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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 22:20:22 -0500 
From: Rikiya Asano <ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: After careful evaluation....
	<Bz1qqM.1FB@NCoast.ORG>
Distribution: usa

Mr. Morton writes:

>In other words you are an inadequate student who wasn't good enough to get 
>into even the most obscure Japanese school?  Your family must be SO proud.
 
Wrong! Others were more adequate than I. But, as I have found out, the
institution doesn't make the student. It provides the resources. The
student makes the student!

>Of course you see life as tragic.  How could you do otherwise?  You're an
>inadequate person who's failed as a student in two countries.  Vulgar is too
>discreet of a term.  I prefer degenerate.  Funny thing is, I can think of 
>an historical figure with all of these qualifications.  Have you ever hung
>wall paper?  Ever been to Austria?  How do you look in lederhosen...?

Wrong again! I am a aw-ite student! I'm a Masters student in a
engineering field
in a top 20 school in America. I am content! No, have have never been to
Australia. I do like the Aborigines of Austraila, though!
From: Ligon@macgw1.ge.com (Woody Ligon)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: DOES AMERICA SAY YES TO JAPAN? - Off track!!
Date: 16 Dec 92 20:49:28 GMT
Followup-To: sci.electronics
Organization: GE-CRD

In article <1992Dec16.014403.2407@cirrus.com>, dhesi@cirrus.com (Rahul
Dhesi) wrote:
> 
> In <1992Dec15.214210.19181@oakhill.sps.mot.com>
> rvkl60@aus18a25.sps.mot.com (Tom Mathes) writes:
> 
> >Let's get this discussion back on the REAL message of the
> >original post: the Japanese coordinated attack on industry
>                    ^alleged
> >in the US, and the mercantilistic trading practices of Japan.
> 
> Do you know when the US will get back on track?  When it stops blaming
> Japan.
> 
> The US owes Japan a lot.  Why do Americans buy Japanese products?
> Because they are inexpensive and work well.  This means that consumers
> in the US have to spend less to buy the same thing, or they can spend
> the same and get better quality.  This means that consumers in the US
> have more money to invest, and they can invest more in industry in
> their own country.  The low price of Japanese products HELPS consumers
> in the US spend less and save and invest more.
> 
> And they would have a LOT to save and invest if they were not paying
> around 60% of their earnings in taxes.  THAT is a real problem.
> -- 
> Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@cirrus.com>
> also: dhesi@rahul.net

I don't have a clue why this is in sci.electronics but since it is, it
would be nice to get the facts straight.  The best description of Japanese
business practices which I have seen appeared this week on the PBS 
"FRONTLINE" series.
It was hosted by a Japanese author and researched by Frontline.  This show
described in detail how the Japanese systematically destroyed the US
electronics industry by "dumping" goods on us below manufacturing cost. 
All I can say about it here is that wars have been fought over less blatant
economic manipulation.

Secondly, I would love to see an explanation of how any American is paying
60% of their income in taxes.  Even counting local taxes, sales taxes and
passed through corporate taxes, it would be tough to get to 60%.

Woody Ligon
Standard Disclaimer Applies
(ligon@macgw1.crd.ge.com) 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.asian.america,alt.sex,soc.culture.usa,soc.culture.african.american,sci.electronics,misc.consumers,misc.education,misc.entrepreneurs
From: rvkl60@aus18a25.sps.mot.com (Tom Mathes)
Subject: Re: DOES AMERICA SAY YES TO JAPAN? - Off track!!
Organization: Motorola Inc, Austin, Texas
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:42:10 GMT

I've been following the evolution of this thread, and man, has
it gotten off course.  Education in Japan was only a small bit
of the original post.

Let's get this discussion back on the REAL message of the
original post: the Japanese coordinated attack on industry
in the US, and the mercantilistic trading practices of Japan.

Those are the real issues the paper discusses, not educational
differences between the two countries.

