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From: hiraga@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Yuzuru Hiraga)
Subject: Re: Using 110V,60Hz equip on 100V,60Hz??
Organization: Stanford University CSLI
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 20:16:39 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.004926.1@camins.camosun.bc.ca> comptec91025@camins.camosun.bc.ca (Ian Hobday) writes:
>Happily, I will be travelling to Japan early in the new year, and will 
>probably be taking a notebook designed for use on 110V, 60Hz power.  I will 
>be going to Osaka, where I understand the power is 100V, 60Hz with 
>non-polerized plugs.  The question is, of course, will I fry my machine???
>Although I am not planning to, what if I end up travelling to an area that 
>is 100V, 50Hz?  What then?

The short answer is, no problem.

Many of the adaptors are applicable to wide range of voltage
(eg. 100-240V, 50/60 Hz).  Check the inscription on your pack.
Even if not, since you're on lower voltage (110->100V), there's
no worry of frying your machine.  The difference of say, 100 to 120V
is within tolerable range (I'm using a 100V adaptor for my laptop
on a 120V input, having no problems).  And since the machine itself
works on DC, the 50/60Hz difference won't matter either (the major
cases affected by this are AC motors).

Polarization itself is also not a problem: it only indicates what
side the ground is on.
However, one possible minor problem is that if you have a polarized
plug, it is likely to not fit in the non-polarized, Japanese plug-ins.

If you're still worried, look for converters and adaptors in your
local electric appliance store.

-Yuzuru Hiraga
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.india,soc.culture.asian.american
From: cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond)
Subject: Re: Super Power in new century and Yellow Peril
Organization: Integrated International Systems Corp. One Longfellow Place, Suite 3309, Boston, Ma.
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 09:41:23 GMT

georgew@hspice.portal.com (George Wu) writes:


...
>-
>     Welcome to the Dwight Joe FAQ.  This article is a standard rebuttal to
>certain beliefs Dwight Joe routinely expounds in soc.culture.asian.american.
>Specifically, Dwight Joe believes Chinese culture intrinsically incorporates
>racism, sexism, infanticide, child abuse, and I suppose, other unsavory
>characteristics.  For a full example of his beliefs, the reader is referred
>to his many postings, one of which drew this response and is therefore
>specified in the References: line of the header.

...

>     Finally, Dwight Joe uses a particular notation.  For the edification of
>the new reader, I explain it here.  The notation involves abbreviating certain
>words:

>	Chinese-cu: Chinese culture, ie. raised as a Chinese;
>	Chinese-ge: Chinese genetically, ie. bearing certain physical features;
>	Chinese-ci: Chinese citizenship, ie. of a particular country.

>I believe these distinctions, as used by Dwight Joe, are merely camouflage,
>for his own mind as well as others.  Dwight Joe uses these terms to deflect
>accusations of racism from himself by redefining racism to specifically
>exclude his beliefs.  Such denials, however, are worthless, as Dwight Joe's
>repeatedly posted opinions make it clear he holds significant predjudice
>against Chinese society.
>-- 

While I disagree with Dwight Joe on numerous occasions and even take offense
at some of his posts... I have found his posts to contain a lot higher S/N
ratio George Wu's somewhat vacuous canned response. The only actual content
seems to be contained in the two parts extracted above. In the first part,
one can probably prove Dwight Joe to be correct, at least in regards to the
mainland government.

Thus the second extraction becomes the real content of George Wu's rebuttal.
There would seem to be some cause for persons to believe this about Dwight
Joe , although given the basic truth of the failure of human rights , one
can perhaps mitigate...

Charlie

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From: koutd@hirama.hiram.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: American Student looking for Penpals
Date: 20 Dec 92 04:10:31 GMT
Organization: Hiram College
Nntp-Posting-User: koutd

Young American student looking for Japanese penpals. Interested, please
e-mail to koutd@hirama.hiram.edu

Happy Holiday

Doug
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.asian.america,alt.sex,soc.culture.usa,soc.culture.african.american,sci.electronics,misc.consumers,misc.education,misc.entrepreneurs
From: chawley@andy.bgsu.edu (Chris Hawley)
Subject: Re: D O E S A M E R I C A S A Y Y E S T O J A P A N ?
Followup-To: poster
Summary: Japanese high school isn't that great.
Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:31:38 GMT

     I attended a Japanese high school for a year.  I wasn't impressed.
    
