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From: jww@hri.com (John Willoughby)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Kanji SW development for X and/or Windows?
Date: 22 Dec 92 16:02:06 GMT
Organization: Horizon Research, Inc.

not exactly a "culture" question, but I thought this might be a good group
to ask:

I'm looking into providing international language support (specifically
Kanji) for some software tools we use internally. Does anyone have any
experience/comments/suggestions about finding development tools (especially
a GUI builder) that provide international support for development under
X and/or Microsoft Windows? f.y.i our tools are written in C.

thanks-

jww@hri.com



Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: Olli-Jukka Paloneva <opaloneva@abo.fi>
Subject: Are Japanese "yellow cabs" common?
Organization: Turku School Of Economics
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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 19:14:59 GMT

For some weeks ago there was in the biggest Finnish
newspaper an very short article which was quoted
somewhere about yellow cabs - Japanese ladies
who remain unmarried to avoid male dominance
and as strange birds they often leave Japan and
go to Australia or USA to work, where they utilize
fully sexual freedom with several males.

An other form of social protest is to stay to Japan,
but neglect "marital duties" towards husband.

Is that true - Is that common?

-olli-
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.asian.america,soc.culture.usa,misc.education
From: jeffy@bass.bu.edu (jeff yuan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.asian.american
Subject: Re: Super Power in new century and Yellow Peril
Date: 21 Dec 92 21:24:26 GMT
Reply-To: jeffy@bass.bu.edu
Followup-To: soc.culture.japan
Organization: Boston University

In article <1992Dec17.194750.7013@island.COM>, fester@island.COM (Mike Fester)
writes:

>Of course. They could do as you suggest, only rename "Manchukoku", and incor-
>porate it in some sort of "Greater Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere". All you need
>to do now, DJ, is shout "Tennoheika, Banzai!"

>Mike
>-- 
>Disclaimer - Oh come on! You didn't think I was serious, did you?

Mike Fester may not be serious, but he just hit the nail on the head!
It is amazing how that [under]dog's diatribes sound exactly like that of 
a WWII Japanese imperial army general.  Is Dwight Joe bent on world 
domination too?!

Jeff


Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.india,soc.culture.asian.american
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.india,soc.culture.asian.american
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In article <1992Dec17.194750.7013@island.COM>, fester@island.COM (Mike Fester)
writes:

>Of course. They could do as you suggest, only rename "Manchukoku", and incor-
>porate it in some sort of "Greater Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere". All you need
>to do now, DJ, is shout "Tennoheika, Banzai!"

>Mike
>-- 
>Disclaimer - Oh come on! You didn't think I was serious, did you?


Mike Fester may not be serious, but he just hit the nail on the head!

It is amazing how that dog's diatribes sound exactly like that of a WWII
Japanese imperial army general.  Is Dwight Joe bent on world domination too?!

Jeff


Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.india,soc.culture.asian.american
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From: labrg@emory.edu (Ryan Montieth Gill)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
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: 30 Dec 92 20:44:07 GMT
Organization: Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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fitz@Cadence.COM (Daniel Fitzpatrick) writes:
: In article <1gb31hINNk1a@agate.berkeley.edu> jcliu@four-lab4.Berkeley.EDU (James C. Liu) writes:
: >In article <Bz3zK9.un@news.cso.uiuc.edu> irvine@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu 
: >
: >IMHO, Russian youths kick-shiri on American kids in math and science on
: >an average basis.  So do the Japanese, and just about everybody in the

Stuff deleted about all the US's problems being due to those under
 the age of 20...


: 
: There is a fair amount in the above paragraph that I could waste bandwidth
: arguing about, but what, IMHO, I found irksome was the statement:
: 
: >America in fact IS headed for the gutter and the youth are going to take
: >us there.
: 
: This American youth do not grow up in a vaccum.  How a person acquires
: ones' values and learned behaviors is a complex process highly dependent
: upon their environment.  You can read this as meaning that the values
: and behavior that the American youth you are familar with is largely
: acquired from the values of their parents and those reflected by society 
: at large.
: 
: Any youth should not be considered the cause/source of a problem but 
: as a key and central to the solution of the problem you describe.
: 
: If any of this discussion belongs in soc.culture.japan, it might only be
: the parallels one could draw between the developmental history of Japan
: and America and the changing social attitudes brought about.
: 
: --Dan


	Thank You Dan!!! 
	
