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From: yajima@nttcom.ntt.jp (YAJIMA Hiroshi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Japan Central League
Date: 2 Sep 92 07:42:27 GMT
Distribution: soc
Organization: NTT Network Information Systems Labs. Musashino, Tokyo

Japan Central League Standing (Through games on Thuesday September 1st)

                        W   L   T   Pct.   GB
Yakult Swallows        57  44   0  .564    --
Hanshin Tigers         56  49   1  .533    3.0
Yomiuri Giants         57  51   0  .528    3.5
Hiroshima Carp         53  50   0  .515    5.0
Taiyo Whales           48  58   1  .453   11.5
Chinichi Dragons       43  62   0  .410   16.0
-------

 The game between Yakult Swallows and Yomiuri Giants on Tuesday September 1st
was an exciting one. Takahiro Ikeyama slammed a sayonara homer over the 
centre-field fence as pace-setting Yakult Swallows drilled three homers to beat
detestable Yomiuri Giants at Tokyo's Jingu Stadium.
 Tied 3-3 with no outs in the bottom of the ninth, Ikeyama logged his 24th 
homer of the season by smashing a 1-0 pitch off Yomiuri Giants starter Hiromi
Makihara.
 My nerves were stimulated by the game and I could not get to sleep last night.

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.china,soc.history
From: jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au (Jim Breen)
Subject: Re: More Naval Rambling (Was: <None>)
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 06:33:50 GMT

jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy) writes:

>In 1901 the British Admiralty informed the Government that the 19th
>century policy of having a navy capable of matching any two potential
>enemies was no longer feasible if the U.S. was regarded as one of the
>potential enemies.  Does anyone know what considerations went into 
>this evaluation?  Would it have included an evaluation of the results
>of the Spanish-Amercian War?

Possibly, but more probably a hard-nosed assessment of the industrial
potential. Germany was arming at a furious rate, and the Admiralty was
facing up to the problem that the cost of keeping an up-to-date navy of
the size of the combination of the US and Germany would bankrupt the
country. By 1900 it was becoming clear that Germany would probably be the 
next enemy, as Bismark's heirs were spoiling for a fight, and Wilhelm
obviously wanted a colonial empire.

Britain's naval supremacy in the late 1700s and early 1800s was at an
immense cost. It consumed a huge proportion of the country's output,
particularly in steel products.  In fact they were damned lucky. The
French revolution resulted in much of the officer corps of their navy 
either fleeing the country or losing their heads. By the standards of
the day sailing and fighting a ship-of-the-line was a much more skilled
task than sending infantry of cavalry into battle. The French shipyards
still churned out the best warships in the world, but they either rotted
in port, or were captured by the inferior but better handled Brits.
-- 
Jim Breen                           JIS:$B%8%`!!%V%j!<%s(J
Department of Robotics & Digital Technology. Monash University. 
PO Box 197 Caulfield East VIC 3145 Australia (ph) +61 3 573 2552 
(fax) +61 3 573 2345  AARNet/Internet:jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au  
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: fester@island.COM (Mike Fester)
Subject: Re: Any Japanese Pussy Available?
Organization: /usr/local/rn/organization
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 17:53:04 GMT

In article <1992Aug31.205823.651@ms.uky.edu> justin@mik.uky.edu (Justin Sullivan) writes:
>Linda Absher writes
>> In article <1992Aug31.031359.12423@ccu.umanitoba.ca>  
>umsalte2@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Mystery) writes:
>> >
>> >
>> >I really need a virgin Japanese, hightec cunt!!!!!!
>> >
>> 
>> I find this little comment unbelievably offensive...
>> 
>> Go away.....
>
>Amen.. Small wonder orientals call Westerners 'barbarians.'

At the risk of asking a rather obvious question, how can you tell by the
"umsalte2@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Mystery)" that this is a "Westerner"?

Mike
-- 
Disclaimer - I'm only doing what the little voices tell me to do.
From: masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov (Michiaki Masuda)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Phobia (was Re: The Russo-Japanese War (part 2))
Date: 28 Aug 92 17:28:42 GMT
Organization: Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center

In article <1992Aug27.115633.1@acad3.alaska.edu> fsars@acad3.alaska.edu (Allen R Sparks) writes:
.....
>The Japanese are a xenophobic society, .....

