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From: tanaka@til.til.com (Yokichi Tanaka)
Subject: Re: My Grandfather...
Organization: Togai InfraLogic, Inc.
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 19:28:55 GMT

In article <1bdpi9INNbpp@agate.berkeley.edu>, robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu (Henry Robertson) writes:

[stuff about how good Korean food is ... deleted ... since I agree]

|> Which goes back to what someone was asserting about Japanese food earlier,
|> you cannot convince me that anyone, Japanese or American, is willing to spend
|> $100/meal on a regular basis for good Japanese food.

I don't know where you go, but I've never spent $100 on Japanese
food.  Maybe it costs $100 to get Western food (such as steak) in
Japan, but even sushi doesn't cost that much here.

|> when there is a choice of different ethnic restaurants to eat a meal, as a
|> student or office worker, he/she will go to that which offers the best taste
|> per buck, and J-land food is not one of them.  Bibimbap is more nutritional
|> than beef donburi, besides the richer flavor.  A $5-Pad Thai will put
|> an $8-udon to shame.  A burrito or falafel is more filling than a 
|> tonkatsu with raw shredded cabbage on the side.

You're comparing apples to oranges.  I don't know what you're getting
at.  If you want cheapest possible, Taco Bell's got tacos and burritos
for 59 cents.  Burger King and McDonald's have hamburgers for 59 cents.
I don't eat out often, but I can get an American sized ramen bowl
for under $4 here in LA, and can get the han-chan (1/2 fried rice)
added for another $1.50.  I love Pad Thai, but I'm not going to
eat it every day.  Same with bibimbap, or udon, or beef-bowl.
I want variety in what I eat.  You guys pay $8 for udon up there!!??
Holy extravagance, batman.  I love burritos, falafels, shawarmas, 
but I also love tonkatsu.

|> for a nice sushi set with coca-cola and Marlboros,
|> the atmosphere complete with the harried Korean/Vietnamese waitresses rushing
|> from table to table and spilling green tea here and there, the screaming babies,
|> the boisterous chefs uttering nipponoid greetings, and the picture-cards
|> explaining each sushi item in detail, as well as the model JAL plane on top
|> of the sushi display case.

Sounds new-wave.  The latest from Wolfgang Puck?

Anyway, I think you started this to divert us from of the divisive,
tense, and thought-provoking discussions started by Mr. Asano that
we've been transfixed to as of late.  These discussions have been
"intense" and "good", but perhaps "too intense" to last for days on.

-- 
Yoke (Yokichi) Tanaka      Togai InfraLogic, Inc.    "fuzzy"
tanaka@til.com             Irvine, California, USA
uunet!til!tanaka           714-975-8522
In case you're wondering ... I am male.
"Repo-man's always intense!"
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: vlee@dgp.toronto.edu (Victor Yuencheng Lee)
Subject: Re: Shameless Japaness must recognize and apologize for Invasion China 
Date: 16 Oct 92 14:39:08 GMT

mvdvalk@cs.utwente.nl (Martijn van der Valk) writes:

>Dear netters,

>Mark is at it again. Let's give a small example of his logic:

>Once upon a time,
>I beat up Mark and take over his house
>The police arrest me and restores Mark's property and then let me go
>Now Mark hits his dog

>Many years later, Mark wants me to apologise for what I've done to him
>I say: "Mark! You hit your dog! Why look at me!"

>Need I say more!?

>--
You only have say one more:

It sounds like if someone rapes your mother, then you will say to him:
"Go ahead, because she also beat me before"

What a attitude do you have?
BOS ? or what?
From: davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Companies in Japan?
Date: 15 Oct 92 02:27:26 GMT

whitaker@eternity.demon.co.uk ("Russell E. Whitaker") writes:

>In article <Bw0B87.308@world.std.com> vwright@world.std.com writes:

>>I am trying to find out what databases are there available on the
>>Internet in English about Japanese businesses and corporations. This
>>includes databases that charge money and any other kinds.
>>
>>Could you suggest some clues as to how I would start researching this?
>>
>>Any ideas will be sincerely appreciated.
>>Please respond via e-mail.
>> 
>>
>>Vedder Wright

