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From: underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe)
Subject: Re: Comfort girls?
Keywords: rape of nangking
Organization: Miners for a Heart of Gold
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 02:30:46 GMT

In article <1992Dec29.185024.4057@island.COM> fester@island.COM (Mike Fester)
writes:
>In article <1992Dec29.025921.144@leland.Stanford.EDU>
>underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:
>Excuse me, but could you at least make a feeble attempt to confine your posts 
>topics dealing with Japan? You hatred of other Asian cultures is well-known

Is that anything like Mr. Fester's hatred of homosexuals?

>already. If you have nothing to say about JAPAN, post somewhere else.

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: comptec91025@camins.camosun.bc.ca (Ian Hobday)
Subject: Re: Telephones in Japan
Organization: Camosun College
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 17:18:44 GMT

[ Part of original deleted... ]

>>What does it cost to get a phone installed in Japan (Osaka area, in case it 
>>matters).  How about monthly charges?  Are all calls by the minute?  Is 
>>there a difference between local/long distance?  Do apartments ever come with 
>>phones installed (what is the norm?)?
> 
> The last time I got a phone it cost me 72,800 yen for the line which
> they bring to the outside of the house. To have it connected to the
> inside runs about 10,000 yen unless you do it yourself (I do).

Hmm, how did you run it in yourself?  With a few tips I'm sure that I could 
too.  Does it work the same with apartments?  Someone else menitioned that a 
lot of this original is a deposit...Do you know how much?

[ Remainder of a most helpful post deleted... ]

Thanks Muchly...

Ian.
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: hiraga@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Yuzuru Hiraga)
Subject: BEWARE!! (Re: RACIST NINTENDO)
Summary: better not respond
Organization: Stanford University CSLI
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 08:39:36 GMT

In article <1992Dec30.224334.18880@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> carasso@Turing.ORG (Roger Carasso) writes:
>Has anyone seen the Nintendo game "Bart v.s. the World"?
>There are many racist anti-chinese aspects to it.

For those innocent readers of scj that may not know --
this Roger Carasso is a known notorious flame-bait thrower.

If you're in doubt; check the X-refs and followup-to lines:
  >Newsgroups: soc.culture.china,talk.bizarre,soc.culture.japan
  >Followup-To: soc.culture.china,talk.bizarre,misc.test,rec.pets,
  >		soc.culture.japan

Watch out!!

# Goodthing Serdar Argic hasn't invaded here (yet).

-YH
From: mmigdol@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (michael a migdol)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Looking for other EAGLE participants
Date: 3 Jan 93 17:56:40 GMT
Reply-To: mmigdol@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (michael a migdol)
Distribution: na
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Originator: mmigdol@grumpy.cc.utexas.edu

Konnichiwa!

    I am looking for students who have been accepted into the EAGLE (Engineering
Alliance for Global Education) program. I'm planning on staying in Japan after
the program ends for about two weeks, and would like to find someone to travel 
with during that time. Please respond by e-mail if possible. 

Thanks in advance...
Michael
From: ms0a@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Michiyo Shinoda)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: He's gone (so sad)
Date: 22 Dec 92 23:59:16 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <BzL6L2.M62.1@cs.cmu.edu>, jfriedl+@cs.cmu.edu (Jeffrey Friedl) write
s:
>Sad news.... the account of he known to us as "R. Asano" has been disabled
>at CMU as part of a big housecleaning to get rid of old accounts. Those
>who were an official part of the university last semester were not included
>in the cleaning, so whoever Rikiya Asano was, he was not a student.

No wonder my brother (who goes to CMU...) couldn't locate his name anywhere
but on the net!

may s.
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: fester@island.COM (Mike Fester)
Subject: Re: Comfort girls?
Keywords: rape of nangking
Organization: /usr/local/rn/organization
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:51:54 GMT

In article <1992Dec30.023046.17816@leland.Stanford.EDU> underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:
>In article <1992Dec29.185024.4057@island.COM> fester@island.COM (Mike Fester)
>writes:
>>In article <1992Dec29.025921.144@leland.Stanford.EDU>
>>underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:
>>Excuse me, but could you at least make a feeble attempt to confine your posts 
>>topics dealing with Japan? You hatred of other Asian cultures is well-known
>
>Is that anything like Mr. Fester's hatred of homosexuals?

