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From: cshi@cs.ulowell.edu (Chunde Shi)
Subject: Re: Comfort girls?
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 21:33:44 GMT

In article <1i15rhINN90v@shelley.u.washington.edu> yeonwook@hardy.u.washington.edu (Mark Choi) writes:
>overseeing such military brothel operations. On the other hand, it is known
>for a fact that the American government didn't encourage the use of sex 
                    ***************************************
Nosense! YOu do not need to encourage anybody to have sex. Sex was used by
bothj Japanese and U.S. millitary as weapon to degrade the occupied people. It was
physically forced in former case, it was finacailly, or dietorily forced 
in the later case. By " finacailly, or dietorily", I mean, in the example of 
occupied germany, japan, and vietnam, local people were not supplied(generated)
 enough food, or welth, while G.I. had plentity, local young femal had to do
it for servival.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond)
Subject: Re: New Alien Registartion from Jan. 8th
Organization: Integrated International Systems Corp. One Longfellow Place, Suite 3309, Boston, Ma.
Distribution: soc
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:19:16 GMT

swami1@troy.cc.bellcore.com (swaminathan,kashi r) writes:

>In article <THOMAS.92Dec16184908@beat.aic.co.jp> thomas@aic.co.jp (Thomas Johannsen) writes:
>>Permanent residents and special permanent residents will no longer be
>                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> required to be fingerprinted at the time of their application for 
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>Good! I hope the US immigration will follow this example, and stop
>the obscene practice of fingerprinting the immigrants every time
>they go to the INS office to make any enquiry.


>> registration. Instead, these residents will be required to register
>>Thomas
>>


I have been to the INS office in Boston several times with a Brazilian
friend and they absolutely do NOT "fingerprint the immigrants every time
they go to the INS office to make any enquiry" !!!  Which country are
you in ??  (-8    Seriously, which INS office are you talking about?


Charlie
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From: yeonwook@hardy.u.washington.edu (Mark Choi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Comfort girls?
Date: 28 Dec 1992 18:14:46 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
NNTP-Posting-Host: hardy.u.washington.edu

>In article <1992Dec28.143403.8912@cbnewsh.cb.att.com> bgt@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (barbara.tongue) writes:
>
>According to certain estimates approximately 300,000 Ameriasian
>children were produced as a result of the Vietnam War, and most
>of them were abandoned after the American withdrawal.  Since only
>about 50,000 American soldiers were killed during the entire war,
>this means that for each American soldier killed during the war,
>six Vietnamese girls were shamed for life.

Although the statistics are correct, you must also remember the 
case is very different in this case. The forced sex slaves of the
Japanese military are charging that the Japanese government was 
in charge of overseeing such operations.

>This means the U.S.A. wins the trophy for the maximal use of
>"confort girls".

I hardly think that the U.S. government encouraged forced prostitution.
From: snovak@digi.lonestar.org (Stan Novak)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: 1993 Japanese national holidays
Date: 31 Dec 92 21:20:23 GMT
Distribution: dfw
Organization: DSC Communications, Plano Tx.

If someone knows the national holidays that will be
observed in Japan during 1993 would they please post them.

                         Domo
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: jmfuchs@unix.amherst.edu (JESSE MICHAEL FUCHS)
Subject: Re: Not a Myth at All
Organization: Amherst College
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 02:28:06 GMT

Tim Duncan (timd@ed.ac.uk) wrote:
> In article <BzM42w.94M@unix.amherst.edu>, jmfuchs@unix.amherst.edu (JESSE MICHAEL FUCHS) writes:
> |> 
> |> 	On the subject of whether or not the Japanese exhibit large-scale
> |> tendencies toward racism, I have one word for you all:
> |> 
> |> 	Burokamin.
> |> 
> |> 							-jesse 
> 
> 
> Pity you couldn't spell it right then :-)
	No argument there. One misspelled word, then, but a word nonetheless.
What I learned about the Burakumin (sp?) is this:
	Certain people, often those who live in the mountains, are part of a
caste known as "Burakumin." They are highly discouraged from marrying 
"normal" Japanese people, and often have difficulty getting jobs in 
contemporary Japanese society, being looked down upon the rest of the 
Japanese. In fact, my Japanese teacher, who has spent a large part of his life
in Japan, told me that a few of his friends have seen a "blacklist" that 
banks and other employing corporations have, which they refer to when hiring.
If your name is on this blacklist as being Burakumin, they you have no chance
in hell of getting a good job, or, for that matter, any job at all.
	If this doesn't sound like racism, what is?
> 
> 
> 	-- Tim
	
							-jesse
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: akuma@netcom.com (Steven E Barnes)
Subject: Re: Days of the Week in Japanese and Korean
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 00:49:02 GMT

