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From: harkcom@spinach.pa.yokogawa.co.jp (Alton Harkcom)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Japanese exchange student killed in Louisiana...
Date: 6 Nov 92 00:12:17 GMT
	<Bx6MBG.HIE@ncifcrf.gov>
Organization: Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
In-reply-to: masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov's message of 4 Nov 92 08:02:04 GMT

In article <Bx6MBG.HIE@ncifcrf.gov> masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov
   (Michiaki Masuda) writes:

 =}>You are comparing apples and oranges here. A handgun in a public place is  
 =}>more than likely being used for 1) defense 2) a crime. Number two is not  
 =}>applicable to this argument.
 =}
 =}   How easy is it to draw a line between 1) and 2)? By your definition,
 =}which category should the exchange student case belong to?

   Before the trigger was pulled it was obviously 1)...  After the trigger
was pulled I believe it was 2) [or at least should be]...  And the person
who pulled the trigger is responsible for that, not all gun owners...

Al
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: daveh@woods.ulowell.edu
Subject: Japanese K-12 students needed!!
Organization: Merrimack Education Center
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:23:36 GMT

Hi:I am looking for a high school or middle school in Japan for a fun! one-time
exchage project that will be featured on a live, interactive educational
broadcast ( going to 2,000 U.S. schools.) Japanese and American schools will
create an email survey, complete, and exchange videotapes. then they will be
connected via pictell(compressed video) and can see and talk to each other
on a live satelite broadcast while they answer questions from many other
students. Please contact me at daveh@a1.mec.mass.edu, or call 617 262 2256 as
soon as possible!!! 

-Dave
From: miklg@acuson.com (Michael Goldman )
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Safety of Japanese cars (Was: Re: A Japanese student killed in Lousiana)
Date: 9 Nov 92 15:35:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: acuson.1992Nov9.153556.3457
Organization: Acuson; Mountain View, California

tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu () writes:

>You see,
>US fuel efficiency standards enforce a percentage increase as averaged
>across a fleet of cars from a given company. For example, "All companies
>must increase the average fuel efficiency of their fleets by 30%."

	This was a _proposed_ rule which did not pass.  NKK may have
	been trying to get ready for the eventuality.  The existing
	fuel economy rules are still what they were 10 years ago.  27.5
	miles per gallon across the fleet.  This is now slightly higher
	than the fuel economy of the average Japanese car sold in Japan
	due to the prefence of Japanese for bigger engines, and more
	luxurious cars recently.

>This is totally unfair to Japanese cars that *already* have a higher
>fuel efficiency and therefore have less leeway to squeeze even *more*
>miles per gallon out of a car. They are therefore forced to incorporate
>the lightest, strongest and most expensive steel possible.

	This unfairness argument is one of ceveral reasons why the
	law didn't pass.

	- 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: henry@trilithon.mpk.ca.us (Henry McGilton)
Subject: Re: Plutonium
Organization: Trilithon Software
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 19:22:49 GMT

In article <BxL0zo.Cpo@world.std.com> cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond)  
writes:
        **  (Note that plutonium is not just radioactive, it
        **  is also highly toxic and that small quantities
        **  {*can someone find the exact measures*} can poison
        **  large numbers of people and animals)

In article <1992Nov12.200229.11545@tcsi.com> miket@hermes.tcs.com (Michael  
Turner nmscore Assoc.) writes:
    *  First, plutonium is highly toxic in oxide form, but not in
    *  ingot form.  The news report says nothing about which form
    *  this shipment is in.

I believe it was Ralph Nader who originally described plutonium as
``the most toxic substance known to man''.  Being that good ol'
Ralph didn't really do his homework, one wonders how much credence
to place in anything else he says.  Let's see now, here's a small
comparison:

    Substance               Lethal Doses per Spoonful
=================           =========================
Arsenic Trioxide                       50
Botulinus Toxin               125,000,000
Plutonium oxide (ingested)              0.5

Arsenic Trioxide is in common use as fertiliser, by the way, and
one doesn't usually have ready access to Plutonium oxide so one
can eat the stuff.  The toxicity issue is a red herring.  Even
Botulinus Toxin sees use in treating spastic dysphonia.