Perhaps you would care to find a post of mine criticising homosexual culture,
criticising them for have "homosexual names", or whatever. No doubt, you will
have as difficult a time doing that as you do confining your remarks to 
things Japanese on soc.culture.japan.

>>already. If you have nothing to say about JAPAN, post somewhere else.

In Japanese-related news: the figures released by the Japanese regarding chip
sales in Japan of US chips shows a slight decrease in US market share from 
about 16.1% to 15.9%. The initial increases came after Bush's "disasterous"
trip to Japan, and was the biggest quarterly increase on record. The current
adminsitration plans no action, but the 1992 quarterly sales for the fourth
quarter will become public in March, and could well be one of Clinton's first
imoportant trade issues.

Mike
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deficient, weak-willed, inconsequential, namby-pamby tool of some vague but
conveniently defined conspiracy, or b) my wife.
From: st911293@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Sarah)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: SEXISM IN JAPANESE WORKPLACE!!!!
Date: 21 Dec 92 19:00:36 GMT
Reply-To: st911293@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University

In article <BzKy05.3Lz@jrd.dec.com>, doi@jrd.dec.com (Hitoshi Doi) writes:
>In article <BzJ4Av.353@CAM.ORG>, cheung@CAM.ORG (Shirley Cheung) writes:
># Anyway, I wonder how long will it take to eliminate all the sexist
># prejudice held by the corporate society in Japan---> at least to the same 
>#  degree in North American. Well, although we still have prejudice in North
># Amercia, we have moved quick fast recenty toward sex-equality. For
># instance, most of the managers are now females; we have 50% of female
># students in Medical and law schook; 25% in engineering...etc. I wonder how
># long will the Japanse society take to match the same level of equality as
># in North America.
>
>Who says equality is good?
What type of equality? The ability to receive education equal
to yours? the chance to continue working after marriage? The 
chance to be more than an Elevator Lady? I wonder if you would
put such a rhetorical question if there were more Japanese
women on the net. Maybe you feel safe to do so because there
*are* so few with access to the privileges you have.
In any case, I find it personally hard to believe that Japanese
women as a category would be so different from women in general
that they would not enjoy developing their full potential without
hindrance from people like you. 
>Who says Japanese women want to be equal..
>--
>Hitoshi Doi, International Open Systems Engineering        doi@jrd.dec.com
>Japan Research and Development Center               decwrl!jrd.dec.com!doi
>Digital Equipment Corporation Japan      [from JUNET: doi@jrd.dec-j.co.jp]
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: akuma@netcom.com (Steven E Barnes)
Subject: Re: Days of the Week in Japanese and Korean
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 00:13:57 GMT

In article <1992Dec30.081538.1117@Csli.Stanford.EDU>, hiraga@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Yuzuru Hiraga) writes:
> 
> * Freya and Frigga
> AH, BF, DM all claim that Frigga is the wife of Odin.
> As for Freya, BF and DM mention her as the wife of Odin, AH makes
> no such comment, and none claim her to be the wife of Thor.
> Both BF and DM say that the two are often [con]fused: (from BF):
> "In Teutonic mythology, [Frigga] is often confused with Frigga."

You're right.  I was thinking of Sif.

-steve
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: ntetsuya@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Nishimura)
Subject: Re: Another Fool!
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 03:13:37 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523
Keywords: Isn't this also a discrimination, Mr. Asano?

