
Organization: University of Western Ontario

Dwight Joe recently wrote that not enough people see Japan for what it is 
and that tit-for-tat retaliation is the only way to go.

I'd take a longer term view.  The current trend in international trade is 
for global regionalization.  Europe has come together under the EC, and 
the US now seem to be getting their act together with a free trade 
agreement with Canada, soon to be extended to Mexico with the prospects 
of the rest of the hemisphere joining in as well.  Where does Japan fit 
into all this?  I'm sure they'd like to get something going in Asia but I 
get this funny feeling that their past history will prevent other Asian 
nations from making this one a reality.  Japan will then find that 
somehow it is not nearly as important as it used to be.

The world is a dynamic place.  Changes will eventually put Japan in a 
tough position as well.

k3amichi@student.business.uwo.ca (Kentaro Nakamichi)
Western Business School  --  London, Ontario
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: cmort@NCoast.ORG (Christopher Morton)
Subject: Re: RIKIYA ASANO
Reply-To: cmort@ncoast.org (Christopher Morton)
Organization: North Coast Public Access *NIX, Cleveland, OH
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:31:47 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.japan

As quoted from <0f_gI4_00iV144SdgO@andrew.cmu.edu> by Rikiya Asano <ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu>:

> This one is better than a billon of *you*.

But of COURSE oh, MIGHTY Rose of Versailles!

As the song says, where's the dress, RiKKKiko-chan...?


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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,talk.politics.guns
From: viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Subject: Re: Yoshi Hattori
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 08:11:00 GMT

ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rikiya Asano) writes:

>No, you should learn your history. Arabd and Africans never treated
>their slaves you way that your race treated the black African. Be
>serious! They treat their slaves as men.

	Whatever you say, Riki.  Mind looking into how Egypt treated its
slaves?  I wouldn't want you to think those slaves buried alive (or dead)
in the vaults of the Pharoahs were treated as anything but men.  While
you are at it, you might also mention how building those pyramids was
really just honest labor and being treated like men.  I'm sure that,
prior to Moses, the slaves had a unionized bargaining arrangement.

< Dan Sorenson, DoD #1066 z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu viking@iastate.edu >
<  ISU only censors what I read, not what I say.  Don't blame them.  >
<  "This isn't an answer, it's a pagan dance around a midnight fire  >
<   written in intellectual runes." -- Rich Young                    >
From: harkcom@spinach.pa.yokogawa.co.jp (Alton Harkcom)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: some questions
Date: 15 Dec 92 23:47:24 GMT
Organization: Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

In article <1gl7egINNc7a@agate.berkeley.edu> jcliu@four-lab4.Berkeley.EDU
   (James C. Liu) writes:

 =}>>1)  Ann shrieked that there were cockroaches in the cavier.
 =}>      (seems ok to me) 
 =}
 =}It should be "Ann shrieked BECAUSE there were gokiburi in the caviAR"
 =}The use of "that" as a conjunction to introduce the causal predicate
 =}is incorrect.

   The original sentence is normal English.  The meaning may not be the
desired one though.  A paraphrasing of the sentences...

 1) Ann shrieked "There were cockroaches in the cavier!"
 2) Tom shouted "The orange is poisonous!"
 3) John mumbled "I am a genius in mathematics," but he actually isn't.
 4) Mrs. Farmer grunted "Mary broke the window..."
*5) I didn't know that cooking requires this much time and energy!
 6) I didn't know you have 3 kids.

   I fixed 5) by removing the 'of' before 'time'...

 =}[...] tense

   The tenses are/were correct :)

(But hey, I'm just one of those ignorant 'economically poor'
 unfortunates so you might want to ask one of those wealthy
 fortunates who had a decent education... :)
--
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   I will be on vacation from 12/18 - 12/27 and will not be able to
read email during that time.  My company will be on vacation from
12/29 - 1/4 and our news and mail servers will be down during that time...

   Sorry for the inconvenience...
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.usa,sci.electronics,misc.consumers
From: irvine@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Brent Irvine)
Subject: Re: DOES AMERICA SAY YES TO JAPAN? - Off track!!
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 00:43:07 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.190453.4180@u.washington.edu> yoichi@carson.u.washington.edu (Yoichi Ii) writes:
>In article <BzExLy.7IH@news.cso.uiuc.edu> irvine@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Brent Irvine) writes:
>>In article <23078@venera.isi.edu> jlacoss@paddington.isi.edu (Jeff LaCoss) writes:
>>>>in the US have to spend less to buy the same thing, or they can spend
>>>>the same and get better quality.  This means that consumers in the US
>>
>>Ah, but now that a virtual monopoly exists in Consumer electronics for
>>Japanese firms, watch how those prices creep up slightly ahead of
>>inflation [or a favorite Japanese tactic, introduce new designs -
>>add a feature and do a different button layout - and double the price]
>>{this tactic is used in Japan to hide the inflation there}
>
>Again, what about a country like South Korea?  I have Samsung TV; it's
>been working just fine.

South Korea tried the Japanese plan - it is not working [they have all
kinds of crazy restrictions and tariffs that make Japan seem like an
old friend, and are in deficit right now] - but they do the
same kind of thing, though I doubt it is very concerted or involves
DUMPING TV's.

So if you were worried, I wouldn't be.

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 22:26:23 -0500 
From: Rikiya Asano <ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Christopher Morton
	<Bz1rDC.20I@NCoast.ORG>

Mr. Morton writes:

>RiKKKi, I've scraped better things than you off my combat boot after walking
>through a Korean rice paddy.

You're coming really close my friend. 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: cmort@NCoast.ORG (Christopher Morton)
Subject: Re: RIKIYA ASANO
Reply-To: cmort@ncoast.org (Christopher Morton)
Organization: North Coast Public Access *NIX, Cleveland, OH
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 19:15:21 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.japan

As quoted from <101554@netnews.upenn.edu> by hseung@anat3d1.anatomy.upenn.edu (Hyunsuk Seung):

> 
> Rikiya, 
> 
> Please do not get discouraged even if people on the net are
> frantically putting you in their KILL files.  There are open-minded
> people who find your numerous articles enlightening in numerous ways,
> which in turn add another dimension to perceive the world even if they
> may seem provacative at times.  May censorship censor itself!

I can think of exactly three people who would find ANYTHING that RiKKKi-kun
would write:

1. A Kempetai member.

2. A Nazi.

3. A psychologist with a specialty in abnormal psychology.

That about sums it up.


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