Japan_KFSS deals with Japanese movies, comics, cartoons... ALL Japanese media...
Japanese film, Japanese anime, Japanese manga, Japanese art, Japanese music,
Japanese games, etc, etc. Kaiju Eiga to Samurai, Hello Kitty to Takeshi Beat
Kitano.

This group got off to a great start, but it needs your input to keep it lively.
It's okay to respond to old messages, which you can read from the link below.
Please talk it up with your Japanamaniac friends and send them this URL so that
they can read past messages and join us in the conversation:
http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/japan_kfss/messages

For the foreseeable future, we want to keep this list unmoderated. Nobody here
has time to be the list cop. So there will not be universal prior screening of
messages. However, if individual subscribers do something inappropriate, they
may be placed on moderation, meaning that their posts will be screened for a
period of time until they can demonstrate that they can comply with the list's
standards. In order to keep the list enjoyable for all, there are a few simple
rules:

1. This is a SPAM FREE ZONE - NO ADVERTS. Announcements of events, screenings,
TV programs, concerts and other Japanese cultural events and activities are
permitted.

2. NO BOOTLEG TRADING, there are plenty of other sites around for that, which we
DON'T endorse,

3. No personal attacks or other hate speech (except as documented quotes from
media). If something or someone on this group makes you angry, hold that thought
and wait at least an hour before hitting the send button. If you find something
objectionable, please send private email to Japan_KFSS-owner@yahoogroups.com
with a reference to the message number (available at
http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/japan_kfss/messages ).

4. Please stay on our already very broad topic. If the topic shifts in a
message, please change the subject line to reflect the new topic. Please keep
personal conversation to a minimum, and switch to private e-mail when the topic
no longer relates to this group's focus.

5. Please limit profanity to actual documented quotes of existing material from
the media.

6. Please trim quoted material from the post you are responding to, so that just
enough remains for your reply to make sense.

7. Please don't repost copyrighted material without the copyright owner's
permission and/or citation of the copyright for small amounts of text,
considered fair use.

8. Please don't copy huge amounts of text from other lists or web sites. If
there's something of interest elsewhere on the net, post a link with a brief
description or a teaser quote from the source material.

9. Posts should be mainly in English, but Japanese is welcome with English
translation or with enough surrounding English context to make it understandable
in English. If you key stroke something in Japanese with Kanji and Kana, please
put a note at the beginning of your message in English, sayng which character
set (a.k.a. text encoding) you used, e.g. JIS, Shift-JIS (ISO 2022-JP), EUC,
Unicode UTF-8. If you send a message with Japanese characters using the
yahoogroups web site, there's a drop-down menu for language selection below the
post content window. Make sure it's set to Japanese, even if most of your post
is in English, otherwise all we'll get is gibberish, even if it looks like
Japanese on your end.

a. If you get a message with Japanese characters that show up as gibberish,
check the View menu for an item called "Text Encoding" or "Character Set" and
try various Japanese settings.

b. If your current setup doesn't read Japanese characters, there's a bunch of
tutorials at:
www.google.com/search?q=japanese+installation+tutorial&hl=en&lr=&client=safari&r\
ls=en&start=10&sa=N .
Macs running on OS9 and OSX are fairly easy to set up, using World Script.

c. If you are interested in learning more Japanese, there are many sites on the
web for that. This group may afford you some limited language learning
opportunities, by way of focusing on Japanese media, but its purpose is not
primarily to teach Japanese.

10. If you want to change the way you receive messages, please go to this link:
http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/japan_kfss/join
and change your settings. This will allow you to receive all the day's messages
in a single digest, or to only read the messages on the web, if you feel you are
getting too much e-mail.

Thanks and have fun.