In article <cfBaR9K00iV384Az4d@andrew.cmu.edu> ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rikiya Asano) writes:
[Mr. CMauritz's "happy" "sad" news deleted :-(] 
> 
>Since, my very short death and a most pleasant awakening and also
>looking at the lot of your comments, I have decided that I am in the top
>2% of the most idealists/visionaries(an perhaps the most liberal) in
>this group. I am also convinced that most of you aren't fair because you
>don't want to be. The majority is holding back progress. Out of the lot
							  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>of people, only four to nine
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>are graduates students. None are engineers!!!! No, maybe a couple! Most
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>of you are "dead weight" in my search to the meaning of life. During, my
>rapp with you all I had almost lose the handled to my education. But as
>the saying goes,"Good
>never die we just keep on winning and succeeding and all that"! At the
>super- success at my first term as Master Student, I will vow to be more
>better in my studies. The beginning of this year was very hard for me.
>The suicide of my mother and death of my uncle and other of lifes
>troubles. But, by the Grace of God, many of you, my instructors and CMU-
>I won! I won!!
>
>Mr. CMauritz you're a fool. You were happy at the content of another
>fool's misinformation. And, let me add, misinformation is being nice.

	
	Well, if you say dicriminating people by their race, or Buraku if you
	prefer, isn't dicriminating people by their academic degrees and 
	occupations also a form of racism, Mr. Asano (or whoever you are)?
	Or at least isn't is a form of discrimination?

	Because of this attitude, many of the netters in this group and t.p.g
	have called you racist.  At least I can say you are discriminating 
	people by their educational background.  What if there are lots of 
	Ph.D holders or masters candidates and holders?

	If I don't even call you a racist, you are discriminating.


					Tetsuya Nishimura

Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: jfriedl@omron.co.jp (Jeffrey Friedl)
Subject: Re: Where's Rikiya?
Reply-To: jfriedl@omron.co.jp
Organization: Carnegie Mellon / Omron Corporation
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 01:27:41 GMT

lindaa@omen.Berkeley.EDU (Linda Absher) writes:
|> Sorry to take up bandwidth with this message, but I've been 
|> trying to communicate with Mr. Asano for two days, but all  
|> messages are returned with the notation that the account has
|> been disabled.

As of very recently, his account appears to have been re-enabled.  He was
using it even when it was "disabled" (how is a mystery), although it
appears to be a normal (enabled) account again, so your e-mail should get
through if you try again.

I would guess that either he is being given special treatment, or that it was
a mistake that his account was disabled (which I personally doubt since there
was so much publicity that "YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE DISABLED" to each user on
the list). But I don't know.

However, as we all know (because RA was kind enough to let us know),
my ability to be educated is suspect, so my not knowing every point of
detail is to be expected.

BTW, Rickey, you said you liked Prince.  I too like his music, but I wonder
how *you* can like it.... maybe you don't know he's BLACK!  Such a thing
doesn't matter to me, but then I'm not racest.....

	*jeff*
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Currently visiting scientist to the Mach Project, Carnegie Mellon University.
From: jcliu@four-lab4.Berkeley.EDU (James C. Liu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Roman Hikou (was: Pheromones,otoko,and cabs)
Date: 31 Dec 1992 22:14:43 GMT
Organization: UC Berkeley Dept. of Nuclear Engineering
NNTP-Posting-Host: four-lab4.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Dec31.210120.20111@Csli.Stanford.EDU> hiraga@Csli.Stanford.EDU
(Yuzuru Hiraga) writes:

  >Naw, naw, naw; who'd bother about a team that doesn't make the Top 25?
  >It's the brand label that counts, like UCLA, USC, or Notre Dame
  >(Come to think of it, Stanford beat all of them (and Cal, of course)).
  >And never mind about MIT (this, actually, is good advice).

Well, I was hoping to appeal to the intelligent Japanese ladies who can
differentiate between a sweatshirt omiyage from a good sports college,
and one with a World Class academic reputation and more Nobel Prizes. :-)  

However, truth is,  I have lots of respect for both Stanford and MIT. 
Both are outstanding academic institutions.  Yeah, sweatshirts from
those schools would also make fine omiyage.  And Stanford did kick Cal's
butt in Football.  Yeah...only because I was too busy workin' on the 
Ph.D. to join the team. :-)

  >
  >	/   /   /   /   /   /
  >	\   \   \   \   \   \
  >	/   /   /   /   /   / 		(flames!!)
  >	\   \   \   \   \   \ 
  >	/\  /\  /\  /\  /\  /\
  >	\/  \/  \/  \/  \/  \/
  >	----------------------

Something about this looks _strange_.  Are these flames with rising
convection currents or magnified schematics of six male-produced genetic
information packets?  :-)  Or is this your way of stating that your 
pheromones are getting over abundant down on the Farm?

