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From: gkomatsu@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Galen Tatsuo Komatsu)
Subject: Karuna Shinsho Leaves NHK's "Today's Japan"
Organization: University of Hawaii at Manoa
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 09:28:24 GMT

	As you may already know, Karuna Shinsho is leaving the anchor
desk of NHK's news program "Today's Japan".  In the April 3 issue
of "The Hawaii Herald", Dalton Tanonaka (who I believe works for
NHK now, after leaving his position at a station in Hawaii) wrote
a short sidebar to his regular column in HH.  So I thought I'd bring
you "Karuna groupies" some of the details of that article (I'm not
copying it word for word, just summarizing the "important" things...)

	After three years of being in the studio, the 24-year-old
Karuna Shinsho is leaving the anchor desk of NHK's "Today's Japan".
"I'll always be grateful for the experience and exposure NHK gave me,
but I've been wanting the opportunity to get out in the field to
report and produce, something I've never done before," said Shinsho
who is considering offers from American and international broadcast
organizations to work as a reporter.
	The Hawaii native's most avid viewers are in Asia, especially
in Thailand, where she is known as "The Pearl of the Orient."  She
says "I'll never forget the people I've met and those who wrote to
say they enjoyed the show.  I guess there are a lot of folks who
really want to know what's going on in Japan."
	Shinsho's replacement will be 28-year-old Saya Oka, a 1986
UC-Berkeley graduate.  Oka, born in Hong Kong, raised in Europe,
America and Asia, was previously a Tokyo producer for the British
television news agency, Visnews.

	Karuna's final broadcast was on April 3, so I guess it's too
late for you to set your VCR!  (I missed it too... boo-hoo.)
For those of you who have been drooling for a Karuna GIF, I found
one a while back at wucharive.wustl.edu (I don't remember the
directory, but it shouldn't be hard to find.)  I took a peek at
it on my Apple //e (not exactly the best medium for GIF viewing,
kinda like watching the Fantasia LD on a B&W TV with a 2" screen.)
Looked a little "dorky" in my opinion, it showed her against a
"radiating sun" backdrop.  (You know, like that Japanese flag with
the red circle in the middle and red & white stripes radiating out.)

Galen Komatsu
gkomatsu@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
From: harkcom@spinach.pa.yokogawa.co.jp (Alton Harkcom)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: "New fingerprint Procedure"
Date: 12 Apr 92 22:58:17 GMT
	<HARKCOM.92Mar30082146@spinach.pa.yokogawa.co.jp>
	<6209@bigbird.hri.com.hri.com>
Organization: Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
In-reply-to: blamb@sparc1.hri.com's message of 3 Apr 92 22:47:30 GMT

In article <6209@bigbird.hri.com.hri.com> blamb@sparc1.hri.com
   (Bill Lambert) writes:

 =}And so it goes..... please let us know who won.

   Nobody ever wins in such threads...  You just find out who is more
stubborn...

Al
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From: jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au (Jim Breen)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,sci.lang.japan
Subject: Transcript of PBS program about Matsushita
Date: 6 Apr 92 03:27:04 GMT
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.

The transcript of a PBS TV program about Matsushita's operations in the
US has turned up in pub/Nihongo on monu6.cc.monash.edu.au. [I don't know
how legal it is to have such things hanging around one's ftp area, but I
suspect liability would be hard to pin down.]

Anyway, it makes interesting reading. Disturbing reading, too.

[It must have been mentioned in other groups/lists, because my stats say
it has been ftped 40+ times in the last few days.]

