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From: david.lloyd-jones@rose.com (david lloyd-jones)
Subject: SUBWAY DELI IN TYO
Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 09:59:32 GMT
X-Gated-By: Usenet <==> RoseMail Gateway (v1.2)


Date Entered: 04-15-92 08:58
Replying: perry@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
PE>Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
PE>Subject: Re: SUBWAY DELI IN TYO

PE>National Public Radio had a report on this bold business adventure.  Though
PE>they didn't (from what I remember) report the location ("downtown Tokyo"),
PE>they did say that the Japanese have embraced the food.  Furthermore, the
PE>first store that opened in Japan broke Subway's record of 1) most sales for
PE>opening day and 2) most sales for first week.


I don't think that record opening day sales are as significant in Japan
as they may be elsewhere.

I had several Coke machines in my first few coin laundries in Tokyo in
1973 when Mister Pepper hit town.  For the first month Dr. Pepper
outsold any other drink including Coke, but its sales subsequently went
to zilch.

It seems to me that Japanese are peculiarly curious and open-minded to
novelties, but trying them does not mean they'll like them...

                                              -dlj.
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From: bang@oak.circa.ufl.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: GO game
Date: 8 Apr 92 04:10:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: math.1992Apr6.041125.2760
Reply-To: BANG%oak.decnet@pine.circa.ufl.edu
Organization: The CIRCA Underground

In article <53217@hydra.gatech.EDU>, gt3299b@prism.gatech.EDU (BROWN,GEORGE CARROLL) writes:
>
>I am looking for a 'share-ware' GO game that runs on an IBM pc clone.
>It would be nice if it uses vga graphics and a mouse.  Does anyone know
>anything about this?>
>
I dont have all the particulars myself, but I'm sure the folx on

rec.games.go

have all this info you need, and more.  Actually, I know they do, as I am
subscribed there (I lurk)  and that question comes up all the time.
good luck
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From: umera%msu.dnet@TERRA.OSCS.MONTANA.EDU (Ruhul Amin)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Need help
Date: 17 Apr 92 06:53:53 GMT


Hi!  I need some help from someone who lives in Japan.  

Let me introduce myself first.  My name is Ruhul Amin.  I am from Bangladesh.
I am a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Montana State
University, U.S.A.  

This summer I am going to visit Bangladesh.  I want to buy a reconditioned used
Toyota car from Japan for my family in Bangladesh. I need addresses and
phone numbers of few agencies in Japan  who export reconditioned used car to
Bangladesh.  I know for a fact that such agencies exist in Japan, because
people in Bangladesh always buy such cars from them.  Unfortunately, I 
do not know anyone who can give me an address.

I have tried for over a month here in the U.S.A. to find any address without
any luck.  I would be most greatful if someone could send me few such
addresses with phone numbers.  I am not a subscriber of this net. So, please
send the information to the following e-mail address.  I really would 
appreciate the help.

Thanks in advance.

-- Ruhul Amin

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: parmst@eos.ncsu.edu (PAUL  ARMSTRONG)
Subject:  Japan Festival
Reply-To: parmst@eos.ncsu.edu (PAUL  ARMSTRONG)
Organization: Project EOS - North Carolina State University
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 22:22:44 GMT



    Greetings.  For anyone interested, if you are going to be in the
Raleigh, NC
    area this coming Sunday(Apr. 12th), a Japan Day Festival at will be
held at
    NCSU.  It will feature workshops in Origami, Aikido, Calligraphy and
Japan-
    ese games.  Also there will be displays, promotionals and Japanese
foods
    availible.  The festival will be held in Nelson Hall on main campus
from 
    12:00-6:00pm. If you have any questions, please e-mail me.


                                                  Paul Armstrong
                                                  parmst@eos.ncsu.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: yoichi@milton.u.washington.edu (Yoichi Ii)
Subject: Re: "The Learning Gap": comparison of American & Japanese education
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 21:11:50 GMT

ba05047@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Fumiaki Kamiya) writes:
> - much deleted -
>Uniformity is true.  I think the parents are more (overly)
>sensitive on this than the student himself/herself.
>
>I once heard about a proposal to provide with different
>levels of math courses depending on the students'
>understanding, but it was quickly rejected claiming that it
>is a form of "discrimination" not to offer all students the
>same education!!!

