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From: Mark Crispin <mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Japanese name !!
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:44:33 -0800 (PST)
Organization: University of Washington
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Two or three syllable Japanese given names that end in -ko are generally
feminine.  Four syllable Japanese given names that end in -ko are generally
masculine.

Thus, ``Aiko'', ``Hanako'', ``Keiko'', ``Kyo^ko'', ``Masako'', etc. are all
feminine names, but ``Masahiko'' is a masculine name.  This is quite apparent
in kanji, since the `child' (ko) kanji is not used in ``Masahiko''.

Beware of names that can trip you up.  ``Junko'' is a feminine name, but it
could be an improper romanization of the masculine name ``Junko^''.

Safest bet: ask a native Japanese or a more experienced student before making
assumptions, because there are too many exceptions.  Then too, there are wierd
names such as ``Mako'' which appear to be feminine, but are written in
hiragana so there is ambiguity.

Other feminine name endings: -e, -yo, -ka.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Youth hostels
From: larryg@batpad.lgb.ca.us (Larry Greenfield)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 15:18:43 PST
Organization: The Batchelor Pad

maul@vaxsar.vassar.edu writes:

> Could anyone recommend good, even adequate, Japanese youth hostels?  Any info
> will be appreciated.  Please reply privately unless you think many persons on
> the list will welcome the information.  Thank you.  S. Maul.   maul@vassar.ed
> 
> snesill ciatewill be appred

First of all, what cities are you interested in staying at?  Japan 
has a LOT of good Youth Hostels!  I REALLY enjoyed staying at them. 
Here are just a few good ones (of many) that come to mind. You can 
email me if you want further info.
   Town:
Hiraizumi.  The YH here is in temple grounds. Very nice grounds. 
Also, there's not much special about the town (though there are some 
nice shrines and stuff nearby), but there was just something about 
the small-town feel of this particular town that stuck with me. I 
have a picture of the town blown up on my wall, and for no tangible 
reason, was one of my favorite places.

Wakkanai: At the top of Hokkaido.  Nice, friendly YH (with a good YH 
stamp to stamp in your book too!) Convienent for anyone wanting to 
go to Rebun or Rishiri island.

Shodoshima Island very nice, friendly YH (family-run if I remember 
right), on a GREAT place to visit. Not much tourist traffic, and 
well worth it to go to Shodo Shima island. The YH rents scooters so 
you can drive yourself around the island (if you can handle 
left-sided roads and have an international drivers license).

    You should note that the only drawback of YHs (and there are MANY 
pluses) is that you must arrive by a certain hour, and there is a 
curvfew. At times, I'd have to stay in a business hotel when I knew 
I'd be arriving at midnight, etc.
   Best thing to do is go to your local neighborhood YH in the 
country you live (or write to your country's YH federation. In the 
U.S., there's a big one in San Pedro, Ca., but I forget where the 
head office of AYH is located) to get a book/listing of the hostels.

   Youth Hosteling in Japan is cheap(est), and best of all, a LOT of 
fun!
:::::Larry:::::

:::::larryg@batpad.lgb.ca.us::::: // :::::Larry Greenfield:::::
::::::::Just your average modeming Classical Violinist:::::::::
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: oshiro@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Woodrow S Oshiro)
Subject: Re: Is this offensive?
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 06:45:46 GMT

In article <RHB.93Jan24173229@world.std.com> rhb@world.std.com (Robert H Brueckner) writes:
>In article <1993Jan24.192101.20641@en.ecn.purdue.edu> oshiro@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Woodrow S Oshiro) writes:
>
>   In article <RHB.93Jan23140321@world.std.com> rhb@world.std.com (Robert H Brueckner) writes:
>   [stuff deleted]
>   > Perhaps I did not make that clear enough, in
>   >which case I apologize, but the persecution does exist and for the
>   >reasons we have all become too familiar: Japan is racist and
>   >xenophobic to a large degree, and fearful of outsiders even if they be
>   >racially and politically identical with themselves.
>
>   No kidding?!!!   But Robert, that was not all there was to your original
>   claim.  Let's take a look at it again.
>
>   >   >But let's compare
> 		   ^^^^^^^
>   >   >treatment here, just for the hell of it, with that of anomalous people
>   >   >in Japan. Owada-san, the future empress, herself was victimized in
>   >   >this way, probably much more cruelly and relentlessly than any
>			    ^^^^^^^^^
>   >   >football player ever would have done it, merely because she had been
>   >   >abroad.
>
>   So, my question is:  How do you know that Japanese "Neanderthals" are worse
>   than American "Neanderthals"?
>
>Read my post on "ijime" and then ask me that question again.

