Iijima Ai Dead

[Iraira]

And I'm sure you can tell me what they are - along with the statistics and the vectors on HIV vs HEP transmission rates. Please include health care professionals. Thanks for caring.

Well it all started about 90-100 years ago when a simian retrovirus mutated enough to crossover to humans....but that's not what I was referring to. You have issues with entire groups of people, for example, Jews and now gays. Any other groups that you have a particular disdain for? Dec. 25th is a good day to spew some hatred, so please, feel free.

Now, if you are gay, then you are entitled to use the word "fag" in any manner whatsoever.

[nottu]

[Iraira]

You're very good at avoiding a defeated argument. Smear and distortion are the usual tactics.

I'll give you a few moments to back away from the eggnog and think about what you wrote.

[Mike Oxlong]

RIP Sweet Ai-chan. I'd rather have 72 porn stars in paradise anyway! Wait for me...

[kusai Jijii]

I just found it inappropriate given the context.

Yup.

[sublight]

You guys are missing the point. As we all know, AIDS is a "foreign" disease that only gaijin contract. Ne.

Although what makes her death more poignant is that Iijima was in the forefront of J-celebrities trying to turn this kind of thinking around and get people to educate themselves about the realities of HIV and AIDS.

[gomichild]

Oh dear the tale becomes more awful - they think she'd been dead for a week in her apartment and it's suspected she may have died from a drug overdose due to the drugs found in her apartment although the autopsy is not yet conclusive.

[Mulboyne]

The story is very sad. Iijima Ai featured regularly on TV at a time when I was watching the box a lot and she always struck me as more interesting than the run-of-the-mill types usually on the screens.

[Mulboyne]

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Here's a clip of Iijima Ai telling a story of how a Taiwanese fortune teller told her she was going to die in three years. The clip is probably at least twice as old but it is a bit unsettling seeing her talk about it.

[GuyJean]

Based on the looks from others in that clip, she was more gaijin than Japanese..

GJ

[Cyka UchuuJin]

No, no, no, you guys are clearly mistaken. Japanese people don't have to use condoms because as long as there is love involved when two Japanese people have unprotected, one-night-stand sex, STDs won't be born.

At least that's what my boss told me.

Molo, this comment truly takes the WIN!

[IkemenTommy]

Here's a clip of Iijima Ai telling a story of how a Taiwanese fortune teller told her she was going to die in three years. The clip is probably at least twice as old but it is a bit unsettling seeing her talk about it.

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Here is from another show.

[John Dillinger]

Ah shit this sucks. This month seems to be a really bad one for women who have worked in the sex industry in one form or another. Not only did Ai Ijiima die, but fifties pin up model Bettie page died at the age of 85 roughly at the beginning of this month. I hope they both rest in peace.

[Greji]

fifties pin up model Bettie page died at the age of 85 roughly at the beginning of this month. I hope they both rest in peace.

Bettie in her HAY day....RIP

[xenomorph42]

Bettie in her HAY day....RIP

Amen.
Truly a Icon

[Midwinter]

Amen.
Truly a Icon

Am I the only one who thinks she looks like the a post-op Joker?

[American Oyaji]

Am I the only one who thinks she looks like the a post-op Joker?

I'll never look at that picture the same again.

Thanks a LOT middie!

[Midwinter]

I'll never look at that picture the same again.

Thanks a LOT middie!

Anytime buddy, happy to dispel any and all illusions

[Greji]

I'll never look at that picture the same again.

Didn't bother me at all. But, of course that doesn't count, 'cause I'd do Jack the joker as well if nothing else was available.....

[Mulboyne]

Telegraph: Japanese porn-star's death raises questions about AIDS

Found in her apartment in Tokyo's Shibuya district on Christmas Eve, it has taken the Tokyo Medical Examiner's Office more than six weeks to conclude that Iijima, 36, died of pneumonia. But few believe that is the full story. Iijima was an outspoken AIDS activist in a country where stars are generally unwilling to involve themselves in causes that could associate them with an issue or incite a whispering campaign. Commentators have now linked her death to the disease. "No-one will ever be able to say she had the disease, but she never stated it clearly and that gave her authority," said Toshiko Marks, a professor of multicultural understanding at Shumei University.