I've had similar experience.  When my younger sister went back
to Japan after 4 years in US, she jumped into 3rd grade (in
elementary school) without having gone to 1st and 2nd grade in
Japan.  Needless to say she was quite a bit behind in many, 
if not all the subjects.  Despite of her special circumstance, 
the teacher refused to give her special help, lest upsetting the
parents of other students by such show of "favoritism".

The apparent equality in some Japanese classrooms is a result
of trying not to offend anyone, and not "equality" in the sense of
fairness.  I say "some" because I've had some good teachers who
followed "spirit" of the rule without having to obey it in a
bone-headed fashion :).

Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: hbonney@TYMNET.COM (Hugh Bonney)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Immigration Procedures
Date: 11 Apr 92 03:19:05 GMT


    One thing missing in this discussion is that the U.S. INS is under-
    funded for the immigration numbers and basically can only pay attention
    to you crossing the border or filling out a form. Otherwise it just
    doesn't exist. The movie "Green Card" is only a fantasy.

    It's also the bad stories that make it harder for people with ordinary
    stories. Mine is that I married a woman May 31,'91 in China that I met
    and knew in Hong Kong. Ren Shuying (Kate Ren) was a manager with the Yue
    Jiao trading company (PRC) in H.K., H.K. I.D., and a PRC citizen. She
    came to the US Dec 19,'91 sponsored as my wife but acted as though on a
    business trip and never unpacked. Jan 14,'92 she disappeared when I was 
    at work. I was supposed to think it an immigration scheme, but it turned 
    into a cheap novel. She had met a rich Englishman and decided that was a 
    better deal. Divorces in H.K. take a long time and require grounds. So
    the only way to get it done and get out of China at the same time was to 
    come here as my wife and go to Reno for a quickie divorce. March 10,'92
    she and her UK citizen went to the British Consulate in Los Angeles and 
    applied for a Fiance Visa, which is pending the divorce. As I had expected 
    a hopefully happy marriage and family of this, I have really been stunned
    by this cold and ignoble scheme. This is a very hard time. A puzzle is
    why the British citizen couldn't get her out of China.

    She will soon have a Nevada divorce - six weeks "residence", for
    incompatibility, no signature from me. Originally a local British lawyer
    told me that the Reno divorces were not valid in the U.K. or H.K. However,
    I've also been told recently that they are perfectly all right. It also
    seems that Fiance Visas are theoretically very easy to get from the U.K.
    So Reno, Nevada is an easy back door for a U.K. or H.K. Visa. No doubt
    easier than Hong Kong. Further, Reno is doing enough business with
    non-US citizens that all the INS rules about the 2 year conditional visas
    don't really mean much of anything. There are all sorts of schemes. In
    other cases a US citizen has served as a railroad to import a person who
    is a criminal, or whatever. I knew nothing of all this a few months ago.

    Anyway, an immigration law firm can inexpensively handle the paperwork
    for an uncomplicated case and paralegals get to stand in the INS lines.

    If you have found such a good person to marry, be grateful for your good
    fortune. Don't worry about the small stuff. Good luck and happiness to you.

----415-961-6286----408-922-6198--work--------------Hugh Bonney---------
    hbonney@spiff.tymnet.com           or dialcom   31000:hughb   
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: park@anmsd3.msd.anl.gov (Yongsup Park)
Subject: Re: 50 YEARS AGO TODAY: April 9, 1942 - fall of Bataan - Death March
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4   
Reply-To: park@anmsd3.msd.anl.gov
Organization: Argonne National Laboratory, IL, USA
Distribution:  world
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 02:49:16 GMT

In article <MS-C.702806022.1103527590.mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM>, Mark Crispin <mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM> writes...
>On April 9, 1942, the American-Filipino forces on Bataan which were unable to
>evacuate to Corregidor surrendered.  These were approximately 12,000 Americans
>and about 6 times as many Filipinos.  The Japanese turned their full attention
>of air and artillery bombardment on the island fortress of Corregidor.

Yet another reminder.