In article <1992Dec29.112444.3725@Csli.Stanford.EDU>, hiraga@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Yuzuru Hiraga) writes:
> 
> while Ilsa VanHook writes:
> >planet    spanish   japanese  english  norse gods
> >------    -------   --------  -------  ----------
> >sun       domingo   nichi     sun      
> >moon      lunes     getsu     mon
> >mars      martes    ka        tues     tiw
> >mercury   miercoles sui       wednes   wotan or woden
> >jupiter   jueves    moku      thurs    thor
> >venus     viernes   kin       fri      freya or frigga
> >saturn    sabado    do        satur
> 
> Tuesday can't be Zeus-day (Jovial day is Thursday) --
> Ilsa is correct, it comes from Tiw (or Tiu).
> For Wednesday, "Odin" is the Norse name, while "Wotan" and "Woden"
> are their German and Anglo-Saxon counterparts.
> Freya and Frigg (Frigga, Fricca) are different dieties, and
> Friday is Frigg's day.  Odin and Frigg are the ones that are married.
> And I thought Odin and Thor are brothers (though I'm not sure).

Thor is the son of Odin; Freya is the wife of Thor.

If I can remeber my German:

sun	Sonntag
moon	Montag
?	Dienstag
	Mittwoch ("middle of week")
Thor	Donnerstag 
Frey	Freitag
?	Samstag

> It seems that the English names are quite mixed up (English, Latin,
> Norse/German), as also are the month names.
> 
> BTW: can English speakers (rather, Western langauge speakers in general)
> readily recognize the month ordinals and their names?
> eg. August is the eighth month and vice versa?
> 
> -Yuzuru Hiraga

I usually can, but I sometimes have to compute ones that are
more difficult for me to remember.  The last four months 
actually numbered (in Latin?), but they are off by two.
I remember being told that this was because the months
July and August were added to the calendar in honor of
the Roman Caesars Julius and Augustus.

    sept = 7
    oct = 8
    nov = 9
    dec = 10

-steve

Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: xinjin@athena.mit.edu (Xinjin Zhao)
Subject: Chinese-Japanese and Japanese-Chinese Dictionary
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 14:30:29 GMT

I am looking for a set of good Chinese-Japanese and Japanese-Chinese dictionaries,
preferably published in Japan (Iwanomi(?) would be good).  Could anybody out
there tell me where I can buy them, either by mail-order or at bookstore?

Thank you very much for help.  Please reply to this account if you could.



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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: doi@jrd.dec.com (Hitoshi Doi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: SEXISM IN JAPANESE WORKPLACE!!!!
Date: 21 Dec 92 23:04:38 GMT
Organization: DEC Japan Research and Development Center

In article <1992Dec21.190036.1892@news.cs.brandeis.edu>, st911293@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Sarah) writes:
# In article <BzKy05.3Lz@jrd.dec.com>, doi@jrd.dec.com (Hitoshi Doi) writes:
# I wonder if you would
# put such a rhetorical question if there were more Japanese
# women on the net. Maybe you feel safe to do so because there
# *are* so few with access to the privileges you have.

Maybe they don't want the net access and privileges..

# In any case, I find it personally hard to believe that Japanese
# women as a category would be so different from women in general
# that they would not enjoy developing their full potential without
# hindrance from people like you. 

In Japan's society I think most women are "brainwashed" so that they
don't want to be equal with men at the workplace.
Of course there are some women who do.  But this is a very small
minority, I think.
--
Hitoshi Doi, International Open Systems Engineering        doi@jrd.dec.com
Japan Research and Development Center               decwrl!jrd.dec.com!doi
Digital Equipment Corporation Japan      [from JUNET: doi@jrd.dec-j.co.jp]
From: masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov (Michiaki Masuda)
Subject: Re: Not a Myth at All
Organization: Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 17:02:12 GMT

In article <cfCFctW00iUxM3o6kF@andrew.cmu.edu> ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rikiya Asano) writes:

>Mr. MMasuda writes:

>>   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.

>In my opionin, I think that it is the way that these individual handle
>their acohol.
.....
> My point- it is not that these people don't want you in these
>place but most get drunk, get ignorant and insulting because most don't
>think that there will be immediate consequences. So, in order to save
>their livelihoods they restrict there business.

   If that is also the case in Yokosuka, the attitude of Japanese is not
related to racism. The original poster's blaming them as racist would 
be rootless. 

>>   By any chance, do you have access to an account at CMU? Your style
>>reminds me of someone.

>  This is insulting 

    To whom? I just said, "someone." Did it make something click in your
mind?

>in a way that maybe you don't understand. But, since
>my semi-devine intervention can enabled me to take this communicatia de
>understando
>to a 'Higher' level I will and have.

    You mean, "natural high"?