FWIW, here is a list of (some) systems reachable by telnet/ftp. It's
a bit old, but perhaps it will help:

utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp[133.11.11.11]	TISN	    GNU, fj, MACH
ftp.ics.osaka-u.ac.jp[133.1.12.30]	WIDE/JAIN   GNU, RFC, MACH, mac, fj
ftp.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp[130.54.20.1]	WIDE/JAIN   GNU, comp, fj
ftp.csce.kyushu-u.ac.jp[133.5.19.3]	WIDE/JAIN   GNU, RFC, MACH
sh.wide.ad.jp[133.4.11.11]		WIDE	    GNU, RFC, IETF, IEN, MACH
wnoc-fuk.wide.ad.jp.[133.4.14.3]	WIDE	    GNU, RFC, MACH, TeX
ftp.cs.titech.ac.jp[131.112.172.15]	WIDE	    GNU, X11, comp
ftp.dit.co.jp[133.156.1.1]		WIDE	    GNU, TeX, RFC, MACH
ftp.ascii.co.jp[133.152.32.11]		WIDE	    TeX
ftp.dcl.co.jp[133.143.1.1]		WIDE	    sendmail
srawgw.sra.co.jp[133.137.4.3]		WIDE	    GNU
ftp.mei.co.jp[132.182.49.2]		WIDE	    GNU, RFC, X11
scslwide.sony.co.jp[133.138.199.1]	WIDE	    GNU, X11
ftp.ricoh.co.jp[133.139.211.2]		WIDE	    GNU
ftp.tohoku.ac.jp[130.34.8.9]		JAIN
tutserver.tut.ac.jp[133.15.240.3]	JAIN*
theta.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp[130.69.48.4]	WIDE/JAIN   GNU, MACH, junet-db
ftp.ics.osaka-u.ac.jp[133.1.12.30]	WIDE/JAIN   GNU, RFC, MACH, mac, fj
ftp.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp[130.54.20.1]	WIDE/JAIN   GNU, comp, fj
ftp.csce.kyushu-u.ac.jp[133.5.19.3]	WIDE/JAIN   GNU, RFC, MACH
sh.wide.ad.jp[133.4.11.11]		WIDE	    GNU, RFC, IETF, IEN, MACH
wnoc-fuk.wide.ad.jp.[133.4.14.3]	WIDE	    GNU, RFC, MACH, TeX
ftp.cs.titech.ac.jp[131.112.172.15]	WIDE	    GNU, X11, comp
ftp.dit.co.jp[133.156.1.1]		WIDE	    GNU, TeX, RFC, MACH
ftp.ascii.co.jp[133.152.32.11]		WIDE	    TeX
ftp.dcl.co.jp[133.143.1.1]		WIDE	    sendmail

srawgw.sra.co.jp[133.137.4.3]		WIDE	    GNU
ftp.mei.co.jp[132.182.49.2]		WIDE	    GNU, RFC, X11
scslwide.sony.co.jp[133.138.199.1]	WIDE	    GNU, X11
ftp.ricoh.co.jp[133.139.211.2]		WIDE	    GNU
ftp.fujixerox.co.jp[129.249.88.2]	WIDE	    OSI, smalltalk
ftp.tohoku.ac.jp[130.34.8.9]		JAIN
nuis.inagaki.nuie.nagoya-u.ac.jp[133.6.109.1] JAIN  GNU, MACH, TeX
icpcs41.icpc.fukui-u.ac.jp[133.7.1.1]	JAIN*	    GNU, RFC
tutserver.tut.ac.jp[133.15.240.3]	JAIN*

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: kenji@tom.astem.or.jp (Kenji Rikitake)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Mr. Asano
Date: 16 Oct 92 02:38:18 GMT
Reply-To: kenji@tom.astem.or.jp (Kenji Rikitake)
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Mr. Asano is a typical example of undereducated Japanese who encountered
the reality after he went abroad for "studying something."

Please remember not all Japanese are like him.
--
Kenji Rikitake, cyberspace samurai
<kenji@tom.astem.or.jp> <kenji@rd.macrofield.or.jp> <...!uunet!reseau!kenji>
From: blamb@hri.com (Bill Lambert)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Foreign Ogres (was Mr. Baseball
Date: 7 Oct 92 15:43:46 GMT
Organization: Horizon Research, Inc.


