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From: ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rikiya Asano)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: The Second Great Resurrection!!!
Date: 21 Dec 92 14:29:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.4fBa5rK00iV3E4AyAi
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


Mr. JFried writes,


> 
>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.

You should have shut-up! Obviously! you're wrong! I think that this is a
reflection on your mentality and your ability to be educated. No, maybe
this is not CMU's fault. Maybe, it's your individual abilities in
cognition. Your wishes(in my case) will never come true! So, you should
seriously STOP trying to 
convice yourself that I will go away, disappear or die.

>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.....

You mean that we can say, do, think anything that we want without
dispute! Be serious!
 

>A nice Christmas present for us all!
>        *jeff*

       Sorry that you feel that way! 


     Actually, I got the Christmas present from a lady on this nettwork.
I don't want say your name so I'll identify you only as
L. Thank you, Ms. L. You really gave me a welcome back. Please, acccept
my apology for the profanity that I used many times on the internet.
Thank you!


 



          
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: hiraga@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Yuzuru Hiraga)
Subject: seeking lost name
Organization: Stanford University CSLI
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:33:40 GMT


Sorry for the bandwidth -- this is a personal inquiry.

To the person (from U. Washington, I believe) who replied to me
about the naming of the World Wars and asked my opinion on Pearl Harbor,
I'm sorry, I accidentally deleted your mail.
Please send me your email address so that I can reply.

-Yuzuru Hiraga
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov (Michiaki Masuda)
Subject: Re: Relative Politeness of Compuserve vs. USENET (Was: STUCK IN TOKYO)
Organization: Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:24:39 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!!
.....
>Don't get me wrong. In some ways, I prefer the free-wheeling style of
>the Net. But with certain rabid dogs posting madly lately (and you
>know who you are) I sometimes wonder why we can't be like that? Is the
>serious threat of being denied further access to Compuserve (that's
>their policy) really all it takes to turn the rabid dogs that we have
>to put up with into civil, polite human beings? Just wondering.

   You may not be really comparing CS and UN. You might be  
comparing a part of CS and a part of UN. Although I don't know much
about CS and thus cannot comment on it, some newsgroups in UN
(e.g., ones under "bionet" hierarchy) are highly civilized and
most discussions are decent and intellectual. Of course, some are
moderated, but others are not. Therefore, I don't believe that the
uncivilized atmosphere is something inherent to UN. 

--Michiaki
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: tocelest@carmen.lerc.nasa.gov (Osamu Yamamoto)
Subject: Japanese translation
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center [Cleveland, Ohio]
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:10:28 GMT

 I am looking for a software to write a text in Japanese characters
 (hiragana and katakana) and in Chinese characters (kanji), preferably
 run on UNIX.
             
           e-mail address: tocelest@carmen.lerc.nasa.gov

-- 

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NASA Lewis Research Center     	|    
Cleveland, Ohio  44135         	|     email: tocelest@carmen.lerc.nasa.gov 
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: murraya@ecf.toronto.edu (MURRAY ALEXANDER W)
Subject: Re: Roman Hikou (was: Pheromones,otoko,and cabs)
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 09:12:50 GMT

In article <1hubj3INN9gc@agate.berkeley.edu> jcliu@four-lab4.Berkeley.EDU (James C. Liu) writes:
>Part II:
>
>How Japanese men can get Japanese women to SAY YES
>
>Women are pretty much alike around the world.  The following should
>apply anywhere and for any guy, foreign and domestic.  

[...8<...numerous amusing pointers snipped...8<...]

>Disclaimer again:  Heck, what do I know?  I'm the biggest BSer east of
>the international dateline.  But some of this methodology has been
>observed to work.:-)  Your mileage may vary. 

So what kind of mileage have _you_ been getting, assuming you follow all of
your own advice to others?

Just curious.

Regards,
Alex "gaijin" Murray

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Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
From: labrg@emory.edu (Ryan Montieth Gill)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Using 110V,60Hz equip on 100V,60Hz??
Date: 30 Dec 92 21:01:49 GMT
Organization: Emory University, Atlanta, GA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3


	My experience has been that Japanese gear doesen't work well
	in the States, however our gear will work over there. I used a
	battery charger for a period of 2 months in Kitakyushu and it
	still works...As for polorisation I don't know...
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: jturley@netcom.com (James Turley)
Subject: Rie Miyasawa
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 05:07:42 GMT

Anyone a GIF of Rie Miyazawa.  A topless one from Santa Fe would be 
real cool.  
  