True, there seems to be a lot of controversy over quite why Japan
needs so much Pu -- 80 or 90 tons is the total amount they're
planning to import.  Several countries along the way are concerned
about the proximity of the stuff to their territories -- Malaysia
are most concerned about the ships passing through the straits of
Malacca.

        ........  Henry
Xref: sparky soc.culture.japan:10173 talk.politics.guns:23585
From: cdt@sw.stratus.com (C. D. Tavares)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,talk.politics.guns
Subject: Re: A Japanese student killed in Lousiana
Date: 6 Nov 92 20:38:01 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.japan
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.

In article <1992Nov5.164217.4311@news.yale.edu>, watt-alan@net.yale.edu (Alan Watt) writes:
> If it
> weren't for the NRA, instead of arguing about "assault weapons" we
> would be arguing about air rifles and BB guns (as they apparently
> already are in Massachussetts).
> So Mr. Masuda, the sad fact of U.S. "gun control" is that it *does*
> mean I must surrender my weapon (eventually).  This is why we
> resist it so absolutely. 

Mr. Masuda needs to be aware that air rifles and BB guns are already
as restricted as elephant guns in Massachusetts.  The argument nowadays
is about restricting WATER PISTOLS.

I guess if it saves only ONE drowning victim...
-- 

cdt@pdp.sw.stratus.com      --If you believe that I speak for my company,
OR cdt@vos.stratus.com        write today for my special Investors' Packet...
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: Peter.Weekes@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Subject: Re: Sumo - Kyushu Basho (Days 3 & 4)
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 01:14:59 GMT

What could Taka have been doing recently that would have so affected his
strength and concentration ????   <Ahem !>
-- 
Peter Weekes          PARADOX Consultant             |
Box 7163              Parasitologist                 | 
Wellington South      Epidemiologist                 |   
New Zealand           Peter.Weekes@bbs.actrix.gen.nz |
From: lamb@jasper.CS.ORST.EDU (Ben Lam)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: UPI report of the killing of the Japanese student
Date: 5 Nov 92 09:22:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: flop.1dap58INN20h
Organization: Computer Science Department, Oregon State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: jasper.cs.orst.edu


	BATON ROUGE, La. (UPI) -- A grand jury Wednesday indicted on
manslaughter charges a man who shot and killed a Japanese exchange
student who came to his door by mistake looking for a nearby Halloween
party.
	Rodney Peairs, 30, told investigators that he feared Yoshiro Hattori,
16, of Nayoya, Japan, and a schoolmate were a threat to his household in
the Oct. 17 incident, causing him to point a gun at the boys and order
them to ``freeze.''
	Hattori's slaying created an international incident that alarmed and
angered citizens of Japan, where home ownership of firearms is virtually
unknown. The consul-general of Japan in New Orleans called on Gov. Edwin
Edwards to obtain assurances that the case would be properly
investigated.
	The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People,
meanwhile, urged the U.S. attorney's office to conduct an investigation
to determine if Hattori's civil rights were violated in the incident.
	East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff's deputies initially took Peairs into
custody but did not place him under arrest pending the outcome of the
grand jury investigation. Following his indictment, Peairs was to be
formally arrested and booked with manslaughter.
	Friends of Hattori said he did not speak English well, and may not
have understood what Peairs meant when he shouted ``freeze'' an instant
before Peairs allegedly fired the fatal gunshot from a .44 Magnum
pistol.
	The boy's parents, Mieko and Masaichi Hattori, attended public
memorial services for their son in Baton Rouge and New Orleans before
returning with his body to Japan.
	The Hattoris said that while they felt sorrow towards Peairs, they
hoped the death of their son would lead to greater restrictions on
ownership of guns in the United States.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,talk.politics.guns
From: fcrary@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary)
Subject: Re: A Japanese student killed in Lousiana
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 02:43:19 GMT

In article <Bx9ysE.L38@ncifcrf.gov> masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov (Michiaki Masuda) writes:
>>>     Do you have any idea how to encourage people to take the training
>>>without legislation?
>>Yes, I do.  It's called peer pressure.
>  Is it working as it should?