Tom Mathes                                e-mail : rvkl60@email.sps.mot.com
Motorola Inc. / MOS Memory Products Div.  phone  : (512) 928-7627
Austin, Texas
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,talk.politics.guns
From: p-kun@blacklabel.Japan.Sun.COM (Kevin Parrington - Nihon Sun Logistics)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Call for new newsgroup (was Re: Rikiya Asano... )
Date: 15 Dec 1992 03:52:30 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: blacklabel.japan.sun.com


	Hi kids....

	Hows everbody doing ?  I was doing great until I read the s.c.j.
	group today and found like half the posting were to, for, or
	about "little Riki" (my apologies to the Arnez family) !!!!!

	Why don't you Riki-bashers start your own #(*$& newsgroup
	(alt.bash.riki or rec.flame.riki) !!!!  Think of all the
	fun you  could have in a centralized location, all to
	your ouwn, unincumbered by postings which deal with the society
	and culture of Japan.....just you and your flame throwers
	and Riki....PARADISE, not ????!!!!!

	My kill files runith over....STOP THIS NONSENSE !!!!!!!!!!!

	Thank you.

kp
	 

Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 17:13:20 -0500 
From: Rikiya Asano <ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Wayne Lo

Ladies and Gentlemen,

                                                In case you having heard
Wayne Lo,  a Chinese born American,  killed two people and wounded four
others. This makes me very sad. Last year in the University of Iowa a
Chinese graduate student
killed his department head, assisted department head, a rival master
student(also Chinese) and himself. This once a year thing is getting me
very concerned. I stand convinced that these outbreaks are the results of
isolation and rejection based on ethnicity. Mr. Lo is like most American
Asians (and international Asians as well) the extreme need to intergrate
with American Cauasian society "only"! This boy , 18, (and I got this
information from a Chinese friend that said he knew him) tried very hard
to and "went through every kiss ass means" to make white friends" and as
it went he hook up with the skinheads! I ask you is that despert or not!
The skinheads don't even like Chinese! Another American gone to waste!
Very horrible!  I truely wish him luck in jail. In America your not
taught about
your individual heritage. If your Black you might, might get a little justice
in this area. But as far as Asians go very, very, very, very, very
little is taught about your individual heritage. You will get a
extensive lesson on Pearl Harbor(Pretty, beautiful name).  If  this
young man would have
been taught about his Chinese-American heritage I really doubt that he
would have been a skinhead. I will kill myself the day that a Japanese
Jeffrey Dahmer arrives(well, maybe not kill). Mr. Lo you were very
Stooooooooooopid American-Chinese!
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,talk.politics.guns
From: cmort@NCoast.ORG (Christopher Morton)
Subject: Re: Yoshi Hattori
Reply-To: cmort@ncoast.org (Christopher Morton)
Organization: North Coast Public Access *NIX, Cleveland, OH
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:17:42 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.japan

As quoted from <Ef_fE1i00iV144SjxH@andrew.cmu.edu> by ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rikiya Asano):

> "deportation"! I'll send you back to OHIO in a bodybag! Now, you

Oh, I nearly forgot.  Cowards talk, men DO.  You seem ESPECIALLY verbose
today.

No need to wet your pants RiKKKiko, that's just your shadow....

Say, YaDAAAAAAA RiKKKiko....



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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.asian.america,alt.sex,soc.culture.usa,soc.culture.african.american,sci.electronics,misc.consumers,misc.education,misc.entrepreneurs
From: smittie@csulb.edu (Smittie)
Subject: Re: DOES AMERICA SAY YES TO JAPAN? - Off track!!
Organization: Cal State Long Beach
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:56:38 GMT

>Let's get this discussion back on the REAL message of the
>original post: the Japanese coordinated attack on industry
>in the US, and the mercantilistic trading practices of Japan.

>Those are the real issues the paper discusses, not educational
>differences between the two countries.

The "real issues" as you call 'em have been discussed, ad naseum, here.
Moreover, it has been stated repeatedly that this paper presents absolutely
nothing new to the discussion. All of the "evidence" presented in that paper
was culled from other sources. As Mr. Fester has already pointed out several
times, the author did not give any credit to those who published the various
works which the author of "Does America Say Yes to Japan?" obviously drew from
heavily. Hence, this newsgroup (s.c.j.) has, thankfully, moved on to a more
interesting topic.

smittie
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,alt.sex,soc.culture.usa,soc.culture.african.american,sci.electronics,misc.consumers,misc.education,misc.entrepreneurs
From: dhesi@cirrus.com (Rahul Dhesi)
Subject: Re: DOES AMERICA SAY YES TO JAPAN? - Off track!!
Organization: Cirrus Logic Inc.
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 00:46:52 GMT

In <1992Dec18.003527.5143@cirrus.com> I wrote:


>1.   The US is not quite the pagon of free trade that Japan-bashers
                              ^^^^^this should be "paragon"
>make it out to be.
-- 
Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@cirrus.com>
also: dhesi@rahul.net
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: hiraga@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Yuzuru Hiraga)
Subject: Re: Silent Night
Organization: Stanford University CSLI
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 11:34:33 GMT

In article <1gkughINNbq7@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> kms10@po.CWRU.Edu (Kevin M. Squire) writes:
>
>I was wondering if anyone
>had the words to Silent Night in Japanese?  If you do, could you post them
>or mail them to me?

Only the first verse --
The lyrics are much the same as in English (or the German original).

Kiyoshi / Kono yoru	[ On this holy night ]
Hoshi wa / Hikari	[ The stars are shining ]
Sukui no / miko wa	[ The savior child ]
Mihaha no / mune ni	[ In his mother's bosom ]
Nemuri / tamou		[ is asleep ]
Yume / yasuku		[ in peaceful dreams ]

The phrasing, matched to the English lyrics is:

Ki- yo   shi    ko-no yo- ru
Si- lent night  ho-   ly  night

Ho- shi wa    hi- ka- ri
all is  calm  all is  bright

Su-  ku- i    no   mi-    ko  wa
Rond yon vir- gin  mother and child

Mi-  ha- ha     no  mu-     ne  ni
ho-  ly  infant so  ten-der and mild

Ne-   mu- ri   ta-  mo- u
Sleep in  heavenly  pea-ce

Yu-   me ya-     su- ku
Sleep in heaven- ly  peace.

-Yuzuru Hiraga
Xref: sparky soc.culture.japan:12203 talk.politics.guns:25119
From: hiraga@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Yuzuru Hiraga)
Subject: Re: 50 YEARS AGO TODAY: December 7, 1942 - a retrospective
Organization: Stanford University CSLI
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 09:58:43 GMT

In article <jwb.724650466@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au> jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au (Jim Breen) writes:
> ...
>Well at least you present an argument for your statement. The last time
>this thread started up, a poster said, "well it wasn't really a 
>"world" war until WE were involved."
> ...
>If 1939 to 1941 was not a world war, well 1914-1918 wasn't either.

Just curious -- when was the term "World War II" first coined?
For that matter, how about "World War I"?

# I recall it was initially called something like "the great war"...

-YH
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: mako@uihepa.hep.uiuc.edu ("Makoto Shimojima, Univ of Tsukuba/CDF")
Subject: Re: strange beverages
Reply-To: mako@uihepa.hep.uiuc.edu
Organization: High Energy Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 23:24:35 GMT

>                                                           the liqueur
> called Midori (which means "violinist" in Japanese) is...

The word "Midori" has nothing to do with the word "violinist" except
that there is a young, and quite famous, Japanese violinist named
Midori Gotou, or just "Midori".

Midori in general means green, of course. Violinist is baiorinist,
baiorin-sousha, or baiorin-hiki.
						mako
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.asian.america,soc.culture.usa,soc.culture.african.american,sci.electronics,misc.consumers,misc.education,misc.entrepreneurs
From: arsmith@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Alan Smith)
Subject: Re: DOES AMERICA SAY YES TO JAPAN? - Off track!!
Summary:  Way the Snark off track.
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 04:04:30 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523
Keywords: alt.sex?

In article <BILLD.92Dec17113405@gdstech.GRUMMAN.COM> billd@gdstech.GRUMMAN.COM (Bill D'Camp) writes:
>There has been a tremendous amount of voluminous discussion about
>these issues, there obviously people on both sides of the issue. 

Yeah, no kiddin.

BUT WHY THE LIVING SNARK DO YOU HAVE TO DISCUSS VOLUMOUSLY ON ALT.SEX?

You don't see me talking about the health risks of oral-anal sex, do you?

This discussion belongs on alt.paranoia.  Please put it there and keep it there.
From: yeonwook@hardy.u.washington.edu (Mark Choi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: RIKIYA ASANO
Date: 13 Dec 92 02:57:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Dec13.025752.13166
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

In article <RHB.92Dec12155135@world.std.com> rhb@world.std.com (Robert H Brueckner) writes:
>In article <101554@netnews.upenn.edu> hseung@anat3d1.anatomy.upenn.edu (Hyunsuk Seung) writes:
>
>/quoted material follows/
>   Rikiya, 
>
>   Please do not get discouraged even if people on the net are
>   frantically putting you in their KILL files.  There are open-minded
>   people who find your numerous articles enlightening in numerous ways,
>   which in turn add another dimension to perceive the world even if they
>   may seem provacative at times.  May censorship censor itself!
>
>   Hyunsuk Seung
>   hseung@anat3d1.anatomy.upenn.edu
>/end quoted material/
>
>Which goes to show that it takes all kinds to make a world. I would
>have thought not one person out of six billion would listen to this
>little maggot Rikiya Asano (who, if he did graduate with honors
>certainly didn't earn any of them in English; and he no speaka da
>Japanese too good neither, apparently). But I was wrong. There *is* one.
>
>RB
>
>
>-- 
>|"The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who  |
>| have loved it." -- George Santayana  // Opinions expressed here, when |
>| clear and persuasive, are my own. --Rob Brueckner (rhb@world.std.com) |
>


AND TWO. Are you a Japan-phile too?
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   /.\ |      | yeonwook@hardy.u.washington.edu |
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: mason@lion.erg.sri.com (Mason Jones)
Subject: Re: Using 110V,60Hz equip on 100V,60Hz??
Reply-To: mason@lion.erg.sri.com (Mason Jones)
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 19:48:55 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.004926.1@camins.camosun.bc.ca>,
comptec91025@camins.camosun.bc.ca (Ian Hobday) writes:
|>Happily, I will be travelling to Japan early in the new year, and will 
|>probably be taking a notebook designed for use on 110V, 60Hz power.  I will 
|>be going to Osaka, where I understand the power is 100V, 60Hz with 
|>non-polerized plugs.  The question is, of course, will I fry my machine???
|>Although I am not planning to, what if I end up travelling to an area that 
|>is 100V, 50Hz?  What then?

I don't have the definite answer, but I had some strange power problems
when I was there this past September.  I was there playing some shows, and
had some electronic effects with me which needed to be plugged in.  I
had been told there wasn't much of a problem.  Our system here is 120V, and
Japan's is 110V, I thought (not 110/100).  In any case, one of my effects
was just fine (its tolerance is 100-120) while another one seemed to work
at first but displayed some unfortunate symptoms due to the voltage
difference; its tolerance must have just been borderline, so while it
came on and seemed to function, it would cut out unexpectedly, with noisy
results.

What's the lesson here? I'm not sure, but at the very least be cautious.
With a computer, it's possible that the voltage difference could cause
some very bad problems (hard disk crashes, etc).  I'd strongly recommend
buying a transformer -- I saw them in duty-free shops in Tokyo and Osaka,
though I never broke down and bought one (too expensive).  They were
around 4000-8000 yen as I recall, depending on the size you need.

   <===============================================================>
         Mason Jones, temporarily at SRI International, Inc.
            mason@erg.sri.com or better: mason@netcom.com
   <===============================================================>
                   
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,talk.politics.guns
From: operator@icrf.icnet.uk
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: HELP ME TO TRACE ... DOES AMERICA SAY YES TO JAPAN
Date: 14 Dec 92 09:24:29 GMT
Organization: Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, UK
NNTP-Posting-Host: clyde.lif.icnet.uk

I need help in locating some article that appeared
under the subject
 
DOES AMERICA SAY YES TO JAPAN?

All the info I can give is that it was about 1637 lines
and very well researched(apparently).

I need it for the research it will help save me.

Could anyone out there help? 

The last time I read it was 11th Dec 1992.

Josh.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: jnlee@uucp (John Lee)
Subject: Re: RIKIYA ASANO
Organization: Oracle Corporation
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:19:38 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by an unauthenticated user
              at Oracle Corporation.  The opinions expressed are those
              of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.

In article <Bz0zpw.BCy@ncifcrf.gov> masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov (Michiaki Masuda) writes:
>In article <1992Dec10.024537.4448@u.washington.edu> yeonwook@hardy.u.washington.edu (Mark Choi) writes:
>>In article <0f9btE_00iUx46Udg_@andrew.cmu.edu> "Douglas S. Brashear" <db6j+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>.....

What a dip stick you must be.  But I don't blame you - I am sure you could
not help it. 

John Lee 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: "joe kuroda" <joe.kuroda@canrem.com>
Subject: rikiya asano and blatant
Reply-To: "joe kuroda" <joe.kuroda@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: soc
Date: 14 Dec 92 22:16:57 EST

Hi Jack. 

I also have been following this newsgroup and I totally agree with you.
I am quite dismayed by this individual who so far has done nothing 
but shout obscenities and been abusive to other people here.

I follow this newsgroup to find information and views on Japan but 
lately, this person is not only engaging in comparative study of Japan
and U.S. but purporting alleged sins committed by *white* Americans 
(the latest he mentioned was North Koreans, while conveniently ignoring 
atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers in Korea and China during the 
World War II).

Just to add, even as a non-American, I feel proud of what America and 
American soldiers (white, red and blue !) are doing in Africa so that
Somalian people, especially the old and children, could be fed and 
medically treated.  When you look around, more often than not, it is 
America that shows leadership and take appropriate actions.
 
I know this is off topic but I thought it needed to be said.

Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah, Everyone !   

               Joe

 * 1st 1.01 #930 * It takes courage to innovate, not imitate.
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: bwebb@nrchh129.RICH.nt.com (Brad Webb)
Subject: Re: Is Riki a ruse?
Organization: Northern Telecom, Inc.
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 21:27:59 GMT

>Warning:  The SF Bay Area is a small place...be a naughty boy and for
>Christmas, I'll have Rikiya sic you like a rabid dog, and when he pins
>you, I'm going to tie you up next to my Sony speakers and force you to
>listen to my renditions of Bakufu-Slump songs a hundred times over.
>8-).
>
>Jaa, James
>=======================================================================
>James C. Liu |    KARAOKE Addict!     Karaoke: You're the STAR!!!!    |
>             |    Wanna go? Need someone who sings worse than you do? |
>             |    Know about a cool karaoke bar? send e-mail          |
>=======================================================================
>

Whoa, now that could really hurt.... man are you mean.
From: ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rikiya Asano)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Cheju Island!
Date: 14 Dec 92 00:06:10 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.sf=5mG600iUyI0eJhf
Distribution: soc
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Friends,

         While completing the above research, I came across some
discriptions and pictures of Cheju Island and the people there. I feel
that this is where I
want to be. It is one of the most beautifullest on earth. Now, I'm from
Hokkaido and it's very beautiful there, especially as some of you may've
known, in the winter. This Cheju Island is great! I mean it was like I
was in a paradise by
just looking at the pictures in the book. And, the people looked as
beautiful as
the land itself. It is hard to believe that a place like this still
exist so close to Nippon. It would be great to do some paintings around
these areas.