> So, please it is a terrible,
>terrible thing
>to joke about the unknown.

    What if it was not a joke?
     
> If you don't believe who I am fine!

    What if I didn't believe who HE was.

> That's
>you progrogative. But, that's don't mean that you are intelligent as you
>believe. Some people work for a living. I live for a living. If you know
>what I mean!

    Since I am not intelligent as I believe, I'm afraid that I don't know
what you mean. Would you be kind enough to explain it?
 
    By the way, how do you write "Rikiya" in Kanji? My name "Michiaki" is
"Hokkaido no 'do = michi'" and "Meiji no 'mei = aka(rui) = aki'."

--Michiaki
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: ntetsuya@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Nishimura)
Subject: Akemashite...
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1993 09:18:12 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523

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	 KyuuneN chuu wa taihen osewa ni nari mashita.
	 Kotoshi mo douzo yoroshiku onegai itashi masu.

			
				Nishimura Tetsuya 

Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: wa2ise@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (robert.f.casey)
Subject: Article _Science News_ "Blame Elvis for Japan's competitiveness"
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 04:27:44 GMT


An article in the Nov 26, 1992 _Science News_ with the above title,
page 383, asserts that Japan's success in electronics started, not
in the past 15 years, but back in the '50s.  Portable radios (what
people called "transistors") was their start, and the rock and roll
revolution created a big demand.
The article says that an American company tried and failed to make
money making transistor portable radios in 1955.  The Japanese 3
years later made shirt pocket sized radios, when rock and roll was getting
big.  Many teens were using the radios to listen to new rock
only radio stations.  Article concludes that the Japanese lucked out in 
their timing to market.
Archaeologist Michael Schiffer of the University of Arizona based 
the above on research done by studying industry newsletters, tech
journals, service bulletins (all of this era) and also looking
at about 200 radio innards from the 50s.
He also read material on radio and its role in American culture.
Xref: sparky soc.culture.japan:13002 soc.culture.china:33642
From: tanaka@til.til.com (Yokichi Tanaka)
Subject: Re: Relative Politeness of Compuserve vs. USENET (Was: STUCK IN TOKYO)
Organization: Togai InfraLogic, Inc.
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 21:54:28 GMT

In article <1992Dec23.124306.18932@u.washington.edu>, tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu () writes:
|> I belong to both Compuserve and USENET. I don't really like all the
|> connect charges and other charges associated with CS, but whenever I
|> log on there I do notice one thing: THE PEOPLE ARE CIVIL TO EACH
|> OTHER!! Read the following excerpt of a typical (and it is typical,
|> trust me) CS thread and ask yourself if this isn't quite a bit
|> different in tone than what you see on the Net.

    [stuff deleted]

|> > 
|> >Anybody have advice for an overnight layover at Narita Airport in
|> >Japan?  I arrive at 4pm, and have a continuing flight the next
|> >morning.  Is there anywhere cheap to stay near the airport?
|> >

    [CS thread regarding Narita transportation deleted]

I think a thread on transportation to/from Narita would carry
a similar tone on the Net.  A sample thread on a more
interesting/controversial topic would have been better suited
in supporting your point.

Maybe the abrasive tone of some of the posts on the Net gets tire-
some, but I would oppose any measure that might curtail the free
flow of opinions and information on the net.  As you stated,
CompuServe is somewhat moderated, in that, people can lose access
privileges to CS depending on content of their postings, easier than
on the Net.  I wouldn't want that.

Also, not all newsgroups on the Net get so "heated" as s.c.j.  If 
you want "polite" and "constructive", check out "comp.lang.perl"
or "sci.lang.japan".  No matter ... I like s.c.j the way it is ...
hot and cold.
-- 
Yoke Tanaka             Togai InfraLogic, Inc.             "fuzzy"
714-975-8522            5 Vanderbilt
tanaka@til.com          Irvine, California, USA

Bud, Miller, Lite, Oly  -characters from Repo-man
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: japlady@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Rebecca Radnor)
Subject: Re: Japanese attitude toward divorce law
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 23:07:52 GMT

The best work on Japanese divorce that I know of is all by Tamie Lee tyson
Bryant. 

