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From: riks@ogicse.ogi.edu (Rik Fischer Smoody)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Sushi Boy
Date: 2 Sep 92 00:50:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: ogicse.42258
Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute (formerly OGC), Beaverton, OR
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In article <7144@bigbird.hri.com.hri.com> blamb@rodan.hri.com (Bill Lambert) writes:
>OK.... for those quantities, I believe. I'd like to taste it though.
>
>(Sushi Boy is a chain in the Osaka area.... merry-go-round style.)

Sushi Boy : <average family-owned sushi-ya>
	:: McDonalds : <average family-owned steak-house>

That is: if you want a quick lunch, it's not a bad deal.
Calories/money is decent.
It won't impress your clients, however.
Don't go there on a first date.

Rik Fischer Smoody
    smOOdynamics	Systems Made Outa Objects
	2400 NE 25th, Suite 800
	Portland, OR 97212
503-249-8300		riks@cse.ogi.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: elt@astro.Princeton.EDU (Ed Turner)
Subject: Powerbooks in Japan
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 05:22:21 GMT

I know this has been discussed before, but could someone remind me of
the particulars of using (US purchased) Mac Powerbooks in Japan?  Basicly
it is a matter of compatability with the local power systems and physical
plugs.  I know that the kansai and the kanto are different.  Please feel
free to email me the answer to this question which is probably of fairly
limited general interest.

Ed Turner
elt@astro.princeton.edu
From: tatuya@isea.is.titech.ac.jp (9044430 YAMAMOTO Tatuya)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Is MAZDA a Japanese word?
Date: 4 Sep 92 13:22:10 GMT
    <Sep02.065350.40210@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> 
    <1992Sep2.122847.8604@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> 
    <Sep02.153019.71088@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
Organization: Information Science, Science, Tokyo Inst. of Tech.
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	Hmm... The story I've heard is a little bit different. 
At that time commonplace personal name couldn't be registered as
a trade mark, so he changed the spelling. 'Couse he could insist
that it wasn't "Matuda".
	Toyo kogyo changed its name into "Mazda" some years ago,
but not into "Anfini". The name "Anfini" which is from a French
word "infini" is one of the Mazda keiretu-ed dealear's name.
"Anfini" is spelled \~{\varepsilon}fini in LaTeX, it's in
International Phonetic Alphabet, perhaps.
	Now Mazda has 5 sales chanel, which are Mazda, Anfini(ex
MazdaAuto), Autorama, Aurozam, and Eunos. So Eunos Road Star
(Miata) is selled by Eunos.
	And about 25% of the stock in Mazda is owned by Ford
Motor Co.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,rec.arts.anime,rec.arts.movies
From: tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu ()
Subject: Re: More on japanese films
Organization: clearer than blir
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 22:38:15 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.083718.22228@omrongw.wg.omron.co.jp> Andy writes:
>
> I do have to put a plug in for NHK's channel two. It roughly
> corresponds to the American PBS. If they show a movie (or series) it
> is without commercials and unedited. And rarely is the schedule
> pre-empted for some sporting event that has gone over its allocated
> time (like baseball, grrr). Sometimes they have series: Hercule Poirot
> series, Sherlock Holmes, Australian Children's Television Workshop (or
> something like that, sorry), Moonlighting and now thay just started
> Murder She Wrote.

Without commercials? Yes! :-) Unedited? No! :-( Rare pre-emptions?
No! :-(  Perhaps it's just the exception that proves the rule, but it
was only last month that NHK bumped Moonlighting in the schedule to
show rain falling on Center Court at Wimbledon. (They seriously showed
this as a live broadcast for about an hour! No one playing, just
rain.) The Moonlighting they showed was the episode where they spoof
Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. An entire production number where
Bruce Willis sings "Do Love" was cut completely and utterly and, yes,
unforgiveably. Jeers to NHK Two for not having a clue about keeping
shows intact.

