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From: robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu (Henry Robertson)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: 'Sushi' boy (follow up)
Date: 4 Oct 1992 20:09:03 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: headcrash.berkeley.edu


   By the way, I heard that 'Sushi' boy is planning to import the frozen
   meet bowl (Gyu^don) now.

   ********************************
   *      Hirokatsu Watanabe      *
   *------------------------------*
   * Mo^karimakka?  Sapparidesuwa *
   *        Maido Ookini          *
   ********************************

   Oh, good!  Maybe Yoshinoya will start serving better beef for a change...
   beyond Matzuzakaya/Kobe beef, most Japanese beef SUCKS.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: s92458km@sfc.keio.ac.jp (Kunio Muto)
Subject: Mr.Baseball
Organization: Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus.
Distribution: soc.culture.japan
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 09:57:57 GMT


	Mr. Baseball, starring Tom Selleck sounds a lot like Gung Ho
Baseball version..... I'd like to know further information about this
movie since it sounds interesting to me......

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From: miklg@acuson.com (Michael Goldman )
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: address by Consul General
Date: 26 Sep 92 15:26:11 GMT
Organization: Acuson; Mountain View, California

cb522@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Cathy Atwood) writes:
> 
>At another point in his address, Mr. Wada said that after
>Japan was defeated in the last war, China returned 300
>Japanese safely to Japan.  China said they did not want to
>return evil for evil, they wanted to return good for evil. 

	There were a lot of Japanese troops left in Japan
	after 1945, and for a while the Nationalists and
	Americans used them to fight the Red Army.  I
	don't know when or by whom (KMT or CCP) the 300
	were returned, but I think there were considerably
	more than 300 in China, so I wonder how they were
	repatriated.

	(Source: "The American Occupation of Japan" by
	 Schaller)

	- Michael Goldman

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	Disclaimer:  All views are solely my own & not the views of Acuson.
	<sun!sono!miklg>  or  [miklg@acuson.com]
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: mccullou@cae.wisc.edu (Mark McCullough)
Subject: mac word processing and language learning
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
Date: 28 Sep 92 22:51:35 CDT

   This topic has probably been addressed before, but I am new to the net so 
please excuse me. I need a Japanese word processor and a language tutorial for
the apple Macintosh. Please e-mail me and tell me where and how to get a hold
of such programs. I am a second year Japanese student at U. of Wisconsin, so
I will probably need a moderately advanced tutorial. Any advice or warnings
would be greatly appreciated.
   
            Keith Booton(through Mark McCullough)
From: rehir@gauss.med.harvard.edu (Hirokatsu Watanabe 432-2275)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: nuclear Japan
Date: 4 Oct 92 04:12:43 GMT
Organization: Harvard Medical School


 miklg@acuson.com (Michael Goldman ) writes:

>robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu (Henry Robertson) writes:

>>Wasn't there a Todai professor who was doign some research on the bomb 
>>during WW2, who blew himself up?

>        Hirohito himself had patronized the experimental research
>        you refer to.  A 38-year old Physicist named Odan and some
>        technicians were blown up in what was probably a chemical
>        explosion due to carelessness under pressure to get a bomb
>        working before the US invaded.  The explosion demolished
>        several buildings, just a few months before the US dropped 
>        their own bombs.

   Excuse me. What source did you get this information from?

As far as I know, the development of atomic bomb was carried out only in
Army and Navy. The Navy's development was attended by Dr. Yukawa, who
won the Nobel prize, but it was in a very crude level. Maybe it would
need more than 100 years for the completion of the atomic bomb.

   The Army's development was better than the Navy's. It was carried out
by Dr. Nishina etc. in 'Rikagaku' Laboratory. They made and accumulate
enriched uranium by a big centrifuge. However, the enriched uranium and
the centrifuge were burned by the bombing of US air force in 1944 or 
early 1945.

>        An interesting alternate history; what if Japan had gotten
>        the bomb first?  Would we now be treated to Japanese
>        expressions of sorrow and guilt at the nuking of San Francisco
>        and Seattle?  Given the character of the Japanese government
>        at the time, I sort of doubt it.

   In 1944 or 1945, Japanese military didn't already have the ability to 
bring a bomb to the West coast of USA. Maybe, they wouldn't be abe to use
it even for USSR army after their declaration of war. Because 'Kanto^'
Army couldn't use their biological weapon, which 731 troop made, agaist USSR.
   Only possibilty is the carrying the atomic bomb by a baloon bomb to USA.
Or some stupid generals might use it in China or Korea.


