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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 …

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It’s all about location, location, location, as they say in real estate. Protests, too. There were more obvious places for Tokyo’s Occupy Wall Street protest to converge last Saturday than the nightlife district of Roppongi. It could have begun in Nihonbashi, home to the Tokyo Stock Exchange; Nagatacho, Japan’s Capitol Hill; or Ueno, where droves of Tokyo’s homeless congregate.
Instead, activists chose the city’s hedonistic melting pot of hipsters, strippers, gangsters, expatriates and bankers. Not just any bankers – Goldman Sachs ones who work in the swanky Roppongi Hills complex. Amid the hundreds of activists, I saw signs saying ”No Greed”, ”Taxiderm the Rich” and my favourite, held by a 20-something woman: ”Stop Vampire Squids”.
It was a reference to Goldman Sachs, which was labelled a ”great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity” in a 2009 article in Rolling Stone magazine. For better or worse, Asians see Goldman Sachs both as the gold standard of investment banks and a byword for how incestuous ties between banks and government concentrate wealth in the hands of a few.

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Tokyo hostess club busted for employing high school girls
TOKYO (TR) – The manager and another employee at a Tokyo hostess club were among those arrested for employing minors, reports the Sankei Shimbun (Oct. 25).
Officers from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police took manager Koji Nakakarumai, 31, staff member Ichiro Goto, 28, and two others into custody for employing high school girls at hostess club Apricot in Sumida Ward in violation of the adult-entertainment law.
Nakakarumai and Goto have denied the allegations, while the two others have admitted involvement.
According to officers familiar with the investigation, the club employed 11 girls aged 16 or 17 with three on the premises at any given time during operating hours. The club typically handled between 30 and 50 customers and since April of this year had collected 50 million yen in revenue.

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It’s all about location, location, location, as they say in real estate. Protests, too. There were more obvious places for Tokyo’s Occupy Wall Street protest to converge last Saturday than the nightlife district of Roppongi. It could have begun in Nihonbashi, home to the Tokyo Stock Exchange; Nagatacho, Japan’s Capitol Hill; or Ueno, where droves of Tokyo’s homeless congregate.
Instead, activists chose the city’s hedonistic melting pot of hipsters, strippers, gangsters, expatriates and bankers. Not just any bankers – Goldman Sachs ones who work in the swanky Roppongi Hills complex. Amid the hundreds of activists, I saw signs saying ”No Greed”, ”Taxiderm the Rich” and my favourite, held by a 20-something woman: ”Stop Vampire Squids”.
It was a reference to Goldman Sachs, which was labelled a ”great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity” in a 2009 article in Rolling Stone magazine. For better or worse, Asians see Goldman Sachs both as the gold standard of investment banks and a byword for how incestuous ties between banks and government concentrate wealth in the hands of a few.

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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.

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It’s all about location, location, location, as they say in real estate. Protests, too. There were more obvious places for Tokyo’s Occupy Wall Street protest to converge last Saturday than the nightlife district of Roppongi. It could have begun in Nihonbashi, home to the Tokyo Stock Exchange; Nagatacho, Japan’s Capitol Hill; or Ueno, where droves of Tokyo’s homeless congregate.
Instead, activists chose the city’s hedonistic melting pot of hipsters, strippers, gangsters, expatriates and bankers. Not just any bankers – Goldman Sachs ones who work in the swanky Roppongi Hills complex. Amid the hundreds of activists, I saw signs saying ”No Greed”, ”Taxiderm the Rich” and my favourite, held by a 20-something woman: ”Stop Vampire Squids”.
It was a reference to Goldman Sachs, which was labelled a ”great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity” in a 2009 article in Rolling Stone magazine. For better or worse, Asians see Goldman Sachs both as the gold standard of investment banks and a byword for how incestuous ties between banks and government concentrate wealth in the hands of a few.

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Oct. 19 (Bloomberg) — It’s all about location, location, location, as they say in real estate. Protests, too.
There were more obvious places for Tokyo’s Occupy Wall Street protest to converge on Saturday than the nightlife district of Roppongi. It could have begun in Nihonbashi, home to the Tokyo Stock Exchange; Nagatacho, Japan’s Capitol Hill; or Ueno, where droves of Tokyo’s homeless congregate.
Instead, activists chose the city’s hedonistic melting pot of hipsters, strippers, gangsters, expatriates and bankers. Not just any bankers — Goldman Sachs ones who work in the swanky Roppongi Hills complex. Amid the hundreds of activists, I saw signs saying “No Greed,” “Taxiderm the Rich” and my favorite, held by a 20-something woman: “Stop Vampire Squids.”
It was a reference to Goldman Sachs Group Inc., which was labeled a “great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity” in a 2009 article in Rolling Stone magazine. For better or worse, Asians see Goldman Sachs both as the gold standard of investment banks and a byword for how incestuous ties between banks and government concentrate wealth in the hands of a few.

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There were more obvious places for Tokyo’s Occupy Wall Street protest to converge on Saturday than the nightlife district of Roppongi. It could have begun in Nihonbashi, home to the Tokyo Stock Exchange; Nagatacho, Japan’s Capitol Hill; or Ueno, where droves of Tokyo’s homeless congregate.
Instead, activists chose the city’s hedonistic melting pot of hipsters, strippers, gangsters, expatriates and bankers. Not just any bankers — Goldman Sachs ones who work in the swanky Roppongi Hills complex. Amid the hundreds of activists, I saw signs saying “No Greed,” “Taxiderm the Rich” and my favorite, held by a 20-something woman: “Stop Vampire Squids.”
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In Japan, the media portrayed Saturday’s demonstrations as anti-nuclear in nature. With the Fukushima plant still leaking radiation and Tokyo Electric Power Co. as incompetent as ever, anti-nuke protesters were in the mix. Yet the real story was the so-called 99 percent calling for more equality.
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To contact the writer of this article: William Pesek in Tokyo at wpesek@bloomberg.net

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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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… The market may be starving for fresh companies with good prospects,” Kambe, 48, said in an interview in Tokyo. “The earthquake caused a sense of stagnation, though the scale was much smaller than the financial crisis in 2008. Businesses are making progress on rebuilding and earnings are recovering.”
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Tokyo Stock Exchange, operator of Japan’s largest equity market, is pressing ahead with preparations for an initial offering even after profit tumbled following the quake, Chief Executive Officer Atsushi Saito said in July.
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“There’s more to come,” said Nomura’s Kambe, who is in charge of 90 employees in Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka. “I feel a breeze blowing of companies that have new services and technologies. Japanese companies can’t be underestimated.”
–With assistance from Satomi Akimoto in Tokyo. Editors: Russell Ward, Chitra Somayaji
To contact the reporter on this story: Takahiko Hyuga in Tokyo at thyuga@bloomberg.net

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