I read it.  But, why are you asking me to ask my question again?  Does
your post prove that 'Japanese "Neanderthals" are worse than American
"Neanderthals"'?  Hardly.  Every incidence of violence in Japanese schools
can easily be matched up with a violent incident in a U.S. school.
(Remember, you were the one who was inviting a comparison.)  Robert, you
even write in your "ijime" article:

       I am not trying to bash Japan with this post. And I know American
       schools can be even more dangerous for more children for different
       reasons (or the same ones). 

> But for
>the record, I think Neanderthals are Neanderthals, no matter what the
>color of their skin of sound of their language. If you examine my post
>which you excerpted you'll see that it's main flavor was that there
>*isn't* much difference, even if the portion you quoted may have
>seemed to be an apology for American dumbshit bellicose jocks who like
>to bully people (which was not the point I was trying to make).

I did examine your article; and I didn't see this "main flavor" which you are
talking about.  How else should I interpret:  "much more cruelly and relent-
lessly"?  If this was some attempt at sarcasm, the attempt crashed and burned
before it got off the ground.

> Next
>time you say "That was not all there was to your original claim," make
>sure you refer to *all* of it. It wasn't that long.

Let me give YOU a piece of advice.  Next time you get yourself into a position
you can't defend, admit you made a mistake.  Don't try to slime out of it.

-- 

						Woody Oshiro
						oshiro@en.ecn.purdue.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: hiraga@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Yuzuru Hiraga)
Subject: Re: Akutagawa Ryuunosuke
Organization: Stanford University CSLI
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:57:37 GMT


Since I'm into this....

In article <4fLgC_O00Uh_M2B0wV@andrew.cmu.edu> Rikiya Asano <ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>>In article <gfKlFw600VpbA2NFhv@andrew.cmu.edu> Rikiya Asano
>><ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>>>Ryuunosuke won the Noble prize in Literature.
>> 
>>For the record -- no he didn't.
 ...
>I am almost inclined to ask you to prove this.
>But, I know that you are a factual individual.

Well, you can look that up in any encyclopedia.
(There is, eg., the physics winner's list in the sci.physics FAQ;
is there one for literature?)

>Where does this Award come from anyway- Oslo, Norway!

Sorry again, but Stockholm, Sweden.
The Peace Prize is given at Oslo, though.

BTW: what's the difference between a "prize" and an "award"?

-YH
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: rhb@world.std.com (Robert H Brueckner)
Subject: Re: Japanese name !!
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
	<1993Jan22.010820.7409@Csli.Stanford.EDU>
	<C19Fq4.z3@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
	<1993Jan23.163217.1@violet.ccit.arizona.edu>
Distribution: world,local
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 03:18:31 GMT

Also, let's not forget that female names ending in "e" used to be
widely popular (don't know if they still are, but I've heard some),
i.e. "Yoshie."

And, of course, there are the "o" and "ro" (or "rou") endings for men.
I'm sure there are others as well, but nobody's pointed these out yet
so I thought I'd get in my two yen worth.

RB
-- 
|"The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who  |
| have loved it." -- George Santayana  // Opinions expressed here, when |
| clear and persuasive, are my own. --Rob Brueckner (rhb@world.std.com) |

Organization: Masters student, Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:44:07 -0500 
From: Rikiya Asano <ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Dai-Nippon Teikoku and the Jews

Mr. MCrispin writes:

.


Yuzuru Hiraga writes:
> in spite of her alliance with Nazis Germany,
> Japan did not implement an (open) anti-Semitic policy

There is a bizarre history related to Japan and the Jews.  Since Judaism was
unknown inside Japan, most of what the Japanese knew about Jews came from
foreign, generally European (and consequently highly prejudiced) sources.  To
a great extent, this remains true today.

The Japanese were bewildered by Hitler's policy of slaughtering Jews; it
seemed to be a waste of what could be a valuable resource.  Specifically, they
had heard (most recently and vividly from their Nazi allies) about how Jews
(allegedly) infiltrate the infrastructure of an area and take over.  This got
some minds in To^kyo^ thinking, specifically about how to keep the recent
Chinese conquests pacified.

Their absurd notion -- and let this be a lesson to those who think the
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Japanese are incapable of utter stupidity -- was to import massive
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

numbers of
Jews from Europe....