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From: blamb@sparc1.hri.com (Bill Lambert)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Japanese CD's in NY?
Date: 9 Apr 92 20:25:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: bigbird.6258
Reply-To: blamb@sparc1.hri.com (Bill Lambert)
Organization: Horizon Research

In article <ANG.92Apr9143734@mockingbird.lcs.mit.edu>,
ang@theory.lcs.mit.edu (William Ang) writes:
=> In article <6255@bigbird.hri.com.hri.com> blamb@sparc1.hri.com (Bill
Lambert) writes:
=> 
=>    [text deleted...]
=> 
=>    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.
=> 
=> I have been to Yaohan Plaza few times.  I think the only thing you
=> can't get in Boston are the Yamazaki (Did I get the spelling right?)
=> bread, CDs, and the collections of books/magazine in the bookstore.
=> Everything else, you could pretty much get in Boston area.  The
=> expense of going there (gas + toll + driving time) is just not worth
=> my effort.
=> 
=> Porter Sqaure (Porter Excahnge) has several Japanese sushi/noodle stores,
=> a grocery store that sell mostly imported Japanese stuff + some
magazine/video.
=> 
=> Reliable Oriental Market in Somerville (Union Square) has a large selection
=> of Japanese/Korean groceries and household items.  There is a bookstore next
=> to it.
=> 
=> I am sure you know the store in Central square and the Korean store on
=> Beacon street (brookline) that carry Japanese stuff and video rentals.
=> 
=>   William

Thank you William. I have been to all those places in and around Boston,
and we go to Kotobukiya (at Porter Exchange) almost every week and enjoy
noodles at Sopporo Ramen shop, but I wouldn't want to mislead people into
thinking that there isn't a lot more available at Yaohan. It's much much
bigger. There is certainly a much better availability of fresh seafood and
produce, and an order of magnitude better availability of packaged stuff.
There may be 30 or so varieties of Nihonshu, and every brand of Japanese
beer.

In addition, there are those books, magazines, and CD's that are scarce
around Boston. Not to mention baby goods, toys, games, electric appliances,
and on and on....

For many people, they could certainly fill most of their needs in smaller
shops, but I don't want people into think that they might
make a long trip there and find the same stuff as Porter Exchange. There's
a lot more to it. We like to go there 3-4 times a year, and it's not
such a waste of gas or time for us. To each his/her own, as they
awkwardly say.

Bill
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: ptyshih@watnow.waterloo.edu (Paul T.Y. Shih (Taku or Pear))
Subject: Recipe (was Re: A Stupid Question about Sumo(?) Wrestler)
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 07:00:30 GMT

In article <204731@unix.cis.pitt.edu> jsast@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Jonathan S. Anderson) writes:
>>huge. What are they eating ?
>
>Well, these trainees are not simply sitting around eating.  Of course, they
>try to increase their weight, but they are also expected to do a great deal
>of exercise to build up their muscles.  Mainly, trainees eat "chyanko".  This
>dish is mainly noodles and vegetables similar to "udon".
>
	It's really unbelievable that one eat food like udon or ramen
	can become so huge.  I think there must be some special ingredient
	that we don't know. Maybe this will help those poor people in
	Africa. Anyone knows exactly the recipe?

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: david.lloyd-jones@rose.uucp (david lloyd-jones)
Subject: ecipe (was Re: A Stup
Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 10:59:17 GMT
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Date Entered: 04-11-92 21:57
Replying to: ptyshih@watnow.waterloo.edu (Paul T.Y. Shih (Taku or Pear))
PT>Subject: Recipe (was Re: A Stupid Question about Sumo(?) Wrestler)

PT>In article <204731@unix.cis.pitt.edu> jsast@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Jonathan S. A
PT>>>huge. What are they eating ?
PT>>
PT>>Well, these trainees are not simply sitting around eating.  Of course, they
PT>>try to increase their weight, but they are also expected to do a great deal
PT>>of exercise to build up their muscles.  Mainly, trainees eat "chyanko".  Th
PT>>dish is mainly noodles and vegetables similar to "udon".
PT>>
PT>        It's really unbelievable that one eat food like udon or ramen
PT>        can become so huge.  I think there must be some special ingredient
PT>        that we don't know. Maybe this will help those poor people in
PT>        Africa. Anyone knows exactly the recipe?