=> >In article <7326@bigbird.hri.com.hri.com> blamb@hri.com
=> >(Bill Lambert) writes: (That's me)
=> >
=> >My Japanese wife and I meet such stereotypes on
=> >a daily basis, and are often surprised at the source and the form 
=> >that these classifications, or lack of knowledge, can take. 
=> >
=> >	"Do you eat raw fish at home every day?"
=> >	"I didn't know Japanese people could dance."
=> >	"Does your wife walk on your back?"
=> >	"Does your wife walk 10 feet behind you?"
=> >	"Do Japanese people eat meat?"

In article <1992Oct7.103405.19096@athena.mit.edu>, pckyip@athena.mit.edu
(Patrick C Yip) writes:
=> From the history book ("Life in the Samurai Age" published by Tuttle, can't
=> remember the author though, comes to mind) I read, in medieval time Japanese
=> people ate little meat. This was not restricted to the peasant, nobles ate
=> little meat too. Samurai usually ate more meat, presumable for gaining
=> body strength.
=> 
=> Did your friend mistakenly extrapolated the historical fact? :)

Possibly, but that's where stereotypes come from... the assumption that
because *some* people of a certain culture do (or once did) something,
then all of them must be like that... and forever so.

A Japanese person wrote to me by email that all the things I mentioned
in my last post were basically true (at least at one time, he said), 
except the raw fish, that he wished he could afford to eat every day.
Maybe this is part of the problem... Japanese people don't mind so
much being stereotyped?

Anyway... I live with at least one that sometimes does :-)

- Bill Lambert
From: jchilber@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Jeffrey Allen Chilberto)
Subject: Long Hair
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS
Date: 11 Oct 92 18:24:34 GMT

I'm planning on moving to Japan and teaching
english for a year and eventually move into the
computer industry there.  What reactions should
I expect in both the social and business environments
since I am Italian and have long hair?

I appreciate any response,

Jeff Chilberto
From: robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu (Henry Robertson)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: My Grandfather...
Date: 13 Oct 1992 06:15:37 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: headcrash.berkeley.edu

Dude, I have had (do have) Korean food on a regular basis.  Yes, Nang myun
is good stuff for a summer day, and nothing like yukke-bibimbap with
plenty of sesame & pine seeds.  Kalbi sauce puts yakitori to shame, no wonder
Korean judo athletes beat the living shit out of Japanese atheletes at every turn
lately.  Just the difference in protein consumption, besides the nutritional
volume of servings.  The sweet Korean rice makes it unnecessary to add sugar
to meat like Japanese do.

Which goes back to what someone was asserting about Japanese food earlier,
you cannot convince me that anyone, Japanese or American, is willing to spend
$100/meal on a regular basis for good Japanese food.  Practically speaking,
when there is a choice of different ethnic restaurants to eat a meal, as a
student or office worker, he/she will go to that which offers the best taste
per buck, and J-land food is not one of them.  Bibimbap is more nutritional
than beef donburi, besides the richer flavor.  A $5-Pad Thai will put
an $8-udon to shame.  A burrito or falafel is more filling than a tonkatsu
with raw shredded cabbage on the side.  Few non-Japanese I know of like the
soy-sauce/plum-flavored salad dressings compared to traditional Western ones.
Of course, variety is nice and people will occasionally splurge for a
high-priced restaurant, for a nice sushi set with coca-cola and Marlboros,
the atmosphere complete with the harried Korean/Vietnamese waitresses rushing
from table to table and spilling green tea here and there, the screaming babies,
the boisterous chefs uttering nipponoid greetings, and the picture-cards
explaining each sushi item in detail, as well as the model JAL plane on top
of the sushi display case.
.
From: rehir@gauss.med.harvard.edu (Hirokatsu Watanabe 432-2275)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Northern Islands (revisited)
Date: 7 Oct 92 17:43:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: hsdndev.1954
Organization: Harvard Medical School


 keis@psy.uwa.oz.au (Keis Ohtsuka) writes:

>>In article <1992Oct1.153444.596@island.COM> fester@etorofu.island.COM writes:
>>In any event, most Japanese are unaware that they in fact attacked the Soviet 
>>Union in the late 30's, and because of this, feel some sort of emotional/moral
>>superiority to the "sneaky" Russians (ignoring at the same time their attacks).
>To Mike Fester:
>The Nomonhan is not on the USSR soil. It is in the People's Republic of 
>Mongolia. The USSR army was stationed in RPM based on the defence treaty
>between the USSR and PRM signed earlier. Although it was a "pre-emptive"
>attack by the Japanese army directed to the USSR army, it is incorrect
>to call it as "attack on the Soviet Union." 