Exactly 500 years ago, this month(according to the record, April 13th, 
lunar calendar), Japan invaded Korean peninsula with their patented surprise 
attack mobilizing 158,000 troops.  This bloody seven year war devastated 
much of the peninsula and shattered the social structure of China 
who joined the effort against Japan later.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: HELP: Need info about stay in Japan ...
From: CHAMBERS@hacks.arizona.edu (Jeremy Chambers)
Date: Thursday, 9 Apr 92 23:36:53 MST
Distribution: world,local
Organization: The Camelot System (Excalibur)
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.05

I worked in Japan last June and July of 91.  All I needed was a passport / visa
that allowed me to work in Japan for up to 90 days.

I may be returning, but my stay will be about 1 year for the purpose of 
work again.  Can someone let me know what paperwork I need to be able
to do this?


Thanks ...
Jeremy Chambers@Hacks.Arizona.Edu

Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: blamb@sparc1.hri.com (Bill Lambert)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Japanese CD's in NY?
Date: 9 Apr 92 15:54:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: bigbird.6255
Reply-To: blamb@sparc1.hri.com (Bill Lambert)
Organization: Horizon Research

In article <1992Apr6.145538.22780@acsu.buffalo.edu>,
sha@acsu.buffalo.edu (Chia-Lin Sha) writes:
> There is a store called YOHAN's in Fort Lee , New Jersey.( I think it's right
> across the George Washington bridge of NY) It's in a all Japanese plaza.
> I saw some CD's there and another music store in the plaza carries a good
> selection. There is also a bookstore that carries some CD's.
>    I think that plaza is probably the most Japanese "culture" you can find
> in the East Coast?! Any one know a better place? 
>             

As another poster has pointed out, it's Yaohan. I have been there a few times,
and it might be interesting for people in the NY area who haven't been to
Japan to see the "look and feel" of a Japanese supermarket and shopping
area, for a lot of the complex isn't much different than what you might
find in Tokyo, except that the physical format is that of a smallish
US shopping mall. 

The prices are generally not that great, except that they do have the
occasional sale items that can be good deals (for example: cases of
Kirin Ichiban for about a 30% discount), and of course they have
quite a few things that we can't seem to get in Boston at all.

There is the Yaohan supermarket and fast-food places (sushi, ramen,
yakisoba, ton-katsu, etc.), a small department store (where perhaps
the best shopping might be in tableware or ceramics), music and video
store, and Kinokuniya (?) book store similar in size and format to the
store in mid-town Manhattan, and a couple of other shops such as women's
clothing if I remember correctly.

The clientel, as another alleged racist poster has mentioned (watch
out... this seemingly innocent topic could escalate into another
Australian Boycott pyro session), is perhaps 80% Japanese or Japanese
American. I noticed quite a few mixed couples there, including a fair
number of those that were past middle-age. This was a little striking,
for I assume that most of them were probably former GI's who were part
of the occupation after WWII, and found mates in Japan. Everyone
looked like pretty fine folks at Yaohan Plaza in any case.

As a matter of fact.... I was just thinking it might be nice to pack
up the family and head down there again for restocking. It's about a
4 hour drive, with the only bad part avoiding Connecticutt State
Troopers :-)

Bill Lambert
Xref: sparky soc.culture.japan:3474 misc.wanted:5022 misc.forsale:13836 ne.wanted:502 ne.forsale:1682
From: majmudar@das.harvard.edu (Kaushal Majmudar)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,misc.wanted,misc.forsale,ne.wanted,ne.forsale
Subject: SUBLET in TOKYO - PROBLEM w/ MAIL - Please RESEND
Keywords: JAPAN TOKYO APARTMENT
Date: 13 Apr 92 17:48:04 GMT
Organization: Aiken Computation Lab, Harvard University


SEVERAL DAYS AGO, I POSTED THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE


	Hello.

	I am a student at Harvard Law School and I am going to be working
	at a Japanese Law Firm for six weeks during the summer of 1992.
	The firm is one of the largest in Japan, and is located in the Ginza
	section of Tokyo.

	Since I will be in Tokyo from June 1, 1992 to approx. July 12, 1992,
	I was hoping to get a short term studio sublet within easy commute of the
	Yurakucho station in the Ginza area.

	I would like a sublet from June and maybe through July ( although 
	preferably 6 weeks ). I am willing to pay up to between Yen 100,000 -
	150,000 per month. plus key money and real estate comission if necessary.

	However, I was hoping that perhaps someone in the united states might
	know of a student studying abroad or not using his/her apt. during that
	period of time. In that case I would like to sublet such an apartment.