This is interesting to me! It shows that (white people) think that
generalizations  are  ok as long as its not against them.  O.k. Ladies
and Gentlemen here's your chance to show "the world" how Non- racist you
are. What a joke.  Most of your kind is the most racist!! Where are you
Maiko Covington , ect., ect., ect., ect. or is it that since its not
against the white its  O.K.. This representation of humaness has been
with this group for a long time. You are  not comfortable with
generalizations against the "White' because your white (or want to be)
but when its against those not of your kind that you just blow it off!
YOU..You... Well, I have to go now but  I be back to post a "general"
post to the other socail cultures about the two facedness of "white"
s.c.j..  "The Japanese" how general can you get. Hippocrits!!!!!!!!! 


I'll be back!
From: speednut@werple.apana.org.au (Mark Jose)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Honda: America's choice!
Date: 22 Jan 1993 13:55:28 +1100
Organization: werple public-access unix, Melbourne
NNTP-Posting-Host: werple.apana.org.au


G'day Rikiya Asano <ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu>,
 
>As Mr. Yanagisawa has just pointed out. If we were to discount the sale
>of Ford
>Taruses to car rental agencies than Honda would have lead the Honda vs
>Ford competition by a wide margin. This is a great point! The America
>consumer has spoken! Honda number one!
 
I would take the counter point that if the cars were of poorer quality
then the car rental companies would be ill-advised to purchase them. In
this case I would say that the purchase of American cars further
verifies that the American car is number 1.
 
>And, I'll even speak out a little farther. After these car rental
>agencies and thoses who bought the Tarus gets the repair bills a year to
>a year and a half down the road. I think they will buy future models of
>Japanese cars like everyone else.
 
This is more than likely irrelevant as they will be changing-over
their cars in 1 or 1 1/2 years. If they keep then any longer then
they are inviting exorbitant costs whether they be Japanese or
American cars.
 
Regards.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: tanaka@til.til.com (Yokichi Tanaka)
Subject: Re: Honda vs Ford
Organization: Togai InfraLogic, Inc.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:42:52 GMT

In article <iw2oXB1w165w@student.business.uwo.ca>, k3amichi@student.business.uwo.ca (Kentaro Nakamichi) writes:
|> naru@eng.umd.edu (Naruhisa Takashima) writes:
|> 
|> > 
|> > I have a question to those who follow the American and Japanese auto industry
|> > How does the self imposed quota by the Japanese industry effect the 
|> > current American market.

    [stuff deleted]

|> However, back when 
|> foreign direct investment had not been made, the effect of the 
|> self-imposed quota or the pressured quota was to cartelize the Japanese 
|> auto exports, resulting in higher profits for the Japanese.

Looking at it from the consumer's viewpoint ... the self-imposed 
quota reduced the supply of Japanese cars, and the Japanese car
dealers here were able to sell cars at a premium, resulting in
higher profits.

-- 
Yoke Tanaka                Togai InfraLogic, Inc.       "fuzzy"
tanaka@til.com             5 Vanderbilt, Irvine, Calif 92718, USA
gordius!til!tanaka         714-975-8522
From: tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu (Tad Perry)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: HDTV in Japan
Date: 22 Jan 93 15:44:11 GMT
Article-I.D.: gibdo.1993Jan22.153358.24617
Distribution: world
Organization: unaffiliated
NNTP-Posting-Host: gibdo.engr.washington.edu

In article <1jp1abINNlo4@mojo.eng.umd.edu> naru@eng.umd.edu (Naruhisa Takashima) writes:
>
>From what I've heard from my father who works at NHK, the Japanese
>Electronic companies have come up with a convertor, so that
>Japanese will keep its current standard.
>
>I've also heard that all the equipments for HDTV are being
>produced by Japanese companies, even for American standards.
>If this is true looks like American electronics industry will
>suffer another blow.

This is a completely true and valid point. I have no illusions that
the US will do any large-scale manufacturing of it's HDTV systems.  I
am only wondering if the US's HDTV technology (fully digital and NTSC-
compatible without a converter) will eventually be adopted (perhaps
adapted) by Japan. In any case, the US's HDTV standard should be ready
before Japan's SDH which would leave two options open for Japan when
it's set to move to a fully digital standard. Current Japanese HDTV is
very nice but the equipment is huge (at least a meter deep and two
meters wide) and even given size reductions, a viewing distance of 5+
meters is recommended for best effect. Just how many Japanese homes
are big enough for that?