   Please forgive me for not agreeing you. But I guess your logic is 
slightly strange. 
   Surely the Nomonhan was around border between Mongolia and Manchuria.
However, Mongolia was under the USSR power, and Manchuria was under the
Japanese power. And the Japanese army clearly attacked the USSR army.
I guess, it is correct to call it as "attack on the Soviet Union".

   If your logic is correct, Vietnam has never attacked USA during Vietnam war. I guess so.  :-)


********************************
*      Hirokatsu Watanabe      *
*------------------------------*
* Mo^karimakka?  Sapparidesuwa *
*         Maido Ookini         *
********************************
From: blamb@hri.com (Bill Lambert)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Well, its been educating.......
Date: 13 Oct 92 18:29:12 GMT
Organization: Horizon Research, Inc.

Yeah.... see you Asano-San. You did well enough to fool a few
people into thinking that you hd something to say, and that
you might be lucid enough to carry a dialogue. Eventually, though,
your true colors (or lack of them) could shine through in a
blinding fashion.

Bye. It's been real...
From: robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu (Henry Robertson)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: MAY THE EMPEROR LIVE 10,000 YEARS!
Date: 14 Oct 92 21:55:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: agate.1bi50vINN5dj
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: headcrash.berkeley.edu

MAN O MAN I HATE THOSE INTERVIEWS WHERE THEY PURPOSELY SELECT QUESTIONS YOU CANT
POSSIBLY ANSWER.  LIKE WOULD I BE INTERESTED IN MANAGING SPECIFIC MERCHANDISE
OR GENERAL MERCHANDISE, IN AN OFFICE ENVIRONMENT OR LARGE-GROUP ENVIRONMENT.
YES, I KNOW THAT I WILL GET MARRIED ON 10/14/98, MOVE TO A 2 BR HOUSE ON
2348 FULTON ST. ON 11/7/99, AND WORK FOR MR. GREENFIELD IN THE PURCHASING
DEPARTMENT AT THE SAN FRANCISCO BRANCH.  I WILL GET ALONG WITH SMITH, 
DURFEY, AND LANGFORD, BUT NOT VARLEY OR JANE.  MY WIFE WILL HAVE A MISCARRIAGE
IN 3/16/02, SO OUR NEXT ATTEMPT WILL SUCCEED WITH OUR FIRST DAUGHTER 
JENNIFER ON 4/8/03.  THEREAFTER, PLUMETTING REAL ESTATE PRICES AND A BANKRUPT
STATE ECONOMY, FOLLOWED BY DISSOLUTION OF THE STATE LEGISLATURE ON 6/7/04
AND COMPANY BANKRUPCY, WE WILL SELL OUR DAUGHTER TO AN INFERTILE JAPANESE
COUPLE.  AFTERWARDS, WE WILL GET DIVORCED IN RENO AND I WILL START RUNNING
METHAMPHETAMINES FOR YAMAGUCHI CO.  MY LIFE WILL END ON 11/14/06 IN A DRUG
DEAL GONE AWRY, BLOWN AWAY BY THE DONATELLO CLAN IN THE PORT OF OAKLAND BERTH
38, 2:38 AM.

Jiko.  Satsujin.  Goukan.  Chuzetsu.  Minshu-tou ni inorou.

kimi mo shocker soshiki ni nyukai shiyou!
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: mako@uihepa.hep.uiuc.edu ("Makoto Shimojima, Univ of Tsukuba/CDF")
Subject: Re: Three-legged Rika-chan
Reply-To: mako@uihepa.hep.uiuc.edu
Organization: High Energy Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 01:36:05 GMT

In article <2243@usna.NAVY.MIL>, wdw@math2.sma.usna.navy.MIL (Wm. Douglas Withers -- math  FACULTY <wdw@sma.usna.navy.mil>) writes:
>
> The first reported sighting of the three-legged Rika-chan came from a female
> middle-school student in (I think) Yamanashi-ken.  She had gone into the
> restroom alone and found there a Rika-chan doll.  This particular doll
> differed from most in two important respects:  (1) it had three legs; and
> (2) it was alive.  The doll addressed the student, saying `I'm Rika-chan,'
> and then sprang up and jumped out of the window.
>
> This was followed by more than 30 reported sightings, apparently always by
> female middle-school students.