Lucky Wakahanada! My question is: just how do they do it?

Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: prener@watson.ibm.com (Dan Prener)
Subject: Re: Brainwashied
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 03:16:53 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York

In article <34660@twics.co.jp> dcroz@twics.co.jp writes:

     [ . . . almost everything omitted . . . ]

>     I am arguing that there are some things, such as a prohibition on violent
> crime and antibiotics, that make like better for human beings in an absolute
> sense.  Humans living in a society that has these things have a better chance
> of surviving and being "happy," and also of having the leisure to achieve
> further advances.

     [ . . . and some more omitted . . . ]

While I admit this is nitpicking, I would, nonetheless, point out that you
would have to work much harder than you have to make this argument convincing
over the long run.  If you take natural selection and evolution (both of
humans and of bacteria) into account, it is far from clear that antibiotics
and prohibitions against violent crime make life better except in the short
run.
--
                                   Dan Prener (prener@watson.ibm.com)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: isc30176@nusunix1.nus.sg (CHEN JIA TYAN)
Subject: Re: Pheromones and Nihon Otoko (was Re: yellow cabs")
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 16:01:48 GMT

: A while back, NOVA, a PBS science program had a program on smell.
: They showed how pheromones have profound effect on insects and
: some mammals.  The program did not however go too deeply into its 
: effect on humans. They did touch on the sychronization of menstral
: periods experienced by female roommates, presumably due to these
: chemicals.  So there is definitely some truth to this subject.
 
True true.  BBC's Supersense also mentioned it.  Unfortunately humans
are not that deep into scents as the animals.  Oh, and the 'sexual
stimulent' scent from armpits comes from the wasteproducts of
micro-organisms living off the sweat, curiously enough.

: BTW, how DO makers of "musk" cologne (so highly recommended by
: Mr. Liu) get their ingredient.  Do they collect sweat from some
: husky, sweaty guys?  May be they use other male animals, like
: bulls, to increase production and reduce costs.

I've never smelt "musk" cologne before, but the very much treasured real
musk scent comes from the male musk-deer.  So be careful next time you
go to central Asia.
--
CHEN JiaTyan
isc30176@nusunix1.nus.sg
chenjiat@nusdiscs.bitnet
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: dave@pipi.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp (David Wuertele)
Subject: Re: 1992 All-Time Xmas Songs
Organization: Institute of Industrial Science, University of tokyo.
	<1992Dec26.143029.22900@Csli.Stanford.EDU>
	<AfDGPOG00iV4A20Xlw@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 15:40:57 GMT

In article <AfDGPOG00iV4A20Xlw@andrew.cmu.edu> ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rikiya Asano) writes:
> 4. A Christmas Song-N.K. Cole(Father)
> 3. A Chrstmas Song-N. Cole(Daughter)

The real name is "The Christmas Song (Marry Christmas to you)," and it was
written by Mel Torme in 1946.  Cole popularized it with his 1947 version,
I think.

Dave
From: mcovingt@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Maiko Covington)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Not a Myth at All
Date: 23 Dec 92 23:51:32 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego


	About Japanese people in Japan insisting on speaking English
to foreign people - I will not hazard a REASON for this, but you
gotta admit, in the US the basic attitude seems to be "you're here,
and in the US there are people of all kinds, so I'll assume you
speak English" whereas in Japan often the assumption is "you're
<some other race>, we don't have many of them here, so you must be a
tourist, so I'll assume you don't speak Japanese".
	This CAN be kinda peevesome if you run into it all the time.
As soon as someone speaks to you in Japanese, in Japan, it would seem
logical to then speak to them in Japanese. Many times it is easier
for all involved. As for myself, I do not insist on speaking in
Japanese or Chinese to people who are from those countries in the
US. I will use English by default unless the person specifically
asks me to use some other language or they are having extreme
difficulties in English. I consider this to be a respectful
attitude. We are in the US, so I'll speak English. When I am in
Japan, similarly I speak to people in Japanese unless they suggest
something else.
	As for not expecting people on the street to give you free
Japanese lessons - okay, this is true. But, in the same way I am not
willing to give the woman at the kiosk a free English
practice! It goes both ways.
	Just a comment.
		Maiko Covington
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.asian.america,alt.sex,soc.culture.usa,soc.culture.
From: miklg@acuson.com (Michael Goldman )
Subject: Re: DOES AMERICA SAY YES TO JAPAN? - Off track!!
Organization: Acuson; Mountain View, California
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:27:48 GMT

k3amichi@student.business.uwo.ca (Kentaro Nakamichi) writes:

>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.  I
>> think it is a shame that more US companies don't use the same tactics
>> as Kodak did in defending against Fuji.