Jaa, James
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From: fester@island.COM (Mike Fester)
Subject: Re: Texas Southern University marching band in To^kyo^
Keywords: A self perpetuating phenomena
Organization: /usr/local/rn/organization
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:55:52 GMT

In article <1gq77pINNcoe@agate.berkeley.edu> haniff@argon.berkeley.edu (Tariq M. Haniff) writes:
>
>I don't mean to try to justify what happened in Akihabara, but I think some
>ugly behaviour of foreigners in Japan is perpetuated by the existing racism
>against them.  What I mean is that there is a "damned if you do, damned if
>you don't" attitude, so why not? This probably was not the case with TSU,
>which sounds to me like the "opportunist" syndrome of the LA riots.

Right, this was a group kids stealing while on a school field trip (an all-
expense paid trip, BTW).

>When I was in Tokyo, I saw a bunch of Navy guys jumping the rail on the 
>subway. I thought to myself, "what a  bunch of a**h*les.  This is going 
>to do a lot for the American rep."  But on the train, I heard them
>complaining to each other about the racism they had faced there and how 
>they were going to "get back at them."

Let's see, they have on-base housing available, an employer that gives them 
LOTS of benefits, and basically an all-expense paid trip to a foreign nation
on Uncle Sugar's money; your first thought was correct. They were assholes.
And so far as I know, the rail companies do not practice any sort of racism;
everyone is treated like cattle.

>When it came time to exit, they pretty much just walked right by 
>the ticket puncher.  The puncher held his arm out to stop one of them,
>but that fellopw merely shoved the arm out of his way and kept walking.

Regardless of racism, they wouldn't try that in Germany (or actually, in NYC).
The police would have a LOT of physical disapproval.

>I thought to myself, "Well these guys are fed up with some of the BS
>they have to put up with here, and this is a vent of some of that 
>frustration."

I would have thought to myself "What a bunch of jerks". I'll report this to the
base commander and get 'em thrown in the brig.

Armed Forces Radio, specifically FEN, devotes a LARGE amount of its airtime to
telling its soldiers to "obey the local laws", "respect local customs", 
reminding its soldiers that they are subject to the laws of the guest country,
etc.

Next time, call Yokosuka, and report this.

>The same phenomena exists in the employment of foreigners in Japanese
>companies (those in the US included).  The management attitude:
>
>"We don't want to give the gaijin too much responsibility since he/she
>will just jump to another job after a little while here."
>
>The employee attitude:
>
>"I'm not going to kill myself for nothing.  Chances are I can't advance
>here, so I better start looking somewhere else."
>
>Flame if you wish.

For what?

Mike
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,dc.general
From: sram@seas.gwu.edu (Siddharth R. Ram)
Subject: where can i find japanese books in DC ?
Organization: George Washington University
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 14:05:31 GMT

a friend of mine has just been thru a japanese course and wants to
try his hand at reading some japanese books (starting at the
nursery rhymes level and working his way up.
I would appreciate any info on where i could find japanese language
books in the washington dc area that i could pass on to him.
Please reply to 
uunet!hallofjustice!sram or sram@seas.gwu.edu.
Thanks in advance.

Siddharth
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: wdrew@iat.holonet.net (Walter H. Drew)
Subject: Eigo kara nihongo no jisho
Organization: HoloNet National Internet Access BBS: 510-704-1058/modem
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 00:10:05 GMT

Ray_L_Curry@cup.portal.com writes:

>Having spent the last year and a half studying the Japanese language, I'm
>finding one of the biggest handicaps is the English to Japanese
>dictionaries.  What I would like would be one that gives the Japanese
word >in  Kanji with an accented kana pronunciation guide.  I have looked
a a >large number of dictionaries at Kinokuniya without finding even one
that's >even close.  So I thought I would ask the collective wisdom of the
net.  >Has anyone seen a dictionary such as this?  Kotae kara domo arigato
>gozaimasu. 