Really colossal gallonages of beer and sake.

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: Mark Crispin <mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU>
Subject: of `bureaucratic hassles' in Japan and elsewhere
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Organization: University of Washington
Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 00:12:12 GMT

     I've been following this thread for some time now.

     It seems to me that those who complain about the bureaucratic hassles
should have known better, *did* know better, and have nobody but themselves to
blame for the hassles they encountered.  Nor do they have much justification
for complaint; their problems *were* eventually resolved, with enough patience
and effort.  The machinery of government turns slowly, and my experience has
been that oiling is done only for the truly ignorant, not for the negligent.

     Few first-time visitors to Japan encounter difficulties in their trip.
Why, people go out of their way to help them.  They think the Japanese are the
most polite people in the world.  Yet, repeat visitors always encounter
hassles.  They think the Japanese are the rudest people in the world.

     Let's put things in perspective.  It isn't a matter of politeness or
rudeness so much as it is of helping those who are truly clueless and not
wasting time on those who are quite capable of solving their own problems for
themselves.

     On my last trip to Japan, Murphy's Law was in full swing.  Everything
that could go wrong, did.  But it wasn't the fault of Japan or the Japanese
(well, maybe the shitetsusen strike was, but...).  We were on our own to cope
with each crisis, and we did (more or less).  In retrospect, several of those
crisis could have been averted with better planning, less negligence, or with
backup resources (never again will I ever trust *all* my important telephone
numbers, appointments, and meeting directions to an electronic device!).
Others would have happened anyway (like the shitetsusen strike...).

     But in any case, it was my own responsibilty to solve the problems, and I
did.

     I think it would be better if people took more responsibility for their
own actions and not complain when things go wrong as a direct consequence of
their actions.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: cshi@cs.ulowell.edu (Chunde Shi)
Subject: Re: Japan's Sex Tourist
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 02:44:22 GMT

In article <9204140022.AA05254@phye.ucsf.EDU> tun@PHY.UCSF.EDU writes:
>
>>In article <1992Apr11.000541.10310@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>, 
>       phantom@casbah.acns.nwu .edu (James Choi) writes:
>> In article <1992Apr10.224533.23756@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> 
>       hyx1@cunixb.cc.colu mbia.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?
>>
>> As far as the sex tourism goes, the countries you listed above are the
>> places to go.  Therefore, the nationals of those countries can find
>> affordable solutions right on their backyard, and you do not need a guide
>> for your backyard.
>>
> >From: askim@pomona.claremont.edu
> >Subject: Re: Japan's Sex Tourist
> >Not only that, but I would consider Japan to be more of a free, open society
> >than the other three, so stuff like this can be made public.  I'm sure that if
> >something like this would never be publicised in Korea, huh?
> >                -Tony
>
>Whatever the case, if Japanese Tourists frequent those places will contract
>AIDS!!! and increase cases of AIDS into Japan. I don't know what the AIDS 
>awarness in those above mentioned nations but in Thailand, AIDS is pretty bad. 
>There has been AIDS related postings on s.c.Thai and over 80% of the girls 
>in the sex-industry tested HIV positive. Now, the recruiters (pimps) are turning
Two years ago, I heared there were only three cases of HIV positive in China,
all resulted from inported blood transfusion. High AIDS rate nations in Asia:
   Thailand, India. The former resulted from drug use and sex tourism, the laterresulted from home visiting by ethnic indians in Africa where three year ago,
one nation had 1/5 of population with HIV positive. Currently, I heared from
VOA, some Africa nation has whole village was wipped out by AIDS. No body from
outside world care about what happened in Africa.
>more and more toward younger kids...
>
>Coban Tun


Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: jcowling@ophelia.UVic.CA (Scowling Jim Cowling)
Subject: English teaching info?
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 05:23:07 GMT

I'll be getting my degree in Creative Writing in December, and one of the best
options I've come up with is teaching English (conversational or otherwise) in
Japan.  Has anyone out there had any experience in this who could possibly 
offer me some pointers?

