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Join Date: Nov 2006
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I started watching the ESPN documentary on Koshien that I had recorded a few weeks back. Early on they show a kid shaving his head before going off to his first year in high school where he planned to play baseball. The documentary suggested that head-shaving was a standard practice among high-school baseball players. I found this surprising since it never came up in any baseball anime I've watched. You'd think if it was that common Adachi Mitsuru would have included it in one of his baseball stories.
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2020-07-14, 17:08
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: UK
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Probably wouldn't have been a good idea for Adachi to be giving his characters buzz cuts, when all his characters are barely distinguishable from each other as is.
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2020-07-14, 18:39
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AS Oji-kun
Join Date: Nov 2006
Age: 74
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I couldn't get into Battery, but it's good to know that buzzcuts come up in other baseball stories. I think I could still tell the difference between Kou and Azuma in Cross Game had they both had such haircuts, but maybe not between Kou and Aoba
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2020-08-09, 07:36
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Age: 74
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How Nestle Got Japan "Hooked" on Nescafe
They used another of their products, KitKat candy bars, to instill a taste for coffee among youngsters. Decades later it is paying off. https://thetakeout.com/how-nestle-br...an-1844605973/ As someone who grinds his own beans every morning, I find instant coffees like Nescafe pretty disgusting.
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2020-08-14, 09:47
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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https://www.timeout.com/tokyo/news/j...-museum-081420
"The Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum celebrates the history of the humble noodle from its beginnings in the Chinatowns of Nagasaki and Yokohama in the 19th century to the worldwide popularity of ramen today. Now, the museum is bringing back Japan’s first dedicated ramen restaurant, Rairaiken (pictured above), which was founded in 1910 in Tokyo’s Asakusa district. "
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2020-08-16, 14:21
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AS Oji-kun
Join Date: Nov 2006
Age: 74
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The "Giant Military Cats" twitter feed usually includes cats photoshopped with contemporary military hardware. Apparently this tradition goes back at least to the Russo-Japanese War.
https://twitter.com/giantcat9/status...511880/photo/1 I couldn't tell at first which side the cavalry was on. Turns out that contemporary print-makers depicted the soldiers on both sides similarly. https://visualizingcultures.mit.edu/...a_essay02.html
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2020-08-21, 09:50
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A hole new world: Japan city lights up sewer covers:
"The humble manhole cover might not seem like much of a blank canvas, but one Japanese city is reimagining the possibilities with illuminated versions featuring anime characters. Tokorozawa, near Tokyo, is hoping the unusual additions will attract visitors, including enthusiasts of the painted decorated manhole covers that adorn some of Japan's streets. "They're Japan's first illuminated manhole covers," city official Junichi Koike told AFP." See: https://www.france24.com/en/20200821...p-sewer-covers Last edited by AnimeFan188; 2020-08-31 at 22:28. |
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2020-08-21, 12:34
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AS Oji-kun
Join Date: Nov 2006
Age: 74
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Too bad the article doesn't show us some of the other 27.
For big images like that, AS has a custom tag [images][/images] that lets the reader choose whether to download and display the image. You wrap them around the usual [img][/img] tags that contain the URL of the image.
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2020-09-12, 18:21
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AS Oji-kun
Join Date: Nov 2006
Age: 74
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Naomi Osaka played some of the worst tennis I've seen from her while losing the first set at today's US Open Final 1-6. Then something clicked in the second set and she went to take the next two sets 6-3, 6-3. First winner since 1994 to lose the first set but win the championship match. Props to Victoria Asarenka as well, who played much better than you might expect from someone not seeded.
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2020-09-13, 09:02
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Kobe, Japan
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Interesting reaction here to Osaka's win. The right wing is absolutely savaging her over her support of BLM, which they're basically equating to a riot from a Planet of the Apes movie. The mainstream press is desperately trying not to mention it at all and she's making it as difficult as possible for them not to.
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2020-09-13, 16:27
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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Meanwhile at the Japan Times,
"Naomi Osaka’s victory in the U.S. Open was hailed Sunday by media and officials in Japan who broadly welcomed her campaigning for victims of racial injustice and against police brutality." https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/...-hailed-japan/ On the other hand, A report in Mainichi on Friday cited unnamed sources at one of her sponsors as criticizing her BLM stance. “I don’t think she needed to do that while she’s fighting her way to the top. If possible, we’d like her to attract more attention with her tennis skills,” said a source, according to the daily. With her win in New York, Osaka cannot be accused of letting her activism become a distraction and going by the comments of those in Tokyo on Sunday, the sponsor may have misjudged public sentiment. “Including myself, I think there are many people who are not interested in a topic like racism,” said office worker Masateru Tanimoto. “But (Osaka) has created an opportunity to open the topic… Although people may agree or disagree, I think it is a good thing that the issue has become a topic of discussion.” Even Fox News couldn't bring themselves to say much negative about Osaka's performance, but a few of the commentators did. https://www.foxnews.com/sports/naomi...a-2020-us-open Then there's this: https://twitter.com/HirokoTabuchi/st...41074089234432
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2020-11-16, 08:22
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Age: 74
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Well-known illustrator Thomas Romain tweeted a link to this story about why joshiryuku, or "girl power," has little to do with Western notions of feminism.
https://kokoro-jp.com/columns/1620/
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2020-12-02, 03:38
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Singapore
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A reminder that racism is deeply ingrained in the Japanese psyche, and won't go away so easily.
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2020-12-02, 10:36
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Moving in circles
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Singapore
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It's sad but, at the same time, it's worth remembering that "racism" as a concept is almost alien to an ethnically and culturally homogeneous society like Japan's. Mainland Chinese, for that matter, aren't that much better — and worse, we're talking about potential genocide in Xinjiang, and clear-cut cultural and economic assimilation in Tibet.
Different situations, but similar root causes: Like the Japanese in Japan, the mainland Chinese have virtually zero historical experience with multi-ethnic society within the geographical boundaries of the "Middle Kingdom". As far as the Japanese and Chinese are concerned, people of different races were historical enemies and invaders, in other words, people that you're not meant to trust. Actually, the interesting question to me is where the racism ends, and the xenophobia begins. In Western Europe, I suspect it's indistinguishable. Racism and xenophobia are effectively the same thing, in Britain at the very least, if nowhere else. I still recall how confused my British friends were when I explained that I identity as both Singaporean and Chinese. To them, I am either Singaporean or Chinese; I can't be both, because to the British, to be Chinese is to be someone from China. |
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