	Also, I would like e-mail addresses of japanese university bulletin boards
	where I might post this notice. I would also appreciate any information
	that people might have regarding other sources of short-term (livable)
	housing that would be furnished. Any addresses or phone #s would be 	
	greatly appreciated.

	Please call me at (617)493-9068 and speak to me (kaushal B. majmudar) or
	leave a message on my machine.

	Alternatively, write to majmudar@das.harvard.edu or post to this board,
	but a reply would be greatly appreciated

THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG WITH MY E-MAIL CAPABILITY THAT HAS SINCE BEEN 
CORRECTED. I WAS HOPING THAT PEOPLE HAD INDEED REPLIED, AND SUSPECT THAT MANY OF 
YOU WERE GRACIOUS ENOUGH TO SEND MAIL WHICH I DID NOT GET.

I am hoping that some of you could remail or reply again. Thanks again for all
your help in advance, and sorry about the problem, but a reply would still
be greatly appreciated and highly useful.

P.S. I heard the term "Weekly Mansion" from some Japanese individuals, and was
	wondering if anyone had more info or specific addresses/phone #s

						Kaushal B. Majmudar
THANKS
From: asano@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (ASANO Yoshiteru)
Subject: Re: korean and japanese culture 
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 14:27:27 GMT

As far as I know, there are few HK starts ever popular in Japan.  They are:
    Bruce Lee
    Jackie Chan
    Agnes Chan 
D   
Can anyone think of other big HK stars who were/are popular in Japan??
   Yoshi A.

D
D
    
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: jonathan@psych.psy.uq.oz.au (Jonathan Dwyer)
Subject: Re: "New fingerprint Procedure"
Followup-To: soc.culture.japan
Organization: Psychology Department, University of Queensland
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 00:54:00 GMT

========blamb@sparc1.hri.com (Bill Lambert) writes:
|> => |> 
|> => |> It takes both kinds, doesn't it?
|> => |> 
|> => |> Admit it!
|> => |> 
|> => |> Bill
|> => 
|> => 
========jonathan@psych.psy.uq.oz.au (Jonathan Dwyer) writes:
|> => 
|> => It takes all kinds, doesn't it?
|> => 
|> => Admit it!
|> => 
|> => Jon
|> => (BIIIG smile
|> => 
========blamb@sparc1.hri.com (Bill Lambert) writes:
|> 
|> You brainless twit.... first, you blatantly plaigerize my writing,
|> and then you spelled "BIG" incorrectingly. No wonder such an idiot
|> likes public flame-feasts, and even goes to extraordinary lengths
|> to create them. There are those that might say, "Get a wife!"
|> 
|>      ////
|>     ('o')
|>      \o/
|>       

Ah!  But at least I have not then platently missplet words and attempted
to trick ME into mentioning private email, which is such a gross violation
of netikettu that I would never be tricked into mentioning it (the email,
you remember, that was sent from one of us to someone else) by myself
or one of us or someone else!!  And then, Oh noble one with the brain-
cavicity of a dwarf canary, you accidently spelt WILF incorrectly__*and*__
drew the picture of the palm-tree incorrectly.  Got you there!!!!  Or was it
a golf-bull??  Hah!  

All my love, Jon
From: andreas@etl.go.jp (Andreas Knobel)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Japan's Sex Tourist
Date: 14 Apr 92 06:28:57 GMT
Organization: Electrotechnical Lab.

In article <1992Apr10.224533.23756@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> hyx1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Harry Y Xu) writes:
>
>I've been wondering WHY is such sexism more prevalent in Japan but not so 
>much in China, Korea, and (not sure) Vietnam?  Any enlightenments?  
>

What tells you Korea is any better?

Anyway, it was a relief to go to a conference on the environment last Sunday,
and to hear some pretty outspoken women, definitely not the Kinokuniya elevator
girl type. Maybe things are improving?

About that recent book: this is the sad question of exploitation. Apparently
`holiday spots' are rated according to the freshness of the girls, prices, 
and need I say the number of golf courses in the vicinity. Sex tourism was
of course not invented by the Japanese, and has been fashionable in Europe
for many years. The situation is not improved by for instance a recent 
decision of the Thai government, namely to fine the parents whose daughters 
are picked up in Bangkok brothels. After all they are there because their 
parents do not have any money in the first place.

Andreas



-- 

Andreas Knobel                      e-mail andreas@etlcom.etl.go.jp
ETL, Tsukuba, Japan.
From: sf1x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Shinya Fujimoto)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Fwd: Pro Baseball as of 92.04.08
Date: 10 Apr 92 17:49:29 GMT
	<Qdt77Ky00WBK046HJr@andrew.cmu.edu>
Organization: Freshman, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

>The Japanese professional baseball began last Saturday (4/4).
>The weather has been pretty bad recently so there have been a
>few rainouts.

>*********************************************************************
>*The TIGERS DEFEATED the GIANTS last night 5-4 as Saitoh got knocked*
>*out in the 5th inning.  Paciorek (who used to be on the Whales last*
>*year) hit two doubles and drove in 3 runs for the Tigers.          *
>*********************************************************************

Well I am hearing some real good news! Right, Doi?

Shinya Fujimoto
Carnegie Mellon University
fujimoto+@cmu.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Tuesday, 7 Apr 1992 00:19:24 CDT
From: yuichi ashino <U42420@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: shiyushiyoku-katudou

those of you who are about to graduate may be thinking about job hant in
this summer in japan.  i am one of those who want a job.  did you hear
anything about shiyushiyoku-katudou or job hanting among the new
graduates in japan?
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: doi@jrd.dec.com (Hitoshi Doi)
Subject: Pro Baseball as of 92.04.08
X-Phone-Reply-To: 045-336-5358 (work)/045-320-0492 (home) [in Japan]
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Japan, R&D center
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 03:26:27 GMT
X-Mts: smtp

The Japanese professional baseball began last Saturday (4/4).
The weather has been pretty bad recently so there have been a
few rainouts.

The current standing are:

Nippon Ham Fighters	2 - 0 - 1
Orix Blue Wave		2 - 1
Kintetsu Buffaloes	1 - 1 - 1
Seibu Lions		1 - 2
Lotte Marines		1 - 2
Daiei Hawks		1 - 2

Yakult Swallows		3 - 1
Hiroshima Carp		2 - 1
Yomiuri Giants		2 - 1
Chunichi Dragons	2 - 2
Hanshin Tigers		2 - 2
Taiyo Whales		0 - 4

Some highlights:

Mike Marshall (Fighters) has gotten off to a good start.
He hit a homerun off of Kudoh (Lions) in the opening game and
has 2 homeruns and 4 rbi's so far.

The Lions are struggling as their cleanup batters aren't hitting.
Akiyama (.167), Kiyohara (.200), and Destrade (.000) have only
4 hits and 1 rbi in 3 games.  0 homeruns!  As a team they are
only hitting .167, worst in pro baseball.

Marty Brown (Carp) hit 2 homeruns last night, a 3 run and a grand slam,
as the Carp defeated the Whales 9-5.  Kitabeppu went 6 innings for
the win, his 191st win in his career.

The Buffaloes and Fighters played to a 4-4 12 inning tie as the
two aces Nono (Buffaloes) and Nishizaki (Fighters) pitched against
each other, each striking out more than 10 batters.

The Tigers defeated the Giants last night 5-4 as Saitoh got knocked
out in the 5th inning.  Paciorek (who used to be on the Whales last
year) hit two doubles and drove in 3 runs for the Tigers.

The Orix Blue Wave have a team ERA of 0.69, as Itoh and Hoshino
defeated their opponents.
--
Hitoshi Doi, International Open Systems Engineering        doi@jrd.dec.com
Japan Research and Development Center               decwrl!jrd.dec.com!doi
Digital Equipment Corporation Japan                     doi@decvax.dec.com
From: turabe@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Toshiyuki Urabe)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: SHOGI-- what is the best SHOGI software in Japan/(World)?
Keywords: SHOGI
Date: 7 Apr 92 23:47:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: netnews.73152
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

Hi,

Does anyone know what is the best (strong and fast) SHOGI game in Japan?
Once I had a MORITA's SHOGI about five years ago, and it was best software
at that time (But I could defeat it by 6 MAI-OCHI.)

Now, what is the best SHOGI software in Japan/(World) ? 
How strong? And how much does it cost? Do these runs WINDOWS?

Thanks for any information.

- Toshi,
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