HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: yoichi@carson.u.washington.edu (Yoichi Ii)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Pheromones and Nihon Otoko (was Re: yellow cabs")
Date: 31 Dec 1992 05:28:56 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <3549@aegis.or.jp> davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane) writes:
>I remember reading about one experiment women with irrgular mense
>were given pads which contained male sweat (and presumeably male
>pheronomes) and their mense became regular.  Second, they had to use
>the pads because male pheronomes don't spread easily through the air
>whereas female pheronomes do. The effect is enhanced by perfume
>which helps carry the pheronomes. 
>
>So I don't take your original post as a joke. I think it makes
>some sense.

A while back, NOVA, a PBS science program had a program on smell.
They showed how pheromones have profound effect on insects and
some mammals.  The program did not however go too deeply into its 
effect on humans. They did touch on the sychronization of menstral
periods experienced by female roommates, presumably due to these
chemicals.  So there is definitely some truth to this subject.

BTW, how DO makers of "musk" cologne (so highly recommended by
Mr. Liu) get their ingredient.  Do they collect sweat from some
husky, sweaty guys?  May be they use other male animals, like
bulls, to increase production and reduce costs.  Do we have to
becareful next time we go to a ranch?  Yikes.



Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: miket@hermes.tcs.com (Michael Turner nmscore Assoc.)
Subject: Re: Pheromones and Nihon Otoko (was Re: yellow cabs")
Organization: Teknekron Communications Inc.
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 01:34:51 GMT

In article <1993Jan2.205935.2309@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> jcliu@euler.Berkeley.EDU (James C. Liu - Nucl. Engin. UC Berkeley) writes:
>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.

I agree with James -- taking an ultra hot bath at NIGHT rather than
the morning argues pretty heavily for Japan being a "pheromone-intense-
zone", all other things being equal.  Which is not to say that they
are equal, necessarily.
---
Michael Turner
miket@tcs.com
From: dirceu@taurus.cse.kyutech.ac.jp (Dirceu G. Cavendish Jr.)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Dumping (was: DOES AMERICA SAY YES TO JAPAN?)
Date: 21 Dec 92 08:21:40 GMT
Organization: Kyushu Institute of Tech., Iizuka, JAPAN.
	<1992Dec15.214210.19181@oakhill.sps.mot.com>
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In-reply-to: blamb@hri.com's message of 17 Dec 92 15:18:01 GMT

In article <7541@bigbird.hri.com.hri.com> blamb@hri.com (Bill Lambert) writes:
[stuff deleted]
 >
 >Does anyone have any hard data that supports the major hypothesis
 >of dumping, in that after the industry has been captured, prices
 >(or profit margins) would increase to compensate for the years
 >that the products were sold at less than cost?
 >
[stuff deleted]
 >
 >- Bill Lambert

Yes, does anyone have some data to support the dumping theory?  If
Japanese companys do this with american ones, they must be using the
same strategy in other countries they've succeeded. I wonder if the
japanese internal market is big enough to support low prices and
negative profit in ALL countries Japan deals with for long enough to
run out their competitors.

Japanese Eletronics are more expensive here than in States, but this by itself
is not a proof of dumping. Prices vary everywhere, according to many factors,
like cost of living, company STRATEGY, competition, etc...

I'm just asking for some statistics...

Dirceu
From: jcliu@four-lab4.Berkeley.EDU (James C. Liu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: DOES AMERICA SAY YES TO JAPAN? - Off track!!
Date: 26 Dec 92 18:34:46 GMT
Organization: UC Berkeley Dept. of Nuclear Engineering
NNTP-Posting-Host: four-lab4.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Dec24.210950.21525@acuson.com> miklg@acuson.com 
(Michael Goldman ) writes:

>	At the risk of introducing some actual data into the net (against
>	the rules, I suspect):

By all means...:-)

>	From "The Economist", April 25, 1992
>
>	"On April 17th Alan Greenspan [Fed Reserve Chairman] and
>	Richard Breeden, chairman of the Securities and Exchange
>	Commission, [testified before the Senate Banking Committee
>	that]...at the end of 1991, Japanese investors held $78B - less
>	than 2% - of total American government debt, 1.1% of corporate
>	debt, and about $20B worth of American equities, equal to about
>	0.5% of American market capitalization."
>
>	----------
>
>	2% - not exactly scary now is it?

You fail to realize that 2% of the Government debt is a large enough sum
to topple many money markets around the world, here included, because
the *immediate* capitalization of such a large amount would have a great
effect on interest rates or money supply through economic multipliers.
This is analogous to stocks.  On any given day, only a few percent of a
stock is traded, but the prices may vary by a lot.  Over time, sure we
could climb out of it, I didn't debate that. 

>	Besides, what if they and others take their money and stick it
>	in German bonds; that would force German rates to decline and
>	American rates to rise to compete.  Then those who are just
>	seeking the best return and are not motivated out of political
>	pique would transfer their money to US bonds, allowing US rates
>	to decline and German rates to go back up.  Actually, none of
>	this would happen, because the transfers would all happen at
>	the speed of Electronic Funds Transfers - i.e.,
>	instantaneously.  With international money free to go where it

The Japanese could always bite the bullet and invest in their own
currency...Besides, I was outlining a scenario for retaliation in the
event of an all-out economic war.  Because of GREED in the system, that
won't happen, and even if it did, I was arguing that the US wouldn't be
hurting as much as Japan.  Are we getting at the same point?

Jaa, James
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond)
Subject: Re: Not a Myth at All
Organization: Integrated International Systems Corp. One Longfellow Place, Suite 3309, Boston, Ma.
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:51:38 GMT

timd@ed.ac.uk (Tim Duncan) writes:

>In article <BzM42w.94M@unix.amherst.edu>, jmfuchs@unix.amherst.edu (JESSE MICHAEL FUCHS) writes:
>|> 
>|> 	On the subject of whether or not the Japanese exhibit large-scale
>|> tendencies toward racism, I have one word for you all:
>|> 
>|> 	Burokamin.
>|> 
>|> 							-jesse 


>Pity you couldn't spell it right then :-)


>	-- Tim


...but then, he probably got his spelling lessons from Rikkiya Asano.

Charlie 
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Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 14:18:10 GMT
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Organization: The University of Leeds, School of Computer Studies
From: ross-c@scs.leeds.ac.uk
To: usenet@phaze.cam.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: Comfort girls?

In article <1hng6mINNbga@shelley.u.washington.edu> you write:
>>In article <1992Dec28.143403.8912@cbnewsh.cb.att.com> bgt@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (barbara.tongue) writes:
>>
>>According to certain estimates approximately 300,000 Ameriasian
>>children were produced as a result of the Vietnam War, and most
>
>Although the statistics are correct, you must also remember the 
>case is very different in this case. The forced sex slaves of the
>Japanese military are charging that the Japanese government was 
>in charge of overseeing such operations.

>I hardly think that the U.S. government encouraged forced prostitution.
							   ^^^^^^^^^^^^

According to a '60 Minutes' documentary I saw *some years ago*, many of the
amerasian children in Vietnam were not born to prostitutes. This was explained
as a common misconception (no pun intended). 

A large number (possibly most) of these children were born to girlfriends
and wives of US servicemen. The programme claimed that most of the prostitutes
knew how not to get pregnant. 

The US military had been informing servicemen that it would not recognise 
any marriages with Vietnamese, and many legal (in Vietnam anyway) wives were
abandoned upon the fall of Saigon.

I therefore see no logical connection between the two cases. The existance
of a large number of abandoned children (which is a bad thing in itself)
cannot be used to reliably estimate the level of prostitution. And to assume
that the two are directly related is incorrect.