This reminds me of my young (no, make that "younger") age, when our female
friends fussed about so called "Kuchi sake onna," "Kokkuri" san, "tsuchi no
ko," and... So, it's now Rika-chan with three legs...

						mako
From: ricko@ee.uts.edu.au (Rick Jelliffe)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: SPEACKING OF EMPERORS......
Date: 16 Oct 92 09:28:36 GMT
Organization: University of Technology, Sydney
NNTP-Posting-Host: schutz.ee.uts.edu.au

ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rikiya Asano) writes:

>SPEAKING OF THE EMPEROR,


>                              YESTERDAY, I WAS THINKING ABOUT RYUICHI
>SAKAMOTO'S
>PERFORMACE IN THE LAST EMPEROR. FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO MAY NOT BE
>FAMILIAR. IT IS A FAIR DRAMATIZATION OF THE LIFE OF PU-YI HSIEN. THE
>LAST MANCHU EMPEROR OF CHINA. I MUST ADMITTED THAT THE MOIVE DID INSPIRE
>ME TO READ PU-YI'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY. AFTER, READS THIS THE MOVIE BECAME
>INSIGNICATE. ALL WHO REALLY REMAINED WAS SAKAMOTO(HERO), JOHN LONE(THE
>MOST HANDSOME HUMAN EVER),PETER O'TOOLE, AND THE OTHER SUPPORTING PEOPLE
>AND OF COURSE THE BEAUTIFUL ENVIRONMENT. BUT, WHAT STICKS IN MY MIND THE
>MOST IS WHAT SAKAMOTO SAID AT THE TABLE RIGHT BEFORE PU-YI HAD REFUSED
>TO SIGN IN THE NEW FOREINGER(SORRY FALLAS)
>MINISTER. AT THE TABLE, RIGHT AFTER PU-YI HAD AGAIN REFUSED TO SIGN,
>SAKAMOTO SAUD THIS: "IF AN ENGLISHMAN ROBS HE IS A GENTLEMAN, IF HE ROBS
>ALOT HE BECOMES 
>A NIGHT". "DO YOU THINK THAT THE BRITISH RAN THEIR EMPIRE AS A CHARITY".
>"IF INDIA HAD TO PAY FOR ITS OWN OCCUPATION, SO MUST
>MANCHUKUO".[POUNDING HIS FIST DOWN DEFIANTLY]

This is a little like Bobby Dylan's "steal a little and they put you in jail,
steal a lot and they'll make you a king". The book "The Other Nuremburg",
about the Tokyo war crimes trials (Tojo, Koki Hirat[oa], etc) has an 
interesting part about Pu-Yi's testamony: the writer, who was present
throughout, thought Pu-Yi to be the most brilliant evader of questions he
had ever seen: completely in control of proceedings!

Do you think the Sakamoto character was a hero? Not in any of the 
edits I've seen I think. I don't think there were any heroes in it.

>WE FELL INTO THE BIGGEST TRAP IN THE WORLD. I DON'T MEAN TO IMPLY THAT
>THERE WAS A DELIVERATE CONSPISRACY TO SUCK 
>NIPPON INTO AN ASIAN TRADING POST TO THE WEST BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE
>PROOF. BUT IT IS RATHER STRANGE THAT WHILE NIHON IS GOING THOUGH THIS
>DEATH, DESTRUCTION AND CONQUER ACT.{I HAVE DELETED MUCH OF WHAT I HAVE
>TO SAY HERE BECAUSE IT INVOLVES
>PEARL HARBOR AND FROM MY PAST EXPERIENCE WITH YOU(AND YOU KNOW WHO YOU
>ARE) ALL.

Please don't damm all whites because of the geo-political machinations 
of people long-dead in other countries.

-ricko
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: psybeast@world.std.com (The UnKnown Beast)
Subject: Learning Japanese
Organization: Part of the Human Race
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 13:20:34 GMT

I am on a quest, and this seems like the right place to ask...

In the spring of 1993, I am planning to go to Japan for vaction and I
would like to learn some of the language before I go.

Could anyone suggest books or tapes that would be good to learn from??

Thanks in adavance!!

