HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jfriedl+@cs.cmu.edu (Jeffrey E. F. Friedl)
Subject: Re: Have some cash
Reply-To: jfriedl@cs.cmu.edu
Organization: Carnegie Mellon / Omron Corporation
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 19:24:14 GMT

cb522@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Cathy Atwood) writes:
|> Awhile ago someone said that it is cheaper to take $ traveller's
|> checks and convert when in Japan.  This may be so, but I have a
|> different perspective.  I go for short visits, and need to know
|> what my budget is.  Since the dollar/yen conversion can be
|> volatile, I prefer to get yen cash and t.c. before leaving the
|> United States, and know what I'll have available to spend.

Certainly convenience is an issue, but make sure you know exactly
just how much you're paying for it.

I just called up the foreign exchange "store" (what's it called?) at
the local airport and found their buy/sell split was 18 yen, plus a
one percent "service charge" (which is about the most ridiculous thing
I've heard of... they could just include the charge in the rate, but
want to make their rates look better and the spring the service charge
on you later).

Their current sell rate was 117 yen/$. $1,000 would then get you
115,841 yen.

The equivilant exchange rate in Japan (if you have dollar traveler's checks,
which you can get free at AAA) would be to give 124 yen/$ [calculation
given below], with no extra fee.  $1,000 would then give 124,000 yen which
is a difference of about 7% (!).

The yen/dollar rate can indeed be volatile, but never *that* volatile
(never enough to make it worth buying in The States if you're on your
way to Japan). In an economey where a gain of 7%/year is considered good,
dropping 7% in one day is pretty sad.

I also called American Express. They had similar but more complex rates.
With $1,000 one could get 118,381 yen cash, or 120,198 yen in traveler's
checks (well, 120000 + change).  However, I'm not sure how useful yen
traveler's checks would be (i.e. would you have to pay a fee in Japan to
convert them to cash... wouldn't surprise me at all).

	*jeff*

Note on how I came up with 124 yen/$:

The rates at the airport were 117 and 135. This gives an average of 126.
In all the many times I've exchanged TCs in Japan, I've never seen anything
but an exact 4-yen split. That would make the buying and selling prices
two yen above and below the average.  Therefore, if the average is 126,
they'll give you 124 yen for your dollar.

This is not exact, but a very educated guess.....
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Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl   jfriedl@cs.cmu.edu -or- jfriedl@omron.co.jp
Omron Corporation, Section RZE, Shimokaiinji, Nagaokakyo Kyoto 617, Japan
Visiting researcher to the Mach Project, Carnegie Mellon University
From: news@ducvax.auburn.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Wanted Info: EPSON PRINTER COMPANY TEL # OR ADDRESS
Keywords: EPSON COMPANY
Date: 18 Aug 92 19:57:38 GMT
Organization: Auburn University, Auburn, AL

Two weeks ago my EPSON LQ 510 printer head lost one of the 24 pin.
I disassemble the head and found one pin was broken.
I called the nearest EPSON DELALER in south east USA and asked a replacement
for a pin but they said they could not sell only one pin but only
whole head and the cost was INCREDIBLELY $200.30- only just a head.
(Remember that EPSON LQ 570 costs around $250.00 by mail in USA)
Can you believe it? really rediculous!!.

If anyone can give me any phone number of EPSON AFTER SERVICE CENTER located
in Japan so that I can get the pin replacement, it will help me a lot.

If you can give me the phone number, I will make international call to 
Japan to get the pin. I believe that the cost will be still cheaper than 
findign the pin in USA. 
Please send email to me. Thank you

I need only ONE HEAD PIN OF EPSON LQ 510 PRINTER for replacement.

Thank you.
From: mitch@lsil.com (Mitch Sako)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Choose a present!
Date: 21 Aug 92 00:36:44 GMT
Reply-To: mitch@lsil.com
Organization: LSI Logic Corporation

In article 21862@fzi.de, schreib@fzi.de (Hardy) writes:
>I shall travel to Japan this year in october and will also visit my penpal.
>As I've read, Japanese people usually offer presents when they visit each
>other. Some years ago I also got a present from a Japanese who visited me.
>Therefore here's my question: 
>Which present would YOU (JAPANESE WOMEN) like to get from a German tourist? 
>(leather trousers, Solingen knifes, beer, ...???)
>My preferred present shouldn't be heavy, since I'm travelling by train.
>So, Neuschwanstein castle (1:100) isn't possible.
>I'm looking forward to your answer.