     Drop me some e-mail if you'd like to talk.

     -- Chris
        chawley@andy.bgsu.edu

Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: k3amichi@student.business.uwo.ca (Kentaro Nakamichi)
Subject: Re: Good-bye IBM
Organization: University of Western Ontario
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 05:25:40 GMT

Rikiya Asano <ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

> Good-bye IBM,
>                       
>                                          You will join the great ones
> Pam Am,  U. S. Steel, Saks  Fifth Ave., ect.,  ect., and ect. but don't
> us{Asians} for your death! Blame Reaganomical!  Soon it will be
> Westinghouse,  GM, Alcoa, Pittsburgh Plate and Glass . No wait- Alcoa is
> doing something in Kobe and PPG in building a plant in China. So, they
> are the smart ones.
> 
> Even through I think that the IBM computer is a piece of trash!

Give me a break.  Economics or racism never had anything to do with IBM.  
The computer market changed; IBM didn't.  They lost cash.  Now, they're 
refocusing their corporation and will come back stronger although things 
are painful now.  Want a lesson in marketing planning?  

k3amichi@student.business.uwo.ca (Kentaro Nakamichi)
Western Business School  --  London, Ontario
From: jcliu@euler.Berkeley.EDU (James C. Liu - Nucl. Engin. UC Berkeley)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Not a Myth at All
Date: 13 Dec 92 00:56:48 GMT
Organization: University of California at Berkeley

In article <RHB.92Dec12184144@world.std.com> rhb@world.std.com (Robert 
H Brueckner) writes:

>Well, the fact is, I speak much better Japanese than I do French. But
>my pathetic attempts at Francaise were greeted warmly by anyone I met.
>Whether they laughed at me after I left I don't know, and I don't much
>care. But with Japanese people I do notice that it is very difficult
>to get into a Japanese conversation at all with them. They switch to
>English at the end of the first sentence and, even though my Japanese
>is passable and articulate, seem totally uninterested. This is what

A lot of gaijin "think" they are articulate in Japanese or even Chinese
for that matter.  But they're ....they're...how to put this kindly...
They're NOT.  IMHO, it often hurts to listen to gaijin massacre Japanese
with their Amerika-ben.  It hurts even more when they speak Chinese.  
Lets not even get into singing.  :-)  No offense to you in particular, 
Brueckner-san.  I've never heard you speak.  No flames please..!
But just riding the Yamanote Line and hearing what I heard coming out
of some very fluent but VERY gaijin throats made me want get off at
the next stop and drink a six-pack of Pocari Sweat then come back in and
throw up on the guy/gal.  Gomen.

But, perhaps you should make a tape of your own voice and listen to it and
be critical about your accent.  I've found that it helps me.  My Japanese
vocabulary sucks big wads as some netters have informed me, especially
about my use of "kick-shiri."  However, most Nihonjin I've conversed 
with state candidly that they were very surprised I wasn't Japanese
because my accent was *mostly* indistiguishable.  I spend a LOT of time
working on accent with a tutor (at the cost of learning vocab and grammar), 
but I think it's worth it.  Contrary to your experiences, I've never had
problems entering a conversation.  I interject something in Japanese and
the next thing, they come back with a barrage of words that overload my cpu. 
    ...Anoo, anooo, eetoooo, accessing, accessing...saigo ni wakaranai.8-)

But then again, you could be right...it could be a racial thing.  You might
have the perfect accent, but the wrong complexion.  That would be taihen.
Anybody out there know some good cosmetic surgeons?  8-)

Jaa, James
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From: ikeda@vxcrna.cern.ch (IKEDA,M./EP)
Subject: Re: Texas Southern University marching band in To^kyo^
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 18:07:00 GMT

When I saw this article, at first I thought it must have been a joke!
It sounded very much like the Albanian soccer team that shoplifted
through the duty-free shops at the Rome airport.  So perhaps it was
another modified story from Mr. Robertson.  At least I hope it is a
joke!