Apparently: The NRA has been applying organized peer pressure and providing
safety coruses, and over the last two decades the rate of firearms
accidents has been going steadily down.

>>  Peer pressure.  Stop the
>>media from portraying firearms as evil, and instead have them
>>concentrate on safe handling of them. 
>  Wouldn't it violate the US Constitutional right - freedom of expression?

(Well, since you have been talking about violating the Constitution
already, I'd think this would be a moot point, but...)

It depends on how the media is "forced" to do this. If pressure from
viewers and the threat of boycotts, etc... makes them do it (e.g.
the equivient of peer pressure on an organization), then it is totally
legal. The Constitution limits what the _government_ can force 
people to do.

                                            Frank Crary
                                            CU Boulder

Xref: sparky soc.culture.japan:10560 soc.history:9309
From: ee152fdm@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (Maiko Covington)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.history
Subject: Re: Japan's textbook-screening system
Date: 11 Nov 92 20:47:11 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.japan
Organization: University of California, San Diego


	I actually got (IMHO) a pretty good (and graphic)
description of WW2 atrocities by Japan, but it was pretty much done
by my teacher. The book didn't really say much at all. It wasn't
that they wrote some huge fictional account, they just didn't write
much of ANYTHING, which is really noticeable considering the amount
of detail they put into all the other periods of history.
	On another note... for a really interesting view of the
brainwashing people in Japan got during the war, try looking at
kids' magazines. I have an issue of "yoi ko no tomo" from 1942
December, and among other articles are a letter to children from the
emperor urging them to "gambare" and be like the soldiers, a poem
about "that wonderful morning" when Pearl Harbor was bombed, and
lots of maps titled "where the Japanese flag has gone to" that show
most of Asia under Japanese rule. One of the really wierd things is
a suggestion of a game - children are to cut out pieces of newsprint
in the shape of American battleships and throw rocks at it from a
distance to play "bomber" (my ethics teacher in high school, who was
a kid at that time, said that most kids found this stuff too boring
and did normal things though). This magazine has a huge red circle
painted on the front which almost obliterates the cover. The guy at
the bookshop says this may have been marked on it after the war to
show that people aren't allowed to read these things anymore.
	It is very scary what mass patriotism can do to people...
and very scary that people cannot seem to admit it. I thank my high
school history teacher for having the courage to admit it.
		Maiko
From: smittie@beach.csulb.edu (Smittie)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Lawyer wanted! Immediately!
Date: 13 Nov 92 18:44:40 GMT
	<If0yBju00iV2A2xL18@andrew.cmu.edu>
Organization: Cal State Long Beach

>I'm currently in need of a lawyer. I want an individual who can speak english
>and Japanese. And is well accquiated with the American Civil system. can
>someone help me at this point. I would prefer that the lawyer come from nippon.

You gotta give this jerk credit, he's quite a showman.

[where the hell did I leave that .kill file article?]

smittie
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From: tobac@ub-tky.UBSPD.CO.JP (Bach Frederic)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Sumo - Kyushu Basho (Days 3 & 4)
Date: 12 Nov 92 01:42:36 GMT
Organization: UBS Phillips & Drew INT'L Ltd. TOKYO, JAPAN

Sorry for not being able to post yesterday. Briefly, on day 3, Takahanada
lost again, without even proving that he could have won. Both Akebono and
Musashimaru won, but only after a weak tachiai, something that has been
plaguing them since the start of the tournament, but didn't prevent them
from winning and snatching a share of the lead. Kirishima also went down
to his third defeat. If anybody wants day 3 complete results, I'll post them.

