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From: MICHAEL.WILLETT@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Michael Willett")
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Free Computer Technology Review Subscriptions in US
Date: 29 Sep 92 18:55:13 GMT
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs

(Note: This publication is priced at $160 a year outside North
America.)

I just received the following letter from Computer Technology
Review newspaper which may be of interest to other readers.
This is quite a good technical computer newspaper:

        A Free Subscription Has Been Reserved Just For You!

Dear Computer Professional:

Keeping up-to-date with the systems integration market is a very
time consuming task.  But whether you're a reseller, manufacturer,
integrator, or volume user it is certainly a task that must be done
thoroughly in order to stay competitive.  And, really, the competition
is about technology.  What's hot, what's not.  What works, what doesn't.
What's next. When. Who. How.

COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY REVIEW gives you pure systems integration technology
without the marketing talk and industry gossip.  We provide a forum for
new innovations and research in developing technologies.  With the most
current, most accurate, and most complete technology information
available.  COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY REVIEW brings you all of this 16 times
each year at not cost to you.

The monthly newspaper editions are designed for a quick read to give you
important technology updates.  But that's not all.  With your free
subscription you will also receive four special issues packed with
in-depth, exclusive articles written by industry leaders who are making
technology happen.  Articles you will use as a reference source for years
to come and a "must read" for anyone who works within this industry.
For example:

                  "SCSI and Local Bus Resurrect ISA"
                  "Designing a Thrid Generation Hub"
             "RAID 7 Features Asynchronous Data Transfers"
                "Merging Full Motion Video and Graphics"
                 "Is Integrating DOS/UNIX a No-Brainer?"

To begin your free subscription simply complete and return the
enclosed application.  But hurry!  There are a limited number of free
subscriptions available.  If you don't respond immediately to this
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: smittie@beach.csulb.edu (Smittie)
Subject: Re: Mr. Baseball (Again!)
Organization: Cal State Long Beach
	<7316@bigbird.hri.com.hri.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 19:37:36 GMT

>But also, I found that many kids are attracted, and want to say
>"hello" to the big and obvious 4nr. They really enjoy if I play
>ball with them, show them pictures, and so on.

We're getting a long way off of "Mr. Baseball" but...

The kids in my neighborhood used to love it when I came home from work. I'd
play ball with them, etc. This started out the normal way. I would come walking
down the street and they would all run and hide yelling "gaijin da" the whole
way. One kid stood fast and kind of smiled at me. So I went over to talk with
him. The next day about three kids stood well behind him when I came along.
Didn't take long before all these kids and I were friends.

Funny, those kids were some of my best friends in Japan.

smittie
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From: farant@terapin.com (Faran Thomason)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Japanese Censorship & Violence against Women
Date: 29 Sep 92 21:47:24 PST
Organization: BBS

I really haven't been keeping up with the Rapeman/Violence against women debate
but...

Out of curiosity I have seen some of the "adult" videos from Japan. Some by
Eruption were complete hardcore I assume these are ILLEGAL in Japan. Does
anyone know what countries these were inteneded for or are they sold on the
Black Market ??

Some films were censored with a mosaic pattern blocking the "dirty parts".
However I saw other videos which instead of a mosaic just darkened the picture
slighty in the pubic regions. How does this get past the censors ???

Some one said that Americans can buy "Chaisn & Whips" magazines at Us
newstands. Actually I don't think that there is many "mainstream" porn that
deals with bondage/S&M especially in US videos--unless you search for material
us porn(in the 90's) is "non-violent. However, just recently saw Japanese porn
that involved rape/and bondage together!!! I am a pretty jaded film fan and
this startled me. 

My question is Why are Japanese censors prudish in the showing of genetaila but
Ultra Liberal on the sexually-violent subject matter ???
From: robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu (Henry Robertson)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: What time do people wake up in Japan?
Date: 4 Oct 1992 22:35:23 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: avalanche.berkeley.edu

That J-lander tourists wake up early in Europe may have something to do with
jet lag....We on the West Coast say that Easterners always look like in a bad
mood because they have to wake up three hours earlier.  What time people wake
up across a nation is such a broad question, that you can only speak in gross
generalizations.  Whereas salarymen often wake up at the crack of dawn to make
it to work 2 hours away, then stay until the wee hours of night, sometimes
having official conferences at 1AM, though there are other freelance communication yuppie-types who will wake up around 11AM, work from noon to 4, then spend
the rest of the time just hanging out.  In fact, many authors of contemporary
pop literature like to (in a sense) brag about the casual lifestyle of\
writers in the communications subculture, like Tsutsui Yasutake or Murakami
Ryu.  I myself as a college student have erratic waking hours, whether
for the ambience of daytime or the tranquility of nighttime.
From: jice@echo.asd.sgi.com (John Eisenman)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Mr. Baseball (Again!)
Date: 2 Oct 92 23:03:26 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: echo.asd.sgi.com

In article <1992Oct2.221720.21884@en.ecn.purdue.edu>,
oshiro@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Woodrow S Oshiro) writes:
|> In article <1992Oct1.224540.4992@u.washington.edu>
|> tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu writes:
|> >
|> >  [about Tom Selleck in the new movie "Mr. Baseball"]
|> >
|> >For the sake of argument, let's say it really happened to him.
|> Should
|> >he avoid telling the story? Is he to be silenced? Or just what
|> exactly
|> >should we do with him? Boycott his movies? That sounds like the
|> >politically correct move to me.
|> 
|> Has anyone else noticed that "Mr. Baseball" was made by Universal
|> Studios,
|> which is owned by MCA, which is owned by Matsushita?
|> 
|> -- 
|> 
|> 						Woody Oshiro
|> 						oshiro@en.ecn.purdue.edu

Yes.  There was a story about this on CNN last night.  In part of a short
interview with Tom Selleck, the announcer asked it that was a problem.
Tom Selleck replied that the film-making started before the buyout and
that Matsushita did not make any changes in the script.  Selleck also
mentioned that they changed directors half way through the film, and the
new director made changes.  Changing directors is usually a signal that
a film is in bad trouble -- so I would not expect much from this film.

The news story also mentioned that some Japanese where unhappy with the
film.



--
John Eisenman (jice@sgi.com)
From: johan@cau1.crc.canon.co.jp (Johan Bergquist)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Japanese system on Mac
Date: 4 Oct 92 23:56:42 GMT
Organization: Canon Research Center, Canon Inc., Kanagawa, JAPAN

guod@vccsouth22.its.rpi.edu (Dajie Guo) writes:
> I am posting for a friend who can't access Internet.
> His question is where he can find Japanese system for Macintosh, 
> either from ftp sites or companies, and when the system 7.1 of
> Mac will come out.
> If you like to reply, please send E-mail to me at guod@rpi.edu
> directly, I don't read this group quite often.
> Thanks in advance.
> Dave Guo

The Japanese system 7.1 will be released in early november according
to a guy in Canon's booth at Data Show 92 in Tokyo.

Johan Bergquist
Canon R&D Headquarters
johan@cav2.crc.canon.co,jp
From: robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu (Henry Robertson)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: 4ner complex
Date: 3 Oct 1992 06:31:17 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: headcrash.berkeley.edu

Well, I will keep my claim that the woman was running from me, because I
was walking behind her, than she looked over her shoulder, showed a clear look
of fear, and then ran.  Maybe it's the way everyone kept calling me Sumo
that summer, though I have lost 20 pounds or so since.  Also, I gather that
baggy pants are considered outlaw's clothing in J-land.  Innocent civilians
wear trousers or jeans.  Or could have been the Southwest-style belt
with a big square metallic buckle, which would pass for designerwear in 
San Francisco but gang material in Tokkyo.  ORA FUZAKENJANEEYO!!!!

