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From: bbs.lar@tsoft.net (Larry Greenfield)
Subject: *TOHO NEWS* HELP!
Organization: The TSoft BBS and Public Access Unix, +1 415 969 8238
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 07:23:49 GMT

Hello all in soc.culture.japan.
 I need your help. I've posted this in both rec.arts.anime and 
soc.culture.japan hoping that someone in Japan can help me.  Please email 
me if you can, I'd really appriciate it. Here's the post:

  This post concerns the Kimagure Orange Road Memory Box Set (a LaserDisc 
box set).  PLEASE help me if you can, and send replies as EMAIL unless 
you can't (then in that case, post public, but try to keep it in email). 
Thank you!  
 
**NOW**: to someone (ANYONE) in Japan or who does business with Toho: 
please read and help if you can!

  
   I wrote a letter to Toho Japan a long time ago asking nicely if they
were aware of the KOR Box Set rotting problem.I got no reply (yes, I sent
it to the right place, even to the right name, a Mr. Hirai at the Video 
Software division).   No reply.
  So I wrote again a few months ago. Obvioulsy they've chosen to take a 
shoddy approach to customer service. No reply. both my letters were 
written nicely, asking them if they were aware of the rotting problem, 
and asking if they had plans to re-press the Box set.  No reply, and 
months have gone by. 
  I might add that originally, I wrote this letter to Pioneer Japan, and 
got a reply within about 2 weeks, a very nice letter, telling me to write 
to Toho (since it WAS their discs, after all), and even the person I 
should write to (with address, etc. I verified the address with what two 
separate posters here sent me in email as well). 
   So obviously Toho is certainly not acting like a decent company.
  ** I'd be very interested if anyone there in Japan who does business 
with Toho, or knows employees of Toho might pass this along, and see if 
they can get an answer why two well-written nice letters to Toho have 
been unanswered after all this time. Again, they were addressed to Mr. 
Hirai of the Video Software division. It's kind of mad when a product 
goes bad, and when a company (especially a Japaese giant, like Toho, when 
Japanese companies are known for their customer service and attention to 
the customer) ignore you and throw away your letters.  *PLEASE** if 
anyone can relay this message to ANYONE at Toho, I'd be interested in 
hearing their reply. Perhaps there is someone else I can write to at Toho 
just to get an answer to my question!!!

:::::Larry:::::

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Larry Greenfield (bbs.lar@tsoft.net)
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From: tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu (Tad Perry)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,alt.sex,soc.culture.usa,sci.electronics,misc.consumers,misc.education,misc.entrepreneurs
Subject: Re: DOES AMERICA SAY YES TO JAPAN? - Off track!!
Date: 9 Jan 93 23:06:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: gibdo.1993Jan09.225420.12353
Organization: unaffiliated
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In article <1993Jan9.213502.27163@clsi.COM> kevin@clsi.com writes:
>
>In article <1993Jan8.212312.9391@pegasus.com>, tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan) writes:
>> 
>> Kev:  It isn't "true" at any time anywhere.  People never spend more money
>> for anything "than it is actually worth".  $5 for a gallon milk is not more
>> than it is worth if you have no transportation and the store that sells
>> milk for $2.50 a gallon is 10 miles away.  One of stores is closer so the
>> value of that milk when up to that buyer.
>
>The $2.50 difference in milk price in your example would match the energy cost
>of travelling the 10 miles (and back) to buy it cheaper.

True enough but you totally ignore competition. What store transports
milk one gallon at a time? If a store was pricing things based on what
it would cost a *consumer* to travel 10 miles and buy it somewhere
else, I'd move Tad's Market into that neighborhood and A) either take
all that store's business away, or B) force that store to lower it's
prices. There is always *some* demand for cheaper prices on identical
products, so you'd expect competition to move in anywhere there was an
opportunity to do so. That's why prices in a normal market should
reflect the costs of the manufacturers, suppliers and merchants, not
the calculated cost that each consumer would have to bear to repeat
the process on a smaller scale. If that were true, milk would cost
$10/gallon because that's what it would cost you to keep a cow in your
backyard and milk a gallon out of it every couple days. What you are
discussing is definitely *not* how prices get set.