In article <MS-C.724452715.1103527590.mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU>, Mark Crispin <mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> writes...
>Approximately 120 members of the Texas Southern University marching band
>engaged in an act of mass shoplifting in the Akihabara shopping district on
>December 7.  They were accompanied in this charming activity by six school
>officials, including the university's vice president.

The vice president was caught shoplifting?  Poor students I can almost
understand, but university officials?  Another wonderful image of Americans
for the world...

-- Makoto
From: masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov (Michiaki Masuda)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Talent in Japanese busines world
Date: 15 Dec 92 23:09:51 GMT
Organization: Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center

In article <1992Dec15.014633.4285@sj.ate.slb.com> kumamoto@sj.ate.slb.com (Danny Kumamoto) writes:

>In Japan, with most jobs (male or female), it usually doesn't matter
>what your college major was, since management will decide for you
>where you should work at (what matters is which college you came
>from).  I know one mid-20's woman who majored in fishery (at Toodai)
>but is now working as a system engineer (straight off of college) at a
>well-known Japanese company (IBM Japan :-)!

   This story of female Todai grad would rather tell the attitude of 
a job seeker than the management policy of a company. If she is working
as a S.E. for IBM Japan, that's at least partly because she applied for
the company instead of a fishery company. I don't think that she was
expecting that she would be able to make an extensive use of her educational
background in IBM.

   This also tells about another possible problem in the college education
in Japan. It's my impression that most undergrad courses in Japanese
colleges/universities are not functioning as a occupational or professional 
training. Therefore, when college grads look for a job, many of them
may not drag their major which doesn't matter much to them. Managers, who 
know that applicants' major is not necessarily a good indicatior of
their capability in that field, will look at the name of their school or 
their grade at school in general, which could be a better indicator.

>My point is that this "waste" in talent cuts through both sexes.

   Probably, the waste of talent in Japan starts at a much earlier stage.
As far as I know, there is no systematic efforts to find out the 
aptitude or hidden talent of young people. I have a friend who used to
be very good at (or even a genius of) math and physics when he was a high 
school student. The teacher advised him to go to a med school because
being good at math was advantageous for him to pass the entrance exam.
He, who was probably too naive to doubt his teacher's word, went to a 
prestigious med school and became a physician. Although he seems to be
doing pretty well in his field now, I'm not sure if he is achieving
as much as he might be if he were a physicist. He once told me that
he himself was also not sure if his choice of the career was really a good 
one or not.

   Darn! I could have been a world-famous jazz musician if I had not
been so good at that time... 8-)
 
--Michiaki
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: hank@westford.ccur.com (Hank Cohen)
Subject: Re: Not a myth at all
Organization: Concurrent Nippon Corp.  Tokyo , Japan
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 08:56:15 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.172420.1302@island.COM> fester@island.COM (Mike Fester) writes:
>Did you look for an apartment? That's where poeple usually encounter it first.
>Second is when they try to get into some of the smaller shops that sell 
>various kinds of food and are told "no foreigners" (when I was there, there
>was a fist fight between some French tourists and the owner of a small 
>restaurant at near the top of Mt Fuji when the owner refused to let foreigners
>in. He was eventually forced by the government to allow foreigners into his
>shop).

Two points to pour gas on this discussion.  First the accommodations
on Mt.Fuji are not private businesses in the same sense that the
corner "snack" is a private business.  They are concessions in a
National Park.  To have a concessionaire refuse to serve someone who
has walked all that boreing way up is not simply exercising a private
right to be an asshole.  It would be like the Curry company refusing
to serve someone lunch in Yosemite Valley.  It is totally outrageous
and the guy should be kicked off of the mountain.

