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· Newsgroup: news.answers
· Message-ID: <1992Mar5.120052.9397@nas.nasa.gov>
· Subject: [l/m 1/6/91] Soc.culture.japan references
Archive-name: culture-japan-references
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OUTLINE: TBD
Reminders
General References (soc.culture)
Specific References
Computer-Oriented References (.comp)
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Japan is certainly an interesting and important topic these days.
Soc.culture.japan CAN BE an important conduit for discussion, but
readers must keep in mind several things.
Consider for instance that learning about the culture thru say the
martial arts is a bit "insulting." One might not know that
rec.martial-arts now exists, but one might commit a social faux pas as
they say. Similarly, one would not generalize Japanese business with say
The Book of Five Rings. A bit of email research (asking your news admin)
can avoid this embarassment. This is but one example why this file exists.
This file represents a little polite reminder that...
1) Misunderstanding is EXTREMELY likely. To paraphrase H. Spencer:
an ounce of understanding beats a pound of flaming.
2) Read news.announce.newusers and comprehend BEFORE posting.
2a) Edit SUBJECT lines, MINIMIZE cross-posting,
and use FOLLOW-UP lines.
3) It is useful on this topic to do some non-network reading
BEFORE posting. It is particular critical here because there
is a language barrier. There are many good books such as
%A Edwin O. Reischauer
%T The Japanese Today: Change and Continuity
%I Belknap/Harvard
%D 1988
%O old ISBN 0-674-47178-4
%A Robert C. Christopher
%T The Japanese Mind
%I Ballantine Books
%D 1983
%O ISBN 0-449-90120-3
%A Charles Grinnel Cleaver
%T Japanese and Americans
%I Tuttle
%D 1976
%A Ronald Dore
%T Taking Japan Seriously
%I Stanford University Press
%D 1987
%O ISBN 0-8047-1401-0
%A Frank Gibney
%T Japan: The Fragile Super Power
%I Meridian
%D 1977
%O ISBN 0-452-00593
%A Chalmers Johnson
%T MITI and The Japanese Miracle
%I Stanford University Press
%D 1982
%O ISBN 0-8047-1206-9
%A David Halberstam
%T The Reckoning
%I Avon Books
%D 1986
%O ISBN 0-380-70447-1
Detroit's Ford Motor Company vs. Japan's Nissan
%A Paul Kennedy
%T The Rise and Fall of The Great Powers
%I Vintage
%D 1987
%O ISBN 0-679-72019-7
Not about Japan per se, but spawned many Japanese titles. Might have
inspired the Ishihara & Morita Book
%A Don Maloney
%T Japan: It's Not All Raw Fish
%I The Japan Times
%D 1975
%O ISBN 4-7890-0028-1
%A Michihiro Matsumoto
%T The Unspoken Way
%I Kodansha International
%D 1988
%O ISBN 0-87011-889-7
%A Akio Morita
%T Made In Japan
%I Signet
%D 1986
%A Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
%T Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan
%I Cambridge University Press
%D 1984
%O ISBN 0 521 27786 8
%A Thomas P. Rohlen
%T For Harmony and Strength
%I University of California Press
%D 1974
%O ISBN 0-520-03849-5
%A Thomas P. Rohlen
%T Japan's High Schools
%I University of California Press
%D 1983
%O ISBN 0-520-04863-6
%A Robert J. Smith
%T Japanese Society
%I Cambridge University Press
%D 1983
%O ISBN 0 521 31552 2
%A John Wharton
%T Jobs in Japan
%I The Global Press
%D 1986
%O ISBN 0-911285-00-8
%T The Sun Also Sets
%A Bill Emmott
%D 1989
%I Times Books / Random House
%O ISBN 0-8129-1816-9
%A Clyde V. Prestowitz, Jr.
%T Trading Places
%I Basic Books
%D 1989
%O ISBN 0-465-08679-9
%A Karel van\ Wolferen
%T The Enigma of Japanese Power
%I Alfred A. Knopf
%D 1989
%O ISBN 0-394-57796-5
%A Tadanobu Tsunoda
%T The Japanese Brain - Uniqueness and Universality
%I The Taishukan Publishing Company
%D 1985
%O ISBN 4-469-21129-X
%A Sheila K. Johnson
%T The Japanese Through American Eyes
%I Stanford Univ. Press
%D 1988
%O O-8047-1449-5
%A Osamu Mizutani
%A Nobuko Mizutani
%T How to Be Polite in Japanese
%I Japan Times
%A K. Yamamura
%A Y. Yasuba, eds.
%T The Political Economy of Japan
%V I
%I Stanford Univ. Press
%D 1987
%X The Political Economy of Japan covers many aspects of Japanese economics
and Politics and is very easy for the non-specialist to read.
%A Raymond Goldsmith
%T The Financial Development of Japan, 1868-1977
%I Yale Univ. Press
%D 1983
%X Goldsmith's history of Japanese financial markets is very interesting
economic history, but does not describe the current state of the markets
at all.
%A Fred Bergsten
%A William Cline
%T The US-Japan Economic Problem
%I Institute for International Economics, Policy Analyses in
International Economics
%N 13
%D Oct. 1985
%X The Bergsten and Cline represents an excellent presentation of the
current trade friction between the US and Japan. This monograph is
suitable for non-economists.
%A Jeffrey Frankel
%T The Yen-Dollar Agreement: Liberalizing Japanese Capital Markets
%I Institute for International Economics, Policy Analyses in
International Economics
%D Dec. 1984
%X Frankel's monograph is useful for those interested in trade and market
access issues.
%A Robert Stern, ed.
%T Trade and Investment Relations Among the U.S., Canada, and Japan
%I University of Chicago Press
%D 1989
%X Stern's book contains many useful and non-technical articles for those
interested in US Canada Japan trade.
%A Masahiro Aoki, ed.
%T The Economic Analysis of the Japanese Firm
%I North Holland
%D 1984
%X Aoki's book provides many good essays about industrial organization in
Japan, but is fairly technical.
%A Robert Feldman
%T Japanese Financial Markets
%I MIT press
%D 1986
%X Feldman's book may be a bit difficult for non-economists, but gives a
good overview of the current state of the financial markets in Japan.
%A Nishikawa
%T The Labor Market in Japan
%A Ohkawa
%T Japan and the Developing Economies
%A Ranis
%A Patrick
%A Rosovsky
%T Asia's New Giant
%X The outdated but still useful
Read some books about Japan and the other countries whose relations
with Japan you wish to discuss. This will help eliminate the "gross
generalizations" contained in many posts. This will also minimize
cyclic discussion. Of course, no single book can convey all viewpoints
or perspectives. Read a couple with an open mind.
4) Avoid using inflamatory terms to refer to people of other races.
For example, it is very rude to refer to the Japanese as Japs or
to non-Japanese as Gaijin. There are such terms for all
nationalities and races. Strive to educate!
5) Be mindful of the fact that all of us have different values:
Americans, Europeans, Japanese, Asian Americans of all backgrounds
other news groups exist:
soc.culture.asian.american
soc.culture.korean
soc.culture.china
soc.culture.taiwan
soc.culture.hongkong
+ soc.culture.usa
+ soc.culture.europe, etc.
comp.research.japan
The entire fj hierarchy comes to several sites in the US, but
requires terminals with Kanji support for reading.
A simple way to begin is: get a large-scale map of Japan and learn
the geography: city locations and names, distances, directions, etc.
This is a less painful way to introduce the language, and culture.
Other maps can show cultural features like where industry is located,
rail maps, etc. Where? Find a map or book store, check the phone book in
the "Yellow Pages"[tm].
Subject: Japanese videos
Here's something I've found in The Japan Times today:
"Japanese videos in English"
Donald Richie, the article writer, mentions the following book:
Beverley Bare Buehrer, "Japanese Films: A Filmography and Commentary,
1921-1989," McFarland & Co., Box 611, Jefferson, N.C. 28640 ($41.95
PP, to Japan, I assume). It supposedly has the complete listing of
Japanese films.
And then he lists some videos along with where you can get them. In
the order of the most quoted places: (the first 4 are probably the best bet)
Sony Video Software, 1700 Broadway, N.Y., NY 10019
Balzac Video, 1253 Tanager Lane, West Chester, PA 19382
Embassy Home Entertainment, 1901 Avenue of the Starts, L.A., CA 90067
Connoisseur Video Collection, 8455 Beverly Blvd., Suite 302, L.A., CA 90048
Video Yesteryear, PO Box C, Sandy Hook, Conn. 06482
New Yorker Films, 16 W. 61 St., N.Y., NY 10023
Historical Films, PO Box 29035, Chicago, IL 60629
Media Home Entertainment, 5730 Buckingham Parkway, Culver City, CA 90230
Pacific Arts, 50 N. La Cienega Blvd., Suite 210, Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Corinth Films, 34 Gransevoort St., N.Y., NY 10014
Republic Pictures Home Video, 12636 Beatrice St., L.A., CA 90066
Lastly, please remember that different cultures each approach mail
and news a little differently. Although not many people post to s.c.j
from Japan, I can assure many people in Japan do read it. We are not
going to solve interculture flame wars here, but it would help if we
didn't get involved and sought real solutions instead. Recently, one
correspondent was chastized by his Japanese company for posting to the
net. This could have been anybody, but it was this group.
One of the most frequent asked questions (faq) on this net has been:
"Does anybody know the e-mail address to xxx in Japan?"
The first place to look at should be the uumap of Japan. An example
of an entry in the uumap is as follows:
#N beck.cc.titech.jp
#S SUN-2 4.2BSD
#O Tokyo Institute of Technology, Computer Center
#C Jun Murai
#E jun@cc.titech.junet
#T 81 3 7261111 ext3299
#P 2-12-1, O-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152, JAPAN
#L 35 42 N / 139 46 E city
#R
#U
#W asami@kddlabs.junet; Oct 28 16:49 1986
beck = beck.cc.titech.jp, beck.cc.titech.jpn, beck.cc.titech.junet
#
The following has grown obsolete and will be removed:
- Uumap of most countries, including Japan, are available via anonymous
- ftp from bbn.com (or 128.89.0.122). Please consult your local guru
- regarding how to anonymous ftp at your site. --Wayne Lui
- FAQ: How can I get a Japanese text editor for my computer?
- (information subject to change - please send corrections!)
Macintosh users: Contact APDA (Apple Programmer's and Developers
Association, 800-282-2732, or 408-562-3910), and ask for Kanjitalk.
This is a kanji version of the Macintosh System and Finder, about $65.
Ninjaterm - a kanji vt100 terminal emulator with Xmodem
ASLEdit - an english/kanji text editor
available from sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6] in /info-mac/
1) Kanji Talk 6.0.4 is $70 from APDA.
2) You can't run (American) MacWrite or MacDraw on KanjiTalk.
3) Neither NinjaTerm nor ASLEdit is available from sumex-aim, now.
They are deleted. Someone said NinjaTerm is on e.ms.uky.edu
[128.163.128.5] /pub/mac/comm, but I haven't check it.
And Ninjaterm is on sachiko.acc.stolaf.edu [130.71.192.17]
/OpticalDisk/src/local/vax/mac. (I checked)
ASLEdit is still on oswego.oswego.edu [129.3.1.1] /pub/mac.
IBM-PC users: MOKE 1.1 (by Mark Edwards) is available from
terminator.cc.umich.edu [141.211.164.8] in msdos/editors/japanese
The japanese fonts used by Moke (KD) are available from
mindseye.berkeley.edu [128.32.232.19] in pub/kanji/kd100.arc
Moke 2.0 is a commercial product and is available from
J.J. Edwards, KiCompware, 1812 N. Erb St., Appleton, WI 54911, or
Mark Edwards, #405 Konya manshon 4-12-6 Gono kami,
Hamura-cho, Nishitamagun, Tokyo, Japan 190
hterm, hemacs (kanji for ibm pc) are available from
azabu.tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp [130.69.16.7]
Unix users: The standard X-windows distribution contains kanji fonts,
Look in the contrib area of your copy of X-windows.
Kinput, kterm (terminal program) etc. Get Nemacs and Wnn from:
clover.ucdavis.edu [128.120.57.1]
The following is useful, but I don't have time to do more than copy
it [nor read s.c.j. for that matter]. If some one wants to integrate
it, do so and mail it back to me.
JAPANESE SOFTWARE FOR MSDOS:
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HTERM (A communication program for MS-DOS which will display ASCII, JASCII,
JIS1, and JIS2)
Download Source:
JAPAN
utsun.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp [133.11.11.11]
location fj/hterm2.6.0.0
version 2.6.0.0
ftp.cs.titech.ac.jp [131.112.16.39]
location JAPAN/hterm/hterm2.6.0.0
version 2.6.0.0
azabu.tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp [130.69.16.7]
location hterm/hterm2.6.0.0
version 2.6.0.0
[and others]
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KD (Kanji Driver) by Izumi Ohzawa
University of California, Berkeley
izumi@violet.berkeley.edu or ...!ucbvax!violet!izumi
Kanji viewer/ front-end-processor for Kermit.
"mindseye.berkeley.edu",
[128.32.232.19] in directory /pub/kanji.
The archive file is "kd100.arc".
Version 1.
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MOKE (Mark's Own Kanji Editor -- a simple text editor for kanji, kana, and
ascii text. Version 1.1 is public domain and available from:
terminator.cc.umich.edu
version 1.1
Version 2 is commercial and is available for $49.00 (+$10.00 foreign
shipping) from:
KiCompWare
Attn: J.J.
1812 N. Erb St.
Appleton, Wis. 54911
Version 2.0 claims an "improved user interface and faster entry for
kanji." A little vague ...
----------------------------------------------------------------------
There is also a high-end word processor called EW+ (about like WordPerfect?)
for the IBM PC available from:
Information Technology Laboratory
415 Madison Ave.
19th Floor
New York, NY 10017
Tel: 212-832-5300 (Yuki Maruyama)
Fax: 212-832-6677
Price: $850.00 ($499.00 for Universities).
----------------------------------------------------------------------
There is also a lower-end word-processor (I've never seen) called JWP-PC from:
Yamazaki Intercom Corp.
42-403 Shimizugaoaka
Yatomicho, Mizuho
Nagoya, Aichi 467
Price $150.00 ($20.00 for demo disk).
Here are some other useful anonymous FTP site for Japanese related software:
azabu.tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp [130.69.16.7] Japanese related programs for PCs
jp-gate.wide.ad.jp [133.4.1.1] Lots of interesting stuff
miki.cs.titech.ac.jp [131.112.16.39] For Macs, PCs, Unix etc. fj.sources
utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp [133.11.7.250] jTeX, MOKE, Lots of interesting stuff
ftp.cs.titech.ac.jp [131.112.16.39] GNU, comp.sources, fj.sources
jp-gate.wide.ad.jp [133.4.1.1] japanese, bind, gated, sendmail
ricohgwy.ricoh.co.jp [133.4.5.2] jTeX, X11R4
scslwide.sony.co.jp [133.138.199.1] X11R4
clover.ucdavis.edu [128.120.57.1] Nemacs (nihongo emacs), Wnn
ftphost.cac.washington.edu [128.95.112.1] Kanji for NeXT machines, X11
mindseye.berkeley.edu [128.32.232.19] Some stuff for PC's, jstevie, kanjips
crl.nmsu.edu [128.123.1.14] Listing of other japan ftp sites,
Japanese X11 fonts
FAQ: How can I get copies of Japanese research papers?
Free japanese tech searches: An American research can request a search
by calling the NACSIS (Japan's National Center for Science Information
Systems) operator between 1:00 and 4:00 PM EDT at (202) 357-7278 or
sending an electronic mail message to nacsis@nsf.gov (internet) or
nacsis@NSF (bitnet). Searches can also be requested by writing to
NACSIS Operator, National Science Foundation, Room 416A, 1800 G Street
N.W., Washington, DC 20550.
The databases include information about research projects sponsored by
Japan's Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture; papers presented
at electronics and chemistry society conferences; doctoral theses; and
Japanese- and foreign-language holdings of periodicals and books in
the libraries of 1100 Japanese universities.
Translation is fairly expensive running at this time (1990) at $50-80
per page of text.
Optional references on specialized topics discussed in s.c.j:
%A Yoshihiro Matsumoto
%T Some Experiences in Promoting Resuable Software
Presentation in Higher Abstract Levels
%J IEEE Transactions on Software Engineeering
%V SE-10
%N 5
%D September 1984
%P 502-513
%X Dated.
%A Denji Tajima
%A Tomoo Matsubara
%T The Computer Software Industry in Japan
%J Computer
%D May 1981
%P 89-96
%X Dated.
%A Yoshiro Matsumoto
%A Yutaka Ohno
%T Japanese Perspectives in Software Engineering
%I Addison-Wesley
%D 1989
%O ISBN 0-201-41629-8.
%X Theoritical, practical and managerial issues in software
engineering from a Japanese perspective. Chapters 7 and 8 deal with
testing/quality assurance issues, including some description of testing tools.
Reply-To: shimeall@cs.nps.navy.mil (Tim Shimeall)
freq: month, date: 5th
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From: eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,news.answers
Subject: [l/m 1/6/91] Soc.culture.japan references
Summary: Stop Think Observe Plan (crontab 0 4 5 * *)
Keywords: who what where when why how FAQ
Message-ID: <1992Mar5.120052.9397@nas.nasa.gov>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 92 12:00:52 GMT
Sender: news@nas.nasa.gov
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