_Kenkyusha's_Furigana_English-Japanese_Dictionary, Tokyo, Kenkysha, 1990,
2000 yen, seems to meet your specificiations. In the U.S. the price is $24
from _Mangajin_, Box 49543, Atlanta GA 30359, telephone 404-634-3874, fax
404-634-1799. Kinokuniya should have it. Also some university bookstores.
The phonetic furigana over the kana is clear but itty-bitty, and I keep a
magnifying glass handy.


Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov (Michiaki Masuda)
Subject: Re: Hus Fu and the Japanese
Organization: Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 20:36:28 GMT

In article <1hi9huINNcio@agate.berkeley.edu> jcliu@four-lab4.Berkeley.EDU (James C. Liu) writes:
>In article <BzsHHx.Atw@ncifcrf.gov> masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov 
>(Michiaki Masuda) writes:

>  >   I don't think there are sufficient molecular biological data for anyone 
>  >to say anything conclusive about the genetic relationship among Asian
>  >people.
>
>But can they say with some probability whence and what root stock that
>the Orientals diverged?  Probably.

   ....probably, the DNA data available now will not tell much more than the
traditional anthropological analyses have already told. Of course, the new 
technology, used properly, should be useful for us to confirm and finetune 
the current theory, to solve several controversial issues, and to correct 
wrong understandings, if any. 

>  The other question is: do the
>cultural theories even jive with any of the prelim data that we have on
>mt DNA?  If not, we should be throwing them out.

   Because of several technical problems that I mentioned in my previous
posting, we cannot conclude that mt DNA analysis is more reliable than
the cultural anaylysis. If the large scale research on the mt DNA of
Asian people is started, we would spend some time to compare the cultural
theory and the DNA data to test the reliability of the new technique
assuing that the traditional method is not totally unreliable. 

>  >   I personally think that this type of molecular anthropology is an
>  >interesting field and should contribute to a human knowledge. Would anyone 
>  >be interested in giving me an opportunity to organize it?
>
>Prez-Elect Bill C. may be entertaining new National Lab and Inst. of
>Health research topics.  Lawrence Berkeley Lab is attempting to Map the
>human genome.  A little mt. DNA analyses on the side might be in order.
>Proposals can be sent to NSF too.  8-).

   I'd rather see the international cooperation between Asian countries.
As I understand it, the Japanese government also spares a significant
size of budget for the human genome project. Therefore, the financial
problem might be solved. I also believe that many scientsts in Asia
are ready for the collaboration at an academic level. Political negotiations
might be the highest and toughest hurdle to overcome.

--Michiaki
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: jmfuchs@unix.amherst.edu (JESSE MICHAEL FUCHS)
Subject: Re: Not a Myth at All
Organization: Amherst College
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 13:56:56 GMT

	On the subject of whether or not the Japanese exhibit large-scale
tendencies toward racism, I have one word for you all:

	Burokamin.

							-jesse 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: cmort@NCoast.ORG (Christopher Morton)
Subject: Re: Japanese translation
Reply-To: cmort@ncoast.org (Christopher Morton)
Organization: North Coast Public Access *NIX, Cleveland, OH
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:51:50 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.japan

As quoted from <1992Dec21.201028.24542@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> by tocelest@carmen.lerc.nasa.gov (Osamu Yamamoto):

>  I am looking for a software to write a text in Japanese characters
>  (hiragana and katakana) and in Chinese characters (kanji), preferably
>  run on UNIX.

Just as a bit of reinforcement, the person noted above is trying to prepare
a short document using MOKE.  Unfortunately, a few problems arose.

1. Can you change kanji size to deemphasize certain vowels?

2. How can you (if you can) produce large jaasci size parentheses "("?

3. Are there other printer drivers?  Is it possible to print on a laserjet?

Thanks.



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