Second in an effort to use a less perjoritive term whenever it is
possible I would suggest that we adopt James Fallows' suggestion and
call this bloody mindedness of the Japanese 'Nationalism' rather than
'racism'.
-- 
Hank Cohen
Concurrent Nippon Corp.  	Shuwa yanagibashi Bldg. 5F
Yanagibashi 2-19-6 Taito-ku 	Tokyo 111, Japan
Denwa: 03-3864-5714 	Fax: 03-3864-0898
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,talk.politics.guns
From: maierj@edmund.cs.andrews.edu (Joey Maier)
Subject: Re: Yoshi Hattori
Organization: Andrews University
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 13:16:04 GMT

>In <Bz65G0.Aw6@news.cs.andrews.edu> maierj@edmund.cs.andrews.edu (Joey Maier) writes:
>
>>Sorry.  The signal to noise ratio on this topic had gotten a little low,
>>and I had reached the conclusion that the whole world was out to japan.
>
>I'm afraid I'm further decreasing it, but:
>
> "This sentence no verb."
>
>Huh?
>
>Laird P. Broadfield     lairdb@crash.cts.com    ...{ucsd, nosc}!crash!lairdb
 BASH BASH BASH BASH BASH BASH BASH BASH BASH BASH BASH BASH BASH BASH

There, enough verbs?

My roommate walked in while I was typing, so I wasn't watching the
monitor.  I thought I had already typed 'bash' but I was obviously
wrong.   Besides, what did you think I was going to say *congratulate*?

Joey
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe)
Subject: Re: Japanese Movies
Organization: Miners for a Heart of Gold
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 05:17:52 GMT

A while ago, I requested the names of Japanese movies that were
made within the last 15 years but that were above average by Western
standards of filmmaking.  Here is the summary of the replies.

Note that blanks in a given column mean that the information was not
provided.  Also, note that all Japanese films would qualify for, at most,
a "R" rating in the USA; I suspect that the sole "X" in the "Rating"
column should really be a "R".

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Japanese name              English name            Director     Rating
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Kazoku Game              Family Game
Ai no Koridaa      In The Realm Of The Senses                     X
                             Dreams               Akira Kurosawa

                       The Hidden Fortress[1]
                          Fancy Dance             
Mimbou no Onna                                     Juzo Itami
                   Ageman (Woman of Lucky XXXX)    Juzo Itami
                       Rhapsody in August         Akira Kurosawa
Akira
Ai no corrida     In the realm of the senses      Nagisa Oushima  (sexually
                                                                   explicit)
Suna no Onna           Women of the Dunes
Gyakufunsha Kazoku       Crazy Familyn
Kazoku Geimu             Family Game
Soushiku                 The Funeral                 Juzo Itami
Marusa no Onna II     A Taxing Woman II              Juzo Itami
                    Summer Vacation 1999           Shusuke Kaneko

[The next films, according to the submitter, were all seen in Tokyo, and
 the "English names" are his translations.]

ChinPiRa                Yakuza's "Kobun"
SaBiShimBo                   Loner
TanTeI MoNoGaTaRi      Private Investigator
ToKiO KaKeRu ShoUJO    Girl Who Chases Time
YaBanJinNo YoUNi         Like a Barbarian

[The next films were submitted by someone who's English was not very
 good; I hope that I interpreted his Japanese-like English correctly.]

                            Topaz                   Ryu Murakami
3x4=10gatsu
Ano Natsu Ichiban Shizukana Umi                    Kitano Takeshi
Munou no Hito		                           Naoto Takenaka
Shiko Funnjyatta
Masayuki Suouroi Ame (Black Rain)
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To everyone who sent me e-mail:  "Doomo arigatoo gozaimashita."


[1] The submitter pointed out that this movie was made prior to 15 years ago.

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From: ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rikiya Asano)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: RIKIYA ASANO
Date: 12 Dec 92 18:01:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.Mf_fKYG00iV1I4SUk2
	<101554@netnews.upenn.edu>
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Mr. Seung,

I remember you! I'm so happy to here from you! I don't worry about these
people too much. Most of them see the world through pyschodelic
glass(you know those glass from the 70's "facet glass" where you can see
a hundred 0f the same things at one time. Well, anyway, I learned about
a new University in Ko-ryu it is YOUSEI University. Do you know about
this school?
From: robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu (Henry Robertson)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: ho ho ho hum
Date: 16 Dec 1992 09:45:20 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: headcrash.berkeley.edu

headcrash [7] mail Kevin.Parrington@Japan.Sun.COM
Subject: ho ho ho hum

"mentally challenged band members," heh?  Better watch it, cause darkies
are always laughing about the clumsiness of the oversized-brain honkie.
Last time i checked, it's especially computer programmer types that have an
obsession of cutting down on other fields, to justify their spineless
force of character. <sniggering>  My guess is you don't dance very well.