			I find it rather dim for someone to say that
	America's Problems are laying on my shoulders....Funny how the
	nation is being run for the most part by people raised in the
	Pre WWII era!!! I was born in the 70's...  Our education
	system is run by the older people...50's to 60's. Why is it
	that more Grad students are teaching Classes, taking classes
	and getting payed crap???  
		If the Education system is lacking
	then fix it Don't blame it on the students... We are a product
	of our Environment...We don't make the political system in
	government and in Big Business...we move into it and learn it
	from people who've been using it for Years. When you have to go
	in to Debt to pay for your college education you know things
	are bad....


			Ryan M. Gill
			Emory University Junior
			Emory Academic Computing Consutant
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: jcliu@euler.Berkeley.EDU (James C. Liu - Nucl. Engin. UC Berkeley)
Subject: Re: Pheromones and Nihon Otoko (was Re: yellow cabs")
Organization: University of California at Berkeley
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 20:59:35 GMT

In article <3554@aegis.or.jp> davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane) writes:

  >Going back to the original topic, IMHO Japan is a "pheronome free
  >zone".  Don't know why but smells of many (all?) kinds have low
  >value. Thus most people practically boil themselves each night in
  >the ofuro (me too :-) and women wear relatively little perfume.

I'm not so sure that bathing ones self a hot bath reduces possible
pheromone production.  I actually think it enhances the production
because for a relatively long period of time after the hot bath, the
blood circulation just beneath the skin is enhanced to increase the
heat transfer to cool the core body temperature.  This may increase both
sweat and musk production.

And yes, those hot baths really _do_ increase the core body temperature.
Thats why that Malts commercial with the girl in the towels running to
the frige.."Maltzen..maltzen...maltzen...maltzen..Umai da na..kore ga!"
seems so appropriate. :-) 

  >This last part is OK with me because I am hyper-senstive to
  >aromatics of all kind. When I'm around them (as in a woman with
  >heavy perfume) my face starts itching, breaking out in a rash,
  >and if it's in the sunshine my nose get extraordinarily red.

I think I've got a pretty sensitive nose too, but I don't actually
think I smell the pheromones as I much as I _feel_ them.  You mention
that strong perfume makes you itch, etc...I don't itch or break out,
rather, my nose gets desensitized to the smell after a while, but
other physical responses that seem to make me feel physically attracted
to a gal linger and actually increase with time.


I guess the next question to ask is:  Does drinking beer after a hot
bath increase pheromone production?  And which is better for
this...Asaki Z? Malts?  Sapporo Nama? Supa Dry? Genjikomi? :-)

Jaa, James
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From: underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe)
Subject: Re: Japanese Movies
Organization: Miners for a Heart of Gold
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 00:33:33 GMT

In article <RHB.92Dec24102043@world.std.com> rhb@world.std.com
(Robert H Brueckner) writes:
>In article <1992Dec20.051752.20459@leland.Stanford.EDU>
>underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:
>MUCH DELETED ...
>   Also, note that all Japanese films would qualify for, at most,
>   a "R" rating in the USA; I suspect that the sole "X" in the "Rating"
>   column should really be a "R".
>   --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   Japanese name              English name            Director     Rating
>   --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     Kazoku Game              Family Game
>   Ai no Koridaa      In The Realm Of The Senses                     X
>BALANCE DELETED
>Nope, "Ai, no Koridaa," which was made in the United States,
>incidentally, by a Japanese company (to get around the prudish
>anti-genitalia laws in Japan, presumably), is *definitely* an X. How
>else to describe scenes of graphic fellatio, intercourse, gang-rape
>with a dildo, and S/M sexuality?