The coverage of pro American football on NHK Two (BS-version) sucks
pretty miserably too. How is it that with a 2-hour, commercial-free
format, they always manage to edit out an entire quarter? I've
home-edited games snap-to-whistle and found that actual play in a
pro-football game is less than 20 minutes. (Usually around 16
minutes.) It seems like there was plenty of fluff OTHER THAN actual
gameplay that could have been cut. But alas, the scissors at NHK
preferred to show everyone standing around during Instant Replay and
Time Outs rather than skip that part and go to the action. Jeers to
NHK Two (BS-version) for not having a clue about how to edit football
games. (They also were real bad about showing MacNeil/Lehrer and other
news shows on a consistent basis.)

Now, to be fair, I was lucky to get *any* Moonlighting, *any* American
football and *any* MacNeil/Lehrer in a foreign land. Cheers to
Japanese broadcasting for trying to please it's native Japanese and
foreign resident audience who are interested in such programming! BUT
let's not get all excited and say they do a good job at it. They do a
fair (as contrasts with good) job as regards a very commendable
broadcasting practice.

>-- 
> Andy Krantz   andy@nff.ncl.omron.co.jp   \ Everyone stares at me 'cause I is
> Phone: +81-75-951-5111 x3691 FAX: 956-7403\ gaijin. I understand nobody and 
> OMRON Corp., Computer Systems R&D Labs    / nobody understand me  How could
> Shimokaiinji, Nagaokakyo Kyoto, 617 Japan/   I possibly speak for company?

-- Tad Perry   Internet:    tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu
               CompuServe:  70402,3020
               NIFTY-Serve: GBG01266
From: ntetsuya@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Nishimura)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: What did Akihito do during the war
Date: 26 Aug 92 02:17:10 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523

In article <jwb.714787433@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au> jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au (Jim Breen) writes:

[stuff deleted]
>
>Correct, he was born in the early 30s. Rumour had it that the (military) government 
>was applying pressure on Hirohito to take a concubine, because the Empress
				   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
			Hirohito refused to do so inspite of the pressure.

>wilfully kept producing daughters. Finally she did the right thing. (Presumably
>officer training in those days did not cover X and Y chromosones.)
>

	Just for reference.

						Tetsuya Nishimura
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: edso@watson.ibm.com (Edward So)
Subject: Re: Any Japanese Pussycat Available?
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 17:40:02 GMT
Reply-To: edso@watson.ibm.com		
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Let's not dignify this dork by continuously posting 
followups.  He posted it from a stolen account, and the
true owner of the account confirmed it repeatedly.

Well, let me take a guess at this dork's identity.
He is Comp Sci major at U of Manitoba.  He loves OS/2 and
IBM PCs in general.  (And I admit I like his good taste in
PC operating system.)  He is a frequent poster to comp.os.os2.*
and comp.os.ms-windows.* groups with pro-OS2 and anti-Windows
rhetoric.  He used to be a harmless meganerd who read and posted
his irrelevant articles even at wee-hours of the morning, until
he discovered an account that was left logged in.
Stealing an account is a serious infraction, you know.
Are you listening, Mystery?
Are we getting a little too close for comfort??  Hmm???

-- 
Edward So,  Computing Systems, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
IBM VNET: EDSO at WATSON       Internet: edso@watson.ibm.com
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.china,soc.history
From: roten@CUBA.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Roten)
Subject: Re: US colonializing (Was: An open letter to the Emperor Akihito of Japan)
Organization: /cuba_b/dirbe/roten/.organization
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Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 18:30:31 GMT

In article <jwb.715225686@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au> 
jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au (Jim Breen) writes:

>miklg@acuson.com (Michael Goldman ) writes:

>>	I have seen this argument before, and it is hard for me to understand.
>>	The US was far superior in industrial and military capacity to Japan
>>	at the time Japan was grabbing its sphere of influence in the 1890's.
>>	In fact, the Russo-Japanese War was largely fought with war ships
>>	made in the US and the UK to order of the combatants.  

>From my reading, all the Russian ships were made in Germany or Russia, 
>and all the Japanese ships were made in the UK or Japan. Do you have any 
>information on ships made in the US?

>>       By the end
>>	of the US Civil War the US had the best Army and largest Navy in the
>>	world, and at any time after that could have carved out whatever
>>	piece of China she had a desire for.  

