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Date:         Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:16:00 JST
From:         Akio Tanaka <TANAKA%JPNSUT20.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Gleanings (73)

[ 1 ]  Foreigners in Japan/Books on Japanese Culture.

Karen wrote (14 Dec 92):

kk) I should say that while I was appalled at what it's like to be a
kk) foreigner in Japan, I think it's probably better than being a lot of
kk) things in this country.  I was horrified when I was on a bus in Okla-
kk) homa and anyone who looked vaguely hispanic was required to produce id.
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Karen,

What were some of the things you found appalling when you were staying
in Japan?  You don't have to be polite here, Karen.
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kk) Hey, Akio, I'm teaching Japanese culture next semester...have you read
kk) anything that you would recommend?  Dave Barry's book is too full of
kk) misinformation to be a main text, but I'm going to put it on reserve.
kk) (I like his understanding of tatemae and honne.)  I think I am going
kk) to use Ruth Benedicts Chrysanthemum and the sword as the main text,
kk) but I'm still looking for something more modern. I think I am going
kk) to make Karsten take me to Kinokuniya when I am in L.A. over break.

kk) Karen
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Well, you have of course read Reischaeur's _The Japanese Today_
(ISBN 4-8053-0512-6), haven't you?  While I suspect you find it
banal, I still think it can be a good introductory book.  Or you could
even try Crichton's _Rising Sun_ (ISBN 0-394-58942-4).  Some called
the book racist, but I thought it was OK.  I rather enjoyed it.  I can
also recommend _Japan Almanac_ (ISBN 4-02-219593-2) as a reference book
for students.  It's a small book but a well-edited, bilingual one.  If
I can think of some other books over the vacation, I'll let you know.
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[ 2 ]  Japanese bride on AWOL in Sydney.

Carolyn wrote (15 Dec 92):

cb) BTW Akio, have you heard anything about the Japanese bride who went AWOL on
cb) her honeymoon in Sydney? Is there any news of her since she arrived back in
cb) Japan?

cb) Carolyn
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The first report I saw was as follows (The Daily Yomiuri, 12 Dec 92):

SYDNEY (AP) -- A Japanese woman, who disappeared during her honeymoon,
publicly apologized on Friday for staging the incident.
     Police found 25-year-old Emiko Ogura earlier Friday in a motel in
Sydney's eastern suburbs, four days after she was reported missing.
     At a news conference, Ogura, who speaks no English, said through
an interpreter that she was sorry for the trouble she had caused both
in Australia and Japan.
     She said she had suffered doubts about her two-week-old marriage
to Yoshiro Fujieda, who sat beside her at the news conference.
     She said she had needed time to think alone but now wanted to return
to Japan with her husband if he would have her back.
     Ogura disappeared Monday while shopping in Sydney's Rocks tourist
precinct.  In a brief phone call later that night she told her husband
she had met a "friendly Australian."  This prompted fears that she had
been abducted.
     She telephoned him again on Thursday falsely saying she was at the
resort city of the Gold Coast, 500 kilometers to the north, and would
soon return to Sydney.
     However, police said they found Ogura unharmed and staying at the
Sydney motel early Friday morning.
     Police said no charges will be filed against her.  Superintendent
Andy Holland said she had been hiding at the motel all along.
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Well, from what I heard, the whole thing seemed to have been pre-arranged.
The motel where she was hiding had been booked in advance by another man
she used to work under.

Ogura and Fujieda are now divorced, naturally...

[ 3 ]  Saitami University.

Marty wrote (15 Dec 92)

mr) Greetings,

mr) All the dignitaries of higher rank being either sick or otherwise indisposed
mr) it falls to me to entertain President Horikawa from Saitami University this
mr) afternoon.  Does anyone know anything about this person, the institution,
mr) or Mr. Iizuka, who will be accompanying?

mr) It seems they're signing an exchange agreement with us.

mr) Marty
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It's actually 'Saitama' University, as Karen correctly suggested.
It's located in Urawa, Saitama Prefecture, 20 km north of Tokyo.
It's a national university, founded in 1949.  Enrollment - 6,500.
Sorry, but I don't know anything about Horikawa and Iizuka.

[ 4 ]  Gleanings (73).  Thank you very much.  This is the last Gleanings
for the year 1992.  I have really appreciated the instructive and
entertaining answers to my innocent queries.  I'm really hoping that
all the <gems> I have collected will be compiled into a dictionary of some
sort in the future.  But then, how am I supposed to distribute royalty? :-)
The first Gleanings for 1993 will be posted on January 11.

Dewa, yoi otoshi wo omukae kudasai.

                M A Y     T H E    N E W   Y E A R    B E

        A    P E A C E F U L    A N D    P R O S P E R O U S   O N E

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