   And Japanese are homophobic, too, especially in a foreign country.

   When I walk on the street of D.C. and come across Japanese tourists, they 
almost always try to avoid any eye contact and to neglect me. When they 
mistakingly had an eye contact with me, I ususally try to smile back. But then,
they avert their eyes from me as if they saw something disgusting (oh well,
I may be). 

   When my Japanese friends made a trip to Switzerland and were having dinner
in the restaurant of the hotel, another Japanese couple was led to the next
table. The couple told the maitre d' to change the table because they didn't
want to sit next to Japanese. My friends were not happy to hear that.

   These days, you can find a good number of Japanese tourists in any major 
city. I heard that there are an increasing number of requests by Japanese
clients to a travel agency to arrange a trip to a place where they don't 
see any Japanese.

   I also heard that there are some Japanese families living in my area
that declared, "Nihon-jin no kata to wa amari otsukiai shitaku arimasen
node (We are not willing to socialize with Japanese)."
   
   As I understand it, other Asians (Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, etc.) 
are more mutually supportive in a foreign country. I wonder what makes
Japanese homophobic. I myself who take the Japanese attitude in a negative way
might be also affected by homophobia.

Michiaki Masuda
From: smittie@beach.csulb.edu (Smittie)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: An open letter to the Emperor Akihito of Japa
Date: 27 Aug 92 17:34:20 GMT
	<1992Aug25.040806.3255@ducvax.auburn.edu>
	<1992Aug25.164559.28438@udel.edu> <2494@aegis.or.jp>
	<92Aug26.100657edt.110@orasis.vis.toronto.edu> <2507@aegis.or.jp>
Organization: Cal State Long Beach

>Some sources say hint that Roosevelt tricked the Japanese into
>attacking Pearl Harbor. If you doubt that this is so, please check
>//Life// Magazine, September 24th, 1945, page 110:
> [quote deleted for bevity]

For a paper I am doing I recently watched a video series called "Between the
Wars". The narrator was Eric Sevareid. Mr. Sevareid, in introducing the segment
on Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, mentioned that a Korean boy would come into
the news office where Mr. Sevareid worked. The boy came in often and told the
news types there that the Japanese would attack Pearl Harbor before Christmas.
It was well known that this Korean boy had strong connections with the
Japanese-Korean underground.

smittie
-- 
___________________________________________________________________________
GEnie, MCI, AOL:Smittie | If all of us were as smart as we think we are the
smittie@beach.csulb.edu |  current world problems would be yesterday's news.
________________________|___________________________________________________
From: dh4j+@andrew.cmu.edu (David O Hunt)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Opinions sought
Date: 30 Aug 92 15:52:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.YecJxO600XsFI6ELxN
Organization: Masters student, Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Hi.  This might not be the exactly-correct board, but...closest match I saw.

Anyway.  I'm going to apply for the NSF/Japan Summer Research program.  I
don't speak Japanese (beyond Ko Nichee Wa), but I've been told that wouldn't
be an insurmountable problem.

The question is, really, how handicapped will I be?  I _do_ intend to take
Japanese, but due to qualifiers and scheduling it wouldn't be until I
get back.

Thanks for the advice,

David
dh4j@cmu.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: yoichi@milton.u.washington.edu (Yoichi Ii)
Subject: Re: Why the Fascination?
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 15:39:07 GMT

masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov (Michiaki Masuda) writes:
>  [about grass being greener on the other side]
>Interestingly, a similar phenomenon is observed in rodents, and this may
>be explained biologically. 
>  [detail deleted]

I recall watching NOVA (a PBS TV show) relating to this. There was another
show (also on PBS, I believe) which told of somewhat similar behavior among 
monkeys (I think it was Japanese macaque). The monkey story went like this. 
The back bone of Japanese macaque society is formed by females (materiarchal 
society). There's the top (alpha) female, second ranking female, and so on 
down the line. Males also form a hierarchical structure but their existance is 
ancillary to that of female. Anyway, if you're the top male, you get various 
previledges such as getting to mate with females of choice and ordering around
lower-ranking males.  Naturally, all boy monkeys aspire to be an alpha and 
fight for the position. The only ways a top monkey can be remove from his
position are: he is challeged and defeated; he dies; or he volunarily leaves
the troop. When you leave the troop (for whatever reason) and join another, a 
monkey has to start at the bottom of the ladder with least social status and 
previledges. One would think that no sane monkey would give up the alpha 
position volunarily. BUT, on occasion, some of these alpha-males leave the 
troop without being challeged, apparently to seek "exotic" females. Why would 
a monkey do this? Does a monkey see a greener mountain on the other side of 
the canyon? Maybe he just gets bored ...