I'm not a Japanese woman, I'm a Japanese-American man but I might be able to
offer some advice.  I would suggest something very German and not readily
available (or very expensive) in Japan.  Knives are out since the Japanese
use carbon steel hocho knives which are like razor blades.

I take beef jerky, candy, bourbon, or scotch.

Germany probably has alot of very high quality goods that would be very
much appreciated by a Japanese woman.  My Japanese lady friends tell me
that "made in USA" or "made in Germany" is very important.  I certainly
would not take anything made in Taiwan, Korea, etc. to Japan, mainly because
the novelty would not be as great.

Braun has very high status level in Japan.  So does BMW and Benz.
Small gifts are appreciated since Japanese homes are typically small.

Good luck.

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From: doi@jrd.dec.com (Hitoshi Doi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: lotteries
Date: 20 Aug 92 06:22:36 GMT
Organization: DEC Japan Research and Development Center

In article <Bt8EtM.5p4@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, jly33321@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (John L.Yoon ) writes:
# while watching the news this morning, there was a story about the
# start of a new lottery in Japan.  Included in the story were pictures
# of amazingly long line of people waiting to purchase tickets, people
# buying 500 tickets at a time, even the reporter buying a few tickets...
# 
# how much do these tickets cost anyway?

300 yen
--
Hitoshi Doi, International Open Systems Engineering        doi@jrd.dec.com
Japan Research and Development Center               decwrl!jrd.dec.com!doi
Digital Equipment Corporation Japan          [from Japan: doi@dec-j.co.jp]
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: sala8864@hgc.edu (gustavo salas)
Subject: Re: An open letter to the Emperor Akihito of Japa
Organization: The Hartford Graduate Center
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 12:59:32 GMT


In article <Bt4KGJ.5n9@doppler.ncsc.org> shjnaga@ncsc.org (Rodney Shojinaga) writes:

>Okay slim bucket, you got the response you wanted.  Why don't you go 
>perform lewd acts with yourself.
>
>You use the term "jap" and don't have the balls to leave a signature.  It's
>jerk offs like yourself that keep things from ever correcting themselves.
>You show no respect and therefore will get no respect.  Could it be that
>you are ashamed of who you are.  
>

When the Pearl Harbor was bombaded, every newpaper in US called the
invaders, JAPs, except one, the New York Times. It was because they were
just angry. What are yo going to do with those news papers that used term
JAPs? Burn their buildings? Angry people can use any words they like to
describe or offend intentionally the ones they love to hate, although I am
not justifying it. Looks like you were born and raised here and has no  
concerns for what Japan did and were just pissed by a nasty word.
From: davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.china,soc.culture.hongkong,soc.culture.taiwan
Subject: Re: An open letter to the Emperor Akihito of Japa
Date: 19 Aug 92 17:06:23 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.japan
Organization: Aegis Society, Kyoto Japan

news@comlab.ox.ac.uk writes:

>In article <SMITTIE.92Aug18124612@beach.csulb.edu> smittie@beach.csulb.edu (Smittie) writes:

>>The Chinese who harbor hatred will become the problem.

>I see.  So it is the Chinese who caused the problem.  Not the massacre by
>the Japanese.  Nor the Japanese history books which failed to acknowledge
>the massacre.

Yeah, that's right. Chinese feeling hatred is 100% a Chinese problem. 

Nobody else can force you to feel one way or the other: feelings are
your response to some situation. So it really doesn't matter what
the Japan did or did not do to China: Chinese people are responsible
for their own emotions. 

If you believe that your feeling are controlled and caused by
other people's actions, you might was well give up as I find
it hard to believe that life would be worth living under the
circumstances. 