>Your patriotism has shanghaied your statistics here. Certainly in 1865 
>the Union Army was large and battle-hardened, but within a decade it was 
>run right down. As for the "largest Navy in the world", this is sheer 
>fantasy. At no time during the Civil War did the combined Union and 
>Confederate navies reach the size of the French navy, much less the Royal 
>(British) Navy. In ship numbers the USN trailed the Brits until after WWI. 
>In technology, it lagged behind both Britain and Germany in the 
>"Dreadnaught" revolution in naval architecture of the early 1900s.  

I'm glad you flamed him about this, Jim, because if you hadn't, I would 
have.  There is only one significant naval innovation the U. S. made 
before 1900, the ironclad.  And that was _immediately_ copied.  

As for the U. S. Army, even by 1865, it had not managed to rise to the 
high standards set by Prussia.  And, as you say, it promptly went to 
seed after the Civil War.  Sir John Hackett, in 'The Profession of Arms', 
discusses this peculiarly American military malaise at some length.  

We *STILL* don't have a !@~*^%$#!!@! General Staff. (!!!!)  Though the 
intellectual ferment resulting from the Vietnam war largely compensated 
for that lack.  

>>       If Japan could get terrtorial
>>	concessions from China in the 1890s certainly the US could have as well
>>	had she wanted them.  That she chose not to could be due to a number
>>	of reasons, but military inability seems hard to credit.

>It was busy at the time snatching colonies off Spain: (Philipines, Cuba, ...)

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.china,soc.culture.hongkong,soc.culture.taiwan
From: karchang@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kar Man Chang)
Subject: Re: An open letter to the Emperor Akihito of Japa
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 21:07:08 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.055806.18241@Princeton.EDU> wohfuchi@splash.Princeton.EDU (Wataru Ohfuchi) writes:
   [stuff omitted]
>
> I have a feeling that Japan loses many things by behaving as she does.
>For example, by refusing to apologize or to compensate war victims, the
>Japanese government loses real respect from other countries. Actually,
>not only the government, but the Japanese people suffer the loss.
>Even though the treaties we already discussed might justify the refusal,
>obviously it is not a very wise idea.
>  Now maybe Japan wants to lead a really good project in international
>relations. Japan, however, would get negative reactions from other
>countries, no matter how good the project is.
>
>...Wataru

I think you hit the nail on the head here. Japan has become an economic
giant, but its political influence is not as strong as its economic
influence.  I think its history during WWII plays an important role
in this.  Just by trying to forget everything about WWII and without
owning up to what it did, the effects of the war will always be a
dark shadow within Japan itself and between Japan and its neighbours.

I don't think you can blame the voters for not changing the government
or influencing the politicians on this matter.  It is probably not an
important issue at all within Japan.  What Japan needs is politicians
with a world vision.  Without satisfactorily handling the aftermath of
the war, Japan probably will not get the kind of support it hopes to 
get from its East Asian neighbours.

Xref: sparky soc.culture.japan:7554 soc.culture.china:24475 soc.history:7943
From: miklg@acuson.com (Michael Goldman )
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.china,soc.history
Subject: Re: US colonializing (Was: An open letter to the Emperor Akihito of Japan)
Date: 1 Sep 92 15:27:36 GMT
Organization: Acuson; Mountain View, California

jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au (Jim Breen) writes:

>miklg@acuson.com (Michael Goldman ) writes:

>>	In fact, the Russo-Japanese War was largely fought with war ships
>>	made in the US and the UK to order of the combatants.  

>From my reading, all the Russian ships were made in Germany or Russia, and all the
>Japanese ships were made in the UK or Japan. Do you have any information on ships
>made in the US?

	I know that the Japanese bought some submarines from the US (these
	were never used, but they scared the Russians since they were very
	new and thus not understood) and I seem to recall some others, but I
	will have to check.  The Russians had some submarines too, which they
	never used.

>>       If Japan could get terrtorial
>>	concessions from China in the 1890s certainly the US could have as well
>>	had she wanted them.  That she chose not to could be due to a number
>>	of reasons, but military inability seems hard to credit.

>It was busy at the time snatching colonies off Spain: (Philipines, Cuba, ...)

	This seems to support my thesis.  I.e., if the US could successfully
	send a fleet to the Philipines in 1898, she equally could have sent
	one to China ca. 1894 when Japan found some parts of China unclaimed
	by other powers.  Defeating China was terribly easy, due largely to
	the corrupt and decadent Dowager Empress's court - if Japan could do
	it, certainly the US could have as well.

	My point in citing the size of the US forces at the end of the US Civil
	War was that the US had the industrial _capability_ to field large
	and powerful armed forces as early as the 1860s.  That she later let
	them decline is true, but that is the same as saying that the US
	had little desire for military actions along the lines of other
	European powers in claiming large sections of the world.  The war with
	Spain was brief, and out of it the US acquired her only imperial
	possessions.  That the US did not immediately free all the colonies is
	certainly to her discredit, but it was not a US foreign policy objective
	to claim imperial possessions in the manner of the European powers.

	As for the size of the US Navy ca. 1865, I will check, you may be right.
	But I was thinking of the  total count, including blockade ships, which
	were admittedly not great war ships.

	You realize, do you not, that this will result in a 27-part series on
	the Open-Door policy, the Spanish-American War, and the US Civil
	War?  I'm sorry sirrah, that it must come to this, but you leave
	me no choice!   :-)

	- Michael Goldman

-- 
"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have
exhausted all other alternatives." - Abba Eban
	Disclaimer:  All views are solely my own & not the views of Acuson.
	<sun!sono!miklg>  or  [miklg@acuson.com]
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: fester@island.COM (Mike Fester)
Subject: Re: Phobia (was Re: The Russo-Japanese War (part 2))
Organization: /usr/local/rn/organization
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 15:18:00 GMT

In article <3798@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov> masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov (Michiaki Masuda) writes:
>In article <1992Aug30.152021.6111@acuson.com> miklg@acuson.com (Michael Goldman ) writes:
>>
>>	I have had that same feeling of wanting to avoid other Americans in
>>	Europe.  The reason was that once I opened up any conversation with
>>	them it was hard to avoid a rather lengthy talk.  My feeling was "I
>>	didn't come all this way to meet Americans!"
>
>   Here's my naive question. Would you be able to tell the difference
>between Americans and non-Americans without talking with them in Europe?

Probably. We get LOTS of tourists here in SF, from all over. I got good at
telling the difference between Europeans and American tourist very quickly,
and I pick out the Japanese here quickly as well. You can also tell us 
natives (of all ethnicities) quickly; we're the ones dressed for the San
Francisco weather, not the renowned California sunshine.

Actually, my wife can spot the Japanese tourists very quickly as well, now.

Mike
-- 
Disclaimer - I'm only doing what the little voices tell me to do. 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: ntetsuya@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Nishimura)
Subject: Re: Toto Washlet
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 05:41:39 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523

In article <1992Sep3.213103.21602@lsil.com> mitch@dc49.dc writes:

[Washlet stuff deleted]
>
>I was interested in getting one for my parents as "the mother of all
>Christmas presents."
>
>
	Well, it's gonna be an expensive gift, Mitch.  I got some recent 
	Japanese magazines from my friend and one of them happens to have a
	tiny information about Washlet.

	Toto's Ga (alpha) 1
		with ozone-deodorizing function
		     massage function (!)

		     139,000 yen = $1,121.00  ($1 = 124 yen)

		above functions and
		     remote control function
		     save-energy timer (setsu den taimaa)

		     159,000 yen = $1,282.25

	The article also mentions that Matsushita Electronics (= Panasonic)
	also has the similar kind of products named "kuriin shaware," which is
	probably "clean + shower + toilet."  The prices are not in there.
		  ^^^^^   ^^^^^^      ^^
	The article says that this kind of "washing toilet seats" are used in
	25% (!) of where they use western style toilet bowls (remember, we have
	good ol' traditional Japanese style, too :->).  It also says that makers	of the toilet seats expect to sell 1.3 million sets this year, which is 
	13% up of the last year statistics.

	BTW, I like "traditional ones," too.

	Just for reference.
				
						Tetsuya Nishimura
From: jd@latcs2.lat.oz.au (John Dimogotsis)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Want name of two japanes movies.
Date: 27 Aug 92 06:18:34 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia


	Hi there, I am looking for the title of 2 particular japanese movies,
	if anyone knows of these and would like to e-mail me the answers I 
	would appreciate this. 
		It has been a long time since I viewed these but I roughly
	remember the themes. If may recolection is not true please bear with
	me, the story may ring some bell.
		The first movie involves a middle age samurai ("Toshiro Mifune"
	I think) who's son-in-law and daughter findthemselves in some sort
	of strife most propably finnancial difficulty, in any event these two
	die in the hands of the "bad-guys" who are the authority in the village.
	So the Samurai takes the grandchild (baby propably girl) and attempts
	to flee the village, he would be dead too if he hadn't cut down half
	of the bad-guys. At the border with some other province he has a duel
	with a samurai guarding the gate in which he prevails, only to die in
	the closing scene from repeated gunshot wounds, this is a very powerful
	scene were he drags himself by his sword not giving up until he is dead
	The child is taken by some peasant women who is passing by.
		The second movie is in black-and-white (don't know the staring
	actor's name) but the theme is similar in that again the son of an
	roughly middle aged samurai has become very poor, so poor in fact
	that he sells his sword and replaces it with a wooden one. Because
	of his poverty he asks help from the local "lord" who dosen't 
	oblige and so the poor young samurai has to commit "sepuku" (hara-kiri)
	with the wooden sword! I don't remember what happens to the wife and/or
	children, but the father of the young man goes to the lord himself,
	quietly outraged by manner of the hara-kiri. After a long talk with
	the lord where he tells the story of his son (this is actualy how
	every thing is revealed in the movie that is through the storytelling
	of the young man's father and 'flshbacks'), the middle aged samurai
	does battle against the lord and all his retainers, all by himself,
	he kills many but can't kill all, so he makes his way to some "holy"
	place in the lord's house and he himself commits suicide before
	the lords men can have the satisfaction of killing him. (Actually
	something like hara-kiri might have been the title).
		As I said I saw these movies many years ago when I was still
	a boy so if any one could help me out I would be greatfull.
						John Dimogotsis.
From: jp@wuntvor.norman.ok.us (J.P.)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Opinions sought
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 92 09:34:37 CDT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Eternal Apprentice BBS, Norman, OK

       It mostly depends upon the group that you are with.  I was in Japan
with an organized exchange.  The families I stayed with knew English, and
helped me to get along.  I barely knew any Japanese.  Most of the people I met
were patient with me, and tried to speak English.  So, I think it is possible
to get along, as long as you are with someone who can speak some Japanese.
       I would reccommend that you try to go through some travel language
books.  There are a lot of different ones available.  The Japanese people I
met appreciated me trying to speak in Japanese, when they could tell I didn't
know it well.
       It would also be a good idea to check into some culture books, so you
don't make any social faux paus.  (eg, If you tell someone that you admire
something in their home, you may find it as a present later!)

-J.P.


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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,rec.arts.anime,rec.arts.movies
From: chosei@suiren.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp ()
Subject: Re: More on japanese films
Organization: Dept. of Info. Sci., Kyoto Univ., Japan.
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Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 13:02:39 GMT



I've been looking for the Oshima's movie "In the Realm of the Senses"
but I can't find it in rental houses. 
It seems that the name in japanes is "Ai no Koriida" $@0&$N%3%j!<%@(J.
   Does anyone know it this movie was censored here ?
   If not, under what indexes I can find it?

Thanks,

$@20NI(J Claudio $@D+@6(J 


Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au (Jim Breen)
Subject: Re: Sakamoto
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 00:14:23 GMT

yyg8104@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (A Question) writes:

>What's the Chinese characters for the name "sakamoto" ? Anyone can help ?

saka is JIS 3a64/NELSON 1061 slope, incline,hill

moto is JIS4b5c/NELSON 96  book, origin, etc
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