Cheers,

Ross-c
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: dwong@chopsuey.pico ( paganini's admirer )
Subject: Re: Comfort girls?
Reply-To: dwong@chopsuey.pico
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 00:40:19 GMT

In article EJG@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu, achen@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (jupiter) writes:
>In article <1992Dec28.143403.8912@cbnewsh.cb.att.com> bgt@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (barbara.tongue) writes:
>>folks,
>>
>>just recently i read about the rape of nangking and the japanese use
>>>>-- 
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>>%%   The Speaking Tongue, AT&T   %%  C Code.  C Code Run.  Run, Code, RUN! %%
>>%%       bgt@hogpf.att.com       %%           PLEASE!!!!                   %%
>>%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
>
>According to certain estimates approximately 300,000 Ameriasian
>children were produced as a result of the Vietnam War, and most
>of them were abandoned after the American withdrawal.  Since only
>about 50,000 American soldiers were killed during the entire war,
>this means that for each American soldier killed during the war,
>six Vietnamese girls were shamed for life.
>
>This means the U.S.A. wins the trophy for the maximal use of
>"confort girls".

But you missed the point that the "comfort girls" in Japanese army were forced to do
so!  Most of the gilrs were executed if they were infected VD.  While Vietnam, and 
many other US based nations have large number prostitutes is purely because of making 
a living.  Also some may even be truely in love.  Putting Japan's inhumane cruelty 
together with the US sexual wantoness on the same arguement is not appropriate in
this case.

dw.
From: mcovingt@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Maiko Covington)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Days of the Week in Japanese and Korean
Date: 29 Dec 92 00:52:52 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <1992Dec28.184105.11238@netcom.com> ilsa@netcom.com (Ilsa VanHook) writes:
>(Maiko Covington) writes:
>>
>>	Where did the "nitiyoubi"/"ilyongil" way of saying the days of the
>>week originate? 
>
>Good question!  I'd never noticed before, but they're named after the
>planets they correspond to in classical western myth & mysticism.

Okay. Well then... if the days of the week were adopted from Western
culture, which country (Japan or Korea) adopted it first? Did it
occur at the same time, or did one pass it on to the other?

		Maiko

P.S. Oh yes... I just read a book that said that the word "busu" was
also from Ainu - from the Ainu word "pusyu". Anyone else heard this
theory?
From: yoichi@carson.u.washington.edu (Yoichi Ii)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: brainwashed
Date: 28 Dec 1992 18:44:04 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
NNTP-Posting-Host: carson.u.washington.edu

robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu (Henry Robertson) writes:
>  >themselves and everybody else.  NHK anchorwoman whats-her-face does the
>  >American thang, by being mother of a 4-year-old daughter & evening
>  >newcaster.  But, given Japan's work ethic, the number of hours she has

jcliu@four-lab4.Berkeley.EDU (James C. Liu) writes:
>I believe you are refering to Kuroda Ayumi.  Tokyo U. grad
>extraordinaire.  But she still bows twice for each time Kawabata-san 
>(the male anchor-dude) bows, and she sits offset and BEHIND him.

Whats-her-face on the Fuji network news certainly does not take 
any back seat to her male co-anchor.  In fact, she tend to have
more commanding prescence.  Also she's no less than a Berkeley 
grad extraordinaire, Liu-san :-)  She looked great reporting from 
the field during the Persian Gulf situation.

Unfortunately, she hasn't done the "American thang", yet.  I believe
she's still single.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: ntetsuya@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Nishimura)
Subject: Re: SEXISM IN JAPANESE WORKPLACE!!!!
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 03:18:14 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523

In article <MfBbfyq00Uh_M4r0sk@andrew.cmu.edu> ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rikiya Asano) writes:
>
>I think that it is a crime of high morality to discrimminate on any
>basis. 

	I AM picking on you at this point.  You said above, and you have
	discriminated people by thier educational background.  Is this an 
	exception in your definition of "discrimination"?