Dave

--
Dave McLane 
JUNET: davidg@aegis.or.jp (ONLY within Japan: post otherwise)
Nagaokakyoshi, Kyoto Japan Tel: +81-75-951-1168 Fax: +81-75-957-1087
From: shin@krusty.ee.udel.edu (Jeong-Gyun Shin)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: An open letter to the Emperor Akihito of Japa
Date: 21 Aug 92 21:07:47 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Delaware

In article <SMITTIE.92Aug21132812@beach.csulb.edu> smittie@beach.csulb.edu (Smittie) writes:
>>>>Denunciation is in no way synonymous with hate.
>>>
>>>I see.  A call for an apology is synonymous with hate.  I would like to buy
>>>a thesaurus from you.
> 
>>Bingo!
>
>Using terms like JAP are strong indications of racism. Just as if I were to
>refer to you as 'chink' or 'gook' or 'slophead'. There have been numerous signs
>of racism among your numbers.

Come to think of it, be more specific.  Who is being accused of using
the term "JAP" in what circumstances?  Apparently the writer is replying
to one of my posts.  Then I really don't know what's going on here!  "JAP"?  
In other words, what the fuck are you Smittie talking about?

Also talk about these "signs of racism" the writer is refering to.  Instead
of being rumor monger, name specific instances and let's see what it was!
From: bbs.lar@tsoft.sf-bay.org (Larry Greenfield)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Kurenai no Buta
Date: 22 Aug 92 02:20:23 GMT
Organization: The TSoft BBS and Public Access Unix, +1 415 969 8238

For anyone in Japa who likes to read movie news, can anyone tell me how 
this movie is doing now that it's been out for a few weeks?  I've heard 
it may surpass Majo no Takkyubin in all-time animated Japanese movie 
money-maker.  Also, what are the ticket prices for it?  I remember tixs 
being about Y1600. Still the same price? (the amount in yen is ok, I can 
figure it out. :)
:::::Larry:::::

--
Larry Greenfield (bbs.lar@tsoft.sf-bay.org)
From: djohnson@cs.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: An open letter to the Emperor Akihito of Japa
Date: 18 Aug 92 23:34:59 GMT
Organization: =CSE Dept., U.C. San Diego

>If this "you" means me,

"you" was meant to be generic.

>BTW, it is extremely funny to hate books instead of those authors and alike 
>who provok hatred.

The point is to not hate.  And if someone feels they must hate
something, then they should hate the ideas.  But if people go on
hating each other, progress isn't being made.  As far as the author of
those ideas, pity is probably the more appropriate emotion to be used.
It's not a radical new idea, it's been around about two thousand years.

-- 
Darin Johnson
djohnson@ucsd.edu
  - I'm not a well adjusted person, but I play one on the net.
From: harkcom@spinach.pa.yokogawa.co.jp (Alton Harkcom)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Chinese Food in Japan
Date: 17 Aug 92 09:30:08 GMT
	<1992Aug11.055904.8446@lsil.com>
	<1992Aug11.133208.10254@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
Organization: Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
In-reply-to: tony2@prefect.uucp's message of 11 Aug 92 13:32:08 GMT

In article <1992Aug11.133208.10254@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
   tony2@prefect.uucp (21131-gozdz) writes:

 =}I assumed that the person who asked the original
 =}question was not looking for a Y600-a-bowl greasy spoon -
 =}but I agree with you somewhat, 'cause I've got burned there, too.
 =}On the other hand, I've been treated there to a
 =}real feast (and I didn't get to see the check :-)).
 =}
 =}My guess is that you might have overgeneralized a bit.

   Though he may have over-generalized, implying that the 'fake' food
is at "greasy spoon" places is definitely incorrect.  The more expensive
places usually suffer from the "fake" syndrome...  The good places are
mostly "cheap" places...
From: blamb@rodan.hri.com (Bill Lambert)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Learning Japanese in Japan
Date: 13 Aug 92 16:17:30 GMT
Reply-To: blamb@rodan.hri.com (Bill Lambert)
Organization: Horizon Research

In article <1992Aug13.003629.15302@sj.ate.slb.com>, 
danda@sj.ate.slb.com (Jeff Danda) writes:

> How about when you go into a restaurant with a japanese person and start 
> ordering in japanese (perfect japanese) and the waitress automatically looks
> like she doesnt understand you and looks to the japanese person accompaning 
> you?  What is the proper way to handle this type of situation?