********************************
*       Hirokatsu Watanabe     *
*------------------------------*
* Moukarimakka?  Sapparidesuwa *
*         Maido Ookini         *
********************************
From: rehir@gauss.med.harvard.edu (Hirokatsu Watanabe 432-2275)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Is a Japanese family responsible for the debt of one of its members?
Keywords: debt, family
Date: 4 Oct 92 21:51:53 GMT
Organization: Harvard Medical School


 louis@cs.mcgill.ca (Louis LECLERC) writes:

>I have heard that the family of a Japanese individual is responsible for
>the debts that such an individual holds if for some reason he is
>unable to pay. Is this true (either legally/ or morally?)?

   The family isn't responsible for the debts legally. Of course, 
the parents are responsible for the debts which their children, who 
are less than 20 years old, contract.
   However, the family often pay the debt in Japan, if the person, who
brorrow money, can't pay it. Because the family often become a guarantor,
when he gets into debt. 
   In addition, creditors sometimes demand the family to pay the debt,
even if they aren't guarantors. They can reject it legally, but often
pay it because of keeping up appearances ('Sekentei').
   I guess, recently the cases in which the family rejects to pay the
debt or become guarantors are increasing.

>I also heard that ifsomeone commits suicide by jumping in front of
>the train, their family is responsible for a fine (for this individual
>doing the jumping in front of the train).

   I have heard about it. I heard, if someone jumps in front of a car,
the family may get money from the driver. But if he jumps in front of
a train, the family have to pay money. Maybe it's based on some laws
related to railroad. But I'm sorry. I don't know it, and not sure.

   By the way, in many Japanese period drama of Edo era, when a person
can't pat his debt, his daughter is sold.
      'Kane o Oiteikenainara, Musume o Oiteike!' (If you can't leave money,
leave your daughter)
      'Otottaaan....'(Daddyyyyy...)  'Ohanaaa.....'    :-)


********************************
*      Hirokatsu Watanabe      *
*------------------------------*
* Mo^karimakka?  Sapparidesuwa *
*        Maido Ookini          *
********************************
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: collins@socrates.umd.edu (Jim C)
Subject: REPOST!: Deluxe Beppin
Keywords: article
Organization: University of Maryland University College
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 18:53:10 GMT

One more time, with feeling:

Does anyone else in this newsgroup get Deluxe Beppin?
There's an article in the Oct. 92 (current) issue I have some questions
about :-). 

While I'm reposting, does anyone in this newsgroup have Yuka Watanabe's
home phone number lying around :-) :-) :-) :-)?

I'm thinking of creating a Yuka Watanabe mailing list, if interested
please mail me.

Anyone who replied to my original post, please re-mail me, because I
managed to screw up my incoming mail so it never got delivered (!@$%^).

Jim C.
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: yokoyama@ee.ualberta.ca (Masami Yokoyama)
Subject: Place to live in Tokyo for 8 mths.
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 19:48:30 GMT

Hi nn readers,

I am a Computer Engineering Student from the University of Alberta in Canada.
I was just offered a job from a Japanese company located in Tokyo (Ueno) for 8  months from next January till August.  At this moment, only the problem I have  is that I do not have any idea about the place I will be living in during that  time.  Unfortunatelly, this company does not have any residence or dorm or
anything like that.  And since I am only a student hired temporary for the
work experence program from my university, I cannot expect to be paid much, so
probably it will be hard for me to afford an apartment room.  

Does anyone have any suggestions about what I can do?  Or can someone give me
an information about rents and stuff around Ueno?  The company is located in    Taitou-ku, so it would be nice if I can live within 1-2 hours train ride from   there.  I did live in Japan before, and I been on those rush hour train before,
so I can mannage that. 

Please e-mail, so that I will not miss any information.

Thanks in advance.  

Masami Yokoyama

e-mail : yokoyama@bode.ee.ualberta.ca
From: wdw@math2.sma.usna.navy.MIL (Wm. Douglas Withers -- math  FACULTY <wdw@sma.usna.navy.mil>)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Japanese Censorship & Violence against Women
Date: 30 Sep 92 19:28:28 GMT
Organization: U.S. Naval Academy

In article <farant.1oui@terapin.com> farant@terapin.com (Faran Thomason) writes:
[stuff deleted]
>My question is Why are Japanese censors prudish in the showing of genetaila but
>Ultra Liberal on the sexually-violent subject matter ???

My own theory is that the Japanese are prone to literal interpretations of
regulations.  Relative to pornography, we can contrast the attitudes taken
in the U.S. and Japan.  In the U.S. we have long involved discussions on
the definition of obscenity.  In Japan, obscenity is simply defined to mean
the depiction of genitalia.  Thereafter, as long as genitalia are not
depicted, *anything* goes.

There is an anecdote from one of Jack Seward's books which I think
illustrates this trait (literal-mindedness) well.  Mr. Seward used to pass
a small shrine every day on his way to work.  One day a priest was lettering
a sign next to the shrine:  "Do not urinate here."