Day 4. Yes, it happened again, Takahanada lost. At least, he put up a good
fight against not-so-impressive-but-astute Misugisato. The exchange lasted
over a minute and saw Takahanada relentlessly hitting his foe with
salvoes of left-right combinations. But he gradually appeared to lose strength
and litterally fell on all fours, exhausted. Strange to see a wrestler fail
like this. We do remember that he fell to 5-10 after his first yusho in 
January, but everybody says that he was strong during the summer jungyo (tour).
And he has always been a keiko (practice) addict, doing extra weight training.
Another worrying fighter is definitely Kirishima, who lost to Wakashoyo. After
grabbing his opponents belt, it took him quite a while to drag him to the rim.
Just as he thought victory was there at last, he stepped out an instant before
him, losing the bout. At least he showed some of his old strength, but being
kadoban, he cannot afford to lose bouts this way. Akebono had an excellent 
tachiai for the first time, hitting Takatoriki low and hard, and then side-
stepping before slapping him on the back of the head to send him crashing.
Musashimaru was again almost caught off-balance after the outset, Kyokudozan
almost tricking him out, but the Hawaiian has shown extraordinary balance 
for a man his weight (~175 kg), swiftly turning around and blasting the
light komusubi out. Daishoho was also quite impressive against Tamakairiki,and
could very well end up in sanyaku in January, while Mitoizumi looks like
he is going back down to maegashira soon. Popular Mainoumi tripped tall
Kotofuji out after seizing his leg, beating him for the fifth time in six
or seven bouts. Kotonishiki also seems on track for a big tournament, easily
pushing Wakahanada after escaping his neck throw.

Winner	Wins	Loser	Wins

Nami'H	3	H'K	1
Toki	2	W'Y	0
KiriN	2	Kiraiho	2
Ktsubaki4	T'nami	1
Kbeppu	3	Tatsu	2
KasugaF	4	Toyo'U	2
Mai'U	1	KF	1
Kinazuma3	TomoeF	3
Kgaume	2	Kita	2
Ogi'H	2	Dzen	2
DshoY	2	Terao	2
Dshoho	3	Tama	0
K'W	2	Tmisugi	1
KN	4	WHda	2
Aki'S	2	KuSU	2
Misugi	2	THda	0
Musashi	4	Kyoku	2
Tochi'W	2	Mito	0
Wshoyo	3	KiriS	0
Akebono	4	Ttoriki	3

Today's main bouts 

Kotonishiki	Akebono !!!
Musashimaru	Takatoriki
Akinoshima	Terao
Tochinowaka	Takahanada

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: a7657@mindlink.bc.ca (Stephen H. Kawamoto)
Subject: Re: BATTLE FOR NICHIREN STATE RAGES OUT OF CONTROL IN HYOGO
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:35:41 GMT

I dont think it's any joke. Have you holidayed in Hyogo?

--
PGP 384/D7484F Stephen Kawamoto

a7657@mindlink.bc.ca.


UUENCODED on MIND LINK! Fri Oct 30 10:35:08 1992


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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: lopez@athena.cs.uga.edu (Felix Sherwin Lopez)
Subject: E-mail Addresses in Okayama University desperately needed
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:46:50 GMT

To all the netusers out there:

Greetings!  I need an e-mail address or user at Okayama
University, Okayama Prefecture to contact a faculty
memebr in the Agriculture Department there.  Anybody
have any information?

Thank you very much in anticipation.

Sherwin Lopez
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia, USA
lopez@athena.cs.uga.edu


Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: pamod@CFSMO.Honeywell.COM (Pam Ohno Dagoberg)
Subject: 50th Anniversary of Japanese Amer. Internment
To: soc.culture.japan
Posted-Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 15: 00:16 CST
Mailer: Elm [revision: 64.9]
Phone: 785-4359 (vm - 8549)
Organization: Honeywell Systems & Research Center
Mail-Station: MN51-1335
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 21:00:16 GMT
Received-Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 15: 00:31 CST

John Reece writes:

"We know the story.  It's virtually the only WWII episode 
 contemporary news media are interested in playing up....

