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Saturday, November 13, 2004

Japan Sumo Asso. Chairman charged with sex assualt

Sumo boss Kitanoumi faces assault, sexual harassment charges
japantoday > crime /Saturday, November 13, 2004 at 07:40 JST
TOKYO -- A 28-year-old woman working at a Tokyo restaurant has reported to police that Japan Sumo Association Chairman Kitanoumi assaulted and sexually harassed her ...
....Kitanoumi was the youngest to be promoted to yokozuna in 1974 at 21 years and two months old. He won 24 Emperor's Cups before retiring in 1985 and created the Kitanoumi stable....became the association chairman in 2002.

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"Pacific Overtures": First "Japanese" production on Broadway
Note the fake "gaijin" noses on the nearly all Chinese cast.

Miyamoto makes Broadway debut
(Kyodo) - Nov 13, 11:13 am
Amon Miyamoto has become the first Japanese producer to make a foray into a Broadway musical with the New York launch of the preview of "Pacific Overtures" Friday night.

Genuinely Ugly Americans, as Viewed by the Japanese
NYTimes: July 11, 2002
The coming of Commodore Perry and his troops to the shores of Japan has always been a showstopper in Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's fable of gunboat diplomacy and cultural transformation. Those who saw the original Broadway production still marvel at the immense paper dragon of a ship created by the fabled designer Boris Aronson.
But Mr. Miyamoto and company have devised their own highly original coup de theatre for the occasion, and it, too, is sure to linger in the memory. The ships are seen only as fleeting, ambiguous shadows. But the Americans, whose grotesquely stylized appearances here were inspired by 19th-century Japanese poster art, are canopied by a vast American flag that shoots across the theater's ceiling amid a flash of eye-searing light.

キャスト Cast
B. D. Wong Reciter ＜語り＞
Michael K. Lee Kayama ＜香山＞
Paolo Montalban Manjiro ＜万次郎＞
Joseph Anthony Foronda Thief Councilor ＜首席老中＞・ Ming Lee Second Councillor ＜次席老中＞
Yoko Fumoto Tamate(Kayama's Wife)
Alvin Ing Old Man・Priest
Francis Jue Madam・
Dutch Admiral Eric Bondoc
Evan D'Angeles Observer・Warrior
Darren Lee American Admiral・Sailor
Hoon Lee Sailor
Telly Leung Boy・Observer

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Friday, November 12, 2004

Not-so-blind gaijin and the Japanese pink elephant
imomus' liveloserjournal
The blind gaijin and the Japanese elephant

People from other cultures who write about Japan often sound like The Blind Men And The Elephant. Everybody seems to be talking about a completely different Japan. Some change their opinion over time, arriving with a firm grasp of Japan's trunk but leaving clinging to its tail.
'Japan is very like a wall', said the first blind foreigner. Alex Kerr in his book 'Dogs and Demons' tells us that Japan is ruled by a corrupt and inefficient bureaucracy.,

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Like my Japanese lovelife, "odd-parity" discovered

Experiment Confirms Existence of New Electronic State in Superconductors

Penn State online / 11 November 2004
The existence of a new electronic state in superconductors, materials that can carry an electric current without resistance, has been confirmed experimentally according to research to be published in the 12 November 2004 issue of the journal Science... "We have established direct evidence for the existence of an odd-parity superconductor, which previously had been theorized but never demonstrated in an unambiguous experiment"...
...In addition to their scientific interest, superconductors have a number of practical applications. These include superconducting magnets, which have enabled the development of high-resolution magnetic-resonance imaging in medicine, and superconducting wires, which transport electrical power without loss due to heating of the cable by electrical resistance.....
....This research was funded by the United States National Science Foundation; the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; and the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology; and the Japanese 21st-Century Centers of Excellence.

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Japanese sportsman doesn't like sporting photos? Sheesh.
Ok, let me get this straight: a public figure Ok, let me get this straight: a public figure--a jock no less-- does NOT want great publicity about him kissing a mega-babe. Sheesh.
Japanese football star Nakata wins more compensation over kissing photo

11 November 2004 1821 hrs
TOKYO - Japanese footballer Hidetoshi Nakata has won 1.2 million yen (11,215 dollars) after taking to court a magazine which reproduced a photo of him kissing a famous actress as it reported on another lawsuit by the sports star.