I don't know the situation here exactly, but I might suggest that rather
than a language problem per se, you may have ordered something unusual,
or in an unusual manner or sequence, etc. For example, after dinner one
time, while the waitress was serving O-cha, a friend asked for water.
The waitress looked puzzled, then went away and bought back a tea cup
with *hot* water.  Strange things do happen. At a tempura shop one time,
I ordered a beer, drank some, and was saving the rest to drink with
dinner. The waitress was waiting until I finished my beer to bring our
dinner (I found out). I waited and waited for my dinner while people
were being served all around me, she was waiting and waiting until I
finished my beer. When we asked for our dinner finally, she was so
embarrassed that she had made some mistake. Gaijin do strange things,
you know, and often wait people want to check to avoid a mistake.

Another assumption that may come into play is that - because you're a
foreigner, they might assume that you are a business guest of the Nihon
jin accompanying you, and this case they also don't want to make a mistake.
For example, you ordered something cheap, and they are checking if that
is OK with your host. This may not be desirable, but this is what some-
times happens.

There are customs and procedures that are sometimes not obvious, and
anytime you go outside the norm you might encounter some puzzlement.

There is also the possibility that there is some language ambiguity,
but if you say that your Japanese is perfect, I'll take your word for
it. 

Well.... keep trying, and good luck.

- Bill Lambert
From: davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: An open letter to the Emperor Akihito of Japa
Date: 17 Aug 92 00:07:32 GMT
Organization: Aegis Society, Kyoto Japan

ylu@bach.helios.nd.edu writes:

>In article <1992Aug16.081012.26814@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> shao@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (SHAO CHUNG-SHANG) writes:
>>In article <2351@aegis.or.jp> davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane) writes:
>>>
>>>This may come as a real surprise but I have been in Japan for 10
>>>years and during that time I've had many conversations with a wide
>>>variety of people here and there is a "large" (can't say exactly,
>>>but among those I have spoken with approx. 90%) segment who do *NOT*
>>>feel that Japan was responsible for the war.  Instead, they have a
>>>well-developed set of reasons why and how Japan was tricked into the
>>>war and they believe this to be the case. Thus I don't think asking
>>>
> 
>If a large number of japs think in this way it is dangerous! For our chinese,
>the question of how the japs was "tricked" to the war is another subject.
>We can not mix these issues. The fact is millions of chinese civilian people
>were killed, Buried in LIVE and killed in LIVE for medical testing by JAPs
>on chinese land. Who can say this is not japs responsibility! no matter what
>is the reason for their invading! 

You are and others are free to keep on trying to convince the
Japanese that it was their responsibility but I wouldn't think that
calling them 'japs' is an effective way to go about it. 

Actually, I don't think there is *any* way one can go about it with
words, but if it came down to something that materially affected the
balance of trade, then maybe we might see some movement. 
 
>A lot of people like to confuse us. If we like to discuss the issue of Pearl
>Harbor-Atomic bomb, let's go to soci.culture.american group. Here we talk
>about what japs did in china! Do they need to apology to chinese people,
>not to american.

IMHO, whether the an apology is needed or not is a social/moral
issue.  I'm suggesting that it an ecnomic issue and while you are
free to talk about what happened in China or anyplace else it may
well fall on deaf ears. 

Have you ever thought about how maybe people here in Japan simply
don't have time to debate such issues as they are too busy working
to make the products which they then sell to gain the economic power
to lend places like China money? 

If you really feel strongly that an apology is necessary, you might
petition the Chinese government to cease trading/borrowing from Japan
until it receives one. Maybe you would get more action....

Dave

--
Dave McLane 
JUNET: davidg@aegis.or.jp (ONLY within Japan: post otherwise)
Nagaokakyoshi, Kyoto Japan Tel: +81-75-951-1168 Fax: +81-75-957-1087
From: zzuo@iastate.edu (Zhiqi Zuo)
Subject: Re: An open letter to the Emperor Akihito of Japa
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 23:08:47 GMT

After an excerption was drawn from my poster,

In article <36976@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> djohnson@cs.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson) writes:
>>For me, a war-hate person, many 
>>Chineses and Koreans still hate Japanese, for the simple reason that
>>the lies are continuing floating in Japanese history books.
>
>Well, lies exist in history books of just about every country.  Would
>you hate them as much if the lies were about someone else?

Believe or not, I was just stating a fact. If *you* means me, I see no
point in responsing to your questioning.

>It is ok to hate the history books, but if you hate the people, you
>may find yourself being a contributing factor in the next war.
>Frustration and anger are understandable, but don't let these turn
>into hate.