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               CompuServe:  70402,3020
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From: speednut@werple.apana.org.au (Mark Jose)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: honda: america's choice!
Date: 25 Jan 1993 11:04:12 +1100
Organization: werple public-access unix, Melbourne
NNTP-Posting-Host: werple.apana.org.au

Original Message From: luke@newt.ee.byu.edu (David Luke)
 
 
>In article <RHB.93Jan17231036@world.std.com> rhb@world.std.com (Robert H
>Brueckner) writes:
>
>>is that how we "exploit" the market? They insist that only "wagyuu"
>>(Japanese beef) is digestible by Japanese intestines -- until they buy
>>a few ranches in the US and then magically the impediments to beef
>>exports disappear (for those ranches).
>
>Actually, Australian beef seems to be selling very well.  I've never seen
>commercials for "Wyoming beef", but there are "Aussie beef" commercials on
>TV all the time.  It seems as if, even after beef imports are allowed,
>Americans just figure that the Japanese will buy it without any effort on
>the part of the US.  Maybe we should take marketing lessons from the
>Australians...
 
Not so. I hate to tell you but most (if not all by now) grain-based
feed-lots are owned in Australia by the Japanese. I would hazard a
guess and say it is very rare [no pun intended] for the beef to come
from non-Japanese owned cattle stations.
 
This is not to say that Australian products owned by Australians
aren't accepted in Japan, but they are very few and far between. We
basically sell them the raw materials, nothing else. They then balance
the ledger with TVs and cars. [Mind you, personally, the Japanese car
styling leaves a lot to be desired.]
From: tnishi@lsa.ncl.omron.co.jp (NISHIYAMA Tetsuto)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Japanese name !!
Date: 22 Jan 93 05:16:34 GMT
Reply-To: tnishi@lsa.ncl.omron.co.jp
Organization: Omron Corporate R&D H.Q.- R&D Support Dept.


In article <C17wzv.4t7@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>,
ksbeh@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Tere K.S. BEH) writes:
|> Sorry guys and gals.  I would like to know how can I tell by 
|> his or her name if he/she is a guy or a gal . Just curious.

	How do you know that "John" is a he and "Jane" is a she?
	I'd say alot of it is experience...you just know...sometimes
	you don't.

	I think it's a pretty good question though...I've asked the same
thing about Chinese names.  Like, how do you know that CiaWen is a she
and XiaoDong is a he?  The answer I got about Chinese names was that
sometimes you can't tell unless you look at the characters.

	About Japanese names, one thing to do is to look for "ko" at the 
end of the name...Chances are pretty good that the person is a she.

	examples: Hiroko, Kyoko, Shoko, Wakako, Junko, Nikako, Yoko, 
		Chiyoko, Miwako, Mako, Yukako, Yuko, Miyoko, etc., etc., 
		etc., and so on and so forth...(you get the idea.)

	Obviously NOT ALL women's names end in "ko", but a good number
of them do.
=========================================================================
Teddy Nishiyama  (tnishi@lsa.ncl.omron.co.jp)  OMRON Corporation  (^_^;
R&D Support Dept(LSA), Shimokaiinji, Nagaokakyo-shi, Kyoto-fu 617  JAPAN
From: davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: HEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Keywords: helphelphelp
Date: 21 Jan 93 06:06:47 GMT

004838h@axe.acadiau.ca (AZMAN HOOD) writes:

>I'm a malaysian student studying in acadia university , canada and I would 
>like to e-mail my father , who is doing some research work in the center for 
>southeast asian studies , kyoto university . If there is anyone out there 
>who can give me the e-mail address to the university ......well , please 
>give it!! Any help is deeply appreciated and for your info , my father's 
>name is Dr. Hood and he teaches anthropology & sociology....

There are two sections to Kyoto University: kudpc.kyoto-u.ac.jp
(Kyoto University Data Processing Center) and kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp
(Kyoto University Information Science). 

In addition there is the BITNET node, JPNKYOTO. 

You might try writing postmaster@one_of_the_above.

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: fugitt@tempus.Corp.Sun.COM (Lem Fugitt - Nihon Sun US Office)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Japanese name !!
Date: 22 Jan 1993 00:57:16 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
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NNTP-Posting-Host: tempus.corp.sun.com

In article 4x4@news.cso.uiuc.edu, aijuin@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Ruler of the Sun) writes:
<=>ksbeh@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Tere K.S. BEH) writes:
<=>
<=>>Sorry guys and gals.  I would like to know how can I tell by 
<=>
<=>>his or her name if he/she is a guy or a gal . Just curious.
<=>
<=>>Is there any formula for it ? (hee)
<=>
<=>A safe bet that if a name ends with -ko, it's a feminine name.
<=>
<=>Akira Ijuin
<=>


Almost, but not quite. I've run across a few Japanese men whose
first name ends with -ko. Actually the corresponding kanji meaning
is child though it often appears in compounds with the meaning
(implication?) of tiny thing, particle, or piece. 