Yeah, see in restaurants it's one thing if I don't understand Japanese, but
when I start speaking in fluent Japanese to them they could get even more
freaked out.  If I was an obvious foreigner I could be forgiven for my
different mannerisms, but being able to fluently speak Japanese usually
in fact makes the situation worse, because then they judge me on Japanese
standards & get all upset without telling me what's going on.  I had no
damn idea that ginjo-shu costs a fortune, but it was another thing for my
boss to fume about for weeks & tell the entire company how audacious my
table manners are, only so i find out about all this a few weeks later.

Well, now that I'm on a roll, i might as well let out that my pet peeve in
working with Japanese is how their older women, obatarians as they are known,
are so blunt in making comments about people, about their weight or height
or whatever.  US people, because there is diversity here, will not 
usually make such direct statements about other people's looks.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: davev@bnr.ca (David Villeneuve)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: girl that dies in school gate
Date: 28 Sep 92 00:14:07 GMT
Reply-To: davev@bnr.ca
Organization: Bell-Northern Research

In article <1992Sep26.212655.7100@iscsvax.uni.edu>, wilson0189@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
|> 
|>         I am looking for some information about a story in mid to late 1989 or
|> early to mid 1990. Appartently a young middle school girl was late for class in
|> Kobe one day. The gate was closing to the school enterance, and the girl tried
|> to rush through, but didn't make it.
|>         I have a friend that is looking for information on this story for an
|> article. Any info on time, names, places to look would be greatly appreciated.
|> 

   I recall hearing about this from a JET Teacher around September
   of 1989.  The story I heard was that the girl was late for school,
   and the teachers were thought to have shoved the gate/door against
   her to teach her a lesson.  

   Hmmm. I hope this is not indicative of discipline in the Japanese
   school system....
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Dave Villeneuve, davev@bnr.ca   | Mail daemon wa canada ni arimasu. 
NTJI/BNR Japan                  | Demo, boku wa nippon ni imasu yo.
My opinions are my own, though please don't quote me on that.
From: davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: girl that dies in school gate
Date: 28 Sep 92 22:24:11 GMT
Organization: Aegis Society, Kyoto Japan

davev@bnr.ca (David Villeneuve) writes:

>In article <1992Sep26.212655.7100@iscsvax.uni.edu>, wilson0189@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
>|> 
>|>         I am looking for some information about a story in mid to late 1989 or
>|> early to mid 1990. Appartently a young middle school girl was late for class in
>|> Kobe one day. The gate was closing to the school enterance, and the girl tried
>|> to rush through, but didn't make it.
>|>         I have a friend that is looking for information on this story for an
>|> article. Any info on time, names, places to look would be greatly appreciated.
>|> 

>   I recall hearing about this from a JET Teacher around September
>   of 1989.  The story I heard was that the girl was late for school,
>   and the teachers were thought to have shoved the gate/door against
>   her to teach her a lesson.  

I believe, as usual she was running for the gate. (I see them every
day; the whistle blows and they all start running like crazy. Good
practice for getting on trains :-) I think there was only one
teacher and he was shutting the gate. Note that the gates (at least
the ones I've seen) are very wide (3-4 meters), very heavy (made of
steel), and run on tracks. So to close one you have to push it quite
hard and once it's moving I can well imagine what happened which it
caught her. 

>   Hmmm. I hope this is not indicative of discipline in the Japanese
>   school system....

If I remember right, recent surveys show the more than 50% of
parents are in favor of physical punishment. I could be wrong on the
number but it a significant percentage. 

Dave

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Nagaokakyoshi, Kyoto Japan Tel: +81-75-951-1168 Fax: +81-75-957-1087
From: MICHAEL.WILLETT@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Michael Willett")
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Free Computer Technology Review Subscriptions
Date: 29 Sep 92 17:11:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: tuna.199209291617.AA20248
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs

I just received the following letter from Computer Technology
Review newspaper which may be of interest to other readers.
This is quite a good technical computer newspaper:

        A Free Subscription Has Been Reserved Just For You!