>Fill us in with the details.  I was under the impression that Kodak would 
>get killed becuase all of their competition (Fuji, Konica, Mitsubishi, 
>Agfa) had products that were vastly superior.  (I used to work in a 
>darkroom in the summers.)

	Kodak makes most of its money in the medical imaging market.
	It has something like 80% or more of that market, which is
	much larger than the snapshot-picture market in your experience.
	It dominates because of very high quality, in a market that
	prefers quality to price.

	- Michael Goldman

-- 
"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have
exhausted all other alternatives." - Abba Eban
	Disclaimer:  All views are solely my own & not the views of Acuson.
	<sun!sono!miklg>  or  [miklg@acuson.com]
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: rhb@world.std.com (Robert H Brueckner)
Subject: Re: Comfort girls?
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
	<1i15rhINN90v@shelley.u.washington.edu>
	<C072K8.3p4@ulowell.ulowell.edu>
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 01:46:09 GMT

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.
------------------

It can be proven that the Japanese used sex as a weapon in this case.
If you presume also to accuse the U.S. in this way, however, you are
guilty of a material fallacy of logic known as "post hoc ergo propter
hoc," i.e. "after this, therefore because of this." You are assuming
that just because prostitution did exist in the occupied countries
that it existed *by design of the victorious forces* (not all of which
were U.S., incidentally), which contention was not proven, merely
stated.  Until you can find a "smoking gun" that links prostitution in
occupied countries with a specific directive of the U.S. government or
military, I think you would be better off leaving the debate circuit,
at least on this issue.

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).

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) |
From: fester@island.COM (Mike Fester)
Subject: Re: brainwashed
Organization: /usr/local/rn/organization
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 19:48:25 GMT

In article <1992Dec27.223854.9594@leland.Stanford.EDU> underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:
>In article <BzwC06.8rM@CAM.ORG> cheung@CAM.ORG (Shirley Cheung) writes:
>>Dear all,
>>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.
>>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:
>>1. They are extremely narrow-minded in terms of racial, sexual, linguistic
>>issues.

*Sigh*. Another day, another racist DJ post. Oh well.

>>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.
>
>Again, Chinese-cu culture is far worse than this.  If we assume that
>American social thinking is 100.0, the benchmark, then Japanese-cu
>thinking is 75.0.
>
>Chinese-cu thinking is -100.0.  (That's _minus_ one hundred point zero.)
>
>Chinese-cu society has rampant sexism, racism, and domestic cruelty 
>(cruelty in the home).  The things that go on in that society--I mean,
>the sheer brutality--would knock your socks off.  I'm surprised that more
>Chinese-cu children haven't committed suicide.

China recognized primogeniture for women long before Japan did. As for racism,
the Japanese immigration has demonstrated routinely that they are, indeed, 
quite racist in application of their laws. As for the students committing
suicide, I believe the *US* has the highest student suicide rate in the world.
And there is the rather well-publicized phenomenon of student suicide in Japan.

In the BTW category, in the US, more people died of suicide than homicide.

Mike
-- 
Disclaimer - These opinions are not so much opinions, as pearls of wisdom. Any-
one disagreeing is either a) a snivelling, whining, mentally deficient, weak
willed, inconsequential, namby pamby tool of some vaguely defined conspiracy, 
or b) my wife.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: jturley@netcom.com (James Turley)
Subject: Tora-san on Video Tapes
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 06:13:25 GMT

Does anyone know where I can get videos of the ORIGINAL Tora-san TV
series that aired in the 1970's...they were in black & white.


Serious Tora-san fan

Jim Turley 
 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:54:02 -0500 
From: Rikiya Asano <ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Prince! In the Tokyo Dome
	<BzKwKw.3K8@ulowell.ulowell.edu>

Thunder all through the night,
  

Isn't in great that an individual such as this can bring his
extraordinary abilities to our fine nation. I was excited when I saw the
video of the recently
Prince and the new power generation performing at the Tokyo Dome. Prince
is one of my favorite artist.
From: davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Yoshihiro Hattori Memorial Service
Date: 26 Dec 92 13:49:56 GMT
Reply-To: davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane)
Organization: Aegis Society, Kyoto Japan

[* The following letter is the English translation of what Mieko and *]
[* Masaichi Hattori said at the memorial service for their son,      *]
[* Yoshihiro, on October 20, 1992. It's a bit late, but even so I    *]
[* thought it was worth typing in. --Dave McLane                     *]

AFS Japan Association, Inc.
Nishi-Shimbashi K-1 Bldg.
19-4 Nishi-Shimbashi 2-Chome
Minato-Ku, Tokyo 105, Japan

October 20, 1992

Dear Friends,

My wife and I should like to take this opportunity to thank you all
for what you have done for our son, Yoshihiro, since he came to live
in Baton Rouge two months ago with AFS. We are especially
appreciative of your gathering here tonight to remember Yoshi as a
member of your community. We can never tell you how sorry we are
to have to confront such a regrettable situation as this. As Yoshi's
natural parents, we are particularly sorry that he had to leave this
world with much undone.

The friendship he cherished the past two months should not be
allowed to end because of this unfortunate incident. We feel we
should make every effort to maintain and let grow the intent and
wish which Yoshi came to this country with. We are eager to do
whatever we can to strengthen the ties he had made with people in
this warm and friendly country. We are sure that Yoshi was
ultimately aiming at gaining knowledge and understanding of another
culture and that through this experience he would be able to serve
as a bridge between out two countries.  Now that we are in the land
of Louisiana ourselves, we are increasingly aware how rewarding
Yoshi's experience had been owing greatly to your friendship and the
support you offered him. 

The American lifestyle let him try many new things, for which we are
truly grateful to you all. We are especially grateful to the
Haymakers, who accepted Yoshi as a real member of their family from
the first day he arrived at their home. 

We should like to express our heartfelt appreciation of kindness
and thoughtful support given to us by everyone we have met. We
really don't know how to thank you enough for what you have done
for us the past two days.

Last, but not least, we should like to mention that we are sorry
in our awareness of Mr. Peairs' suffering for this most unfortunate
incident. We cannot help but wonder why a lethal weapon, like guns,
are so easily accessible in this society. Without them, Mr. Peairs
would not have been put in the position he is in right now.

[signed] Mieko & Masaichi Hattori
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: harumi@leland.Stanford.EDU (harumi ito)
Subject: Re: SEXISM IN JAPANESE WORKPLACE!!!!
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 05:07:51 GMT

In article <BzMtFr.H0q@jrd.dec.com> doi@jrd.dec.com (Hitoshi Doi) writes:

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

I do want my net access and privilege... :-)

>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.

Is "they don't want to be equal" right rhetoric here?  

Being a wife and a mother involve heavier responsiblities
and deeper committment in Japan than it does in the U.S.  
Maybe, many women choose more flexible career paths because
of these family obligations, etc.  But, it does not 
necessarily means that "they don't want to be equal with men
at the workplace."  Suppose that Japanese daycare systems 
got much better and that Japanese husbands in general got
more involved in family chores.  Would Japanese women still
"don't want to be equal with men at the workplace"?   

Furthermore, are the small minority of Japanese women who
"want to be equal with men at the workplace" getting their
fair chances?  Maybe not.  If an average HANAKO looks around
and finds more able and more ambitious women having tough time
in the workplace, she might be extremely discouraged and 
switch to more family oriented lifestyle.  Given opportunities
and right envioronments, this HANAKO might have wanted to be 
equal with men at the workplace.  

If we look around, there are not so many Japanese women climbing
corporate ladders or whatever smoothly.  But, it seems a little
to early to conclude that they just don't want it.  

I mean no flame, really.  But, just wanted to put my two cents
worth.    

-- 
******************************************************************
	Harumi Ito  
			E-mail Address: harumi@power.stanford.edu