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Thursday, November 11, 2004

French army in Japan defends Republic and Beaujolais
NARITA, JAPAN: A Japanses custom officer checks a wine bottle of the French 2004 Beaujolais Nouveau at the Narita International airport, some 60 kilometres west of Tokyo, 11 November 2004. AFP/Getty Images
AFP/Getty Images

JAPAN: French residents living in western Japan wearing World War I French Army uniforms gather at the foreign cemetery in Kobe city, western Japan 11 November 2004 to commemorate the Armistice Day ceremony marking the end of World War I.

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"Turret gods" of Okinawa guard over Falluja Marines
US troops move toward FallujahNov 10 The Christian Science Monitor / By Scott Peterson
NEAR FALLUJAH, IRAQ---
...Marines riding in light armor can be superstitious, and some travel with what they call "turret gods" - voodoo-looking dolls with feathers and beads hanging from their heads, picked up at their home base in Okinawa, Japan. The "gods" hang among photos of girlfriends and family, which are considered "guardian angels" in their own right....

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Wednesday, November 10, 2004

Unidentified submarine spotted in Japanese waters
Unidentified submarine spotted in Japanese waters off Nov 9
TOKYO (AP) - - An unidentified submarine was briefly spotted in Japan's territorial waters off Okinawa early Wednesday but it later departed the area, ...

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World's oldest "students" protest in Tokyo
Caption:
TOKYO, JAPAN: Member of a left-wing students' group [Zengakuren] raise their fists as they shout slogans during a demonstration near the American embassy in Tokyo, Tokyo, 09 November 2004, AFP/Getty Images

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Tuesday, November 9, 2004

FREE JOHN HINKLEY!

Hinckley Hearing
Prosecutors Want To Limit Outings

Washinton Post
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 9, 2004; Page B01
Lawyers for John W. Hinckley Jr. and federal prosecutors argued yesterday over whether the presidential assailant's ongoing relationship with a former mental patient could make him dangerous if he wins extended and unsupervised visits to his parents' home in Williamsburg.

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"Photocapacitor" aka solar cell and battery combined by Japanese reseacher in Aoba, Yokohama
Here's a "Photocapacitor" aka solar cell and battery combined by Japanese reseacher in Aoba, Yokohama near my house, He has put a solar cell and a battery into one structure..
A new type of solar cell
physicsweb.org / 4 November 2004 (Appl. Phys. Lett. 85 3932).
Scientists in Japan have made the first device that can convert solar energy into electricity and then store the resulting electric charge. The "photocapacitor" designed by Tsutomu Miyasaka and Takurou Murakami at Toin University in Yokohama could be used to power mobile phones and other hand-held devices ....

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Eco-globe Bra holds 2 Japanese boobs / globes with corn, hemp & paper
Mon Nov 8,11:49 PM ET / REUTERS... model Yu Misaki shows off the Eco-globe Bra, which has cups that join together to form a palm-sized green globe...The brassiere, licensed for the Expo 2005 Aichi Japan and not for general sale, uses environmentally-friendly materials such as corn, Deccan hemp and paper which can all be recycled.

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Monday, November 8, 2004

Hey, where's the fire buddy?
Fire engine fatally runs over man walking on sidewalk
(Mainichi Shimbun, Japan, Nov. 8, 2004).
... Investigators are questioning Sasaki on suspicion of professional negligence resulting in death.

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Friday, November 5, 2004

Gwen Gothic Lolita's Malice in Wunderland
What you Waiting for? Gwen Stefani's rehash video of an Alice in Wonderland meets giggling Japanese school girls fetishization.
In the song I heard, "gwen ha suru no which means Is gwen doing - or will gwen do it?
Does anybody have an idea if the fake school girls are actually somebody famous in Japan?