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From: yoichi@carson.u.washington.edu (Yoichi Ii)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Gifts from America to Japan [SUMMARY]
Date: 13 Jan 1993 03:30:33 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
NNTP-Posting-Host: carson.u.washington.edu

harkcom@spinach.pa.yokogawa.co.jp (Alton Harkcom) writes:
>...  Hershey's kisses get gobbled up rather quickly by the little ones...

And some older ones, too.  Those who were too young to
understand the signifcance of war defeat but old enough to
remember the post-war period seem to have special attachment
to the name "Hershey".  I guess the American GI's only had 
this brand of cholocates :-)  "Gibu mii chokoreeto" and all
that.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: hiraga@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Yuzuru Hiraga)
Subject: Re: Japanese Authors translated to English
Organization: Stanford University CSLI
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 10:22:15 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.010345.19122@ucc.su.OZ.AU> mikef@dph1.health.su.oz.au writes:
>I'm currently reading Yukio Mishima's "The Sea of Fertility" which is a
>tetralogy (ie a trilogy plus one!). This was Mishima's last work before he
>committed suicide. After completing it, he made a comment to the effect of:
>"I feel totally drained, there is nothing else useful that I can do".

"Sea of Fertility" -> "Houjou no Umi"
And he handed over the final manuscript of "Tenjin Gosui" immediately
before raiding the SDF headquarters in Ichigaya and committed suicide.

-YH
From: herb@sybase.com (Herb Lison)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Japanese women, foreign men
Date: 4 Jan 93 16:25:44 GMT
Organization: Sybase, Inc.

The pheremone theory is interesting but not persuasive.  Smells
may get people interested in each other but are insufficient to
sustain anything more long-lasting.  

A much more likely explanation can be found in the way foreign men
treat Japanese women.   Even a very modest (by western standards)
level of kindness and consideration can seem very attractive to
a woman who has not experienced this before.  From my own limited
observations I think that these behavioral differences are far more
important than diet, smell or the type of car one drives.

Herb Lison
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From: edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,misc.education,misc.entrepreneurs
Subject: Re: DOES AMERICA SAY YES TO JAPAN? - Off track!!
Date: 5 Jan 93 02:58:58 GMT
Organization: RAND

In article <C0Cz4r.2yM@world.std.com> cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond) writes:
>. . . . The move on the part of "Japan" toward economic hegemony first imposes
>its costs on the Japanese people in order to gain advantage on others. This
>leads to such seeming contradictions as a disastrous home economy at the same
>time as record trade imbalances.

What contradiction?  The recent increase in the trade imbalance is to a
large extent the result of troubles in the home economy.  Imports (into
Japan) are way down as a result.  Exports have changed little of late--
in fact, part of the cause of their economic problems is that their
industry overestimated demand.

The Japanese economy is in for quite a bumpy ride, in the short term.

Personally, I'm more worried about China, whose economy is growing so
explosively that it could well overtake Japan's in the next two decades.
The Japanese might wind up looking positively genteel in comparison.

		-Ed Hall
		edhall@rand.org
From: nakano@suncom1.cs.shinshu-u.ac.jp (NAKANO Yasuaki)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: FLASH NEWS!!
Date: 8 Jan 93 10:20:02 GMT
Reply-To: nakano@suncom1.cs.shinshu-u.ac.jp (NAKANO Yasuaki)
Organization: Dept. of Information Engineering, Shinshu Univ.,500 wakasato, Nagano, Japan

In article <C0HuL9.IAI@ncifcrf.gov> masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov (Michiaki Masuda) writes:
>  If that "collective decision" did not include that of Crown Prince
>and Ms. Owada and they were made to engage [snap!] just like this, I 
>think that it is a shame.

A law regulates that the marriage of a member of the Imperial family must
be admitted by the conference. I think noone has not proposed to change
the law. It is not a shame, I think.