Her AIDS campaigning began in 2000, around the time she released the book "Platonic Sex", which sold more than 2 million copies and been turned into a television drama and movie. In the book she detailed being raped in her teens, having an abortion and running away from home. To survive, she worked as a hostess and drifted into the porn industry, quickly rising to be one of the best-known stars, appearing in more than 100 titles. Iijima used that exposure - and her refreshing frankness - to move to daytime talk shows.

Iijima kept up a blog, even after her retirement from the media world in 2006. She used it to reveal her health problems and tabloids reported she was suffering from mild neurosis, cystitis and kidney complaints. But musing on her blog kept coming back to AIDS. In a post dated December 2nd, 2007, she wrote, "Today, someone is dying from AIDS. Every day, the number of people infected is increasing. "My first test took a lot of courage and was very frightening until the result came back. I still remember being worried," she wrote. "For the people who are important in your life, you should take the test."

According to the Japan HIV Centre, around 15,000 Japanese have tested positive for the illness - but as many as four times that number are unaware they have the disease. A memorial service for Iijima is scheduled for March 1, with all donations going to the Japan Foundation for AIDS Prevention.

[amdg]

Pneumonia. That's almost code for HIV-related death now isn't it? Especially during winter.

RIP Ai, you were better than the rest.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Pneumonia. That's almost code for HIV-related death now isn't it?

I was going to say, "What, are you living in the 80s?" Then I remembered this is Japan.

[American Oyaji]

R.I.P. Ai-chan.

She's my favorite porn actress of all time. I admired her quite a bit after hearing her story. There was an English magazine where she was on the cover and they had interviewed her. I don't remember what it was, but they talked about her past and her childhood. This was in 93 or 94.

[Mulboyne]

R.I.P. Ai-chan.

She's my favorite porn actress of all time. I admired her quite a bit after hearing her story. There was an English magazine where she was on the cover and they had interviewed her. I don't remember what it was, but they talked about her past and her childhood. This was in 93 or 94.

You might be thinking of Tokyo Journal in April 1995. You can see the cover shot of her in the archives on their site.



It is her but the angle of that photograph makes her look so different that I didn't recognize her when I first saw it.

[American Oyaji]

You might be thinking of Tokyo Journal in April 1995. You can see the cover shot of her in the archives on their site.



It is her but the angle of that photograph makes her look so different that I didn't recognize her when I first saw it.

Mulboyne,

I'm gonna make a special effort to buy you a pint when I'm in Japan this summer!

Class act man!

[Taro Toporific]

Telegraph: Japanese porn-star's death raises questions about AIDS

...According to the Japan HIV Centre, around 15,000 Japanese have tested positive for the illness - but as many as four times that number are unaware they have the disease...

HIV infection second-highest on record
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The number of new AIDS patients reported in Japan last year hit 469, up 22 from the previous year.
The health ministry also says the number of people newly found to be infected with the HIV virus last year but have not developed the disease reached 1,077, up 75 from the previous year.
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[matsuki]

I wonder if they'll take the Korea route, blame this on Gaijin, and start HIV/AIDS testing FG visa holders...

[FG Lurker]

I wonder if they'll take the Korea route, blame this on Gaijin, and start HIV/AIDS testing FG visa holders...

Korea is such a fucked up place. I realize Japan has its problems but Korea seems to magnify everything bad.

[Samurai_Jerk]

I wonder if they'll take the Korea route, blame this on Gaijin, and start HIV/AIDS testing FG visa holders...

South Korea only does that for some types of visas like Engrish teacher not for all types.

[kurogane]

I wonder if they'll take the Korea route, blame this on Gaijin, and start HIV/AIDS testing FG visa holders...

South Korea only does that for some types of visas like Engrish teacher not for all types.

Pedantic perhaps, but that doesn't make it not a fucked up place............

So, is Iijima Ai still as dead as Francisco Franco?

I always found her utterly repulsive, naked or clothed (more of a Hiyori Shiraishi/Akira Fubuki type meself) but it really was a tragic end for somebody that worked that hard to remake her life.