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From: Mark Crispin <mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM>
Subject: 50 YEARS AGO TODAY: April 7, 1942 - Evacuation to Corregidor
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Organization: University of Washington
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Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 08:22:32 GMT

On April 7, 1942, it had become clear that the Bataan peninsula on Luzon
island, Philippines, was lost.  Disease and hunger plagued the US/Filipino
forces who were still resisting the Japanese in the face of heavy air and
artillery bombardment.

Lt. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright, in command of the US/Filipino forces since
March 11, evacuated to the island of Corregidor with a couple of thousand men.
The remaining forces, about 12,000 Americans and about 70,000 Filipinos, were
unable to make it to Corregidor.  They had been through hell, but a worse hell
was to await them: the Bataan Death March.

Corregidor was an almost totally inpeneratrable fortress, and could withstand
a prolonged seige.  But there were no friendly forces heading to the
Philippines to relieve Wainwright and rescue his beleagered garrison.
Wainwright's command was to last another month.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: doi@jrd.dec.com (Hitoshi Doi)
Subject: Pro Baseball 92/04/16 (Re: Pro Baseball as of 92/04/14)
Organization: DEC Japan Research and Development Center
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 92 06:22:56 GMT

In article <cduuI0_00WBK8=1lxl@andrew.cmu.edu>, sf1x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Shinya Fujimoto) writes:
# Tigers going for the Championship?
# It's nice to know they beat the GIANTS 2 out of 3!

They also beat the Whales 2 out of 3.
Tonight they start a series against the Carp.
We will get to see if they have been lucky, or if they are really
good this year.

Kintetsu Buffaloes		5 - 3 - 1
Lotte Marines			5 - 4
Nippon Ham Fighters		4 - 4 - 1
Daiei Hawks			4 - 4
Seibu Lions			4 - 5
Orix Blue Wave			3 - 5

Hiroshima Carp			7 - 2
Yakult Swallows			6 - 3
Hanshin Tigers			6 - 4
Yomiuri Giants			4 - 5
Chunichi Dragons		3 - 6
Taiyo Whales			2 - 8

The Buffaloes and Nomo defeated the Lions in the first game of the three
game series.  But the Lions came back and won the next two games.
Akiyama (.258, 3HR, 7BIs) and Destrade (.300, 2HR, 6BI) have started
hitting, but Kiyohara (.129, 0HR, 0BI) and Tsuji (.129, 0, 1) are still
in their slumps.  Watanabe Tomio is 2-0 with a 1.17 ERA.  Shiozaki
started his first game ever last night and is 2-0, 1.80.

The Tigers have a team ERA of 2.64, more than 1 point below the second
best team Swallows at 3.78.  The Tigers are only hitting .223 and only
have 4 homeruns, but they are hitting in bunches.  Last night, they
lost to the Whales as Narita held the Tigers to 1 run.  Narita has
both of the Whales' wins.

The Carp swept a three game series from the Giants in the Tokyo dome.
The Giants were winning 3-0 last night, but Marty Brown brought them
back with a hard "crash" into the Giant's catcher to score the tying
run in the 6th inning.  In the 8th inning Brown drove in Maeda for
the winning run.  Brown currently has 16 RBI's, 8 ahead of anyone else.
Brown is batting .364.  For the Giants, Hara is batting .074.

Furuta of the Swallows has 4 HRs, Hirosawa has 3, and Hata has 3,
as the Swallows are playing good baseball overall to stay in second
place.
--
Hitoshi Doi, International Open Systems Engineering        doi@jrd.dec.com
Japan Research and Development Center               decwrl!jrd.dec.com!doi
Digital Equipment Corporation Japan                     doi@decvax.dec.com
From: sanford@aria.Ascend.COM (Curtis Sanford)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Ri
Date: 8 Apr 92 21:19:38 GMT
Distribution: soc.culture.japan
Organization: Ascend Communications, Alameda CA

In article <481@wakasato.cs.shinshu-u.ac.jp> nakano@suncom1.cs.shinshu-u.ac.jp (NAKANO Yasuaki) writes:
> In modern age, 1 Ri = 36 Tyou, 1 Tyou = 360 Syaku and 1 Syaku is nearly 
> equal to 1 foot. Thus 1 Ri = 4 km. But in ancient age, 1 Ri was 5 Tyou 
> or 6 Tyou. If 1 Ri were 5 Tyou, it would have been about 0.5 km and equal 
> to Chinese and Korean Li. I think Li also had been changed in China and 
> Korea, but I don't know the detail.
> 
> It will be needless to say that Japan has adopted metric system since 1885.
> It is illegal to use Syaku-based measure (as well as yard-pound measure)
> in a commercial transaction. Please do not ask how to play American football 
> games in Japan :-). 
> 