In particular:

I've read that the best way to go about it is to get a cultural visa (Canadian
in my case) and head over.  Should resumes be written in English or Japanese?

What are some good schools/companies to apply to?
When should I go?
How do you get in touch with the schools/companies after you've given them your
resumes?  Since a phone line requires a sizable bond, does one call them back
by pay phone, see them in person a couple of days later, or try to find an
answering service?  Or am I totally off base?

Where is the best place to teach?  Tokyo or elsewhere?

Has the increase in teacher availability decreased the overall pay rates?  And
is it preferable to get work hourly or by salary?

Any information would be appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

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Creative Writing Department     |   have to shoot _you_ now', it's 'he doesn't
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Organization: Rohm and Haas Company
Date: Tuesday, 7 Apr 1992 12:34:34 EDT
From: Larry E. Cravetz <RSAYLC@ROHVM1.BITNET>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject:    GO SHAREWARE GAME FOUND

For those among us who still seek a decent (note I did NOT say great) IBM
compatable game of GO at a reasonable price may be interested in the GO disk
from THE SOFTWARE LABS, 3767 Overland Avenue #112, Los Angeles CA, 90034. Their
Phone # is (213)559-5456. The disk is #9249 from their catalog, which is a
pretty good one (as Shareware goes).

NOTE THIS IS NOT FREEWARE! PLEASE COMPENSATE THE AUTHORS (a trivial sum) FOR
THEIR HARD WORK !!

Incidentally, I get no money out of this, just the warm fuzzy feeling one gets
from helping others and the satisfaction of advancing the cause of GO in a land
 overwhelmed by Nintendo nincompoops.

Ja, watashi ni tegami wo kaitte kudasai !!  Domo !
From: Citizen's Recycle Movement of Japn <recycle@igc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Date: 15 Apr 92 17:38 PDT
Subject: Re: Yokozuna promotion -- not this 
Nf-ID: #R:1992Apr14.012041.12557@westford.:-789234663:cdp:1473500039:000:619
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!recycle    Apr 15 17:38:00 1992


I agree that a lot of the reason for Konishiki's not getting promoted
is his inconsistancy and his lack of a variety of techniques, but not
being Japanese also has a lot to do with it.  His problem is that he
hasn't made it clear that the only reason not to promote him is because
he's American.  He's given everybody lots of reasons/excuses not to 
promote him.
I also agree that Musashimaru won.  Mainoumi's arm hit the ground first.
I think the reason they gave the win to Maianoumi is because Musashimaru
used a move that nobody had ever seen outside of pro wrestling, and 
they didn't know what to call it.

Chris
From: ba05047@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Fumiaki Kamiya)
Subject: Re: "The Learning Gap": comparison of American & Japanese education
Organization: CS Dept, SUNY Binghamton
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 15:54:52 GMT

In article <odvMEf_00UhW01s1An@andrew.cmu.edu> "Lynne M. Reder" <lr0e+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>learn the same curricula.  If a kid doesn't get it, all the other kids are
>responsible for getting him or her "up to par", so the errant child might
>go to the front of the class with everyone trying to help him/her learn
>the relevant concept until it is mastered.  Then everyone applauds--- no
>shame in being ignorant; everyone is just glad when the knowledge is
>uniform.  There is no view that performance is ability based, only achievement

From what I've seen and experienced in Japan, it is very
hard for a student to say that he/she doesn't/didn't
understand and to ask for help.  In my opinion, it has to do
with the class atmosphere and possible embarrassment.  For
this, I'd say this is a very unlikely picture.

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!!!

(But it may be different, by now.  Also, since I didn't live
in Japan during the first four years of elementary education,
it may not apply to the primary grades that the original
poster was asking about.)