>  As I heard that the Prince has been making a proposal to Ms. Owada for
>the last three years, I want to believe that this engagement is based on a
>mutual understanding and agreement at a personal level.

I want to believe it also.

Yasuaki NAKANO
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 12:38:05 MST
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Not a Myth at All
Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo UT USA
From: luke@newt.ee.byu.edu (David Luke)

In article <C0G98r.5I1@ncifcrf.gov> masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov (Michiaki Masuda) writes:
>In article <HARKCOM.93Jan6095158@spinach.pa.yokogawa.co.jp> harkcom@spinach.pa.yokogawa.co.jp (Alton Harkcom) writes:

>  In the US, I saw a Japanese TV program that reported the difficulties
>for a foreigner to find an apartment in Japan. As far as I remember, they
>used the term, "gaijin sabetsu" but not "jinshu sabetsu."

This is true.  "Gaijin" means exactly that -- non-Japanese citizens.
Ethnic Japanese but cultural foreigners are excluded, as well as ethnic
and cultural Japanese, born and raised in Japan, but naturalized as
citizens of other countries.  Nationalism?  Maybe.  Racism?  No.
-- 
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From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Christopher Mauritz)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.korean
Subject: Re: wife beating
Date: 10 Jan 93 17:07:18 GMT
Organization: Ritz International, Inc. -- Import/Export Consultants
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Rikiya Asano (ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu) wrote:

[lots deleted]

OS/2> Dwight Joe I hate you. The hate that I have for you is more than any
OS/2> Japanese could have for a person. I never thought that it was possible
OS/2> for me to hate someone with Chinese blood. Even though I hate you that
OS/2> hatred is nothing compared to the sorrow that I feel for you. The only
OS/2> thing that is keeping you alive is that you are very intelligent(but you
OS/2> use it in a stoopid way). But, let me tell you something friend.
OS/2> Intelligence fails an individual at least once in life!  Be ready!

This is obviously a different person posting.  All the other bullshit
seen emanating from ra01 was 7-10 year old level at best and suddenly
we see complete sentences!  Next time I see this guy logged in, I'm
going to have to send a friend I know at CMU over to that terminal
to snap a picture so that we can see what/who we are really dealing
with.  I'll post the GIF here and in alt.sex.beastiality for all 
those who are interested.

Regards,

Chris

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Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 17:41:23 GMT
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Organization: The University of Leeds, School of Computer Studies
From: ross-c@scs.leeds.ac.uk
To: usenet@phaze.cam.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: Japanese pop music

In article <C0MzyA.G8I@unix.amherst.edu> you write:
>
>	I'm interested in hearing some Japanese rock, having had my appetite
>whetted by the magnificient Shonen Knife. Where can I order some from, and 

While I do own one of their records, I'm hesitant to use the word "magnificent".
Endearingly cutsey maybe ( :-) 1/2 ).

>what do all you out there recommend? (Please include Western analogies so
>that I can find music that appeals to my own tastes - i.e. say it sounds sort
>of like Talking Heads or R.E.M. or Steely Dan or whatever.)
>						-jesse

A good resource for investigating Japanese music is the review database
associated with the Jpop mailing list (the brainchild of Ray Tang). Has
>100 reviews of Japanese albums including short descriptions of the music 
involved. It should be available via ftp from "ferkel.ucsb.edu".

Cheers,

Ross-c
From: yoichi@carson.u.washington.edu (Yoichi Ii)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: World trading -- who's rules?  Was: Brainwashed
Date: 7 Jan 1993 23:10:46 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
NNTP-Posting-Host: carson.u.washington.edu

In article <|t#@byu.edu> luke@newt.ee.byu.edu (David Luke) writes:
>In article <1id1ppINNpif@shelley.u.washington.edu> yoichi@carson.u.washington.edu (Yoichi Ii) writes:
>
>>If S. Africa, China, or some other country want to join the group of
>>nations in trade and exchanges, then they ought to play by our rules.
>
>There's a problem, which gets somewhat off of the "can we evaluate cultures
>in terms of good and bad", but which is (IMO) an important one.  Who os
>"us"?  Is it the US, or Japan, or the EC, or the intersection of the above?
>At what percentage of the world trade does a country become an "us" instead
>of a "them"?
>
>A lot of our friction with Japan (tradewise) seems to stem from these
>issues.