More questions. Is there an evolutionary advantages (eg more gene variety) 
which selected out and then perpetuated such behavior? When one is attracted 
by an "exotic" person of opposite sex, can he claim to be evolutionarily 
superior?

>   If the "next door's greener grass" phenomenon is something biologically
>determined, I wonder why non-Japanese women around me don't admire my sexy 
>nerdiness...8-)

I guess Japanese women clamor after you? :-)  Kyaaa! Masuda-saaaan!
From: masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov (Michiaki Masuda)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: savings accounts
Date: 2 Sep 92 15:50:59 GMT
Organization: Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center

In article <NAKASIMA.92Sep2161722@aoi.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp> nakasima@kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp writes:
>In article <Sep01.163806.73893@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> ntetsuya@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Nishimura) writes:

> > 	   Almost the same as banks.  "Tax-free" is applicable to any savings
> > 	   accounts with "LESS" than 3 million yen ($24,000?).  If the amount 
> > 	   exceeds the limit, 20% of interest will be taken as tax.

>No, unless Jeffrey is older than 65 (probably).  The low for tax-free
>saving was revised several years ago, and we are now paying 20% tax on
>interests.

  In the US, as I understand it, the interest of non-resident alien's account 
is tax-free if we certify the status to the bank. Do they have the same
system in Japan?

  I heard that if we have an account in Citibank which has a quite a few
branches in Japan (true?), a money transfer between the US and Japan is easier
and cheaper. Does anyone have any experience?

Michiaki Masuda
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au (Jim Breen)
Subject: Re: What did Akihito do during the war
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 00:03:53 GMT

kaneko@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (Seiji Kaneko) writes:

>Just a quick answer:
>Since Akihito is around 60(not 70), I suppose he was
>a schoolboy in 1940's.

Correct, he was born in the early 30s. Rumour had it that the (military) government 
was applying pressure on Hirohito to take a concubine, because the Empress
wilfully kept producing daughters. Finally she did the right thing. (Presumably
officer training in those days did not cover X and Y chromosones.)

Akihito was aged 7-11 during the Pacific phase of WWII. He spent much of it in Tokyo,
but was sent to live in Nikko when  the bombs started to fall.
-- 
Jim Breen                           JIS:$B%8%`!!%V%j!<%s(J
Department of Robotics & Digital Technology. Monash University. 
PO Box 197 Caulfield East VIC 3145 Australia (ph) +61 3 573 2552 
(fax) +61 3 573 2345  AARNet/Internet:jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au  
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: wpm@is.morgan.com (W. Phillip Moore)
Subject: Re: Reentry permits (wasRe: registering marriages)
Organization: Informations Services Dept., Morgan Stanley Japan
	<1992Sep3.071230.11803@westford.ccur.com>
	<WPM.92Sep3181916@exile.is.morgan.com>
	<1992Sep3.184220.15360@hamblin.math.byu.edu>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 14:37:03 GMT


>>>>> "Phil" == W. Phillip Moore <wpm@is.morgan.com>:
>>>>> "David" == David Luke <luke@wombat.ee.byu.edu> writes:

Phil> Single entry is 3000 yen, multiple is 6000 -- high but not that bad.  

David> According to info from the Immigration office at TCAT in Hakozaki
David> (as of about three weeks ago), the single-entry permit now costs
David> Y4000.

My mistake -- you're right.

Phil> Do you know anyone who has tried this??  I suppose you could get away
Phil> with it, but you'd be coming back to Japan and starting with the
Phil> immigration authorities from scratch.