assumptions assumptions assumptions.  But, stereotypically, i see
that wiry-framed computer-jock Silicon-Valley type with the Asian woman to
help him feel better about himself.  And the agressive/outgoing woman with
the tall muscular black man.  Well, even kaishas have started hiring
their black mascots these days, so enjoy the OL's while you still can.
.
EOT
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: ntetsuya@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Nishimura)
Subject: Re: Texas Southern University marching band in To^kyo^
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 02:58:03 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523

In article <Dec18.024021.23316@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> ntetsuya@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Nishimura, that's me!!) writes:


>	he will be punished.  If a "Toda-sei" shoplifts, he will be punished 
>	as well. 		    ^^^^^^^^
					I mean, "To^dai-sei."  Sorry ;->


					Tetsuya Nishimura

Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,talk.politics.guns
From: cmort@NCoast.ORG (Christopher Morton)
Subject: Re: Yoshi Hattori
Reply-To: cmort@ncoast.org (Christopher Morton)
Organization: North Coast Public Access *NIX, Cleveland, OH
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:14:03 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.japan

As quoted from <Ef_fE1i00iV144SjxH@andrew.cmu.edu> by ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rikiya Asano):

> Mr morton writes:
> 
> >Does anybody know if it's legal for this slug to collect foodstamps?  Could he
> >be deported as the parasite he truly is...? :)
> 
> Yes, it is legal for me to collect food stamps. I never said I collected

But I certainly wouldn't take the word of the parasite in question on the
matter.  I wouldn't take Ted Bundy's word on the rape and murder laws either...

> them. Actually, An old lady asked me to go to the store for her. Why
> don't you come to CMU and try to take me back yourself. Put your heart
> where your mouth is! You've 

How many times did you have to strike her before she coughed up her social
security check?  I'm sure that INS would be happy to give you the attention
you deserve.  I hope they have bio protection gear.

> walked though Ko-ryuan rice patties, right. You killed  N. Koreans for
> the foundamental theories  of the whiteman. Didn't you learn anything

Didn't kill any but was certainly willing to because they were someplace other
Asians declared they hadn't ought to be.  Doubtless you take the side of the
brave NKPA LIB men who shot an old fisherman for being on the wrong road at
the wrong time.  But hey, he was just a Kankokujin, right?

> from Mohommad Ali motherf*cker! Don't fuck with me man! You should

Unlike you, I DID learn a valuable lesson from Muhammad Ali.  Avoid
repetitious sharp blows to the head, they cause brain damage.  What are you,
a fly weight or just a generic mental lightweight...?

> chill, dude! You should ask
> somebody who your fuckin' with! Why don't you come and do a personal

Well it's pretty obvious that I'm annoying an impotent little educational
failure who couldn't make it in his own country.  Why do you ask?

> "deportation"! I'll send you back to OHIO in a bodybag! Now, you

As we say in the Infantry, let your conscience be your guide....

> misunderstood me in alot of s things that I said. But, let me say this,
> KEEP F**KIN' ME!

I couldn't "fuck" you, even if I was so inclined.  With your head wedged so
far up your ass, there just wouldn't be room....

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From: k3amichi@student.business.uwo.ca (Kentaro Nakamichi)
Subject: Re: DOES AMERICA SAY YES TO JAPAN? - Off track!!
Organization: University of Western Ontario
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 03:21:06 GMT

billd@gdstech.GRUMMAN.COM (Bill D'Camp) writes:

> There has been a tremendous amount of voluminous discussion about
> these issues, there obviously people on both sides of the issue.  I
> think it is a shame that more US companies don't use the same tactics
> as Kodak did in defending against Fuji.

Fill us in with the details.  I was under the impression that Kodak would 
get killed becuase all of their competition (Fuji, Konica, Mitsubishi, 
Agfa) had products that were vastly superior.  (I used to work in a 
darkroom in the summers.)

k3amichi@student.business.uwo.ca (Kentaro Nakamichi)
Western Business School  --  London, Ontario
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan