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The results of the investigation come as Japan is working to end ” the 24-year moratorium on commercial whaling,” according to the Times. The story said the fate of thousands of whales, including endangered species, will be decided later this month at an International Whaling Commission in Morocco. Japan denies buying the votes of IWC members. However, accordin gto the story, The Sunday Times filmed officials from pro-whaling governments admitting: – They voted with the whalers because of the large amounts of aid from Japan; They receive cash payments in envelopes at IWC meetings from Japanese officials who also pay their travel and hotel bills; amd call girls were offered when fisheries ministers and civil servants visited Japan for me …

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Minako, Yoshiwara’s last geisha, is pictured in Tokyo’s Taito Ward in this May 27, 2009, file photo. (Mainichi)
Minako, renowned as the last geisha of the Yoshiwara district of Tokyo, died Monday of cancer. She was 90 years old.
A Hokkaido native whose real name was Mitsu Nagao, Minako started to work as an apprentice at a geisha dwelling in Yoshiwara at the age of 11. After Yoshiwara went defunct as a red-light district following the enforcement of the Anti-Prostitution Act in 1958, Minako continued to entertain customers mainly at teahouses in Asakusa as the last Yoshiwara geisha, playing traditional games with them, playing the samisen instrument, and dancing and singing.
Minako also lived a life dedicated to handing down the traditional Yoshiwara art of entertainment, focusing on teaching younger geishas and filming performances in her later years. Last year she published her autobiography “Hana yori Hana.”
Minako’s funeral will be held at 10 a.m. on Friday at Chokoku-ji Temple in Tokyo’s Taito Ward.

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TOKYO (Kyodo) — Misako Takashima, a Japanese graphic novel creator based in New York, worries that many American teenagers she has met during academic art events rely too heavily on the Internet and are reluctant to try anything in the real world.
“I met many children who easily believe that the knowledge they get via the Internet is everything,” Takashima told an interview, while working on a new book due out next year describing her own life, including the tumultuous 11 years since she first came to the United States.
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The 33-year-old native of the city of Kazo, Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, is a self-taught manga artist and had no professional career in Japan.
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Takashima first came to the United States in August 1999 and spent nearly a year as an exchange student in Kirksville, Missouri. After graduating from her university in Tokyo, she went to New York as an aspiring puppeteer.

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Nine people have been arrested for allegedly conducting street solicitation for an adult entertainment business in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, the Metropolitan Police Department said Monday.
Yukio Yokozawa, 56, of Katsushika Ward, and eight others were arrested based on images from 10 surveillance cameras installed in the Dogenzaka district, the police said.
They are the first arrests based on images from the surveillance cameras.
According to the police, Yokozawa tried on the evening of April 6 to lure a 36-year-old male passerby to an adult entertainment shop, saying the shop provides “real Korean services” for customers.
The nine were arrested for alleged violation of the law banning prostitution.
The police installed the cameras in the area at the end of March.

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Bon jour…and is all I know in French. Hoping as many of you as possible are heading up north for UFC 113 this Saturday in Montreal. It’s a fantastic city with great people, a laid-back culture, and phenomenal strip clubs (Go to “Super Sex.” Just go there.
Right now. If you are in Montreal and reading this, stop, get some cash and go immediately). I wish I could be sitting anywhere near the cage at the Bell Centre, but my mom’s Italian and would guilt me to death for missing Mother’s Day just so I could watch two half-naked Brazilian men beat the crap out of one another. Now that I’ve admitted my noble but semi-pathetic excuse for not going, let’s chat about the Main Card, eh?
Patrick Cote vs. Alan Belcher As is customary for non-U.S. cards, the UFC have loaded up on Maple Leaf fighters, and the first fight on the main card is no exception with Anderson Silva-victim & …

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Feldman was in his element Thursday at a sports bar sandwiched between Pat’s King of Steaks and Geno’s Steaks (it’s amazing he didn’t try and sign Pat vs. Geno for his next card). He played ringmaster to an oddball collection of pro wrestlers, muscle-head trainers, porn stars and tattoo artists.
Lynn arrived first wearing a tight “Team Sandra” T-shirt, referring to actress Sandra Bullock, who has filed for divorce from James. McGee was swarmed by photographers who wanted their shot at the accused mistress.
“I have more ‘Team Bombshell’ people on my side,” McGee said. “As long as she’s not ‘Team Jesse.”’
Feldman, a former amateur boxer, promised “100 percent excitement” between the porn star and the stripper. He’s hasn’t decided what style of match they’ll fight when it airs live on www.gofightlive.tv.

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The United States is on the verge of permanently damaging its alliance with Japan in a dispute over a military base in Okinawa. This island prefecture hosts three-quarters of all U.S. military facilities in Japan. Washington wants to build one more base there, in an ecologically sensitive area. The Okinawans vehemently oppose it, and tens of thousands gathered last month to protest the base. Tokyo is caught in the middle, and it looks as if Japan’s prime minister has just caved in to the U.S. demands.
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From 1950 to 1953, the American bases in Okinawa were used to fight the Korean War, and from the 1960s until 1973, they were used during the Vietnam War. Not only did they serve as supply depots and airfields, but the bases were where soldiers went for rest and recreation, creating a subculture of bars, prostitutes and racism. Around several bases fights between black and white American soldiers were so frequent and deadly that separate areas were developed to cater to the two groups.

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A Noh mask from the 1700s. William T. Vollmann explores the Japanese performance tradition in his new book.

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How does a Jewish kid from Columbia, Mo., wind up as one of the West’s leading experts on Japanese crime syndicates and author of the memoir “Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan”?
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Perhaps Adelstein’s status as a gaijin, or outsider, gave him the courage to pursue first his reporting and later his book in the face of both serious threats and bribery attempts from the subjects of his reportage. He noted that even though he’s been interviewed on “60 Minutes” and elsewhere since the book’s publication in November, “Tokyo Vice” has neither been published in Japan nor given any exposure on Japanese TV.
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In 2005, Adelstein was named chief investigator for a U.S. State Department-sponsored study of human trafficking (i.e., forced prostitution) in Japan. Now, he said, he’s working on another book, “The Last Yakuza,” a biography of a kingpin that “will tell the last 30 years of Yakuza history.”

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In the age of Twitter and 24-frame-per-second attention spans, such almost demented obsessiveness is itself an exhilaration. My problem has been that paragraphs that seem to last as long as other writers’ chapters can suggest a kind of deafness and self-enclosure, or suit­cases into which you push every scrap you’ve ever collected, underwear and index cards spilling out the sides. These go a little oddly with a 24-page chapter (as in “Kissing the Mask”) on “What Is Grace?” Whenever I read about another of Vollmann’s earnest attempts to rescue a prostitute from the life she’s possibly chosen, I applaud his romantic hopefulness as much as I worry about his Quiet Americanism. And if any place would seem profoundly ill-suited to his hyper-wordy, over-the-top, madly indulgent approach — his love of gaucherie, uninflectedness and analytical filler — you’d think it would be the land of haiku and Noh plays. As they say around Kyoto, there’s a reason humans were given two ears and only one mouth.

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