David> That was my impression.  I was in Japan for the summer with a 1-year
David> visa, but my gaijin reg card was valid for 5 years.  

The gaijin reg card is good for 5 years, BUT you are supposed to got your
local city/ward office every time you get a VISA extension to update your
status with the local officialls.  They're supposed to stamp the back of
the card with some official statement that you have re-registered.  The
card muts be renewed after 5 years, OR if they fill the back of the card
with official records.

However, I managed to get away without doing this for 4 years.  When I
moved to Yokohama (from Osaka) this spring, I was informed of my lapse, but
otherwise let off the hook.  

David> I think that if you give up the card (which equates to leaving
David> without a re-entry permit), that your visa is rendered null and
David> void, and the only way to get back into the country on a visa is to
David> re-apply at the neighborhood consulate for a new visa.

This is probably true, although I don't think you are required to give it
up.  Then again, I've never left Japan for good (yet 8-).  Anyone else
comment on this??

W. Phillip Moore	   				Phone: 81-3-3286-9359
Information Services Department                           FAX: 81-3-3286-9040
Morgan Stanley Japan Ltd.  Tokyo Branch             E-mail: wpm@is.morgan.com
	Ote Center Bldg. 3F, 1-1-3 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100
From: stanley@nttgoso.ntt.jp (Stanley Hsieh)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: **  MACROSS II  CD  **
Date: 1 Sep 92 01:24:39 GMT
Organization: NTT Communication Switching Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan
Originator: stanley@nttgoso

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: Mark Crispin <mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU>
Subject: Re: US colonializing (Was: An open letter to the Emperor Akihito of Japan) 
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Organization: University of Washington
Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 01:30:38 GMT

It is instructive to point out that Castro took power with US aid,
most notably covert CIA aid, but also aid from private US sources.
The US government had been disgusted with Batista for many years,
particularly at his cozy ties with organized crime (the Mafia) in the
US.

At the time -- mid-1950's to the mid-1960's -- US domestic attention
was turned to a `war on crime.'  It actually was a `war on the Mafia,'
and largely successful at that; the Mafia never recovered from the
blows inflicted on it.  [Of course, it did nothing about organized
crime; other organizations filled the vacuum.]  Getting rid of the
Mafia's safe haven in Cuba was part of the overall strategy.

To that extent, Castro cooperated when he took power in the political
vacuum following Batista's flight from Cuba in 1959.  However, he went
far beyond that.  The new cabinet was quickly dominated by extreme
leftists.  Mass public executions (lining up `counter-revolutionaries'
against a wall and executing by firing squad) became an increasingly
familiar occurance in Cuba.  From shooting of known gangsters, the
executions moved to political opponents and ultimately to those
members of Castro's coalition judged to be not revolutionary enough.

Castro's new government began mass confiscations of land without
compensation.  Land was taken not only from US companies, but also
from Cuban landowners.  Those who protested were taken to the nearest
wall.  Others saw the inevitable and fled the country with what little
the government would let them take with them; Cubana flights in those
days were filled with wealthy Cubans with one-way tickets to the US.
Their property was confiscated as soon as their flight took off from
Havana.

Additionally, harsh anti-American rhetoric came to dominate the Cuban
press and Cuban government statements.  It played well to domestic
audiences; even in `friendly' Latin American countries, US-bashing
(albeit a milder flavor) is a popular national sport.  The Cuban form
was particularly virulent in those days (it's toned down enormously in
the past two decades), and, coming on top of the confiscations without
compensation and mass executions, US/Cuban relations rapidly
deteriorated.

For a while, the Eisenhower government tried to buy greater
friendliness out of Castro with greater infusions of aid money, but
this only increased the virulence of the anti-US rhetoric and the pace
of the confiscations.  Finally, Eisenhower in exasperation broke
diplomatic relations with Cuba.  Castro responded with his famous
declaration that he was a Communist and had always been a Communist,
the USSR responded with a massive influx of aid, the US declared a
total embargo on Cuba, and the rest is history...
From: kaneko@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (Seiji Kaneko)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Buy books from Japan.
Followup-To: soc.culture.japan
Date: 29 Aug 1992 04:00:05 GMT
Organization: international computer science institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: axiom.icsi.berkeley.edu

In article <3785@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov> masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov (Michiaki Masuda) writes:
>   I wonder if we can order technical books and back issues of technical
>journals from this store, too.