PsyBeast

-- 
Where to find the PsyBeast:
psybeast@world.std.com		CIS: 74620,2744		AOL: PsyBeast
From: mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Sakamoto Ryo^ma reference
Date: 13 Oct 92 18:58:11 GMT
Article-I.D.: Tomobiki.MS-C.719002691.662824084.mrc
Organization: University of Washington
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Mime-Version: 1.0

For people who didn't see my response on sci.lang.japan, I recommend Marius
Jansen's `Sakamoto Ryo^ma and the Meiji Restoration'.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: andrew@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Andrew Sung Hyun Kim)
Subject: Re: Andrew Sung Hyun Kim,
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 21:38:35 GMT

In article <1bljphINNmq8@agate.berkeley.edu> robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu 
>  (Henry Robertson) writes:
>Any more bullshit and the nukes are on Korea.  Ha ha ha.       
>As Buddha say, Life is Suffering.

"There you go again" :)    

More and more puerile shallow tales...
 like "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
       signifiying nothing".

Life maybe suffering, but "I rather be a hammer than a nail". :)

This maybe a flame war, but let's make it an interesting one, not
a childish one :)

Andrew Sung Hyun Kim
From: kanekawa@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Nobuyasu Kanekawa)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Help needed for two Japanese names
Date: 12 Oct 92 15:33:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Oct12.153326.10181
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department

weiping@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au writes:
: Could anybody help me to put the following Japanese names into English please?
: Your help is appreciated.
: 
: 
: 1.
:            |                     |              \  \     /
:      ------|-----          -------------      /-------------/
:          / | \            |      |     |     /    ------/
:         /  |  \           |     / \    |               /
:        /   |   \          |    /   \   |         -----|-----
:       /    |    \         |           \|              |
:                                                      \|
: 
	   Ki                   uchi             Manabu, or
	   Ki         no        uchi             Manabu.
         (tree)               (inside)          (study)  => study inside trees?
  Maybe, "Kiuchi" or "Kinouchi" is a family name and "Manabu" is first name.

: 2.      /
:        /|----------|     |-------------|     \  /----------
:         |  |----|  |     |    |   |    |         |------|
:         |  |    |  |     |    |   |    |     \   |  \   |
:         |  |----|  |     |    /   |--  |        -|------|-
:         |         \|     |-------------|     /   |---\--|---
:                                                        \|
             (facing)        (four)                (sea)
						 => facing four seas
Sorry I do not know how to read this name 
		      because of long absence from Japan. :-)
-- 
Nobuyasu KANEKAWA  (E-mail address in Japan : kanekawa@hrl.hitachi.co.jp)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu ()
Subject: Re: GODZILLA VS. BIOLLANTE
Keywords: Godzilla Japan Monster Biollante
Organization: clearer than blir
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 10:50:14 GMT

In article <1992Oct15.044806.18625@news.columbia.edu> dave@blackbox.cc.columbia.edu (David Milner) writes:
>GOJIRA TAI BIORANTE, released in Japan in December, 1989, is finally
>coming out here in the United States.
>
>The film is going to be distributed on home video by HBO/Canon Home
>Video in December. It is not going to be released to theatres.
>
>More infromation will be available in about one month.

I saw this first run in Shibuya when it came out. (Still have the
little Godzilla stamps to prove it.) FYI, this was the worst 'zilla
flick ever.  It really sucked. It was obvious it was produced only
because 5 million kids (and some foreigners like me) would drag mommy
to see it and it was guaranteed to make money. Real pathetic. Real
boring. Try watching King Kong vs. Godzilla again, it's more
entertaining. Or Monster Island. Anything but this one, please.

-- Tad Perry   Internet:    tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu
               CompuServe:  70402,3020
From: t_yamasi@hoffman.cc.sophia.ac.jp (Yamashiki Tsuyoshi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Where are the Japanese
Date: 16 Oct 92 04:00:34 GMT
Organization: Computer Center, Sophia Univ., Tokyo, Japan

In article <Bw5uwK.Ftx@world.std.com> cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond) writes:
>I just wish that he and Robertson-san would stop SHOUTING.

Me too....It's amazing how much portion of articles here are
written by them (I'm not complaining, just amazed).
But there always is a way to <deleted>
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Tsuyoshi Yamashiki, lost boy in cyber space.
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