If you can get your hands on her dissertation

Mediation of Divorce Disputes in the Japanese Family Court system with
emphasis on the Tokyo Family court,

you'll really be set.  She also published some articals in a journal called
"Law in Japan" which only comes out sporadically, but which your local law
school probubly carries.  She's teaching now at U.C.LA law school, and
she's really nice to talk to.  So if your really interested after that
point, give her a call.
	She was an Anthro major but her work is in law.  So she'ld be the
best source, not only for the legal but also the social implications of
divorce in Japan.
-- 
Rebecca Radnor                \\ I know everything,
NU Anthroplogy Department     \\ I know nothing
JAP= Jewish.American.Princess \\ I used to put sticks under the back porch 
     & Japan specialist	      \\      and wait for them to petrify.
From: yeonwook@hardy.u.washington.edu (Mark Choi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Comfort girls?
Date: 2 Jan 93 08:50:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: shelley.1i3l0lINNsmj
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
NNTP-Posting-Host: hardy.u.washington.edu

In article <C072K8.3p4@ulowell.ulowell.edu> cshi@cs.ulowell.edu (Chunde Shi) writes:
>In article <1i15rhINN90v@shelley.u.washington.edu> yeonwook@hardy.u.washington.edu (Mark Choi) writes:
>>overseeing such military brothel operations. On the other hand, it is known
>>for a fact that the American government didn't encourage the use of sex 
>                    ***************************************
>Nosense! YOu do not need to encourage anybody to have sex. Sex was used by
>bothj Japanese and U.S. millitary as weapon to degrade the occupied people. It was
>physically forced in former case, it was finacailly, or dietorily forced 
>in the later case. By " finacailly, or dietorily", I mean, in the example of 
>occupied germany, japan, and vietnam, local people were not supplied(generated)
> enough food, or welth, while G.I. had plentity, local young femal had to do
>it for servival.

Your article is irrelevent and makes no sense if you read my entire article
plus the thread. I never said that encouragement is needed to have sex.
And I never denied that both Japanese and U.S. military used sex slaves. 
However, WHAT IS AT THE CORE OF THE ISSUE IS WHETHER OR NOT THE JAPANESE
GOVERNMENT SUPERVISED SUCH CRIMES.

Please do not post articles without reading the thread.
From: ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rikiya Asano)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Happy Holidays!
Date: 26 Dec 92 16:02:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.QfDEuNC00iV4820Us8
	<1992Dec26.143029.22900@Csli.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Friends,

.

          I would like to express my wish that all of you had a wonderful and
joyfull Christmas! I hope that each and every one of you had a merry and
fulfiling time. And, I hope that the coming new year will be your best
ever.

                             Thank you!! Happy New Year! 

    
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: fester@island.COM (Mike Fester)
Subject: Re: Comfort girls?
Keywords: rape of nangking
Organization: /usr/local/rn/organization
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 18:50:24 GMT

In article <1992Dec29.025921.144@leland.Stanford.EDU> underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:

Excuse me, but could you at least make a feeble attempt to confine your posts 
topics dealing with Japan? You hatred of other Asian cultures is well-known
already. If you have nothing to say about JAPAN, post somewhere else.

Mike
-- 
Disclaimer - These opinions are not so much opinions, as pearls of wisdom. Any-
one disagreeing is obviously either a) a snivelling, whining, mentally-
deficient, weak-willed, inconsequential, namby-pamby tool of some vague but
conveniently defined conspiracy, or b) my wife.
From: ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rikiya Asano)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Another Fool!
Date: 21 Dec 92 14:54:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.cfBaR9K00iV384Az4d
	<921221424@ritz.mordor.com>
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Mr. CMauritz writes,(in response to fool number one, Mr. JFriedl)

>: 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
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

No! No! And, Nooo! Malt Liquor is the ticket, dude! 


>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,
 
Since, my very short death and a most pleasant awakening and also
looking at the lot of your comments, I have decided that I am in the top
2% of the most idealists/visionaries(an perhaps the most liberal) in
this group. I am also convinced that most of you aren't fair because you
don't want to be. The majority is holding back progress. Out of the lot
of people, only four to nine
are graduates students. None are engineers!!!! No, maybe a couple! Most
of you are "dead weight" in my search to the meaning of life. During, my
rapp with you all I had almost lose the handled to my education. But as
the saying goes,"Good
never die we just keep on winning and succeeding and all that"! At the
super- success at my first term as Master Student, I will vow to be more
better in my studies. The beginning of this year was very hard for me.
The suicide of my mother and death of my uncle and other of lifes
troubles. But, by the Grace of God, many of you, my instructors and CMU-
I won! I won!!

Mr. CMauritz you're a fool. You were happy at the content of another
fool's misinformation. And, let me add, misinformation is being nice.
From: labrg@emory.edu (Ryan Montieth Gill)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: American MITI needed??
Date: 31 Dec 92 19:27:03 GMT
Organization: Emory University, Atlanta, GA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3


		Anyone think that a Bureau of Industry and Technology is
		needed?  If our system doesn't work then why not do whatthe
		Japanese Government is doing?  Thus if we were to unify our
		corporations and govenrment we could begin to be just as
		competative as the Japanese. We need to take notice of
		american companies like Apple and others.  Apple has the
		largest market share in Japan out of all the American
		Companies selling there...

				Ryan
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