Depends on what kind of books or journals you want, I think. 
Anyway, Cody's sells general kinds of books, and they sell many
kind of technical journals and books (kinds of journals UCB student 
likely to buy ;-) And you can order to them, too. Therefore,

>   Can we avoid dealing with Maruzen if we order books from Cody's?
>Can we order any books and journals published in the US from Cody's?

I can't say any, literally, but if you have a question, why don't 
you ask them?

# Frankly speaking, Cody is a bookstore of literature and nonfictions.
# The first question from Mr.Huss was about bookstore of that kind,
# so I recommended Cody's. But they have a lot of technical books, too.

Seiji

-- 
Seiji Kaneko  kaneko@icsi.Berkeley.EDU,kaneko@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
Vote yes to fj.life.in-japan (^_^) .. 76270.2466@compuserve.com
From: f67700241@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (Greg Franklin)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Phobia (was Re: The Russo-Japanese War (part 2))
Date: 28 Aug 92 21:26:55 GMT
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona
Nntp-Posting-User: f67700241

In article <3780@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov>, masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov (Michiaki Masuda) writes:
> In article <1992Aug27.115633.1@acad3.alaska.edu> fsars@acad3.alaska.edu (Allen R Sparks) writes:
> .....
>>The Japanese are a xenophobic society, .....
> 
>    And Japanese are homophobic, too, especially in a foreign country.

  Ack!  Masuda-san, I have to tell you that I understand what you're trying
to say here, but the wording isn't exactly right.

  "Homophobia" in the U.S. has become a code word for "fear or hate of
homosexuals."  You used logic (xenophobia's antonym SHOULD be homophobia),
but the word has been co-opted by the gay movement.

>    When I walk on the street of D.C. and come across Japanese tourists, they 
> almost always try to avoid any eye contact and to neglect me. When they 
> mistakingly had an eye contact with me, I ususally try to smile back. But then,
> they avert their eyes from me as if they saw something disgusting (oh well,
> I may be). 

  When I first read this, I thought, "Oh no, those homophobic Japanese tourists
saw you in drag (or something) and thought you were gay!"

> [more anecdotes]

  Oh well, such is life.  Better to say, "Not only are Japanese people xeno-
phobic, but they also fear seeing other Japanese in foreign cities when
they travel abroad!  _Okashii naa_...."
-- 
Greg "Mockingbird" Franklin      Interviewer: "Sir, how do you spell relief?"
f67700241@ccit.arizona.edu               Dan: "Let's move on...."
From: blamb@rodan.hri.com (Bill Lambert)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: registering marriages
Date: 31 Aug 92 17:55:20 GMT
Reply-To: blamb@rodan.hri.com (Bill Lambert)
Organization: Horizon Research

In article <BtpwB2.Izt@cs.psu.edu>, corbet@sargon.psu.edu 
(Robin Corbet) writes:
=> 
=> I recently got married to a Japanese citizen (I'm British). We think
=> that we may have to register our marriage at the Japanese consulate in
=> New York.
=> 
=> My wife and I are wondering what is implied by this and what would
=> happen if we didn't register our marriage!  For example, I believe that
=> couples in Japan are not allowed to have different last names. My wife
=> is thinking about keeping her last name, so if we have to register under
=> one name this may cause problems. However, if we do register, would this
=> make it easier for me to visit (even work in) Japan for long periods of
=> time?

Robin.... we had a go'round on related topics about a month or
two ago.

Actually speaking, to register your marriage, you don't do anything....
your wife does. She makes a new family register that says that she
is married to you, but technically, you are not included in the
"family" being registered. This does document your marriage to her.
She can't change her name by this means in any case..... at least
not to yours :-)

Yes.... I believe this procedure will make it easier to live or work
in Japan. As a British National it won't make any difference for a short
visit. I believe you have 90 days from the date of your marriage
to register at a foreign based Japanese consulate. Otherwise, if past
90 days, you may have to wait to do this procedure in Japan sometime.

Good luck, and Congratulations!

- Bill Lambert