Dear Computer Professional:

Keeping up-to-date with the systems integration market is a very
time consuming task.  But whether you're a reseller, manufacturer,
integrator, or volume user it is certainly a task that must be done
thoroughly in order to stay competitive.  And, really, the competition
is about technology.  What's hot, what's not.  What works, what doesn't.
What's next. When. Who. How.

COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY REVIEW gives you pure systems integration technology
without the marketing talk and industry gossip.  We provide a forum for
new innovations and research in developing technologies.  With the most
current, most accurate, and most complete technology information
available.  COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY REVIEW brings you all of this 16 times
each year at not cost to you.

The monthly newspaper editions are designed for a quick read to give you
important technology updates.  But that's not all.  With your free
subscription you will also receive four special issues packed with
in-depth, exclusive articles written by industry leaders who are making
technology happen.  Articles you will use as a reference source for years
to come and a "must read" for anyone who works within this industry.
For example:

                  "SCSI and Local Bus Resurrect ISA"
                  "Designing a Thrid Generation Hub"
             "RAID 7 Features Asynchronous Data Transfers"
                "Merging Full Motion Video and Graphics"
                 "Is Integrating DOS/UNIX a No-Brainer?"

To begin your free subscription simply complete and return the
enclosed application.  But hurry!  There are a limited number of free
subscriptions available.  If you don't respond immediately to this
offer, we may have to give your free subscription to one of your
colleagues (or even a competitor!)

Don't fall behind on the technology that supports the systems
integration industry.  Get the data that is vital to the decisions
you make every day.  Get the #1 systems integration technology resource.
Get your free subscription to COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY REVIEW today!

Sincerely,

Mary W. Barrett
Circulation Manager

P.S.  A free subscription is available for one of your colleagues too.
Just pass along the extra application that I've included with this letter.

924 Westwood Blvd., Suite 650, Los Angeles, California 90024
Telephone 310-208-1335
From: jfriedl+@CS.CMU.EDU (Jeffrey Friedl)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: girl that dies in school gate
Date: 2 Oct 92 09:18:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.BvHLu7.Jx8.1
Reply-To: jfriedl@cs.cmu.edu
Organization: Carnegie Mellon / Omron Corporation

doi@jrd.dec.com (Hitoshi Doi) writes:
|> But the problem is that in Japan, people don't care about "rules".
|> Students break rules all the time because they know they aren't
|> going to get punished, unless they go way over the line.

Is this a joke? "Rules" is Japan's middle name (so to speak).
(I didn't go to school there either, so maybe I'm wrong, but I do live
there and bend under the strain of the rules I don't bend :-)

I once met a Canadian teacher from a high school that had an exchange
program with some school in Japan.  I mentioned that it must be nice to
have such well-behaved students, and she replied something to the effect of

    No way. The Japanese kids are the most immature.  They come from a
    society where every little thing, every routine, every decision is laid
    out for them.  They come to Canada and have to make mature decisions
    for themselves -- "do I play or study tonight" for example -- and they
    go crazy with the freedom.

It's not necessiarly a bad thing though.... Japanese society is building
people that will go well with itself. It's when these people venture to
a different place that it looks "bad".  The same thing can be said for
me in Japan... if I act "natural" (to me) and speak my mind too much, for
example, I am looked upon as being "bad".

|> The parents also should discipline their kids.  Lot of Japanese parents
|> now NEVER hit their kids...

"Discipline" is not necessiarly "hit".

	*jeff*
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl   jfriedl@cs.cmu.edu -or- jfriedl@omron.co.jp
Omron Corporation, Section RZE, Shimokaiinji, Nagaokakyo Kyoto 617, Japan
Visiting researcher to the Mach Project, Carnegie Mellon University
From: smittie@beach.csulb.edu (Smittie)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Politics
Date: 6 Oct 92 20:32:39 GMT
Organization: Cal State Long Beach

>...both Bush and Clinton are fairly strong believers in free trade
>(meaning unlikely to try to raise barriers against Japanese imports).
>Clinton I believe is not quite as strong a believer as Bush (cf. his
>qualified support for the North-American free-trade agreement).

