japan is fucked up!

I like the idea of carefully manicured sand piles as zen traffic safety though

gritty tokyo neighborhood not scenic nagano hamlet.

famous for...? sanya: day workers, yakuza murdering leftwing filmmakers, gentrification. former burakumin neighborhoods. yoshiwara, formerly a genteel red light district housing women sold into sexual slavery now acres of soaplands serving chinese tourists.

Quite a distinction

why is japan so fucked up good god

http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/34366/1/lifting-the-lid-on-japans-underground-chicano-culture

I read and watched this and was kid of nonplussed as the appropriation of cultures and style has been going on shibuya for awhile now

Then again I only have a visitors perspective so i'd defer o someone who lives there (Dylan???)

https://twitter.com/RudyHavenstein/status/829436261324578816

kurodasan day

you think trump is bad

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/24/shinzo-abe-wife-akie-under-pressure-ties-ultra-nationalist-school-japan

Children aged between three and five sing the national anthem every morning and memorise the 1890 imperial rescript on education (pdf), which demands loyalty to the emperor and sacrifice for one’s country. The US occupation authorities banned the rescript, believing it had fuelled pre-war militarism.

Kagoike is the Osaka branch leader of Nippon Kaigi, an ultra-conservative lobby group whose members include Shinzo Abe and more than a dozen members of his cabinet. The group wants to rebuild the military, claims that Japan “liberated” east Asia from western colonialism during the war, and that the US-authored post-war constitution has emasculated the country’s “true, original characteristics”.

this is the equivalent of little nazi kids or kkk children chanting nationalistic chants

http://saigaijyouhou.com/blog-entry-15639.html

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-education-idUSKBN13X1UV

Cultural activities at the school, where the walls are lined with images of the imperial family to which students bow throughout the day, include learning traditional Japanese musical instruments, martial arts and board games. Students also take trips to military bases.

Kagoike said he hopes other schools will adopt their curriculum so children are prepared to protect their nation against potential threats from other countries.

"If an imperialist nation is trying to harm Japan, we need to fight against it. For that, revising Article 9 of Japan's Constitution is indeed necessary and should be carried out as soon as possible," he said.

Article 9 of the U.S.-drafted constitution renounces war and, if read literally, bans the maintenance of armed forces, although Japan's military, called the Self-Defense Forces, has over 200,000 personnel and is equipped with high-tech weapons.

Revising the constitution is one of the key policy targets of Abe's Liberal Democratic Party. His government has already stretched its limits to give the military a bigger role.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/02/17/national/osaka-preschool-scrutinized-passing-slurs-koreans-chinese/#.WLJCgHeZOb8

In February last year, a parent in her 30s received a handwritten letter from the deputy principal that bluntly said, “I don’t discriminate. But in my mind, I hate Koreans and Chinese.”

The woman, who is ethnically Korean but a naturalized Japanese, pulled her child from the school several days later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJeDcrCdpJc

I tend to cringe when people say Japan is weird or fucked up but I just seen what might be the worst thing yet from the country: bottles of pretend children's urine, as if it's supposed to be sexy. But actually that's not as bad as that cannibal guy becoming a celebrity/author/porn performer.

pictures from my phone vol 2

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Solid Ikebukuro gritpix itt.

Speaking of lakes, when I think of Minowa, I remember the gorgeous maple "blooms" in the autumn.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, December 11, 2016 12:12 PM (five months ago)

huh I just booked a trip for the fall, must have been inspired by this memory provoked a few months ago.

tokyo realness. all those pictures were taken right around each other in taito ward (nihonzutsumi/senzoku/asakusa) except for the grey office tower on the west side of ryogoku and tokyo tower. most of tokyo outside of the central wards seems to look like that.

where are the vomit pics

http://i.imgur.com/OcEgSYd.jpg

i don't commute anymore so pictures of vomit have slowed down

lol

beautiful photos of the cities at night: https://www.flickr.com/photos/megane_wakui/33699769516/in/photostream/

i like these franck bohbot dusk tokyo pictures http://www.franckbohbot.com/tokyo

flying in today! gonna be in town for a month plus, staying between Tokyo and Yokohama

what are you going to do?

we have clear orangina.

http://stat.ameba.jp/user_images/20170620/10/hatimitsumama/08/f8/j/o1175078613964805503.jpg

one of the photos from my phone above of la cachette hotel wasn't an attempt to recreate a franck bohbot picture but there's one that looks just like it. it's the only love hotel between yoshiwara and asakusa. it changes colors every ten seconds. there's a "black music" bar right across from its entrance and a restaurant owned by a pro-wrestler.

i often wish other people lived in tokyo, so i could enjoy an ilx thread like the london or new york threads, where we could discuss train lines and... the toyosu move? mmmozza opening in aoyama?

TS: doutor vs Starbucks

doutour has cheese toast and tuna melts, a menu of conventional coffee, allows smoking and hanging out, and just generally seems welcoming. i would go to starbucks in other countries but not in tokyo.

All along, iirc, Japan has quietly continued to sell Zima. And now ... they've reintroduced it in the US. Japan: on the flavored malt beverage cutting edge.