Actually, I take back what I said above.

However, in all fairness, when I say "Japanese films", I am referring to
films that are made entirely by a Japanese production crew, targetted
for a Japanase audience, and shown in Japan.  I just could not imagine
how a X-rate film, which shows genital hairs (of course), could be shown
in Japan.

BTW, genital hairs are banned from the movies in Japan.
Even in the movie "Crimes of Passion" (?), starring Kathleen Turner,
the genital hairs on the painting in her home were edited out of the picture
by that annoying circle of darkness (basically a circle of pitch blackness
placed over the genital hairs).

> This sounds pretty raunchy, but it's
>not really. I don't usually like "X"-rated movies, but this was very
>sensual and very compelling, and the fact that it was based on a true
>story I found interesting as well.

I did see the movie over the holidays.  I agree; this is movie is definitely
a X-rated movie.  If it were shown in Japan, then all the naughty scenes
would have multiple circles of darkness.

I also agree that the movie is very compelling until the very last 10 minutes.
The explicit scenes of castration and removal of the male "balls" was really
excessive, even for a X-rated movie.

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From: dcroz@twics.co.jp
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Brainwashed
Date: 1 Jan 93 14:30:04 GMT
Organization: TWICS, Tokyo, Japan


Tetsuya Nishimura writes:
 
=}If you can, cuold you just give me information about the material
 
     "The Closing of the American Mind," Allan Bloom, 1987
 
=}I would call it "evolving" or "developing."
 
     Either of those words would seem to imply a progression in the direction
of "better."
 
     Are we then in agreement that some cultures have been and are better than
others?
From: robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu (Henry Robertson)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Teenage Group Suicide in Tokyo
Date: 1 Jan 1993 03:28:46 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: headcrash.berkeley.edu

Very sad, very sad!  Japan needs to go beyond its utter fixation on economic
growth, and begin giving credence to human needs!  The system must stop
its fascist imposition of conformity.  This incident reflects too well how
conforming pressures meet a destructive end.  What is despicable, is 
the superficial public sympathy, but the new despise towards the family of the
girls as a dirty family, to shun from the neighborhood.  Just because it
happened to them does not make them "dirty"!  They need that much more 
support, not despise.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: hiraga@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Yuzuru Hiraga)
Subject: Re: Days of the Week in Japanese and Korean
Organization: Stanford University CSLI
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 08:15:38 GMT

In article <1992Dec30.004902.999@netcom.com> akuma@netcom.com (Steven E Barnes) writes:
>In article <1992Dec29.112444.3725@Csli.Stanford.EDU>, hiraga@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Yuzuru Hiraga) writes:
>> Freya and Frigg (Frigga, Fricca) are different dieties, and
>> Friday is Frigg's day.  Odin and Frigg are the ones that are married.
>> And I thought Odin and Thor are brothers (though I'm not sure).
>
>Thor is the son of Odin; Freya is the wife of Thor.

OK.
I went through some books and the result is a bit confusing.
(legend)
  AH: American Heritage Dictionary; Houghton Mifflin
  BF: Bulfinch's Mythology (Richard Martin (ed)); Harper Collins
  DM: Dictionary of Mythology (Bergen Evans); Dell

* Freya and Frigga
AH, BF, DM all claim that Frigga is the wife of Odin.
As for Freya, BF and DM mention her as the wife of Odin, AH makes
no such comment, and none claim her to be the wife of Thor.
Both BF and DM say that the two are often [con]fused: (from BF):
"In Teutonic mythology, [Frigga] is often confused with Frigga."

* Etymology of Friday
Although DM mentions that Friday was named in honor of Freya,
AH gives an etymology and seems more reliable: "FRIDAY: from Old English
Frigedaeg, from Germanic compound *frijedagaz, "day of Frigg" (translation
of Latin Veneris die~s, "Venus's day")."

* Thor
You are correct, Thor is the son of Odin.
I got my idea from Wagner's "Ring"; in which Donner (corresponding to Thor)
appears as the brother (-in-law?) of Wotan.

# And yes, I read the Eddas and Sagas, but that was a long time ago.

-Yuzuru Hiraga
From: mauritz_c@spcvxb.spc.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: SEXISM IN JAPANESE WORKPLACE!!!!
Date: 21 Dec 92 15:58:20 GMT
Organization: SPC Community Access System

In article <BzKy05.3Lz@jrd.dec.com>, doi@jrd.dec.com (Hitoshi Doi) writes:
> In article <BzJ4Av.353@CAM.ORG>, cheung@CAM.ORG (Shirley Cheung) writes:
> # Anyway, I wonder how long will it take to eliminate all the sexist
> # prejudice held by the corporate society in Japan---> at least to the same 
> #  degree in North American. Well, although we still have prejudice in North
> # Amercia, we have moved quick fast recenty toward sex-equality. For
> # instance, most of the managers are now females; we have 50% of female
> # students in Medical and law schook; 25% in engineering...etc. I wonder how
> # long will the Japanse society take to match the same level of equality as
> # in North America.
> 
> Who says equality is good?
> Who says Japanese women want to be equal..

This was a joke, right?  I have yet to meet a Japanese woman (and I have
met many <grin>) who does not express outrage over the situation of
women in Japan.

Regards,

Chris
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,misc.invest,misc.entrepreneurs
From: thiru@lgc.com (Thiru Bollam)
Subject: Retix Vs Soft-Switch...
Organization: Landmark Graphics Corporation
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 16:39:27 GMT

	Does anyone out there know if RETIX and SOFT-SWITCH are in the
	same niche market (OSI-Email business). I know that Retix does
	lots of OSI stuff, including licensing X.400 software for email
	systems.  What does Soft-switch do? Does it trade in the open
	market?

	I appreciate any info. regarding this.

	Merry Christmas,

	Thiru
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: hiraga@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Yuzuru Hiraga)
Subject: Re: Education (was: Re: DOES AMERICA SAY YES TO JAPAN?)
Organization: Stanford University CSLI
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 09:51:29 GMT

In article <1gt6vbINN533@agate.berkeley.edu> jcliu@four-lab4.Berkeley.EDU (James C. Liu) writes:
>How many units are a class on the average?  

Let's see.  An average lecture lasts 90 to 120 minutes (including breaks),
so for one semester, that will be 1.5 to 2 units.  For a year-long course,
this will be 3 to 4 units.  Experiments, drills, programming, and language
courses are credited half the units of actual hours alotted.
A single course seldom credits more than 4 units.

>Our courses average around 3.5 units each.

Considering there are one-semester courses, the average will be more lower,
something around 2.5 or so.

>Usually there's a requirement 
>of around 18 units of humanities and social sciences for the technical 
>majors, of which 8 units or so must be upper division.

This is about the same, though in general there are no upper/lower divisions.

>with the liberal arts majors, but they also have a minimum technical 
>requirement which can be easily satified by some very simple courses.  

Again, similar.

>However, the liberal arts majors are offered
>a series of courses that are exclusively for them.  For example, there
>is a course called Physics 10 - Physics without math.  What is Physics
>if with out at least the Newtonian calculus that goes with it?

I share your disgust (sigh).

> [I wrote]
>  >Personally, I agree with Justin Sullivan that general education is
>  >a waste of time.
>
>I think having a broad education is good.  I disagree that its a waste
>of time...However, I think there should be equal if not more emphasis 
>on technical requirements.

I was short in words here.
I heartily agree that "good" broad education is desirable.
However, the actual situation doesn't meet this standard --
mass-produced classes (in some universities, over 700 students
take a single course), lame, sterile lectures repeated every year...

Back home in Japan, my situation is not that bad... I teach introductory
calculus (among other courses) to "only" 150 or so liberal-arts-minded
students.... I (as well as my colleagues) have a fixed reputation of
being the meanest, most notorious of the teachers   ;-<
And believe me, if judged by the standards of science (or engineering)
faculty classes, I have to fail all but a handful of them.