 And 1/3 of those interned were not US citizens, but bona fide 
 enemy aliens."

In case you weren't aware, people of Japanese decent were not allowed
to become US citizens back then, like other Europeans were. (The law was
subsequently changed in 1954.)

How much do you know about the internment?

Were you aware that these people were only allowed to bring with them what
they could carry?  That their homes and belongings that were left behind
were stolen and vandalized?  That upon arrival, the conditions of these 
camps were barely fit for the horses that used to live there?  I could go on
and on ... 

These people gave up their freedom and nearly all they owned during WWII.
This was indeed a sad time in our good country's history.

There are no antiques in my family. There are very few photographs of my
grandparents that predate WWII.  Unfortunte, since my mother's parents died
in the camps ...

Not to mention the humiliation that accompanied the experience.  According
to my father, his father used to talk in his sleep even after they were
released muttering "I am still the head of this family."
 
I think that up until recently the internment of these people, these
Americans (citizens or not, that's what they were), was rarely
talked about in history classes.  It's important to bring this up now so
it will never happen again.
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: Haitong Wang <s209457@cc.gettysburg.edu>
Subject: KanjiTalk
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Organization: Indiana University
Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 21:12:43 GMT

Does anyone know whether KanjiTalk is available through FTP or not?

I would also like to know if there is Japanese word processing software on
Sun or NeXT.

Thanks in advance.


Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: huttar@hp750.itg.ti.com (Lars Huttar)
Subject: Re: Is it true? (was Re: RIGHT-WING EXTREMISTS MASSACRE 47....)
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 16:40:50 GMT
Organization: IEF Development, Texas Instruments Inc., Plano Texas
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at Texas Instruments Inc.
              The opinions expressed within are those of the user and not
              necessarily those of Texas Instruments.
                                                     

In article <jwb.721629566@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au> jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au (Jim Breen) writes:

>Noriaki (noriaki@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au) writes:
>
>>I want to confirm that the article
>>"RIGHT-WING EXTREMISTS MASSACRE 47..."
>>is true or not.
>>
>>If it is a joke, the netters should NOT allow such joke in the news group.
>>Sometimes, I read this group to get the informations about my country, and
>>I give them to my friends who can not accese to this newsgroup...
>
>Actually I found the article both interesting and amusing, in a
>black comedy fashion.  It was obviously false; in fact it was
>riddled with factual errors which anyone with a passing knowledge
>of Japan, not to mention the geography of Tokyo, should have
>noticed.

Well, I was fooled, but I'm no expert on Japan.
Mr. Noriaki, on the other hand, has a Japanese name, refers to
"my country", and has imperfect English (though it's quite good)
so I expect he knows a fair bit about Japan.

In any case, to put it bluntly, I think it's arrogant to post
something that purports to be fact, and assume that anybody who
doesn't get the joke deserves to be deceived.

>When I arrived in my office this morning, my mailbox was bulging with 
>email from anxious netters who thought I had fallen for Henry's
>spoof. [I refuse to use smileys on principle; preferring to let my
>subtle humour shine through without prosthetic support.]

Smileys are indeed unsubtle.  If your meaning is clear enough in your
words, you don't need smileys.
There's a fine line between being subtle and being ambiguous.
I think if you care about communicating to the people who read what
you're writing, it's important to make sure you're not being ambiguous.
I suppose Mr. Robertson didn't clearly mark his post as fictitious because
he wanted to be subtle, mysterious, play with people's minds.
People in the know were amused; others were confused, some even
distressed.  To ignore the latter would be elitist IMO.
That's why I use smileys when I think it might be necessary,
even though it sacrifices a bit of my cleverness.
It's always a judgment call though.

Sorry for preaching.

What have you to say for yourself, Mr. Robertson?

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:23:11 -0500 
From: Rikiya Asano <ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: call for a new newsgroup
	<1992Nov10.081605.25034@nmit.mt.nec.co.jp>

Yea, 

      your a loser Mark. Just like your President Bush.