Japan wins Miss International!

[Taro Toporific]

Japanese model wins Miss International crown
October 22, 2012 | The Asahi Shimbum
A model from Tosu, Saga Prefecture, became the first Japanese woman to win the Miss International title.
Ikumi Yoshimatsu, 25...{won} at the 52nd Miss International 2012 in Naha, Okinawa...
...The Miss International event, one of the three major beauty pageants along with the Miss Universe and the Miss World competitions...
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[sublight]

So how long until we get videos of someone doing her up the pooper?

[Mike Oxlong]

Been enjoying great local FB photo coverage. I dunno, but I think there may have been some favoritism and some paid-off judges...

http://travel67.wordpress.com/2012/10/2 ... nawa-2012/

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Been enjoying great local FB photo coverage. I dunno, but I think there may have been some favoritism and some paid-off judges...

http://travel67.wordpress.com/2012/10/2 ... nawa-2012/

Muss Nya Zulland's looking decidely sheepish...

[Mike Oxlong]

[Coligny]

Seriously... dat' slut got nuthing on Yua Aida...

So how long until we get videos of someone doing her up the pooper?

Cameras and set are ready but I can't reach Chokonen these days...

Dat guy is like submarines... when he dive balls deep in a va jay jay you lose radio contact for weeks... haven't tried the VLF yet, but these cold war era shit are a pita to use...

[Mike Oxlong]

A few more pics...

http://missinternational-okinawa.com/photos/

[Taro Toporific]

Miss International, Ikumi Yoshimatsu in mufti???

e88188ef-1.jpeg

http://ameblo.jp/nd-yukarin/entry-11175439739.html

[Russell]

Hmm. Looks like Japanese make-up is very high quality...

[Coligny]

A few more pics...

http://missinternational-okinawa.com/photos/

Nope...

thanks...

[GomiGirl]

I always find these pagents somewhat surreal and never quite understand the point.

Kinda like a cattle parade at the show showing off superior genetics? But these heifers are not for breeding as they have strict morality clauses in their contracts right? They are basically showing you stuff that the average guy would never get their mitts on. But it doesn't stop the ranking or the judging from the barker lounges does it?

Or are they showing off their skills of walking on stage in heels, in ridiculous clothes, smiling, giving eye contact to the audience. This, I acknowledge, takes lots of skill to pull off. I would fall flat on my face for sure.

But really I am not against these pagents, I just don't get the point.

[Coligny]

I always find these pagents somewhat surreal and never quite understand the point.

Kinda like a cattle parade at the show showing off superior genetics? But these heifers are not for breeding as they have strict morality clauses in their contracts right? They are basically showing you stuff that the average guy would never get their mitts on. But it doesn't stop the ranking or the judging from the barker lounges does it?
.

Dear god, they are not parading Bugatti Veyron here...
Just showing off sluts with inflated ego and more often than not extremly low IQ.
But some love the security of this concept, superior breeding females only going with the best aryan stallionz...

[cstaylor]

Kinda like a cattle parade at the show showing off superior genetics?

And how would you describe this? Or membership here?

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

I totally understand it.....


....I have an enormous ego. Utterly impossible to satisfy. I was reminded by CS sticking up a link to an organization I belong to because it tickles my ego!!!!

Why do I have an enormous ego? Because I have horribly low self-esteem and I need every little tweak of my ego to convince myself I'm a decent person (and then still never believe it).

I reckon something similar goes through the minds of the birds who enter these pageants. Mind you, I much prefer their leggy, titty, skimpy swimsuit angst to my moob, self-destructive craving for ego-massaging.

[GomiGirl]

Given that mensa has accepted me, it shows what low standards they have... ne?

[GomiGirl]

Why do I have an enormous ego? Because I have horribly low self-esteem and I need every little tweak of my ego to convince myself I'm a decent person (and then still never believe it).

Doesn't this describe social networks and BBS forum users too? We need to have some justification for our existence..

oh god - don't let this send me into an existential conundrum.... I will not surface for days.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Doesn't this describe social networks and BBS forum users too? We need to have some justification for our existence..

Certainly applies in my case...

[GomiGirl]

Doesn't this describe social networks and BBS forum users too? We need to have some justification for our existence..

Certainly applies in my case...

Good to know I am not alone......

oh wait, wasn't that the original point?

Bugger it, who knows? I need an icecream.

[Coligny]

Why do I have an enormous ego? Because I have horribly low self-esteem and I need every little tweak of my ego to convince myself I'm a decent person (and then still never believe it).

Doesn't this describe social networks and BBS forum users too? We need to have some justification for our existence..

oh god - don't let this send me into an existential conundrum.... I will not surface for days.

More like blogs and twitter, anything that can't fight back...

FB being nothing more than a cesspool of pseudo blog self sustaining themselves

[cstaylor]

Given that mensa has accepted me, it shows what low standards they have... ne?

One of my favorite quotes applies here: "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." -- Groucho Marx

[cstaylor]

oh wait, wasn't that the original point?

I think the point was complaining about one set of genetic fitness indicators by exercising another set.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

I think the world's problems could be solved if women would just show uz their titz...

[Russell]

I think the world's problems could be solved if women would just show uz their titz...

Don't they do that already?!?

[Coligny]

I want this as opening theme song when I join the WWF...

[matsuki]

Seriously... dat' slut got nuthing on Yua Aida...

So how long until we get videos of someone doing her up the pooper?

Cameras and set are ready but I can't reach Chokonen these days...

Dat guy is like submarines... when he dive balls deep in a va jay jay you lose radio contact for weeks... haven't tried the VLF yet, but these cold war era shit are a pita to use...

I was busy in K-town, getting familiar with Japan's new owners. I forgot how fun K-girls can be....but they some crazy womens for sure.

[Coligny]

Yeah, what I said/though... balls deep out of radio reach...

Did you brought back some cool picts of the local slutz ? (Dem Korean beeyotch are like italian sportzcarz... nice as poster on the wall or for a week end at the racetrack but an abominashiun as daily driverz)

[Mike Oxlong]

Celebrity stands up to talent agency ‘stalker’

In Japan’s often-shady entertainment world, speaking out against bullying, harassment and stalking of women by talent agency management and producers has long been taboo.

Any woman who stands her ground and goes public risks being shunned from the industry.

But one woman has decided not to back down.

The current Miss International, Ikumi Yoshimatsu, filed criminal and civil charges Wednesday against one of Japan’s most powerful talent agencies’ executives for stalking her and attempting to ruin her career. The harassment began shortly after Yoshimatsu became the first Japanese to win the title in the pageant’s 52-year history and then refused to sign up with a problematic talent agency.

“Today I filed criminal charges against Genichi Taniguchi, a Japanese talent agency executive, who in December of last year grabbed me, forced his way into my dressing room and tried to abduct me,” Yoshimatsu said.

“Since then, he has intimidated my family, sent private detectives to my home, tried to extort money from me and my company, slandered me in the press and has made threatening calls to my family, sponsors and business associates.”

Taniguchi is president of Pearl Dash and an executive at K-Dash, the talent agency that handles such luminaries as Ken Watanabe, who co-starred in the blockbusters “The Last Samurai” and “Batman Begins.”

Yoshimatsu has attached to the criminal complaint tape recordings, videos and photographs detailing the stalking. She has been documenting the attacks toward her on the advice of her lawyer and others...

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/1 ... y-stalker/

[Russell]

Wow, this story gets better and better as you read on. Good for her that she fights back.

And here is the rest of the story...

According to the criminal complaint and other sources, the trouble started last December, when Yoshimatsu amicably decided to leave her agency at the time and establish her own company. In the middle of that month, at what was supposed to be a meeting with her management at the time, former K-1 fight promoter Kazuyoshi Ishii, who has been convicted of tax evasion and destruction of evidence, abruptly entered the room and made his own proposal.

He had several times suggested in the past that she work with Taniguchi, who is a close personal friend of Ikuo Suo, chairman of Burning Productions, Japan’s most powerful talent agency.

At that meeting, Ishii allegedly urged Yoshimatsu to sign with an entertainment agency affiliated with Burning Productions. She adamantly refused, noting the Burning group was long rumored to be affiliated with the yakuza. Indeed, police files that were leaked on the Internet in 2007 list the firm as a client of the Yamaguchi-gumi.

She left the meeting and founded her own company, IY Global. She chose Matt Taylor as her international agent to secure overseas work.

On Dec. 30, after filming finished on NTV’s yearend special “Bankisha!” she was shocked to find that Taniguchi, whom she had never met, had entered the set using a pass for a different show. He immediately began shouting accusations and creating a scene. He claimed that Taylor did not represent Yoshimatsu and that the two owed him money. At one point, he allegedly grabbed Yoshimatsu’s arm and forcibly tried to pull her out of the studio. A tape recording and pictures of the incident corroborate her account.

The staff rushed Yoshimatsu into a waiting room, but Taniguchi reportedly kept chasing her. In the months that followed, Taniguchi warned her family and friends that he might bring a locksmith and break into her house to take possession of money that he insisted Taylor owed him. He also allegedly hired private detectives to watch her house.

Taylor has acknowledged that he has had problems with Taniguchi but points out, “Do his issues with me justify him attacking my client and harassing her? Is that acceptable in Japan to victimize a woman out of a personal grudge? He has also demanded I turn over her contract to him. It’s bizarre.”

Taniguchi repeatedly called sponsors of the Miss International Contest and alleged that he would release materials shaming Yoshimatsu and the contest. The International Culture Association, which operates the Miss International competition in Japan, allegedly responded by telling Yoshimatsu last month that they wanted her to keep a low profile, feign illness and not attend the succession ceremony where she was supposed to turn over her crown. The executive briefing her reportedly told her they were afraid of Taniguchi and wanted to avoid scandal. While acknowledging that Yoshimatsu was a victim of a harassment campaign, he reportedly made it clear they would prefer she did not stand up on her own behalf.

After deciding she could keep silent no longer, Yoshimatsu consulted a lawyer and filed for charges of criminal obstruction of business with the police and a claim for damages in civil court.

“I filed charges not just for my personal benefit, but to voice my concern and outrage on behalf of all the women who could not call for help, out of fear of retaliation and being ignored in a society where a ‘culture of silence’ toward crimes against women has been the standard for centuries,” Yoshimatsu said.

“Stalking is a serious issue in Japan and several women have been killed by stalkers even after consulting with the police.”

Japan’s largest weekly magazine, the Shukan Bunshun, is set to publish a four-page article Thursday on the lawsuit documenting the details of how Yoshimatsu was harassed by Taniguchi. It is questionable if the mainstream media will follow up on the story due to the tremendous power of the talent agencies.

Most Japanese publications and media avoid offending the agencies for fear of losing access to “tarento” and other celebrities.

Calls made to K-Dash and Pearl Dash were not returned. In the Shukan Bunshun article, Taniguchi admits to entering the “Bankisha!” set but denies any other wrongdoing.

Tape recordings of various incidents and of phone calls he made to people associated with Yoshimatsu contradict his account substantially.

Taniguchi told The Japan Times: “Yes, I just happened to be visiting the set of ‘Bankisha!’ but I did not harass Ms. Yoshimatsu. I’m no stalker. I called her father at least twice to try and reach her manager to solve my financial dispute with him. I have no grudge against her and Bunshun’s article is very wrong.”

[legion]

more power to her and here's hoping she is the pebble that starts the landslide

[Coligny]

more power to her and here's hoping she is the pebble that starts the landslide

Fighting against an industry making huge benefits while providing 0 added value... I hope that pebble won't fall accidently from a balcony while changing a lightbulb in her microwave...