-Yuzuru Hiraga
From: cheung@CAM.ORG (Shirley Cheung)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: brainwashed
Date: 27 Dec 92 02:24:05 GMT
Organization: Champlain Regional College, St-Lambert QC  CANADA


Dear all,

First of all, I am not Japanese.  It was the American article called
"sexism in Japan" that sparked me to search more info about this country.

I have posted several articles regarding to the "sexism" in Japan as well
as following to the articles posted in soc.culture.japan.

Today, I can come up with a final conclusion of how REAL Japanese are:

1. They are extremely narrow-minded in terms of racial, sexual, linguistic
issues.

2. Their "social" mentality is at least 20-30 years behind North America

3. They have been EXTREMELY "damaged" by the evil act of their own
TRADITION of  "brainwashing". 

4. HOPE?--> ONLY now that telecommunication has brought them "somewhat"
closer to the rest of the world.

THE JAPANESE TRADITION HAS MADE ME VERY ANGRY, SAD, AND FRUSTRATED FOR FEW
DAYS AND I AM EXTREMELY LUCKY THAT I AM "NOT" PART OF THIS CULTURE.

SHIRLEY
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: prener@watson.ibm.com (Dan Prener)
Subject: Re: NHK Dramas on Videotape?
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 07:50:58 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York

In article <27402@sybase.sybase.com> herb@sybase.com (Herb Lison) writes:

> Does anyone know if NHK Dramas are available on videotape?  When
> living in the San Francisco area recently I noticed that a UHF
> station, Channel 26, had these programs on regularly with English
> sub-titles.   The programs were very high quality and a real pleasure
> to watch (except for the frequent commercial interruptions.)

> The ones I'd like to obtain most are "Nobunaga, King of Zipangu"
> and one about Ashikaga Takauji (forgot the series name).

In the New York area, the tapes are available for rent from some local
Japanese grocery/general stores.

However, the tapes they rent appear to be the unsubtitled ones from Japan,
not the subtitled ones shown here.
--
                                   Dan Prener (prener@watson.ibm.com)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: tnt@netcom.com (Terry Turner)
Subject: email in tokyo
Organization: Watch the Skies
Distribution: soc
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:22:59 GMT

a friend lives in tokyo and wants to send email over internet. someone
recently posted a summary of email availability but when i went back to
look for it, the artical had expired (is this a law of net news?). would
someone that saved it please send it to me? or repost it? 

thanks.
-- 
terry
	tnt@netcom.com
From: jcliu@four-lab4.Berkeley.EDU (James C. Liu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Comfort girls?
Date: 2 Jan 1993 20:11:31 GMT
Organization: UC Berkeley Dept. of Nuclear Engineering
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In article <1i3fkhINN9j@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> johan@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu 
(Johan van Zanten) writes:

>In article <1992Dec29.025921.144@leland.Stanford.EDU>
>underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:
>
>  >People like Mr. Liu are unable to distinguish between culture (behavior)
>  >and ethnicity (genetics).  Mr. Liu translates my criticism of Chinese-cu
>  >culture and society into hatred of Chinese-ge.  Only a Chinese-cu would do
>  >that.
>
> No, i do it, too.  You hate Chinese people more than anyone i know. I think
>probably the best evidence of this is the login name you used yesterday morning
>on the netrek game on bronco.ece.cmu.edu: "bombCHINAtoHELL".  Hardly the words
        ^^^^^^

Well, it's nice to see how ethernet bandwidth is being utilized in this
world...to play netrek. :-)  Thanks for the words of support to me and
rebuttal against Mr. Joe from everyone including you, Mr. Zanten.  But
the truth is, we wasted bandwidth responding to Mr. Joe's very baited,
bigotted comments.  I think most decent folks on the net are very aware
that BOTH China and Japan, as well as the US could learn a little more
from history so we can identity, put to an end, and prevent atrocities
from ever happening again.

Jaa, James
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