Dead Gaijins

[Wage Slave]

RIP Dolores O'Riordan singer for The Cranberries. This performance will live forever:

[wagyl]

By now you all know how much I hate to be the pedant, but I feel that I must point out that Zombie will not live forever. It shall be undead forever.

[Takechanpoo]

how the fuck on earth is that english biach related to japan? huh?

[wagyl]

how the fuck on earth is that english biach related to japan? huh?

I suppose the Irish are the Zainichi of Britain, so there is a link for you.

[Taro Toporific]

Important reminder that while being dead, Ninja Newman approves the graphic design choices for his salad dressing bottles.

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[matsuki]

LOL, but to be fair...the fucked stereotypes are across the board:

[Taro Toporific]

He made the Tokyo Weakender what it was...

Bill Hersey, Longtime Society Columnist for Tokyo Weekender, Dies at 87
tokyoweekender.com | 3018/March/14
...The many different circles that Bill traveled in all featured in the society column that he started writing for Weekender more than 40 years ago, in which he would entertain readers with anecdotes drawn from life among Tokyo’s diplomats, business leaders, and celebrities. For many long time readers of the magazine, Bill’s column was one of the first places they would turn to when they picked up a new issue...more...

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[mr. sparkle]

I just found out...Rob Pongi is still alive!!!!!!!

My friends and I on the west coast thought he had fallen down a hole as we had not heard from him in ages.
But he's A-OK.

What a relief. I was worried. I'll check in with him shortly and tell all the "friendlies" that you say hello.

Hope you are all well.

[Taro Toporific]

I just found out...Rob Pongi is still alive!!!!!!!
My friends and I on the west coast thought he had fallen down a hole as we had not heard from him in ages.

Damn, we have not heard from you in ages too.

His Wackitude Eminence, The Pongi, and I have been in touch and he's still crazy after all these years. Sadly, Pongi has fallen down a creative "hole" and has not made anything new for years (10?), meh.
On the other hand, there's been a huge backlash against Get-Wacky-in-Japan Videos, which was Pongi's schtick (so he dodged the bullet on that one).

Pongi quoteth:
"Now all my worries are gone. All my worries are gone at last. Now all my worries are gone, at last. Thank you."

[Mike Oxlong]

https://twitter.com/Mulboyne/status/1005055777118158849

[FG Lurker]

:cry2:
https://twitter.com/Mulboyne/status/1005055777118158849

Indeed.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3ahyiv

[American Oyaji]

I just found out...Rob Pongi is still alive!!!!!!!
My friends and I on the west coast thought he had fallen down a hole as we had not heard from him in ages.

Damn, we have not heard from you in ages too.

His Wackitude Eminence, The Pongi, and I have been in touch and he's still crazy after all these years. Sadly, Pongi has fallen down a creative "hole" and has not made anything new for years (10?), meh.
On the other hand, there's been a huge backlash against Get-Wacky-in-Japan Videos, which was Pongi's schtick (so he dodged the bullet on that one).

Pongi quoteth:
"Now all my worries are gone. All my worries are gone at last. Now all my worries are gone, at last. Thank you."

As wacky as Rob's videos were, they were silly and a bit shallow at times, but never crossed into obnoxious territory or boorish foreign antics.
Also, he did his at night mostly, if I recall correctly and the denizens of Japan's nighttime streets are a lot more easygoing.

[Taro Toporific]

Another one bites the dust.

Hugh Cortazzi, ex-envoy and JT columnist, dies
The Japan Times | Aug. 17, 2018
Japan on Tuesday lost a dedicated friend with the passing of former British Ambassador to Japan and longtime Japan Times opinion columnist Sir Hugh Cortazzi, 94...more...

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[Taro Toporific]

Double Dead Gaijin...

British chef, 30, is killed after being hit by two separate cars in a double hit-and-run accident while crossing a road in Japan
• Grant Andrew McEwan, 30, killed in hit-and-run car accident in Ina, Japan
• He was reportedly hit by two cars, both of which sped off from the scene
• Woman, 25 and a man, 54, arrested for 'causing death by negligent driving'
dailymail.co.uk | 3 October 2018
A 30-year-old British man has been killed in Japan, after he was hit by two separate cars in a double hit-and-run accident near Tokyo.
Grant Andrew McEwan was hit by a car crossing a road in Ina, Saitama Prefecture, after which a second car going in the opposite direction ran over him. Neither vehicle stopped.
Mr McEwan, reportedly a pastry chef living in Saitama City, was rushed to a nearby hospital, but was declared dead on arrival ...more...

[wagyl]

Might be triple dead. He was in Ina, after all.

I hope he never knew what hit him.

[matsuki]

https://news.nifty.com/article/domestic ... 36-098963/

Was during the typhoon...not hard to imagine why the drivers might not have seen him. Why they didn't stop, however, is another story. At least princess reported the possible abandoning of a body via collision.

[wangta]

And tho I don't like the trend away from gaijin dead in Japan to write about those not gaijin but from our countries dead, I have to mention RIP to John Singleton, black American movie director. I'm a fan of some of his movies like Boys in the Hood tho Higher Learning is politically correct dross well ahead of its time.

He died of a stroke, only 51. Fuck. He's gone while cunts live on. Oh and Freddie Mercury's dead - my students and other Japanese adults told me so. Interesting how they suddenly know Queen and its music and apparently now are all experts on 'gay'. Yet fail to recognise said gays in every walk of life in Japanese society including those little dickheads in boy bands. Trend chasing is fucking boring when you have to listen to it all the time from Japanese people.

Interesting how they know so much about 'diversity' too - I spose watching Naomi Osaka on tv qualifies them to be experts on that too.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Eric Talmadge, a longtime Tokyo resident and AP reporter, has died of a heart attack aged only 57.
https://japantoday.com/category/national/eric-talmadge-ap%27s-north-korea-bureau-chief-dead-at-57

[Taro Toporific]

Eric Talmadge, a longtime Tokyo resident and AP reporter, has died of a heart attack aged only 57.
japantoday.com ... 2109 May 18
...Talmadge died this week in Japan after suffering a heart attack while running.

A Best Korea reporter known for his physical fitness dies of a heart attack while out running.

Did Eric a pass two pretty asian ladies who offered to put scented lotion on his face? Did he brush past a drab looking asian guy carrying a Carmencita Pink flower umbrella?

Well-planned conspiracy?

[SovietSupreme]

Eric Talmadge, a longtime Tokyo resident and AP reporter, has died of a heart attack aged only 57.
japantoday.com ... 2109 May 18
...Talmadge died this week in Japan after suffering a heart attack while running.

Well-planned conspiracy?

ワイワイ/Why why?
Put a real peoples's journalist like Benjamin Fulford on the case.

[jingai]

I haven't heard the name Fulford in years : ) Thanks for the laugh.

Rest in peace Mr. Talmadge

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Cloudy B Bongwater died earlier this month.

I will miss him

[Scipio]

Screwed Down Hairdo,

Are you really sure that he's dead and not just another one of his pranks?

I knew Mel since 1994, when gaijin were a rarity and we all used to hang out at this ex-pat bar in East Tokyo, ran by a plastic cockney called Steve Hanson, who was really Danish.

Still think this is one of his pranks.

[Taro Toporific]

Cloudy B Bongwater died earlier this month.

WAT?!

Dang.

I only got to meet him once on the train holding court from his legendary train hammock with his pet vacuum cleaner.

Obit at: http://springdaycomedy.com/blog/2020/4/ ... -bongwater

https://metropolisjapan.com/cloudy-bongwater/

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[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Screwed Down Hairdo,

Are you really sure that he's dead and not just another one of his pranks?

No, I'm not sure and I suspected this could be one of his pranks, too. Wouldn't surprise me, and I hope it is.

[matsuki]

Loved his train hammock

I hope it is.

April 1st....I mean, stranger things have happened.

[Scipio]

Word up, Mal, aka Cloudy, is really dead. I got it from a good friend of his that he died in his sleep at his home in Ibaraki, near the sea where he could surf. He got married about a year ago and had really got into Christianity. He used to hang out in Roppongi with a bible. Because he died during this Covaid crises, he had a funeral but nobody could attend.

[matsuki]

He got married about a year ago and had really got into Christianity. He used to hang out in Roppongi with a bible.

Pussy is a hellavudrug!

[MoneyveoRNB]

I saw the pic of him when he was supposedly shot in the head this was in the morning when there wasnt a full confirmation whether Gaddaffi was dead or not

Well, here comes a new martyr,

[Taro Toporific]

Before the FG Forum, many of the our membership were part of the Dead Fukuzawa Society. On academic forums like the DFS and NBR (japanforum.nbr.org/), Vogel was a real bigwig blowhard. He'll be missed.

Fairbank Center
@FairbankCenter
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our former director Ezra F. Vogel (1930-2020).
Professor Vogel served as director from 1973-75 and from 1995-99. He was a true champion of our center, an erudite scholar, and a wonderful friend. He will be truly missed.

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Further details:

Full obit at The Japan Times: japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/12/21/national/ezra-vogel-obituary

Steven Vogel
@StevenKVogel
My father passed today, from complications after surgery. He was completely healthy a week ago. He thoroughly enjoyed life, especially in his later years.

Ezra Vogel, top American scholar on Asia, dies at 90
Harvard professor authored 'Japan as Number One' and 'Deng Xiaoping'
Nikkei Asia | December 21, 2020 13:06 JST
... his bestseller "Japan as Number One: Lessons for America" in 1979 established his name as a prominent Japanologist
...Vogel was born in the Midwestern state of Ohio in 1930. After receiving his doctoral degree in sociology from Harvard in 1958, he went to Japan for two years to study the country's language and society. His deep understanding of the country and its people led to his later works.
His relationship with a wide range of friends in Japan brought him to the country virtually every year, though not in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic...more..