Ako Kawada, a well known announcer in Japan committed suicide in her car on the 26th by inhaling the fumes from burning charcoal. Lately she had apparently been writing some negative things on her official blog showing signs of depression. She was found in the morning in her white Mercedes-Benz. What will it take for […]
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Back to the hydrogen sulfide suicides, another recent big news story is that an adult film star named Miyuki Asao. She recently killed herself after talking to a tabloid magazine about her exploits having slept with 50 famous people, most of whom were young popular comedians. She was 22 years old. At the time of
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The link to the article is right here. It’s entirely in Japanese, but there are some graphs you may be able to understand with a little Japanese ability. To put it straight, the article is not a very good piece of scholarship, the first graph the article provides (on the first page of the link
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I am surprised that this case is not getting a lot more airtime than it has otherwise, but if you really think about it, Hawaii is a big travel destination for people in Japan. Now is the time most people are shopping for tickets for package tours to Hawaii and other such destinations because the
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The end result was 70% for handsome but poor, with only 30% choosing ugly and rich. Here’s a link to the article in japanese, but it has some pictures of the girls who were interviewed so you can see what kind of girls want the handsome but poor guys. Of course one good point also
Sexy Japanese actress Norika Fujiwara has rebuilt a school in Cambodia through her charity organization. The school is large enough for 600 students and is made of concrete. She used the proceeds from her book of essays “Norika Spirit”. Here’s a link to her official homepage: Norika Fujiwara Official Website More importantly sh’s married to
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This time they throw in the term “geisha guys” for creditability. Check the article here, entitled: Japan’s ‘geisha guys’ the latest accessory CNN could report on stories about the Prime Minister’s approval rating, the murder of the taxi driver by a U.S. marine, even the murder of the Filipina hostess I wrote about just today
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In an attempt to blackmail some money out of a random guy on the train a student from Konan University had his girlfriend accuse the poor guy of groping her. Fumiyuki Makita, a 24 year old senior was expelled from Konan University and arrested for false accusation. (Minor sidenote: He’s a 24 year old senior.
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The story in English on Mainichi can be found here:“Exec arrested for saving naked photo of junior high school girl on his mobile phone” It says the guy met the girl online (probably on one of the cell phone dating cites) then offered her a million yen to send him a photo. He got the
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Teacher threatens to force schoolgirl to strip for using mobile phone in class Not that a high school girl would be better, but the schoolgirl mentioned in the article is a junior high school student… in Japan that means from 7th grade to 9th grade. I doubt that I’ll be able to follow up on
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A bad elementary school teacher was arrested for trying to take a photo up the skirt of a high school girl. Does this kind of thing happen in the US? If one of my friends did something like this I’d be mostly grossed out and completely finished with the friendship. Don’t make me count this!
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A very interesting case because of the TYPE of data that was being kept. Things like “Her husband is Indian, the worst.” I think this is a bad translation of “saitei” meaning that she (or he) is just the lowest. Just a big put down. Another example that was in the Japanese news was listing
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