The following week one day the priest was out there again, adding another
line to the sign:  "Or defecate either."
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: matitude@milton.u.washington.edu (Matthew Miller)
Subject: Internships
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 01:39:28 GMT

To everyone

I am trying to get information on undergrad engineering internships in Japan.
If anybody knows of any Japanese companies or American companies that would 
send an intern to Japan please e-mail me the information.  Paticualarly the 
kind of engineerning I am interested in is Computer Engineering of Electrical.
Thanks
From: 6500topo@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Rabid Rat)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Japanese word processer software need
Date: 28 Sep 92 18:40:36 GMT

In article <1992Sep28.012718.13976@nuscc.nus.sg> elezhouh@nuscc.nus.sg (Zhou Hong (Dr)) writes:

>Could someone tell me where I can retrieve via ftp Japanese word
>processer software used on IBM-PC.           

>Thank you in advance.

>Zhou
>At NUS

Try FTPing rigel.acs.oakland.edu

Under /pub/msdos/txtutl they should still have two nj101?.zip files
archive versions of NJSTAR, really neat Japanese WP, that can handle
Kanji as well as Kana. I's shareware, but the price (aroud fifty $)
is really low.
If you can't find it, please e-mail me and I will give you more
precise references/instructions

bye


Paolo

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From: lindaa@info.Berkeley.EDU (Linda Absher)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,ucb.study.abroad.japan,ucb.discuss.japan
Subject: Another Call for Occupation Photos
Date: 26 Sep 1992 16:50:08 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: info.berkeley.edu
Keywords: Occupation, SCAP, CIE

I've posted this before, but I think this is a very important project
to warrant another posting.

Yukihisa Ishimatsu, the Japanese bibliographer for the University of California
at Berkeley is currently looking for photographs of Japan during the Allied
Occupation.  He is working with a Japanese publisher in the hopes of 
publishing a book of these photos.  

Anyone who has photos (quality is *not* a concern) should contact Mr.
Ishimatsu.  Perhaps there's someone out there whose father (or mother)
served with the military during that time and still has photos locked 
away somewhere.

Mr. Ishimatsu's address is:

		East Asian Library
		University of California at Berkeley
		Berkeley, CA 94720

Telephone and e-mail are:

		(510) 642-2556
		yishimat@.library.Berkeley.edu

Thank you.
 


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From: ajeans@hplred.HP.COM (Albert Jeans)
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 19:53:20 GMT
Subject: Tokyo homestay
Organization: Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto CA
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan

I'd like to stay in the Tokyo area for about 3 weeks. Are there any homestay
programs for non-students?
From: kurkoski@cco.caltech.edu (Brian M. Kurkoski)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Gifts when visiting Japan.
Date: 29 Sep 1992 03:57:12 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandman.caltech.edu

atluri@berlioz.nsc.com (Venkata R. Atluri) writes:


>I know somebody asked the same question sometime back. Can someone
>suggest what are considered appropriate and interesting gifts to 
>give when one is visiting friends in Japan. I am looking for some
>unique gift ideas that Japanese get excited about.

I think I might have asked that question, before I left for Japan some
three months ago; now I am back and have a little experience on the matter.

I took whisky, beef jerky, chocolate and cookies; but I really wished I'd 
brought T-shirts, pens, books, etc. that were printed with my school name, 
city name or even state.  This makes the gift more personal, a bit more
real.  But I know better what to take next time.

Enjoy Japan.

Brian Kurkoski
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: bkdavis@eos.ncsu.edu (B K DAVIS)
Subject: Yakuza
Originator: bkdavis@c00100-100lez.eos.ncsu.edu
Reply-To: bkdavis@eos.ncsu.edu (B K DAVIS)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 17:34:28 GMT


I am interested in any and all little facts about the yakuza. I am sure
that people can tell me something about them. Email me so that it is safer.
Thanks

Brian
aka
Tetsu shi
From: robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu (Henry Robertson)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Mr. Baseball (Again!)
Date: 3 Oct 1992 01:27:31 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: headcrash.berkeley.edu

Well, enough talk, i think i'll go see the shit tonight.  and then sneak around
other movies in the theater, a privilege attainable in the US only.  But
since I'm protectionist, i had better buy up all the tickets in the theater.
From: v999s3m2@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Chili O'Cima)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Good Luck Letter
Date: 6 Oct 92 15:49:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Hello news readers;

I have got a letter of "GOOD LUCK". This letter says that I will get
something good if I send 20 copies of this letter to my friends within
four days, and that if I do not, I'll be die in the several days. 
Moreover, it mekes me to keep secret.

I know the existance of the kind of letter but I've never got one
before. Indeed my Japanese friend sent it to me. (Although there was
not the sender's name, the style of hadwriting tells me the sender.)
I will ignore such a letter, but I want to know how do you Japanese
or non-Japanese feel about it. Do you like such a childish habit?