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Updated: Friday, November 5, 2004 10:55 PM JST
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"Please up the Volue. ..." (sic engrish)
This Japanese webpage site for the infamous crook, Muneo Suzuki of the Liberal Democratic Party is Hall-of-Fame material for bad site design
http://www.muneo.gr.jp/flash.html

Japanese ex-political heavyweight fined, given two-year jail term?
A once-influential Japanese lawmaker from Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's ruling party was handed a two-year jail term and fined 11 million yen (US$104,000; euro 81,000) Friday on bribery and perjury charges.
Muneo Suzuki, formerly a heavyweight in the most powerful faction of Koizumi's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, was arrested in June 2002.
Tokyo District Court judge Shoichi Yagi found Suzuki guilty Friday on two counts of bribery, one count of hiding political donations and one count of perjury, said court spokesman Hideaki Wada.

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Japanese Prison: No place like home for the elderly & gaijin
Prisoners top 60,000 for 1st time in over 40 years
Mainichi Shimbun, Nov 5
The number of prisoners in Japan exceeded the 60,000 mark last year for the first time in 43 years, a Justice Ministry report showed Friday. ...
....The number of elderly and foreign prisoners has shown marked increases. At the end of 2003, 6,683 people aged 60 or over were serving prison terms, over 10 times the figure of three decades ago. Elderly people account for about 11 percent of all the inmates, as compared with 2 to 4 percent in the United States, Britain, Germany and France.<

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Six months in Japan jail for leafleting
Damn, these folks got 6 months for leafleting a condo just like my condo is leafleted everyday with 'pink chirashi' porn everyday.
6-month terms sought for 'prisoners of conscience' in Japan

Kyodo News / Nov 4, 2004 04:56pm.

---Prosecutors on Thursday demanded six months in prison for three activists recognized by Amnesty International as "prisoners of conscience," saying they trespassed in residential quarters to distribute leaflets opposing the deployment of Japanese troops in Iraq.

At the Hachioji branch of the Tokyo District Court, the lawyer for the three -- two men and a woman -- said they are not guilty, declaring that "It is a violation of the freedom of expression to prosecute them just because they made a political statement."

The prosecution said, "It is clearly illegal to enter other people's property without permission from the management."

But the defense argued distributing leaflets in mailboxes is common in Japan.

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CANNIBAL BABIES! says Tokyo Metro. Institute of Medicine

CANNIBAL BABIES!

Newborn babies feed on themselves
BBC News / Nov 4, 2004 04:56pm.
Babies survive the period immediately after birth by feeding on the content of their own cells, research suggests.
Right after birth babies face sudden and severe starvation as they have lost their nutrient supply from the placenta, but have yet to drink milk.
It appears they bridge the gap by breaking down cells, and releasing essential nutrients.
The study, by Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, is published in Nature.

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Thursday, November 4, 2004

Robo-companions for Expo 2005 in Aichi Japan

RoRobot guides to be used during Aichi Expo

(Kyodo) Nov. 4 NAGOYA, Japan - A robot guide, to be used during the 2005 World Exposition in Aichi, speaks four languages and expresses emotion. The expo will be held March 25 to September 25 near Nagoya.

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Japanese bear left to die in DEEP shit

Bear trapped in garbage left to die
(Mainichi Shimbun, Japan, Nov. 4, 2004)
SHUNAN, Yamaguchi -- A bear found trapped in a garbage disposal hole will be left to die because it is already too weak to save.
Tokiyo Terato, a 76-year-old woman from Shunan, Yamaguchi Prefecture, found the bear at about 8 a.m., Thursday, stuck in the 2-meter-deep garbage hole ....
....The bear was floating in water and garbage in the 1.5 by 5-meter hole with a 35-centimeter opening.
Believing it was too late to save the bear, the officials plan to leave it to die.

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The blind gaijin and the Japanese elephant

Experiment Confirms Existence of New Electronic State in Superconductors

Japanese football star Nakata wins more compensation over kissing photo

Hinckley HearingProsecutors Want To Limit Outings

CANNIBAL BABIES!

RoRobot guides to be used during Aichi Expo

Bear trapped in garbage left to die

Hinckley Hearing
Prosecutors Want To Limit Outings