Based on personal experience I would guess that about one out of every
hundred -ko's is a man. 


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From: larryg@batpad.lgb.ca.us (Larry Greenfield)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: HDTV in Japan
Date: 25 Jan 93 01:08:23 GMT
Organization: The Batchelor Pad

Tad, when you say HDTV sets are quite large, that's correct... that's 
bcause of the viewing angle (although I'm sure currently it takes 
more components inside as well). Speaking of HDTV, I'm surprised that 
there is a concensious in the screen size... everyone seems to be 
aiming for 16:9 ratio.  The reason why 1.33:1 was chosen for 
NTSC/American standard a long time ago, was, at the time, that WAS 
the size of movies currently being released (before widescreen). Now, 
there are many more sizes to choose from. 16:9 is the "compromise" 
ratio: usually just shot in 1.33:1 but "black-barred" at the top and 
bottom (and assumed, compsed with 16:9 ratio in mind). However, the 
vast majority of Panavision pictures are shot in 2.35:1. So even if 
you have an HDTV set, if you watch T2, Die Hard, Hook, etc., they'll 
STILL be black bars at the top and bottom (though not as much) 
because these movies are made wider than 16:9.  Stuff lik "E.T." will 
fit 16:9 perfectly, but not the wide-screen movies. Still, I guess it 
is a good compromise... I don't know what watching a static program 
(ie, the nightly newscast anchor) in 2.35:1 would be like.
:::::Larry:::::

:::::larryg@batpad.lgb.ca.us::::: // :::::Larry Greenfield:::::
::::::::Just your average modeming Classical Violinist:::::::::
:::::::::::Using a 6809-based Tandy Color Computer 3:::::::::::
From: nakano@suncom1.cs.shinshu-u.ac.jp (NAKANO Yasuaki)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: speaking of Mori Ohgai...
Date: 27 Jan 93 02:27:41 GMT
Reply-To: nakano@suncom1.cs.shinshu-u.ac.jp (NAKANO Yasuaki)
Organization: Dept. of Information Engineering, Shinshu Univ.,500 wakasato, Nagano, Japan

In article <jwb.728025247@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au> jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au (Jim Breen) writes:
>Mark Crispin <mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM> writes:
>>    $B%W%k%?!<%8%e!W$H>'$&$kB_K\20$N>.@b(J     
>Funny. I can only find $B>'$($k(J  $B!J$H$J$($k!K(J

Since I do not read the original sentence, I am not sure. As Ougai must have
used literary style, this is quite natural. However, it must be written as
    $B%W%k%?!<%8%e!W$H>'$U$kB_K\20$N>.@b(J     

>>    $B$N$_$J$j$7$r!"M>$HAj<1$k:"$h$j!"M>(J     
>Is $B$"$$$7$k(J a common usage? WNN has $BAj<1(J read $B$=$&$7$-(J.

In literary style, it was a common usage.

>>     has $B2*(J for O/kamome, not the traditional character.]
>Isn't it?  Edict has $B2*30(J read as $B$*$&$,$$(J. This presumably came
>from the wnn pubdic.

Ougai's first character has not a code point in JIS table. It looks like
      $BR?D;(J
and $B2*(J is the simplified form. Please compare this relation to the one between
      $BR?(J and $B6h(J.

Yasuaki NAKANO
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: cmort@NCoast.ORG (Christopher Morton)
Subject: Re: In Defense of Ringworm
Reply-To: cmort@ncoast.org (Christopher Morton)
Organization: North Coast Public Access *NIX, Cleveland, OH
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 12:44:14 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.japan

As quoted from <1k0amdINN1f6@syzygy.socs.uts.EDU.AU> by axolotl@socs.uts.EDU.AU (Iain Sinclair):

> cmort@NCoast.ORG (Christopher Morton) writes:
>  >Hardly.  He posts endless variations on racism and xenophobia.  He makes
>  >death threats.  We Rikiko bashers on the other hand CRITICIZE these things.
> 
> R. Asano provides some useful stimuli to this newsgroup.  On the other hand,
> Asano-bashers are just fucking wastes of space.

Oh, but of course!  Racism and bigotry are "useful stimuli", but opposition
to same is "just fucking wastes of space".  Of course one must naturally
ask what you hope to see stimulated.  Perhaps a group advocating bigotry and
racism is in order for you and Rikiko...?

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