It may be illegal to use in commercial transactions, but the Syaku
measures crop up unexpectedly (for a gaijin).  When we were being packed
to move back to America from Tokyo, I borrowed a packer's tape measure to
take some measurements of our furniture for planning our new home.  I had
a full page of measurements when I realized as I was measuring a bookcase
that towered high over my 6' head that the tape measure was only showing 5
'feet' and some 'inches'.  I had just met the Syaku.

Curtis Sanford
Ascend Communications
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: tun@PHY.UCSF.EDU
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Japan's Sex Tourist
Date: 14 Apr 92 00:22:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: phye.9204140022.AA05254


>In article <1992Apr11.000541.10310@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>, 
       phantom@casbah.acns.nwu .edu (James Choi) writes:
> In article <1992Apr10.224533.23756@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> 
       hyx1@cunixb.cc.colu mbia.edu (Harry Y Xu) writes:

>>I've been wondering WHY is such sexism more prevalent in Japan but not so
>>much in China, Korea, and (not sure) Vietnam?  Any enlightenments?
>
> As far as the sex tourism goes, the countries you listed above are the
> places to go.  Therefore, the nationals of those countries can find
> affordable solutions right on their backyard, and you do not need a guide
> for your backyard.
>
 >From: askim@pomona.claremont.edu
 >Subject: Re: Japan's Sex Tourist
 >Not only that, but I would consider Japan to be more of a free, open society
 >than the other three, so stuff like this can be made public.  I'm sure that if
 >something like this would never be publicised in Korea, huh?
 >                -Tony

Whatever the case, if Japanese Tourists frequent those places will contract
AIDS!!! and increase cases of AIDS into Japan. I don't know what the AIDS 
awarness in those above mentioned nations but in Thailand, AIDS is pretty bad. 
There has been AIDS related postings on s.c.Thai and over 80% of the girls 
in the sex-industry tested HIV positive. Now, the recruiters (pimps) are turning
more and more toward younger kids...

Coban Tun
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: smittie@beach.csulb.edu (Smittie)
Subject: Re: of `bureaucratic hassles' in Japan and elsewhere
Organization: Cal State Long Beach
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 17:45:34 GMT

Well said Mark.


--
___________________________________________________________________________
GEnie, MCI, AOL:Smittie | If all of us were as smart as we think we are the
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From: nwada@iola.Mines.Colorado.EDU (Noboru Wada)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: e-mail address; Nara Women's University
Date: 13 Apr 92 20:45:57 GMT
Organization: Colorado School of Mines

Somebody at the Colorado School of Mines wants to know the e-mail address of  
the Department of Chemistry at the  Nara Women's University in Nara City,  
Japan. If you have the e-mail address, please let me know.

Thanks in advance.

Noboru Wada
e-mail: nwada@iola.mines.colorado.edu
-- 
Bob Ware, System Administrator 
Computing and Networking, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Co 80401, USA
(303) 273-3987
bware@mines.colorado.edu bware@mines.bitnet
From: tun@PHYH.UCSF.EDU (Coban Tun)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Japanese actress detained in Vietnam
Date: 17 Apr 92 20:39:36 GMT

Organization: Vietnam Insight
Editor: Chan Tran
Address: PO Box 7826, San Jose, CA 95150, USA
Phone: (408) 226-2261
Newsgroups:   bit.listserv.seasia-l
Date:         Thu, 16 Apr 1992 14:15:47 PDT
From: Vietnam Insight <vinsight%netcom.com%HUSC6.bitnet@UCSFVM.UCSF.EDU>
Subject:      Hanoi's Openness Surprises Japaneese Star
To: Multiple recipients of list SEASIA-L <SEASIA-L@MSU.ucsf.EDU>
Status: RO

HANOI'S OPENNESS SURPRISES JAPANESE STAR
(Vietnam Insight March 1992)

Bursting into tears at Narita airport, 24 year old Honda Minako, a
beautiful young rising star of Japan, who had just returned from Vietnam
recalled: "I never suspected it! I was terrified, thought I couldn't
come back home..."

Chosen to be the main actress for the popular musical drama "Miss
Saigon," Miss Minako visited Vietnam on Feb. 5 in a related fact-finding
trip for the show. Accompanying her was a camera crew of 8. After less
than three days in Saigon, the entire group was arrested by Vietnamese
police who ruthlessly entered their hotel rooms. One hundred fifty rolls
of film were confiscated. The charges were astonishing: they had taken
too many pictures of areas known for prostitution, which could be
translated as an act of ill-intention to humiliate the Socialist
Republic of Vietnam according to the Hanoi authorities.

Eight people were later released with one photographer still detained
for stubbornly refusing to turn over the negatives. It came to light
later that one of the Vietnamese secret agent had posed as a
photographer in disguise to spy on the crew.

Still in tears, Miss Honda Minako related her terrifying experience with
the Vietnamese secret police, calling the entire episode "a bitter
experience with communist Vietnam." She concluded "The Vietnamese
government must respect people's rights and freedom in order to belong
to the civilized world."

--
Vietnam Insight (vinsight@netcom.com)
Chan Tran, editor

Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: miklg@acuson.com (Michael Goldman )
Subject: Re: Auto Inspections in Japan
Organization: Acuson; Mountain View, California
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 15:38:58 GMT

mitch@lsil.com (Mitch Sako) writes:

>Anyone out there care to explain the bi-yearly system of automobile inspection
>in Japan?  What is the usual cost, what does it include, does it include
>insurance, etc.?  I hear more stories about it but fail to put it all together.
>I realize that part of it is a scam by the auto industry to entice people into
>dumping their cars for a new one.

	"The Economist" had an article about it a little while ago.  It
	seems to be more a scam by the auto mechanics shops since it provides
	them with half their annual income.  It appears to have a mixed effect
	on auto sales, since a lot of people decide not to buy a car in the
	first place since the overall cost over the life of the car is so
	high.  Some of the auto companies seem to be buying up the used ones
	since they have such low mileage (12,000 miles or so), fixing them
	up and selling them to poorer countries such as Russia.  This helps
	support the used car prices, making it more worthwhile to own one
	since depreciation is so severe.

	I forget the exact numbers, but I think they were on the order of
	$1500 a shot for the normal repairs done at an inspection.

	- Michael

-- 
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists
in adapting the world to himself.  Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw
	Disclaimer:  All views are solely my own & not the views of Acuson.
	<sun!sono!miklg>  or  [miklg@acuson.com]
From: nakano@suncom1.cs.shinshu-u.ac.jp (NAKANO Yasuaki)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Ri
Date: 10 Apr 92 02:13:43 GMT
Reply-To: nakano@suncom1.cs.shinshu-u.ac.jp (NAKANO Yasuaki)
Distribution: soc.culture.japan
Organization: Dept. of Information Engineering, Shinshu Univ.,500 wakasato, Nagano, Japan

In article <2078@aria.Ascend.COM> sanford@aria.Ascend.COM (Curtis Sanford) writes:
>In article <481@wakasato.cs.shinshu-u.ac.jp> nakano@suncom1.cs.shinshu-u.ac.jp (NAKANO Yasuaki) writes:
>> It will be needless to say that Japan has adopted metric system since 1885.
>> It is illegal to use Syaku-based measure (as well as yard-pound measure)
>> in a commercial transaction.
>It may be illegal to use in commercial transactions, but the Syaku
>measures crop up unexpectedly (for a gaijin).  When we were being packed
>to move back to America from Tokyo, I borrowed a packer's tape measure to
>take some measurements of our furniture for planning our new home.  I had
>a full page of measurements when I realized as I was measuring a bookcase
>that towered high over my 6' head that the tape measure was only showing 5
>'feet' and some 'inches'.  I had just met the Syaku.

To avoid misunderstood, I will add a little. Syaku-based units remain in
people's life still now. But, when using these units officially, we must 
translate them into metric units. The typical one is Tubo, a unit of area 
corresponding to 36 square-Syaku (or 1 square-Ken, 1 Ken = 6 Syaku). In a 
transaction of a real estate, the price is represented per 3.3 square-meters, 
or 1 Tubo. We can feel how it is expensive by this way.

Yasuaki NAKANO
nakano@wakasato.cs.shinshu-u.ac.jp
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au
Subject: Zen E-mail Directory Project - 2nd call for input
Organization: Australian National University, Canberra
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 03:48:10 GMT


Hi everyone,

In March 1992 I started compiling a world-wide directory of the Internet
and Bitnet e-mail addresses of individuals who are Zen students/practitioners
or Buddhist scholars and who volunteered to act as an e-mail CONTACT POINT
for their center, zendo, sangha, monastery or other Zen Buddhism practice/
training/ teaching/ research organization. 

At present I have on file over 10 e-mail addresses from Australia,
Canada, Japan, Sweden & USA. My first posting in the soc.religion.eastern
newsgroup resulted in several high quality materials, however,
I am keen to collect further data. 

The Directory is meant to be shared between the Zen and other Buddhist centers/
institutions all over the world in order to facilitate communication between 
such organizations in all countries of Asia, Europe, N. America, S. America
and Oceania. 

With the view of preserving the Contact Persons' privacy, valuable time as
well protecting their currently unhindered access to the e-mail facilities
- anyone using this Directory is requested to note that:
a) This document should not be used outside of it's Buddhist organizational
context; b) The list should be used judiciously and only for exchanges about
matters of importance to the contact points in their capacity as Zen students/
scholars. 

The project should be completed by 15 June 1992. All contributors to this
project will receive by e-mail the final version of the directory. 

INTERESTED PERSONS ARE INVITED to send their e-mail addresses together
with brief details of their Zen organizational affiliations as well as any
querries, additions and corrections to: 

tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au

With gassho -

Dr T. Matthew Ciolek,
Sydney Zen Center & Canberra Zen Group;
a student under John Tarrant Roshi of Santa Rosa, California Diamond Sangha,		
Harada-Yasutani [Sanbo Kyodan] lineage.
e-mail (internet) tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au
From: sha@acsu.buffalo.edu (Chia-Lin Sha)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Japanese CD's in NY?
Date: 6 Apr 92 14:55:38 GMT
Organization: UB

There is a store called YOHAN's in Fort Lee , New Jersey.( I think it's right
across the George Washington bridge of NY) It's in a all Japanese plaza.
I saw some CD's there and another music store in the plaza carries a good
selection. There is also a bookstore that carries some CD's.
   I think that plaza is probably the most Japanese "culture" you can find
in the East Coast?! Any one know a better place? 
            
                                                     GLEN
-- 
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                         sha@acsu.buffalo.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Seeking Introductory E-mail Tutor
From: darren@cavebbs.gen.nz (Darren Prisk)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 11:27:23 GMT
Organization: The Cave MegaBBS, Public Access Usenet, Wellington, NZ

	I have a pen pal who live in Shinshiro, Aichi prefecture, who
wishes to learn about e-mail.

	Unfortuently, my Japanese is very poor and I am not able to
explain clearly how e-mail works, how to set up a computer for e-mail
or how to use e-mail.

	Now, my pen pal has asked me to ask you all if there is anyone
"near by" (in Aichi or even Japan) who would be willing to teach the
basics of e-mail and how to set up a home PC for it.

	If you are able to help and introduce a new person to e-mail,
or if you are able to help in anyway, please reply. Thank you.

           +---+   Darren Prisk         darren@cavebbs.gen.nz
           |---+                   prisk_d@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
       +---|                   From : Wellington, New Zealand
       +---+              Globe : 41 deg 18' S; 174 deg 47' E
-- 
           +---+   Darren Prisk         darren@cavebbs.gen.nz
           |---+                   prisk_d@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
       +---|                   From : Wellington, New Zealand
       +---+              Globe : 41 deg 18' S; 174 deg 47' E
From: Citizen's Recycle Movement of Japn <recycle@igc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Date: 05 Apr 92 18:03 PDT
Subject: Re: right-wing shooting
Nf-ID: #R:TODD.92Mar31154829@ai07.elcom.ni:-516516514:cdp:1473500035:000:108
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!recycle    Apr  5 18:03:00 1992


Comparing Shin Kanemaru to M.L. King and Robert Kennedy is an interesting
concept, to say the least.

Chris
From: ecovingt@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Maiko Covington)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Under what circumstances is the death penalty used in Japan?
Date: 10 Apr 92 19:24:31 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

Related question: What ever happened to that guy Miyazaki Tutomu,
anyway?
		Maiko

Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: hank@westford.ccur.com (Hank Cohen)
Subject: Re: Yokozuna promotion -- not this time
Organization: Concurrent Nippon Corp. Tokyo  Japan.
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 01:20:41 GMT

Just my 2 bits worth but I don't believe that Sally's being a 
Hawaiian/Samoan is as important as his general lack of consistency or
style.  The Yokozuna promotion council wants to avoid another Onokuni
embarrassment.  The last two yokozuna were big disapointments and they
would really like somebody who won't fall apart right after promotion.
Basically everybody suffers in comparison to Chiyonofuji.  I too would
like to see him promoted but it's mostly nationalism rather than a
real affection for his style of Sumo.  Personally I expect that if it
was Akebono or Mushimaru there would be no discussion.

On another point how many people believe that the 15th day decision
against Mushimaru and for Mainoumi was a bad call?  Everybody that I
have talked to thought so but the papers never mentioned it.  Imagine
if a replay decision went that way in the Superbowl.

-- 
Hank Cohen
Concurrent Nippon Corp.  	Shuwa yanagibashi Bldg. 5F
Yanagibashi 2-19-6 Taito-ku 	Tokyo 111, Japan
Denwa: 03-3864-5714 	Fax: 03-3864-0898
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: rosenlof@milton.u.washington.edu (Karen Rosenlof)
Subject: Re: International Student ID
Keywords: ISIC , TRAVELL...
Reply-To: rosenlof@milton.u.washington.edu
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 20:45:17 GMT

In article <1992Apr16.191004.765@unixg.ubc.ca> leon@unixg.ubc.ca (Leon ter Beek) writes:
>But do buy a Japan Rail pass before you enter Japan. That will really save
>you a lot of money (eg. 1 week unlimited travel on all JR lines: $230.-).
>Otherwise a single Shinkansen ticket from Tokyo to Hakata may be close to
>$800.-
>
I don't know where you price Shinkansen tickets, but according to my
Jikokuhyou from July of last year. One way is 21300 yen, and if you take
the green car it's another 7300 yen each way, total 28,600 yen, make it
a round trip and convert to US dollars and we get $430 (us$1 = Y133).

Note that's still considerably more than a 1 week JR pass. The JR pass
can be a great deal if you plan to cover a lot of distance.

mike
rosenlof@milton.u.washington.edu
From: moore@srl.mew.mei.co.jp (W. Phillip Moore)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Pro Baseball as of 92/04/14
Date: 15 Apr 92 23:50:57 GMT
	<cduuI0_00WBK8=1lxl@andrew.cmu.edu>
Organization: Matsushita Electric Works Ltd., Osaka, Japan.


Shinya> Tigers going for the Championship?  It's nice to know they beat the
Shinya> GIANTS 2 out of 3!

Pay attention to them this year -- I've seen three of their gamnes almost
in entirety so far this year, and they look *very* strong, especially the
pitching.  Also impressive has been the batting of Paciorek and O'Malley.
I've seen a few plays which will certainly make the highlights shows.

This is a *new* Hanshin Tigers club -- guess I'll have to back to Koshien
stadium one more time before I move to Tokyo next month.....

W. Phillip Moore	   				 Phone: 81-6-908-1431
UNIX/Network System Administrator			   FAX: 81-6-908-9273
Semiconductor Research Laboratory		  E-mail: moore@mew.mei.co.jp
       Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.	1048 Kadoma, Osaka 571, Japan
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: rtsui@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca ()
Subject: Test
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 15:58:14 GMT


Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: ang@theory.lcs.mit.edu (William Ang)
Subject: Re: Japanese CD's in NY?
Organization: MIT Lab for Computer Science
	<1992Apr5.065656.11825@cs.yale.edu> <6255@bigbird.hri.com.hri.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 19:37:34 GMT

In article <6255@bigbird.hri.com.hri.com> blamb@sparc1.hri.com (Bill Lambert) writes:

   [text deleted...]

   The prices are generally not that great, except that they do have the
   occasional sale items that can be good deals (for example: cases of
   Kirin Ichiban for about a 30% discount), and of course they have
   quite a few things that we can't seem to get in Boston at all.

I have been to Yaohan Plaza few times.  I think the only thing you
can't get in Boston are the Yamazaki (Did I get the spelling right?)
bread, CDs, and the collections of books/magazine in the bookstore.
Everything else, you could pretty much get in Boston area.  The
expense of going there (gas + toll + driving time) is just not worth
my effort.

Porter Sqaure (Porter Excahnge) has several Japanese sushi/noodle stores,
a grocery store that sell mostly imported Japanese stuff + some magazine/video.

Reliable Oriental Market in Somerville (Union Square) has a large selection
of Japanese/Korean groceries and household items.  There is a bookstore next
to it.

I am sure you know the store in Central square and the Korean store on
Beacon street (brookline) that carry Japanese stuff and video rentals.

  William
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan