From: ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rikiya Asano)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: NASA and the Japanese Space Program
Date: 9 Jan 93 22:24:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.ofHxp8C00iUy03aEVw
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Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Friends,

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           As I told you before I am not interested in politics or
business or making lots of money(the last two thing aren't new I just
rarely mention them). Today, I took a break for learning and watched the
conditioning machine, t.v..
On the local Public Broadcasting Station WQED, was the program Spase Age
hosted 
the Captain Kirk of Star Trek: Next Generation. Any way, in a nutshell,
the show(space Age) was about man's exploration into space to the planet
Mars and what the concerns of the Scientists are. Corny! But, what
wasn't corny is the way that Japanese and Asians get international
public recognition for there individual accomplishments that they give.
Let me tell you what a professor here told me when I mentioned the
Japanese space program. He said laughingly,"Why do the Japs need a Space
Program, they can come to NASA here!" After I spit on him
I walked away. But, he brought up an interesting point. The Japanese
don't have a Space Program. In my opinion, The Japanese must be
independent of the American
Space Program. Once the Soviet Union came crashing down, I knew that the
two nations's scientist's(US and Russian)would go on these "exclusive
ventures". So, the Japanese are once again "workers" I think the the
French women Prime Minister put it best when she called us, "Ants"!
Nippon must build it own National Space Program even if it is by
scratch. Every time that we help or provide knowlegde we are left out
when the recognition come around. You do want to be recognized for your
accomplishment by the masses, don't you? Nippon and other Asian nations
must build there own destinies out of there mutual respect toward each
other. I get my own. Let me tell you about a Japanese Professor here. He
think that he is on the top. Obviously, Cmu takes very good care of this
person. Everything he wants. But, while he is giving this culture
information and knowlegde and in return he gets treated like a pet, his
culture is deprivied of the individuality of nationality. But, he is
happy to be selfish! As long as he is the only Japanese there he feel
some sort of cultural attainment that no other Japanese can reach. He's
a fool! A pet! A tool! And, he like it! When another Asian comes around
especailly Chinese or Indian he feels threaten.

            I consider it foolish and evil for a man to step on the moon
a plant a flag! What does this mean? Sure as a kid, I thought that it
meant we were here first. But, not only this does it mean. It also means
that this is ours and taking into the pass history of the culture if
people would have been there they would have been their's too. We must
discontinue to take this route. It will destroy Nippon in the long run.
Have we learned nothing from Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Yes! I most
certainly do hold a grudge. But this gudge is not based on
violence. The Japanese must build our own "NASA"! A better "NASA"

        Before I go I would like to stay that nothing is out there.
Certainly, no other life. It is the ego of the scientist that is leading
billions of dollars from the mouths of the poor. One gentlemen in this
group had a quote
written by an individual that said(in effect) the poor can *have* the
earth the rest of us are going to the stars. Well, good riddence and
don't come back!