						Tetsuya Nishimura
From: dave@pipi.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp (David Wuertele)
Subject: Re: 1992 All-Time Xmas Songs
Organization: Institute of Industrial Science, University of tokyo.
	<1992Dec26.143029.22900@Csli.Stanford.EDU>
	<AfDGPOG00iV4A20Xlw@andrew.cmu.edu>
	<DAVE.92Dec31004057@pipi.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 15:49:57 GMT

In article <DAVE.92Dec31004057@pipi.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp> dave@pipi.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp (David Wuertele) writes:
 > The real name is "The Christmas Song (Marry Christmas to you)," and it was
					^^^^^^^
Oops.  "Merry," of course.

Dave
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:31:25 -0500 
From: Rikiya Asano <ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Where's Rikiya?
	<1992Dec24.012741.19143@omrongw.wg.omron.co.jp>

Mr.JFriedl writes:

.                  

>BTW, Rickey, you said you liked Prince.  I too like his music, but I wonder
>how *you* can like it.... maybe you don't know he's BLACK!  Such a thing
>doesn't matter to me, but then I'm not racest.....

A person would have to live in a coma not to know that Prince is Black.
More accurately, his father is Black and his mother is Italian. I have
lived with a black American for the last five years, dude!

And, sorry for the inconviences. I feel that the past is dead. Dead!
But, the dead can and will rise. So, let us be afraid and depend on each
other
From: dcroz@twics.co.jp
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Brainwashed
Date: 30 Dec 92 21:44:56 GMT
Organization: TWICS, Tokyo, Japan


Tetsuya Nishimura writes:
 
=}No culture is any better than any other culture. . .
=}How can you say the culture of 1600 AD Japan is inferior to that of modern
=}day Japan, or vise versa?  How can you say Italian culture is better than
=}that of Spain, or vice versa?
 
     It took Alan Bloom, a professor of political philosophy, an entire book to
deal with that subject.  But deal with it he did.  I'll mail you my copy if you
promise to read and return it.
 
=}But these differences are not what you can say "bad" or "good" in nature.
 
     It seems pretty radical to categorically deny that there can be any
principles or guidelines for human society other than the arbitrary, culturally
relative ones.
 
     Seems to me that human nature (however you may define that term) would
dictate that some forms of society would work better than others.
 
=}Or would you rather consider a slurp of a Japanese eating miso soup in Japan
=}bad because Western culture does not permit it?
 
     Actually, Western culture does permit the slurping of Miso soup in Japan. 
But that's neither here nor there.  The main point is that the existence of
culturally determined preferences and biases does not, in and of itself, rule
out the possibility of the existence of "bad" or "good" with reference to human
nature or society.
 
=}If, as you might think, one culture can be inferior to another, why not
=}abandoning it and adopting or adapting what you might call a "superior" and
=}"better" culture?  Where in this world and in the past is a people who
=}abandoned their culture and adopted a new culture?
 
     Well, unless we're all living in mousterian hunter-gatherer societies,
*every* culture has repeatedly abandoned what they had for a better life.
 
=}I believe it was based on whether they liked it or not.
 
     Sometimes, sure, particularly with trivial stuff like table manners.  But
if by "liked it" you mean "found that it conduced to more happiness and well-
being than what they had before," we are essentially in agreement.
 
=}Is this too simple???
 
     Yes, I think so.
 
     I don't agree with this proposition that it's "impossible" or "prejudiced"
to make judgements about what might be good or bad in culture.  If we're
deciding what kind of culture we want to live in, as we all are, every day,
then *who* has a better right to make these judgements than we do?
 
     And who has the standing to tell us that we have no right to decide what
kind of culture we want to live in?
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: robcruic@intacc.uucp (Robert Cruickshank)
Subject: Re: Using 110V,60Hz equip on 100V,60Hz??
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 08:15:01 GMT
Organization: Inter/Access' Matrix BBS

In article <1992Dec16.194855.4882@erg.sri.com> mason@lion.erg.sri.com (Mason Jones) writes:
>
>What's the lesson here? I'm not sure, but at the very least be cautious.
>With a computer, it's possible that the voltage difference could cause
>some very bad problems (hard disk crashes, etc).  I'd strongly recommend
>buying a transformer -- I saw them in duty-free shops in Tokyo and Osaka,
>though I never broke down and bought one (too expensive).  They were
>around 4000-8000 yen as I recall, depending on the size you need.
>
>                   


I too would suggest using a transformer, but be careful, not all the power
converters sold are actual transformers- my friend has one that converts 117
volts to 100 volts, and can handle 1000w, yet is *very* light, unlike a
typical transformer. It works in the same manner as a light dimmer, by
actually chopping bits out of the AC waveform. While it is good for lights and
heaters and such things, it does a very nice job of destroying the plugpacks
of electronic gear, and also generates a lot of radio interference. Make sure
that what you have is actually a *transformer*..
-rob
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From: yoichi@carson.u.washington.edu (Yoichi Ii)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: brainwashed
Date: 29 Dec 92 22:22:32 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
NNTP-Posting-Host: carson.u.washington.edu

yoichi@carson.u.washington.edu (Yoichi Ii) writes:
>>  >Whats-her-face on the Fuji network news certainly does not take 
>>  >any back seat to her male co-anchor.  In fact, she tend to have
>>  >more commanding prescence.  Also she's no less than a Berkeley 
>>  >grad extraordinaire, Liu-san :-)  She looked great reporting from 
>>  >the field during the Persian Gulf situation.
>>  >
>>  >Unfortunately, she hasn't done the "American thang", yet.  I believe
>>  >she's still single.

jcliu@four-lab4.Berkeley.EDU (James C. Liu) writes:>
>>I almost forgot completely about her...:-) whats-her-face...But I have
>>my new Moritaka Chisato Poster Calendar.  Chisa-chan no hoo ga kirei da
>>to omou.  

masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov (Michiaki Masuda) writes:
>  I actually forgot about her completely and am even clueless which 
>"what's-her-face" you guys are talking about.
>  But I second your opinion about Chisato-chan anyway 8-).

For those of you who might care, her name is Andou (don't know her
first name). People usually refer to her as Andou-san or Andou kyastaa.

You know, I wasn't trying to start a "Japanese Female Newsperson Beauty
Contest".  I guess Andou-san isn't the most beautiful woman around, but
my point was that I like her snappy "hai's", self confident style, and
timely humor.

As for this "Chisato-chan" person, I don't know who the _heck_ she is.
So there. :-)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu ()
Subject: Re: Microscience HH-825
Summary: Hope you've learned your lesson! (whoever you are)
Organization: clearer than blir
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 16:28:52 GMT

In article <1992Dec24.141450.6796@kub.nl> bouter@kub.nl (George de Bouter) writes:
>
>Hi there, is there anyone who could post the dipswith settings of the
>HH-825 Microscience harddisk?
>
>

I hope the bonehead who thought that the people in sci.electronics
would want to read about trade with Japan has learned their lesson.
That's not *anything* like what they talk about in that newsgroup as
you can plainly see from this and at least two other posts that have
leaked into soc.culture.japan.

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From: rboudrie@chpc.org (Rob Boudrie)
Subject: Re: DOES AMERICA SAY YES TO JAPAN? - Off track!!
Organization: Center For High Perf. Computing of WPI; Marlboro Ma
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:03:26 GMT


>> That's part of the reason why there is less actual wealth in the US
>>to invest. (I don't defend the shitty savings rate of Americans,
>>although there is more than a casual relationship between small (or
>>no) paychecks and savings.)
>
>How, then, do you explain the fact that the US STILL has the highest per capita
>income in the world? We do NOT have the highest saving rate.
>

I think that Japanese citizens are expected to save for their retirement
rather than "let the gummit do it for them". 

The US would have an enviable savings rate if the 15.2+% of salary taken
for social security (employee+employer comptribution) were directed to 
individual savings accounts.


                                        rob b.