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Tokyo Escorts: The rootless woodblock prints of Kuniyoshi

client-9 — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:36:36 +0000

The problem with this, however, is that it is ultimately an unsatisfying narrative as it merely places the artist behind a curtain of blind adoration that ignores his failings as an artist — some of his pictures are hopelessly cluttered and compositionally weak — as well as the elements that tie him to his era.
Last year’s exhibition at the Fuchu Art Museum connected Kuniyoshi’s inventiveness to censorship laws that were established as part of the Tenpo Reforms of 1842. The implication was that, unable to depict courtesan lovelies and kabuki worthies, he was forced to diversify his output into new genres, and being mercurially talented, he could do this without missing a beat. However, this sounds rather too mechanical, failing to account for Kuniyoshi’s artistic personality and the complex way it interacted with the spirit of the times.

See the full article from “The Japan Times”

Tokyo Escorts: Houston Chronicle Ken Hoffman column

client-9 — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:12:40 +0000

Jan 12, 2012 (Houston Chronicle – McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) –
Hiroma, my translator and tour guide in Tokyo, asked, “Is there anything special you’d like to see or do?”
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The Dome is where the Tokyo Giants baseball team plays. Baseball season is over in Japan but the gift shop was open. Some things are the same everywhere. I bought a Hiroshima Carp jersey, only because Carp is funnier than Giants.
I went to the Tokyo Auto Show, where they had prototypes of tiny nonpolluting autos than make the Smart Car look like a Hummer.
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My favorite place in Tokyo was the intersection at Hachiko Square. It’s the busiest pedestrian street crossing in the world. They call it “the Scramble.” More than 2.5 million people cross the street outside the train station at Hachiko Square each day. During one red light, there can be 10,000 people scrambling across the street. The first Starbucks in Japan is on the northwest corner.

See the full article from “Middle East North Africa Financial Network”

Tokyo Escorts: LISTENING POST: LIVE The "G" is silent, but the night won’t be

client-9 — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:01:10 +0000

Let’s get one thing out of the way: The first “G” in Gbenga Adelekan’s name is silent. Great. The Nigerian-born musician is getting ready to show Japanese fans two sides of his musical persona when he storms Tokyo next week.
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Proving himself seems a genuine quest. He’s proud to be a part of Metronomy, but thinks his own musical ventures “should stand on their own.” He finds DJing to be very personal, and if Tokyo’s crowds are able to find their own space in the music, he’ll have succeeded. (Matthew Holmes)
Metronomy play Daikanyama Unit in Tokyo on Jan. 16 (¥5,500) and Olugbenga headlines the Tokyo Indie event on Jan. 20 at Trump Room in Shibuya, Tokyo (¥3,000). Japanese site Block.fm hosts an exclusive Olugbenga DJ set on Jan 14 between 11 p.m. and midnight. For details, visit www.creativeman.co.jp, www.tokyoindie.com, block.fm or www.thegissilent.wordpress.com.

See the full article from “The Japan Times”

Tokyo Escorts: Tokyo pimp busted for running home hooking service

client-9 — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:12:27 +0000

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Tokyo pimp busted for running home hooking service
TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police arrested a 35-year-old man for dispatching women from two apartments to supply sexual services to men, reports the Sankei Shimbun (Nov. 21).
Hiromasa Shishijima, residing in Fuchu City, was taken into custody for violating the Anti-Prostitution Law. “I started doing it to earn money,” the suspect is quoted by police.
According to investigators, Shishijima, who is employed independently in interior design, began his side business in December, 2009 from an apartment in Tachikawa. Utilizing mobile phone encounter sites, the suspect dispatched women from a standby pool of up to six to male customers introduced through mobile phone encounter sites.
Including a similar operation Shishijima operated from an apartment in Machida, the suspect collected 50 million yen in revenue, police said.

See the full article from “The Tokyo Reporter”

Tokyo Escorts: Tokyo day by day: a photo journal

client-9 — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:36:29 +0000

The first is Paul Church, who documents his daily life in his adopted home city of Tokyo. The 32-year-old moved to Japan eight years ago to join a Senshusei course, the notoriously tough 11-month aikido martial arts programme, originally created to train Tokyo riot police. Church is clearly a man who throws himself into things with admirable dedication; when he graduated from the aikido course he received an award for never missing a day through sickness or injury – participants train almost every day for eight hours, and many drop out after only a few days. He still lives in Tokyo, working as a scientific copy editor and transcriber by day, but in his spare time he channels his energies into his photo journal.
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Most of his images are black and white, an interesting choice in a city that is usually portrayed lit up in vibrant, multicoloured neon. He cites various famous photographers as inspiration, from the street photography of Bruce Gilden, known for his work in …

See the full article from “The Guardian”

Tokyo Escorts: Murder scene DNA not from Nepalese man

client-9 — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:00:32 +0000

Fresh DNA tests conducted in connection with the 1997 slaying of a 39-year-old Tokyo Electric Power Co. employee offer further evidence exonerating the Nepalese man serving life in prison for her death, his counsel said.
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The new tests, conducted by the Tokyo High Public Prosecutor’s Office, offer further evidence that the victim had been in contact with another man at the time of the crime, they said.
Similar evidence was presented at Mainali’s original trial, but the possibility the victim could have been with another man at the time of her slaying was rejected, even though she was allegedly moonlighting as a prostitute.
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The Tokyo District Court acquitted Mainali of robbery-murder charges in April 2004, citing a lack of evidence and the possibility that a third party could have been at the murder site. It also reportedly ruled that the sperm found in the condom was too old to have been left on the day of the slaying.

See the full article from “The Japan Times”

Tokyo Escorts: Hostess life: "What I learned by being a migrant sex worker in Japan"

client-9 — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:48:28 +0000

Bloomberg News has published a two-part, first-person investigative piece by Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, a professor of sociology at the University of Southern California, on the lives of Filipina sex workers in Tokyo, Japan. To study the living and working conditions of these “hostess bar” migrant laborers, Parrenas became one.
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I spent nine months in Tokyo working as a hostess in a working-class club in one of the city’s many red-light districts, frequented by members of the yakuza, the Japanese crime syndicates. This type of place, in a seedy location, owned by a proprietor with a questionable background, was often assumed to be a site of forced prostitution.
In 2005 and 2006, I resorted to this work as a way of gaining access to the world of Filipina hostesses in Japan. During my first three months in Tokyo, I had struggled to meet hostesses willing to participate in my study of their conditions. My visits to clubs as a customer had not provided any solid leads.
Attending ch …

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Tokyo Escorts: Evidence concealed for 14 yrs could help Mainali

client-9 — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 23:36:27 +0000

Blood group of saliva traces found on the breast of a Japanese woman murdered on March 8, 1997, in Tokyo does not match that of Govinda Prasad Mainali, 44, from Ilam district, who is serving life sentence for the murder, Japanese media reported Monday.
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Mainali left for Japan in 1994 to see the world. He worked as a waiter in Tokyo until Tokyo police arrested him in March 1997, first on the charge of overstaying his visa and then on the charge of murdering 39-year-old Yasuko Watanabe, who worked at Tokyo Electric Power Co and also moonlighted as a prostitute.
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In fact, the semen sample matched a body hair sample found in the room where the woman´s body was found, suggesting the presence of another man in the room in Tokyo´s Shibuya Ward at the time of the murder.

See the full article from “Republica”

Tokyo Escorts: Vietnamese-Australian’s mission is to give street kids a much needed taste of …

client-9 — Sat, 07 May 2011 01:00:41 +0000

The restaurant, located opposite Hanoi’s Temple of Literature, is the brainchild of Jimmy Pham, a Vietnamese-Australian who founded KOTO – a grassroots not-for-profit charity – a decade ago as a response to the plight of the estimated 20,000 street kids who eke out an existence on Hanoi’s pavements.
Some of these children have been abandoned, others come from poor rural areas and are trying to earn or beg money to send back to their families.
Pham’s mission is emblazoned on the restaurant’s lime-coloured walls. “I knew the youths needed skills and jobs to earn a living to have a better life, and from this KOTO was born,” he says.
Here, disadvantaged youths are not only trained to be chefs, waiters and bar staff but offered a culture of family where they can feel loved and protected – something absent from their lives on the streets, where drugs, crime and prostitution pose a daily hazard.

See the full article from “The Australian”

Tokyo Escorts: Japan toughens up on yakuza gangsters

client-9 — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:36:44 +0000

TOKYO (AFP) ― Call it a sign of the times for Japan’s yakuza crime syndicates ― placards on the fence around one of Tokyo’s most high-profile building sites warn: “Gangsters not welcome.”
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At the Tokyo Sky Tree, set to soar 634 meters by 2012 to become the world’s tallest communications tower, a warning sign shows a manga character with raised fists, announcing that the yakuza are banned from the project.
“I think times have changed. It’s time to say ‘no’ firmly,” said Hirokazu Sato, a senior official with the Kabuki-za theatre development project team in Tokyo’s upmarket Ginza district, which has also taken a no-yakuza stance.
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In many ways, the yakuza ― who had their heyday in the ‘bubble era’ of the 1980s ― are suffering from the same problems as the rest of the country, said Minoru Yokoyama, law professor at Tokyo’s Kokugakuin University.

See the full article from “The Korea Herald”