Yeah. Starbucks was a bad comparison but I couldn't think of another place like Doutor

chain wise ya probably nothing competes with doutor

but chains are generally of better quality in japan than in the us (look at 7-11 in japan or lawson for example)

maybe seattle's best, coffee bean and tea leaf or peet's coffee in the us, but i'm not sure if these are national chains or just small chains

i often wish other people lived in tokyo, so i could enjoy an ilx thread like the london or new york threads, where we could discuss train lines and... the toyosu move? mmmozza opening in aoyama?

― dylannn, Tuesday, June 27, 2017 4:28 AM (five hours ago)

FAP in Shonan/Enoshima? LMK bruh

that would be cool! i'm going through some personal shit + waiting to get paid from some writing projects but probably next week, if that's cool. maybe euler is up for it? i'm going through both of your old posts to research possible topics of discussion: beer, sonic youth, rem.

phew, just got in, my first time in the summer, and oh the humidity; could I be craving a Pocari Sweat? I'm here as an academic visitor. I brought my family for the first time so we're gonna see a lot too. where do you guys live? I'm in 日吉.

@Euler
How long is your stay?

I'll def be stopping through Yokohama, will be doing some lol commuting between Shonan & Daikanyama for a bit.

@dylannn- further research prompts: east VanCity hangz, craft happushu capsule reviews, where to buy vintage le coq sportif windcheaters in ameyoko, wizard caps.

also best 小籠包 in Yokohama would be something I'd be interested in knowing. I used to know about 15 years ago but shit changes.

I'm here until the end of the month

Remember dudes, for relaxing times, make it suntory time : )

all other times strong zero 9% ume

closest station to me is minowa, a three minute or so walk away, thirty seconds to yoshiwara, ten minutes to asakusa.

i know shonan fairly well, as i lived in kanagawa when i first got here and rode my bike down to hiratsuka and enoshima quite often. i went out to kanagawa at the end of last week and went to sagami lake, which looks like the abandoned hotels/failed tourism project landscapes further west. i rode a boat shaped like a whale.

http://wrestlingclassics.com/cgi-bin/.ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=print_topic;f=9;t=021257

Rikidozan was a bully who hated any American who couldn't make him money. He was on drugs & alcohol & loved to bash Americans or anyone weaker than he. He was killed as a result of a knife wound that he received in a fight on 12-8-63 at the New Latin Quarter, a famous night stop in Tokyo. It was not a mob hit. Rikidozan had more than just mob connected, he was part of a gang & a member of the yakuza. Organized crime financed JWA in those days. On the night he was stabed he was sitting around throwing coasters at a black american band, drunkenly yelling "Neeruro go homu. Sonnabeech". Riki got up & started talking to a women in the door way to one of the restrooms. A 24 year old member of a rivial gang, Katsushi Murata, tried to squeeze by Dozan but bumped into him. Words were exchanged & Riki sent the kid flying with a right hand. Rikidozan jumped on top of him, crazed with anger & drugs, and started hitting him with blows to the face. Murata grabbed a six-inch hunting knife he had on his belt and stuck into Rikidozan's belly. The wrestler stood up in pain & Murata fled. Riki went back to his table & drinking companions & forced his way on to the stage, wair he sang "Mack the Knife". "There is a killer in the house, look at what he did to me!", he said as he opened his jacket to show a bloodly chest. He was taken to a clinic that night & to a American hospital the next morning. He had surgery, & was doing well, but against Dr.'s orders started drinking & developed peritonitis. He had a second operation & 4 hours later was dead. Doctors later claimed he died from anesthetic. Some Japanese would later claim that Dozan was killed by the American CIA.

After leaving the New Latin Club, Katsushi Murata had gone with his mob boss & 3 others to Riki Apartments to apologize and negotiate some sort of monetary settlement before turning himself into the police. Murata waited outside Rikidozan's penthouse in the parking lot, while the boss went inside. He was confronted by an angry band of gangsters loyal to Rikidozan. Murata allowed himself to be slashed in the face and chest with butcher knifes, but when his companions were attacked Murata reacted & cut a foot long gash in the abdomen of one of the attackers. Japanese prosecutors charged Murata with murder & found him guilty of manslaughter & sentenced him to prison for seven years. Murata always claimed self-defence. Later Katsushi Murata rose high in the ranks of the Sumiyoshi. By age 50 in the mid 80's, he had his own sub-gang. A great honor. Every year, on the day before the anniversary of Rikidozan's death (done not to upset the family) Murata would go to the Riki's grave in the Ikegami Honmonji Cemetery to bow and pray before the life-size bronze bust of the wrestler.

#OnThisDay in 1963: Rikidōzan dies from complications from a stab wound he suffered in a Tokyo nightclub. He was just 38. RIP [thread] pic.twitter.com/r9uBriWZTI

— Allan (@allan_cheapshot) December 15, 2017

on a night when bob sapp literally fought a grizzly bear (sneaky promotion for a boxing card) and uchimura teruyoshi brought his youthful swagger to nhk's flagship new year's eve roundup of enka, sexy zone and parodies of tv shows i've never seen, it is sad that the story of the night is an aging kansai hooligan and comedy elderstateman hamada something donning blackface.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGUtXtKALb4

浜田君焼きそばを食べろ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8RCIEK3h8I

japanese tv sux balls.