Gee, how embarassing. I thought I cancelled that article :-)
But now that it's out, I'll make my 1yen5sen comment.  In the
case of Apartheid, "us" is everyone except S.Africa (more or less).
In other issues, it's not as easy to define and is very fluid.
I guess you just have to gauge whom to join hands under the table 
and whom to back stab.  I imagine trade negotiators discuss such things.

>I hate to change the subject on a good solid s.c.j. argument, but, any
>comments?  Ideas?

Perhaps Miss Owada can tell us how these negotiations proceed :-)

Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.usa,soc.culture.african.american,misc.consumers,misc.entrepreneurs
From: drw@euclid.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley)
Subject: Re: DOES AMERICA SAY YES TO JAPAN? - Off track!!
Organization: MIT Dept. of Tetrapilotomy, Cambridge, MA, USA
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 01:05:13 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.212312.9391@pegasus.com> tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan) writes:
   Kev:  It isn't "true" at any time anywhere.  People never spend more money
   for anything "than it is actually worth".  $5 for a gallon milk is not more
   than it is worth if you have no transportation and the store that sells
   milk for $2.50 a gallon is 10 miles away.  One of stores is closer so the
   value of that milk when up to that buyer.

   The highest bidder determines the property's worth.

Although there are serious complications if a major reason people
purchase the property is their expectations of re-selling it at a
profit (as opposed to the value to them of using it).  This leads to
"speculative bubbles" in the prices of things.  I've seen three so far
-- Midwest farm land (crashed in the late 1970s), stocks (crashed in
1987), and Massachusetts residential real estate (crashed in 1989).
In all cases, toward the end, people bought at "inflated" prices only
because they thought "prices couldn't go down".

In residential housing, there is also the complicating factor of the
home-mortgage interest deduction, which is really a tax subsidy for
mortgage holders.  This tends to cause homeowners to buy more
expensive houses than they would otherwise.

(And really, it's the *second-highest* bidder that determines the
property's worth.)

Dale

Dale Worley		Dept. of Math., MIT		drw@math.mit.edu
--
One of the toughest morals of the globalization of industry is that
only the best companies can expect to survive -- and then, generally,
on shorter rations.  The moral is applicable to an uncomfortably large
number of ... industries, including [automobiles,] banking,
agriculture and aerospace.  The problem generally is going to be to
get rid of the corpses -- not to continue to resurrect them.
-- David Warsh
From: blamb@hri.com (Bill Lambert)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: bad idea to post pictures of Miyazawa Rie
Date: 12 Jan 93 16:26:53 GMT
Organization: Horizon Research, Inc.

In article <MS-C.726817061.1103527590.mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU>,
mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin) writes:
=> Has it dawned on any of the people talking about Miyazawa Rie GIFs that you
=> are doing two very wrong things:
=>
=> [....}
=>
=> Fundamentally, you are showing a contempt for women in general, and Ms
=> Miyazawa in particular (if you really liked her, you wouldn't steal from her).

This may be one of the rare times that I agree with mrc :-)

There are places around the net for posting such things, if you
must, but I think that the lecherous comments that have accompanied
this issue are sometimes pretty thoughtless and surely offensive
to many readers.

Please note: there is some difference between standing up at a
meeting of those who enjoy looking at gifs and saying, "Wow...
that one has really great... (whatever), and doing the same
with a more general audience present.

- Bill
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: john@westford.ccur.com (John Cooper)
Subject: Re: Gifts from America to Japan [SUMMARY]
Organization: Concurrent Computer Corp.  Westford, MA
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 19:24:29 GMT

In article <1830004@hplred.HPL.HP.COM> ajeans@hplred.HPL.HP.COM (Albert Jeans) writes:
>I found that a video I had made of my life in the U.S. (homes, shopping, etc)
>was quite popular with the Japanese, since many of them had only been to the
>U.S. as tourists. (Note that many stores do not like you taking videos inside
>for security reasons.) Although Tower Records is in Japan, it might still be
>worthwhile to bring CD's to Japan since they may not have a good idea of which
>groups are "good". Almond Rocca seems to be popular.

Something I can suggest with respect to music is to record a broadcast from
local radio stations on a HI-FI VCR.  The 160 minute tapes in EP mode will give
8 hours of continuous music.  You can decide what to do for the video input...

I guess you could also send broadcasts of television programs but depending
upon the language ability of the recipient you may consider sitcoms or other
such shows where the dialog is toned-down.  I've also found music videos to be
a favorite.  VHS is the popular format I'm told.

I'm not sure why but incense seems to be well received in my experience.
Especially something like "balsam-fir" or "pine".  American-Indian trinkets
are also well received.  A calendar during the Dec-Jan holidays is a nice
touch especially one with a photo theme such as New England tourist traps,
etc..  Just my 2 cents..

-john
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 11:36:40 -0500 
From: Rikiya Asano <ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Offered: GIFs of Naked Rie Miyazawa

 Ms. Atwood writes: 

>My 2 cents--I don't know about morals, appropriateness of 
>posting, or any other factors.  But this makes me uncomfortable.
>There are getting to be a number of threads and a number of
>posters which I have to remember to bypass.  I used to be able
>to just have all the new postings from soc.culture.japan moved
>to a file to read later.  But that was months ago.  Maybe you 
>folks don't care that I have to do the selection process.  Or
>maybe more of you should consider that some women are
>uncomfortable, or even offended, by what men say about women.
>Cathy
>-- 
>Cathy Atwood       Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A.

These post also makes me uncomfortable.  At first I thought that these
"men" were admiring a "women" for her beauty. But, I was wrong because
these "men" don't know what really beauty is. It seems like y'all  are
looking at this person indectly or directly as a piece of meat. Frankly,
I don't think that y'all about her mind or experiences. And, most of
all, I think that if this continues on it's present course I will become
very insulted. So, give me a break!
From: jcliu@four-lab4.Berkeley.EDU (James C. Liu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Recipe (Not Okonomiyaki)
Date: 11 Jan 1993 00:15:35 GMT
Organization: UC Berkeley Dept. of Nuclear Engineering
NNTP-Posting-Host: four-lab4.berkeley.edu

In article <1iq8oeINN5qd@shelley.u.washington.edu> 
yoichi@carson.u.washington.edu (Yoichi Ii) writes:

  >This discussion on culture certainly has been intersting, 
  >although a little heavy for a light, lunch-time reading :-)
  [much philosophical stuff deleted]

Yeah, but Maiko-chan's first question remains...what's the recipe
for good okonomiyaki besides the bulldog sauce? :-)

Jaa, James
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From: arnet@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Arne Thormodsen)
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 20:52:53 GMT
Subject: Re: Brainwashed
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan

>=}There was an anthropologist who did a study on comparison of free time
>=}between a typical hunter-gatherer vs a typical office worker in a modern
>=}society.  At least according to this guy, the former had more free time.
>
>     Um hmmmmm.  And how much free time did that add up to when you compare a
>30- to 40-year life span with a 70- to 80-year life span?  And what fascinating
>pursuits did the illiterate hunter-gatherers have to fill this copious leisure
>time?
>
>

Well, while I feel your sarcastic question hardly deserves an answer,
there is one.  They spent the time sleeping, fornicating, swapping
stories/jokes etc.  and in various religious and/or artistic pursuits.
A pretty good time if you ask me.

This study, more than almost anything I have heard in the last several
years, has caused me to deeply question whether this whole "society" gig
we are on is really all that good.

I suppose the next time a really big asteroid hits the earth we will
find out. :-)

--arne
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan