Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.gol.com!jpix!newsfeed1.dti.ad.jp!giga-nspixp2!spinnewsgate!attnet-tokyo!not-for-mail From: Scott Reynolds Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: 12-y.o. boy admits to Nagasaki child murder Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 14:43:28 +0900 Organization: JENS Internet Service Lines: 51 Message-ID: References: <3F0C149D.F1E1A3A7@yahoo.co.jp> <60b19b48.0307101442.50245c91@posting.google.com> <545bd492.0307111748.5e0d272f@posting.google.com> <545bd492.0307120051.2ea4e4cb@posting.google.com> <545bd492.0307121553.781250ea@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 41.pool3.dsl8mtokyo.att.ne.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp 1058075010 16791 165.76.163.41 (13 Jul 2003 05:43:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsadm@newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 05:43:30 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en,ja In-Reply-To: <545bd492.0307121553.781250ea@posting.google.com> Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:2744 On 7/13/2003 8:53 AM, masayuki yoshida wrote: > Scott Reynolds wrote in message news:... > >>On 7/12/2003 5:51 PM, masayuki yoshida wrote: >> >>>Scott Reynolds wrote in message news:... >>> >>> >>>>On 7/12/2003 10:48 AM, masayuki yoshida wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>In a case where a serious offence is reported in Japanese quality >>>>>papers, they generally trend to use euphenistic expressions, so that >>>>>we have to kind of interprete such expressions into real meanings. >>>>>For example the expression of "boukou" (literaly, assault) generally >>>>>implies 'rape' where the offence was committed against women. The >>>>>expression 'seiteki itazura' often is used in a case where an adult >>>>>commits a kinky action as a pedopile, although 'itazura' can be >>>>>translated into 'mischief' as an ordinary usage. >>>> >>>>"Seiteki itazura" is pretty easy to interpret, but the expression >>>>"boukou" is rather misleading, it seems to me. After all, it is possible >>>>for a woman (or a child) to be assaulted, but not sexually. I think that >>>>at least in an English news source it would be customary to specify if >>>>sexual assault or rape were involved in a particular crime. >>> >>> >>>http://www12.mainichi.co.jp/news/search-news/881666/8f9790ab8140965c8ds-0-10.html >>> >>>For instance, the expression 'fujo boukou' which is available in the >>>above Mainichi article seems to suggest that even if 'seiteki' >>>(sexual) is not used, 'boukou' with 'hujyo' refers to 'rape' against >>>women. >> >>It seems that the article is no longer available at that URL. :-( > > Try again. > > http://www12.mainichi.co.jp/news/search-news/881711/965c8ds-20-35.html Still no joy: 指定されたURLは存在しません。 http://www.mainichi.co.jp/ 上記URLのトップページからお入り下さい。 -- _______________________________________________________________ Scott Reynolds sar@gol.com