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From: dcroz@twics.co.jp
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Brainwashed
Date: 28 Dec 92 13:34:54 GMT
Organization: TWICS, Tokyo, Japan

Tetsuya Nishimura writes:
 
=}I am really glad I am NOT denying cultures of others because no culture is
=}ever superior to any other culture.
 
     Really?  So modern Japanese culture, such as it is and independently of
any of our opinions of what it is, is in no way superior to the Japanese
culture of 1600 AD?  Doing away with feudalism and all the injustices that
serfdom implies was not an advance?  What Japan has now is in no way better
than the repressive oligarchy that spawned approximately 3,000 ikki (peasant
revolts) during the Edo period?
 
     The pre-literate, pantheistic, stone-age, cannibal cultures that have
existed to historic times were (are?) in no way less than the culture of
Renaissance Italy?
 
     Dark-age European cultures that burned "witches" at the stake, practiced
slavery, held personal cleanliness to be an affront to "god," enforced
illiteracy on the vast majority of the population, and practiced droit du
seigneur were in no way less "good" than modern Australia?
 
     Today's repressive theocracies that enforce extreme sexism (extending even
to mandatory mutilation of girl-children) and religious intolerance (up to and
including religious wars and executing people for their beliefs) are in every
way as "good" as any other culture?  There's nothing to be said against them?
Swiss culture (to choose an example at pseudo-random) is in no way superior? 
 
     I am distressed to see, Mr. Nishimura, that the PC fascists currently in
ascendancy in academia have sold you their radical-relativism bill of goods.
 
     Might I recommend "The Closing of the American Mind?"  The poor repute it
enjoys among the PC is IMO the strongest possible recommendation.
 
=}Bunka to bunmei wa zenzen chigau mono da to omoi masu.
 
     An interesting idea, but perhaps not so obvious as you seem to think. 
Would you care to elaborate?

Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: ccgary@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (Gary Young)
Subject: Names & addresses of airline companies & flying schools
Summary: I woulf like information of names & addresses of airline companies
Keywords: Names & addresses of airline companies & flying Schools
Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 00:00:08 GMT

I'am interested in obtaining names & addresses of airline companies
and flying schools in your country.
I would like to correspond with them to offer the opportunity to
trainees and students, the chance to learn to fly professionally in
Australia, an obtain a higher degree in aviation science at the
Air Training Centre, Brisbane, Queensland.
For further information contact Gary Young

Thanking You

Gary Young                                         Education Officer
Prentice Centre                                    Tel:+61 7 365 4359
The University of Queensland                       Fax:+61 7 365 4477
Queensland, 4072                               Email:ccgary@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au
Australia
______________________________________________________________________________
From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Christopher Mauritz)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: He's gone (so sad)
Date: 21 Dec 92 11:51:15 GMT
Organization: Ritz International, Inc. -- Import/Export Consultants
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Jeffrey Friedl (jfriedl+@cs.cmu.edu) wrote:
: Sad news.... the account of he known to us as "R. Asano" has been disabled
: at CMU as part of a big housecleaning to get rid of old accounts. Those
: who were an official part of the university last semester were not included
: in the cleaning, so whoever Rikiya Asano was, he was not a student.
: 
: Until the person that used that account finds another access to the net
: (perhaps as yet a different name), we'll hopefully return to a normal S/N
: ratio.....

Yipppeee!  Hoooray!  Pass me an Asahi Super dry! :-)  Perhaps, that loser
will find the password to an Armenian student's account next and become
a race baiter on soc.culture.armenia (if it exists). 8->

: A nice Christmas present for us all!

Indeed!

Cheers and happy holidays to all,

Chris

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: keis@psy.uwa.oz.au (Keis Ohtsuka)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Not a Myth at All
Date: 4 Jan 1993 05:33:32 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: wapsy.psy.uwa.oz.au

fester@island.COM (Mike Fester) writes:

>I see. So Japanese racism is a different, mild sort of inescapable thing.
>Hardly a thing to be concerned about at all, right?

>I see. Again, Japanese racism is a unique kinda thing. 


The questions we all have to consider are:
Is there such a thing called a "kindler and gentler" racism?
Furthermore, a degree of bigotry should be used as an effective
defence for the perpetrators (i.e., the posters of "Foreigners 
Only" signs) of basic human rights?  Ultimately, we have to
ask why do we have to digress into extensive coloquy in
search of "mitigating factors" in pseudo-psychological
and pseudo-hisotrical analyses when Japanese defendants
so blatantly violated the basic human rights of aliens by
posting a racist message, "Foreigners Only." 

In my opinion, any messages excluding people
based on ethnic origin is racist and should be dealt with such.
"Foreigners Only" signs are unconstitutional based on the
Japanese Constitution.  Although a specific chapter refers to
the unconstitutionality of discrimination based on ethnic 
origin among the Japanese citizens, it is a "universal"
practice in civilized world (democracies) to bestow the
same basic human rights to lawfully admitted aliens (as in the
case of the USA).  I would argue that the posters of "Foreigners
Only" signs, regardless of which country they reside, violated
the basic human rights of other people based on ethnic background 
and are guilty of violating what the civilized world regards
transcendental human rights. Unless you admit the use of "double"
standard, unless you falsely think that it is permissible because the
country is "unique," I trust you would not hesitate to return
the verdict of guilty.  When it happens in
South Africa, we called it Apartheit and vigorously oppesed it.
Why should we let it pass when it happens in Japan?
From: michael.hagerty@nitelog.com (Michael Hagerty) 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: SEXISM IN JAPANESE WORKPLACE!!!!
Date: 24 Dec 92 19:02:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Nitelog BBS - Monterey, CA - 408-655-1096
Reply-To: michael.hagerty@nitelog.com (Michael Hagerty) 

On 12-23-92, HITOSHI DOI wrote to ALL:


HD> Who says equality is good?
HD> Who says Japanese women want to be equal..

Written as only a native Japanese would have...

Regards, Mikey (michael.hagerty@nitelog.com)

 * JABBER v1.3B1 #B042 * Similia similibus curentur [Hahnemann, 1796]
                                                     
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: yoichi@carson.u.washington.edu (Yoichi Ii)
Subject: Job Opening (Japan)
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 17:58:45 GMT

Available: Immediately
Position: Chairperson, Japan Socialist Party
Experience: Not required
Age: Prefer <60 y.o.

Seek someone with charisma, endless energy, and new ideas 
to lead the party into the next century as a viable opposition 
to the Libral Democratic Party.

Send Resume, CL to:  Nippon Shakaitou
                     999 Joudan-douri 
                     Joke city, Tokyo
                     Japan
From: torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Eigo kara nihongo no jisho
Date: 3 Jan 93 00:44:20 GMT
Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista

In article <C094Gu.2IJ@iat.holonet.net> wdrew@iat.holonet.net (Walter H. Drew)
 writes:

   >_Kenkyusha's_Furigana_English-Japanese_Dictionary, Tokyo, Kenkysha, 1990,
   >2000 yen, seems to meet your specificiations.

  It doesn't quite meet the stated specifications, since there are no
accent markings. More seriously - and this has been said before in the
group - it is strictly a dictionary for Japanese readers, with kana
added to make it more accessible to non-Japanese. I have found it
almost useless myself, since I don't know nearly enough Japanese to be
able to choose between the different possible translations of an
English word.
From: jcliu@four-lab4.Berkeley.EDU (James C. Liu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Pheromones and Nihon Otoko (was Re: yellow cabs")
Date: 30 Dec 1992 18:43:30 GMT
Organization: UC Berkeley Dept. of Nuclear Engineering
NNTP-Posting-Host: four-lab4.berkeley.edu

In article <RHB.92Dec30080947@world.std.com> rhb@world.std.com 
(Robert H Brueckner) writes:

  >In article <1hngj8INNrno@agate.berkeley.edu> jcliu@four-lab4.
  >Berkeley.EDU (James C. Liu) writes:
  >
  >   IMO, it's your sweat dude.  Foreigners, especially Americans eat more 
  >[MUCH MORE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS IDEA DELETED]
  >
  >Liu-san,
  >
  >This, I hope, is a jest, something on the order of Swift's "A Modest
  >Proposal."  Otherwise I think your addiction to karaoke has given you
  >a karaatama.

I want to apologize formally.  It was a tasteless and vulgar jest of an
article and I should have interjected more ":-)" to indicate sarcasm.
My intent was not to imply that Japanese men should go out of their way
to consume more steaks.  I was not aware that any readers might take my
satirical post in the light of Swift's proposal that the 19th century
Irish eat there babies for lack of potatoes during the great blight.

I have no data on the pheromones theory and don't believe at all in the
meat-eater theory, although I do believe that there may be a connection
between testosterone levels and male pheromone (i.e. musk) production
which has some seductive potential on the opposite gender.  Any
implications that carnivores smell worse is only a generalization (which
has been backed by research) but in no way implies that meat-eaters on an
individual level smell worse or have poor hygiene.

Yes, the addiction to karaoke has affected my brain and my posts.
[And will continue to do so :-)]

Jaa, James
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: hiraga@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Yuzuru Hiraga)
Subject: Re: comfort girls?
Organization: Stanford University CSLI
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 11:32:49 GMT

In article <1992Dec30.4303.15967@dosgate> "micky wong" <micky.wong@canrem.com> writes:
>For today's Japanese youth who was not prepared by their government and
>the Japanese miniistry of education, about Japan's war atrocities during
>the WWII, I copied the following from Time's Almanac.

In article <RHB.93Jan1204609@world.std.com> rhb@world.std.com (Robert H Brueckner) writes:
>Say what you will, but the U.S. was not guilty of any war crimes on
>any scale commensurate with Japan during World War II. You may not
>know about this because Japanese textbooks don't like to dwell on the
>Rape of Nanking, the Bataan Death March, the "comfort girls" issue,
>etc. (And forgive me if I am incorrect in my assumption that you are
>Nihonjin; your myooji is not one I am familiar with, so I could be
>mistaken).

These lines strike me as odd, and although not denying their informative
intentions, seem to reveal a distorted view.
[And Chunde Shi is actually not Japanese, at least by name.]

Why do you think that Japanese people are not informed?
Why should textbooks be the sole source of information?
Don't you think that there are plenty of other sources available,
only if one asks for them?
Just how much of your own knowledge can be attributed to textbooks
you learned from?  And how much can a scholl textbook convey, anyway?
Doesn't it occur to you that much of the relevant information
to be supplied by Japanese sources, and that much of the foreign
reactions are also fed back through the media?

-Yuzuru Hiraga
From: kubo@zariski.harvard.edu (Tal Kubo)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: SEXISM IN JAPANESE WORKPLACE!!!!
Date: 28 Dec 92 05:56:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Dec28.005633.18862
Organization: Dept. of Math, Harvard Univ.

In article <RHB.92Dec24071743@world.std.com> rhb@world.std.com 
(Robert H Brueckner) writes: 
>   >
>   >I think that it is a crime of high morality to discrimminate on any
>   >basis. 
>
>I'm still trying to figure out what "a crime of high morality" is.
>Sounds like the maggot thinks morality is a crime, which, by his past
>posts, I judge to be consistent with his world-view.
>

Sadly, many Americans lack the modicum of linguistic imagination
necessary to understand the intent of an apt foreign phrase, rendered 
into somewhat clumsy English by a non-native speaker.  Mr. Brueckner is, 
apparently, one of these provincials, and thinks nothing of flaunting 
his ignorance in public.


tal kubo@math.harvard.edu  (not japanese, despite my surname)
From: ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rikiya Asano)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: 1992 All-Time Xmas Songs
Date: 26 Dec 92 17:44:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.IfDGO6_00iV4820XF0
	<1992Dec26.143029.22900@Csli.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Friends,

.

   This is my All-Time 1992 Christmas Songs:

5. Grandma got ran over by a reindeer.(?)
4. A Christmas Song-N.K. Cole(Father)
3. A Chrstmas Song-N. Cole(Daughter)
2. This Christmas-Donny Hathaway
1. What do the lonely do on Christmas-The Emotions(Barry White's female band)
From: hildum@ntmtv.UUCP (Eric Hildum)
Subject: Re: Texas Southern University marching band in To^kyo^
Organization: Northern Telecom Inc, Mountain View, CA
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 23:36:13 GMT

This kind of corruption present with large atheltic departments is one reason
that the students at the University of California of Davis have opposed going
to division I in the NCAA, even though the campus could be eligible with a 
small investment. The last time I checked, all but one football student had
graduated normally from Davis (the one transferred to and graduated from 
another university).
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: jcliu@four-lab4.Berkeley.EDU (James C. Liu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Hus Fu and the Japanese
Date: 28 Dec 1992 17:16:38 GMT
Organization: UC Berkeley Dept. of Nuclear Engineering
NNTP-Posting-Host: four-lab4.berkeley.edu

In article <EfDGUGa00iV4A20ZEF@andrew.cmu.edu> ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu 
(Rikiya Asano) writes:

>Please, don't say "Orientals". Asians is a much better word!

I should have been more specific and said "Far East Asians," but don't
you think that this is carrying this Political Correctness (i.e. P.C.) 
a bit too overboard?  Or am I going to have to go back to reciting the
virtues of Price Club (P.C.) vs. Political Correctness (P.C.)  I'll tell
you again, the former has better bulk gyoza in the 50 pack for $8.79.
:-).

Jaa, James 
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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          |
=======================================================================
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:01:11 -0500 
From: David O Hunt <bluelobster+@CMU.EDU>
Subject: Japanese phrases


A fair number of posters here put japanese phrases into their comments.
While I'm getting around to learning the language, it would be helpful
if translations were posted in parentheses.  Besides, it could help
those of us who want to learn pick up some phrases!

Thanks, or should I say arigato?

David Hunt
bluelobster+@cmu.edu
From: masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov (Michiaki Masuda)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Not a Myth at All
Date: 23 Dec 92 22:38:35 GMT
Organization: Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center

In article <34005@twics.co.jp> dcroz@twics.co.jp writes:

>    Besides, you don't have to be Einstein to spot the racism in Yokosuka;

   Aaaa, Yokosuka ne...

>     What--you think if you were plonked down in a town full of people who
>regarded you as an unwelcome racial inferior you couldn't figure it out?  You
>think it would take you more than a couple of years to tumble?  Or are you just
>presuming that "Navy guys" are inferior in intelligence and comprehension?

   Most Japanese rather suffer from an inferiority complex towards Americans.
If there is a racism among Japanese against navy servicemen, I'd assume
that there WAS something that converted the attitude of Japanese in Yokosuka
from inferiority complex to hostility or despise.

>>>People who do stupid things like shoplift in Akihabara or steal train rides
>>>because they think they're bigger and stronger than the Japanese so they can
>>>darn well do anything they please are the ones who create and perpetrate
>>>slanted attitudes about foreigners among the Japanese people.

>     Without wanting to defend thieves in any way:  these people probably serve
>in some way to give the perpetuation of racist attitudes a boost, but no way do
>they create them.  They are created by the culture itself and all its
>manifestations:  the family, the play group, TV, textbooks and teachers, and
>all the rest.

   Puke! How sickening! 
How much can you tell about Japanese culture from which you segregate yourself?

>>>They have no right to complain about any kind of racism

>     No right?  My, what a novel concept:  a person can forfeit his human right
>to be free from racism because of unrelated obnoxious or criminal behavior.  A
>startling insight.  I wonder where it will lead us?

   Nothing novel. If someone has a biased view based on racism,
that person should not whine about someone else's racism. That's 
what I understood from Mr. Luke's posting, and I think that it is a 
reasonable argument.
 
   By any chance, do you have access to an account at CMU? Your style
reminds me of someone.

--Michiaki
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: cmort@NCoast.ORG (Christopher Morton)
Subject: Re: NHK Dramas on Videotape?
Reply-To: cmort@ncoast.org (Christopher Morton)
Organization: North Coast Public Access *NIX, Cleveland, OH
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 03:48:56 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.japan

As quoted from <PRENER.92Dec24025058@prener.watson.ibm.com> by prener@watson.ibm.com (Dan Prener):

> In article <27402@sybase.sybase.com> herb@sybase.com (Herb Lison) writes:
> 
> > Does anyone know if NHK Dramas are available on videotape?  When
> > living in the San Francisco area recently I noticed that a UHF
> > station, Channel 26, had these programs on regularly with English
> > sub-titles.   The programs were very high quality and a real pleasure
> > to watch (except for the frequent commercial interruptions.)
> 
> > The ones I'd like to obtain most are "Nobunaga, King of Zipangu"
> > and one about Ashikaga Takauji (forgot the series name).
> 
> In the New York area, the tapes are available for rent from some local
> Japanese grocery/general stores.
> 
When I lived in Chicago during '84-'86, Ch. 26 showed a number of NHK serials.
I have most of Miyamoto Mushashi.

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"Well whose opinions did you THINK these were...?" 
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From: masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov (Michiaki Masuda)
Subject: Re: brainwashed
Organization: Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 20:04:50 GMT

In article <BzwC06.8rM@CAM.ORG> cheung@CAM.ORG (Shirley Cheung) writes:

>First of all, I am not Japanese.  It was the American article called
>"sexism in Japan" that sparked me to search more info about this country.

   Would you be more specific about your reference?

>I have posted several articles regarding to the "sexism" in Japan as well
>as following to the articles posted in soc.culture.japan.
>
>Today, I can come up with a final conclusion of how REAL Japanese are:

   I've never seen anyone who was capable of coming up with a final conclusion
by reading one article and posting several articles.

>1. They are extremely narrow-minded in terms of racial, sexual, linguistic
>issues.
>
>2. Their "social" mentality is at least 20-30 years behind North America
>
>3. They have been EXTREMELY "damaged" by the evil act of their own
>TRADITION of  "brainwashing". 
>
>4. HOPE?--> ONLY now that telecommunication has brought them "somewhat"
>closer to the rest of the world.

   Another surprise! I've never seen such a genius who showed an
overwhelmingly deep insight into Japanese culture during such a short
period! If these are your final conclusions, I'd recommend you to
put them in your gem box and keep it safe. Whatever others might say,
keep them as your treasure, and believe that they are correct.

>THE JAPANESE TRADITION HAS MADE ME VERY ANGRY, SAD, AND FRUSTRATED FOR FEW
>DAYS AND I AM EXTREMELY LUCKY THAT I AM "NOT" PART OF THIS CULTURE.

   If you stay here too long, I'm afraid that you might become a part
of this culture. Before someone (e.g., female Japanese netters that
you were desperately trying to communicate with) starts to "Japanize"
you, you'd better run.

>SHIRLEY

--Michiaki, one of the "infamous" male Japanese