BTW, could someone give me the publisher, etc. of the book
she's talking about?  (or ISBN number).  Thanks in advance.

Fumi
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: smittie@beach.csulb.edu (Smittie)
Subject: Re: Japan's Sex Tourist
Organization: Cal State Long Beach
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 16:44:03 GMT

It is interesting to compare Thailand and the Philippines. Both have high
prostitution rates. However, the Philippines has been far more successful at
controlling AIDs. This is due in large part to the fact that the Philippines
has had a "Social Cleanliness Act" which requires prostitutes to be checked for
STDs regularly. This enabled the Philippine authorities to get HIV infected
women off the streets. Thailand on the other hand refuses to admit that
prostitution exists. Prostitution is illegal in Thailand. The authorities turn
their heads and refuse to enforce the law. One ramification of this is that
they have no way to implement some kind of program to check prostitutes.


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From: Citizen's Recycle Movement of Japn <recycle@igc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Date: 09 Apr 92 17:51 PDT
Subject: Re: no to ieru nihon
Nf-ID: #R:1992Apr9.061638.16563@macc.wisc.:2073202933:cdp:1473500037:000:560
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!recycle    Apr  9 17:51:00 1992


Is that translation the unauthorized version that was done by the DOD or
somebody like that, or is that the official published version?

I think in general translation mistakes are fairly common (ever read the 
Japanese subtititles on an American movie?), but also editing (censor-
ship?) is not unusual.  It is quite common to add a chapter or so to 
English translations of Japanese non-fiction books to present 
Japan in a better light.  I have also heard that criticism of Japan
is often softened in Japanese translations of English-language books.

Chris
From: fhide@srcwsc.src.sony.co.jp (Fumitomo HIDE)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Death penalty
Date: 7 Apr 92 04:22:11 GMT
Organization: Sony Corporation, Research Center, Yokohama, Japan.

In article <1691@nic.cerf.net> mitsu@nic.cerf.net (Mitsuharu Hadeishi) writes:
>	Could someone please summarize the situation with the
>death penalty in Japan?  Thank you very much.

The death penalty has not been abolished but it has not been exercised for 6
years, if I remember correctly. There are no plans to abolish the death
penalty. ie, the LDP has not plan to submit such a bill to the Diet.

-----
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	Sony Corporation Research Center
	174, Fujitsuka-cho, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama, 240 Japan.
From: PXP111@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: CNN Reports...
Date: 13 Apr 92 03:08:48 GMT
Organization: Penn State University

"CNN World Report broadcasted from China had a story on the Top-Level di-
scussions between officials from  China and Japan  in Japan:  There was a
trade agreement, a point were the Chinese suggested that the relations of
the two countries should not evolve as in the past..and the Japanese pri-
me minister responded on this by saying that.. this is another reason his
country should refrain from becoming a military power.    At another part
of the broadcast  the Chinese  said that there should be  no intervention
and criticism on a country's internal matters."

"Japanese TV showed scenes from an exhibition on durable goods (japanese
cars...)  in Moscow and people there fascinated according to the journalist."

                                                       Andronikos Romanos










 with China proceed."
                                                       Andronikos Romanos











                                   Andronikos Romanos
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: askim@pomona.claremont.edu
Subject: Re: Japan's Sex Tourist
Organization: Pomona College
Date: 13 Apr 92 15:08:22 PDT

In article <1992Apr11.000541.10310@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>, phantom@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (James Choi) writes:
> 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?  
> 
> As far as the sex tourism goes, the countries you listed above are the
> places to go.  Therefore, the nationals of those countries can find
> affordable solutions right on their backyard, and you do not need a guide
> for your backyard.
>
Not only that, but I would consider Japan to be more of a free, open society
than the other three, so stuff like this can be made public.  I'm sure that if
something like this would never be publicised in Korea, huh?
		-Tony
>>harry/kb2lha
> 
> James Choi