Further, I guess some of you deal with such a GOOD LUCK letter. Then 
I want to ask you what you did at that time. Will I really be happy if
I follow the instructions? I got the letter 2 days ago, but nothing 
good is happen! 

If you have some information about that please post or e-mail to me:

v999s3m2@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu

Thank you.
Chili.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,news.answers
From: dsbeck@athena.mit.edu (Douglas S Beck)
Subject: Know someone at a motorcycle company???
Keywords: Japanese motorcycle company
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 16:34:03 GMT

I am working on a PhD project at MIT, designing a regenerated gas-turbine engine
for a motorcycle application.  I am trying to find motorcycle companies
interested in this research.  I would appreciate anyone who knows someone at
Honda, Kawasaki, Yamaha, Suzuki, etc. sending me the person's address, e-mail
address, telephone number, or fax number.  Thank you.

Doug Beck

Douglas S Beck
MIT Room 7-042
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge MA 02139

office telephone: +617 253 3555
home telephone (with answering machine): +617 494 1825
e-mail: dsbeck@athena.mit.edu
From: kokuyama@oregon.uoregon.edu (Kumiko Okuyama)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: DATA ANYONE?  MALE-FEMALE WAGES
Date: 4 Oct 92 19:30:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: oregon.4OCT199212305139
Organization: University of Oregon
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

focusing on male-female wage differentials, and looking for individual
data.  All I could find so far were aggregate data in yearbooks.  What
I have been trying to find is a sample data set -- a list of individual's
wage, occupation, education, sex, job tenure, marital status, etc.  
I do not need names and addresses of those individuals.

     I know it's very difficult because they are census like data, and 
to have an access to those data from the United States further complicates
things.

     But, I just want to do econometric analyses with the data.  I am not
interested in privacy of other people.

     ** Do anyone know how to have an access to those data. if they exit? **

     ** You can contact me through the department, or through E-mail. **

     ** Kumiko Okuyama                  ** E-mail
     ** Department of Economics               kokuyama@oregon.uoregon.edu
     ** University of Oregon
     ** Eugene, OR 97403
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: hiraga@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Yuzuru Hiraga)
Subject: Re: The Northern Islands
Organization: Stanford University CSLI
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 13:08:00 GMT

In article <1992Sep28.152257.2783@island.COM> fester@island.COM (Mike Fester) writes:
>It has been my impression that many Japanese are almost completely unaware of
>the events surrounding the Soviet-Japanese relations in WWII.

I wonder what you mean by this.  Please be more specific.
The major conflicts (which began by Japanese intrusion and resulted in
a crushing defeat) took place before the WWII(1939/1941) and accordingly
before the neutrality treaty (1941).

-Yuzuru Hiraga
From: yajima@nttcom.ntt.jp (YAJIMA Hiroshi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Re : Japan Central League
Date: 5 Oct 92 07:44:11 GMT
Organization: NTT Network Information Systems Labs. Musashino, Tokyo

In article <cenwqoG00Uh7M5pHRe@andrew.cmu.edu> pg27+@andrew.cmu.edu (Prakash S. Gulrajani) writes:

>   I am not a Giants fan but you said the hopes of Giants clinching the
>   pennant was "dashed".  What do you mean?  What Is Tiger's magic number?

								   Kuppy

There are 130 games in the Japan Central League Season, so the numbers of
the remnant games are;

Hanshin Tigers   5
Yakult Swallows  5
Yomiuri Giants   1
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^   ^^
Hiroshima Carp   2
Taiyo Whales     1
Chunichi Dragons 2
----------
whereas Japan Central League Standing (Through games on Sunday October 4th) is;
                       
                      W   L   T   Pct.   GB
Hanshin Tigers       66  59   2  .528    --
Yakult Swallows      65  60   1  .520    1.0
Yomiuri Giants       66  63   0  .512    2.0
Hiroshima Carp       65  63   0  .508    2.5
Taiyo  Whales        61  68   1  .473    7.0
Chunichi Dragons     59  69   0  .461    8.5
-----------

 Consequently, even if Yomiuri Giants can win the final game, they cannot
win the victory in the Central League, and there is no Tigers' magic number 
yet.

------ Hiroshi
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: smittie@beach.csulb.edu (Smittie)
Subject: Re: Question on Dates?
Organization: Cal State Long Beach
	<SMITTIE.92Oct1155148@beach.csulb.edu>
	<1992Oct2.004456.12981@u.washington.edu>
	<1992Oct2.233708.12628@til.til.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 18:58:16 GMT

>No one is going to remember or use the cut off date to differentiate Showa 64
>and Heisei 1.

This is, in essence, what I was trying to say.

smittie
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