It is interesting and unprecedent to hate books, instead of those authors
and their alike who deceat and provok misunderstandings and hatred among 
diffrerent people. It is them that you should question in the first place. 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: cshi@cs.ulowell.edu (Chunde Shi)
Subject: Re: An open letter to the Emperor Akihito of Japa
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 00:27:43 GMT

In article <SMITTIE.92Aug20160552@beach.csulb.edu> smittie@beach.csulb.edu (Smittie) writes:
>>Yet you should understand that some hatred is caused not really by teaching,
>>but by the dishonesty of the Japanese government.
>
>Unless some of the netters here are much older than I think, no one here has
>any first hand knowledge of what happened in Nanking. That is, no one
>participating here was at Nanking. Yet many here have very emotional feelings
>about Nanking. That response to Nanking was taught. I am not suggesting that
>someone told about what happened at Nanking and then told you to hate the
>Japanese for it. The lessons in hatred come in through implication. Much the
>same way racist attitudes are taught in some areas of the US.
There are many people in this world(Islam fundermentalists, etc) who
are more than willing to kill 300,000 americans(100,000?), despite of being
required to "apoligize"!
I would not call you racist or hate monger if you asked them to apologize!
Compare to the Atorcity of Nagking, no bad deeds can compare with it!
Chinese should not expect anything(agreement, sympathy, compassion), 
from you guys!
>
>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.
>________________________|___________________________________________________


Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: ken@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Ken Primer)
Subject: Re: Godzilla vs Charles Barkely
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 08:20:56 GMT
Keywords: a tv commercial

djohnson@cs.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson) writes:

>Who is Charles Barkely, and what does this have to do with soc.culture.japan?
   Welllllllll Godzilla is a Japanse creation....Charles Barkely is an American
Basketball player, this is looking like a major ad campaign. Can you see
the possible conclusions being drawn by the choice??? Japan vs US? Maybe maybe
not...I just thought this belonged on this message base. 

-- 
  HAVE A NICE DAY!                        ken@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu
(or die trying)--------AAAAAAARG! the paranoids are after me!

                                                               <fnord>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: gang@ms.uky.edu (Gang Li)
Subject: Re: An open letter to the Emperor Akihito of Japa
    <SMITTIE.92Aug15105246@beach.csulb.edu> <17AUG199211495637@vxcrna.cern.ch>           
    <903@hobby.ukc.ac.uk> <WEIGERT.92Aug19131845@etlhit.etl.go.jp>      
    <1992Aug19.12530.13333@ms.uky.edu> <2407@aegis.or.jp> <1992Au 
    <2417@aegis.or.jp>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 17:50:14 GMT
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences

davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane) writes:

>Yes, I think so. And the more you hate, the more you will get it
>back.

So if you hate Nazi, the more you hate the more what.
What most people hate is the wrong doing in the war. But some in Japanese
Government try to hurt peoples felling once and once. The more you hurt people
the more hate you get back. You want to hurt people but at the same time want
them to not hate, is this possible?

>Right. Agreed. I'm for it. So now we come to the practical details
>of how to go about this. I think there is a lot to learn about how
>to say what you need to say in order to feel you've expressed
>yourself but at the same time you want to do so in such a way that
>the other person can understand you. 

OK, lets talk. See below:

    start war|------------------------------| justice
	start hate|--------------------------------| stop hate		(1)

    start war|-------------------------------------| justice
	start hate|-------------------------| stop hate			(2)

Ask your professor, which formula gets higher score.

BTW: Do you think Japanese would stop hate before get those islands back?

>Dave

>--
>Dave McLane 
>JUNET: davidg@aegis.or.jp (ONLY within Japan: post otherwise)
>Nagaokakyoshi, Kyoto Japan Tel: +81-75-951-1168 Fax: +81-75-957-1087
From: manga@twics.co.jp
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Regarding Japanese T.V...
Date: 11 Aug 92 07:42:36 GMT
Organization: TWICS, Tokyo, Japan

Yoichi writes:
I guess the "Next Gen." is also available in Japan; I've see some discussions
in fj.rec.sf.

So far I've only seen the first season in the video stores, and beleive me,
I've been looking.

I'm strongly considering importing a set of tapes from the states :-)

-bret
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