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Daiki Nishiyama lost to Ilias Iliadis in the under 90kg final.

[YT]KumnIHh8jog[/YT] Audrey Tcheumeo from France defeated World number one Akari Ogata in the 78kg class at the Judo World Championships. Japan had a great start at the tournament but not all their judoka have managed to go on to claim a gold. Paris is the venue this year so Tcheumeo's win went down...

Kanji Ohashi, current head of the Japan Hotel Association, is asked in an interview (Japanese) to say what needs to be done to significantly raise inbound tourism. He answers by pointing out that Japan is in the Far East and "Far" is definitely how a lot of tourists see the country which can put the...

When sponsors of Sakata City's annual fireworks festival expressed some doubts about the official attendance numbers released every year by the organizers, it prompted a rethink. Last year, for instance, 410,000 people apparently went along. The organizers conceded that the numbers are no more than ...

It's actually not trivial. Shimada wasn't especially popular in the industry, mainly because he was such an arsehole to a lot of people, but he was a reliable banker. With so many long-running shows being cancelled and ratings dropping through the floor, there was a large vested interest in keeping ...

Shimada's suspicious contact was former boxing world champion Jiro Watanabe. Watanabe has had a few brushes with the law as that wiki link details. He's currently appealing a conviction for extortion.

He's gone. Official statement below. Says Shimada has been close to gangsters for years and keitai mail records have now come to light.

[floatr] http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/images/vbimghost/9794e53c184c77a7.jpg [/floatr]Shinsuke Shimada, a leading light in the entertainment world has called an urgent press conference for 10pm Japan time. He is allegedly going to be accompanied by the president of Yoshimoto Kogyo. Rumours are ...

Outside of soccer, where you are forced to play only Pommies in fear of being forcibly linked with the Sweaty Jocks, is there actually such a thing as an English sports team with any English players on it? It's complicated. In football, Britain plays as four nations - Scotland, Wales, England & Nor...

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Judit Kawaguchi linked to this on Twitter.

The Rugby World Cup kicks off next month and the teams are now announcing their squads. 15 players take the field for a rugby union team, and you are also allowed seven substitutes, which means you name 22 players for any given match. The World Cup tournament rules restrict every team to a competiti...

[YT]M_4TT4LDHYk[/YT] Yesterday saw the 17th All-Japan Goldfish Scooping Championship held in Yamatokoriyama in Nara. As you can see from the video above, there are strict rules governing the competition: scooping up the walls is forbidden, there are limits on the positions you can take around the ta...

Yesterday was Blood Donation Day in Japan. "Dracula the Musical" lent its support to the drive in Tokyo.

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I've just finished "Straight Life", the biography of Art Pepper. I didn't know much about the jazz legend so was suitably blind sided to read page after page of drugs, sex, violence, and crime. Pepper was an addict for virtually all his adult life, first with alcohol and then with heroin, and spent ...

Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:Why does this sort of thing make me yearn for the days when you could get one of those pens where it wiped away the woman's clothes when you turned it upside-down? I'm getting old(er)...

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unfoundabul in the app store... how am i supposed to spell that ? Just checked the site and it seems Apple banned it from the store after two months. The makers weren't too happy about that. Eventually, they came up with an Android version this year which you can find here . The reviews aren't grea...

http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/images/vbimghost/9794e4fba9f5f632.gif The future of Shimbun Akahata , the daily newspaper of the Japanese Communist Party, is in the balance, says the Asahi (Japanese) . Losses at the publication may be running over 2 billion yen annually which is a disaster for t...

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This slideshow uses photos from the book highlighted in the original post. As the next video shows, there's an app for them:

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The psychological exertions of the pilot for Tohoku University's entry to a recent Birdman Rally are popular on YouTube at the moment.

[YT]-uDuReyaNZo[/YT] Twitch: Bunraky Review Wildly ambitious and visually inventive, Guy Moshe's Bunraku plays like the bastard child of Seijun Suzuki and the Wachowski Brothers with a dose of A Clockwork Orange, a dash of classic movie musical, a healthy portion of film noir ...more... Gackt is in ...

XTT1O2VtrSY Japan's netizens have just woken up to the fact that the Tourism Agency used Arashi in their recent promotional videos. Régis Arnaud, the Tokyo correspondent for Figaro, wrote a Tokyo Eye column for Newsweek Japan criticizing the decision to use the boy band. Arnaud has attacked the Tou...

[floatl] http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/images/vbimghost/9794e4ddd468892c.jpg [/floatl]Yachiyo City in Chiba has a multicultural centre where foreign residents can go to consult on problems they might have with life in Japan. It's open from 9:00am to 5:00pm everyday except Mondays and is staffed...

http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/images/vbimghost/9794e4d3e19e6a99.jpg Daily Mail: Student obsessed with Korean culture has tongue surgically lengthened on NHS to help her speak the language Student Rhiannon Brooksbank-Jones dreams of living and working in South Korea once she finishes university...

I just think she's guilty of tunnel vision. Her constituency is Japanese wives. She'd probably be happy to advise foreign wives having problems with Japanese husbands in Japan and I'm sure she would acknowledge domestic violence in such relationships. I just don't see many foreign wives looking to u...

Judging by what I have seen in Matsuyama (walking my dog around Dogo Onsen), I think that tourists are almost back up to the 2010 levels, after a being way down during the spring and early summer. I suspect the same thing is true all over western Japan. Nationwide, July tourist numbers were down 36...

She's been identified as Ayano Tokumasu. Canadian media has a photo from her Facebook page.