Clinton does not support Free Trade as I clearly explained in my previous post.
Clinton swings pretty far into the protectionist camp.

smittie
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: st911293@pip.cc.brandeis.edu ("Carmen")
Subject: Japanese Drama
Reply-To: st911293@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 19:44:03 GMT

I am doing an undergraduate fellowship in Japanese theater--
Noh, Kabuki, and Bunraku.  My goal is to design a course in 
"basic" Japanese theater as my university presently has *no*
program to speak of.  My question is, does anyone know a good
source for films of actual theatre productions, especially for
Noh.  I am new to the net so hope I am not breaking any
etiquette here and that y'all can help me out. Thanks!
Sarah 
ST911293@pip.cc.brandeis.edu   :)
From: wdw@math2.sma.usna.navy.MIL (Wm. Douglas Withers -- math  FACULTY <wdw@sma.usna.navy.mil>)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Politics
Date: 6 Oct 92 12:48:30 GMT
Organization: U.S. Naval Academy

In article <4054@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov> masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov (Michiaki Masuda) writes:
>
>   I wonder what kind of difference could be made in the US-Japan relationship
>depending on the result of the election. Is anyone of them more of a
>Japan Basher than the other?

I think all the REAL Japan-bashers got knocked out in the primaries.  Seems
to me that most concern in the US-Japan relationship these days is given to
trade, and both Bush and Clinton are fairly strong believers in free trade
(meaning unlikely to try to raise barriers against Japanese imports).
Clinton I believe is not quite as strong a believer as Bush (cf. his
qualified support for the North-American free-trade agreement).  Now
I don't have any idea about Perot...

-- 
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From: robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu (Henry Robertson)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Gays
Date: 28 Sep 1992 07:13:42 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: headcrash.berkeley.edu


Wel, certainly in Japan, there are not established institutions of homophobia
as there is in the US; in fact, people who make it their life's mission to
hate gays seem insecure by comparison to unopinionated Japanese.  There are
lots of gay bars in 
Tokyo, but which are not exclusive like most gay bars in the US.  Many
"ordinary" men go to them as a kind of joke.  Shinjuku (the red-light district)
station's east exit has become a popular pick-up place.  Also, Roppongi
(the young people's fashionable district) has some transvestite clubs, that
I stumbled into by accident; from what I saw at the entrance, several
businessme
n
(both US and Japanese) were drinking at a table, while a waiter made up &
wearing a kimono tended to them.  The one at the door said members only.
There are hard-core gays of course, but their subculture is totally unknown
to the mainstream.  Man-boy relationships tend not to me looked upon as
negative a light as in the West, but is not tolerated either as in the Muslim
world.  Samurai are said to have had gay orgies before battles.  Also, most
(legitimate) literature dealing with priests make references to the priest's
lust for novice-boys(Buddhist).  This is the most prominent in Edo-period
literature of the 16-19th centuries; consult Saikaku's fables for best
reference
.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: hiraga@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Yuzuru Hiraga)
Subject: Re: Fine for Jumping in front of a Train
Organization: Stanford University CSLI
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 01:33:55 GMT

In article <2RJ6RB2w165w@student.business.uwo.ca> k3amichi@student.business.uwo.ca (Kentaro Nakamichi) writes:
>In response to a question as to fines to be paid by the family of someone 
>who commits suicide by jumping in front of a train:
>
>I don't know the specifics but I think that there is a fee schedule set 
>up with payment based on the number of people inconvenienced and the 
>amount of time it takes to get the trains going again.

Yes that's correct (and the direct expenses and damages are also counted),
and in reality, that money is seldom (if ever) collected -- they're wavered.
It should be because the rail companies do not intend to add torment
to the families left behind, and also because they're insured.

-Yuzuru Hiraga
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan