Dead Gaijins

[Samurai_Jerk]

I can have your stuff ?

I'll leave you my student loan debt and X-men comics.

[Coligny]

I dun't like amerikun comics...

[Samurai_Jerk]

I dun't like amerikun comics...

Please don't tell me you like French ones.

SDH, if you ever see an article about me being found dead face down in the lap of a Romanian hostess in Uneo or some shit like that, I give you permission to reveal my identity to the FG community.

[Coligny]

I dun't like amerikun comics...

Please don't tell me you like French ones.

Buck Danny is th3 awesum...

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SDH, if you ever see an article about me being found dead face down in the lap of a Romanian hostess in Uneo or some shit like that, I give you permission to reveal my identity to the FG community.

I knewed it...

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[matsuki]

Tis a bit late but I LOL'd nonetheless.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Tis a bit late but I LOL'd nonetheless.

What does that have to do with dead gaijin?

[Coligny]

Pretty sure the guy in the picture is dead...

[Samurai_Jerk]

Pretty sure the guy in the picture is dead...

That was about the only connection I could come up with.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Would laugh, I'm sure...What's it like, mate?

[Taro Toporific]

RIP "Ampontan" -- Blogger Bill Sakovich passes away
Japan Probe | 2012/12/24
...William Sakovich, the blogger behind the Ampontan blog, has passed away. According to a comment from a friend, he died of cancer on December 21st....

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[Screwed-down Hairdo]

RIP "Ampontan" -- Blogger Bill Sakovich passes away
Japan Probe | 2012/12/24
...William Sakovich, the blogger behind the Ampontan blog, has passed away. According to a comment from a friend, he died of cancer on December 21st....

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The guy was a fucking arsehole, but it's sad that cessation from being annoyed by him had to come through his death.

[Coligny]

The guy was a fucking arsehole, but it's sad that cessation from being annoyed by him had to come through his death.

Tssss... you don't know that assholes and mass shooters are/were such nice people/kids at the minute they die... how unpoliticalmaly correct of youze...

Personnally... if totally endorse the death penalty... should be extended to road and traffic laws offenders...

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

The guy was a fucking arsehole, but it's sad that cessation from being annoyed by him had to come through his death.

Tssss... you don't know that assholes and mass shooters are/were such nice people/kids at the minute they die... how unpoliticalmaly correct of youze...

Personnally... if totally endorse the death penalty... should be extended to road and traffic laws offenders...

I did realize that, but treating someone with honesty is, I think, the finest form of respect I can pay someone I fundamentally dislike.
I'm sad to see anybody die.

[Mike Oxlong]

Your use of the word "popo" for police or cops is pretty fucking annoying.

So what happened to the two black guys arrested for the Irish girl's murder?

US man in Japan says assault charges against him are 'lies'

One of the two American men suspected of luring Irish exchange student Nicola Furlong to her death in a Tokyo hotel last year has denied using a rape drug and called the accusations against him "lies".

James Blackston (23) is on trial for sexually assaulting Ms Furlong's Irish friend, identified in Tokyo District Court as "victim A". He denies the charges.

Mr Blackston told the court yesterday that Ms Furlong (21) was drunk when she left a Tokyo bar with himself and Richard Hinds, who has admitted strangling her at the Keio Plaza Hotel.

"My friend was helping her to walk," he said, adding that although he did not feel responsible for the two women, he was not "going to leave them on the street". He said he took the victim to his hotel "out of kindness".

The claims contradict testimony by the Irish woman, who said last month that the Americans approached her and Ms Furlong after a rap concert. She said both women blacked out after downing a drink waiting for the men to return from the toilet.

Surveillance footage shows Mr Blackston groping the victim in the back of a taxi on the way to the hotel. Both men were later filmed carrying the unconscious women through the lobby in wheelchairs.

Mr Blackston insisted yesterday he “wasn’t even thinking of sex” and said he was “offended” when the Irish woman thought he was inviting her to his room.

Closing arguments will be heard next month.

Mr Hinds’s trial for murder begins in March.

[torasan]

It has come to my attention that William Sakovich, the blogger behind the Ampontan blog, has passed away. According to a comment from a friend, he died of cancer on December 21st:

several pages of crap copied and pasted from other web sites

MODERATOR NOTE: thank you, torasan, for contributing the phrase "it has come to my attention that" and exerting your finger muscles so gallantly to create an entire new thread made purely of verbatim copies of stuff already here and on other web sites. Your effort is much appreciated. I'll leave your note above as record of your paying your respects to Ampontan.

[Taro Toporific]

Japan expert, writer Donald Richie dies at 88
japantimes.co.jp | 2013/02/20/ -- Donald Richie, a Tokyo-based expert on Japanese cinema who wrote dozens of books and articles about the country's people and culture, has died at age 88.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/0 ... ies-at-88/

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[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Japan expert, writer Donald Richie dies at 88
japantimes.co.jp | 2013/02/20/ -- Donald Richie, a Tokyo-based expert on Japanese cinema who wrote dozens of books and articles about the country's people and culture, has died at age 88.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/0 ... ies-at-88/

Fullstory

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I once knew this bloke and he was genuinely a kind and caring person, even if a little distant. I think he'd've been happy with the life he lived and he left a positive presence on the lives of many others he came in contact with.

[Taro Toporific]

An inclined view: The life and work of Donald Richie
By Stephen Mansfield
Special to The Japan Times--Feb. 24, 2013
This was meant to be a tribute to a living writer, one whose main concern beside health issues, was his own legacy.
It was with a heavy heart that I heard from Donald Richie’s longtime friend and editor Leza Lowitz, that he had passed away on the morning of Tuesday, this week. He was 88. ...
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[wangta]

This is an interesting thread. Vale Donald Ritchie, I really liked his stuff.

Now who is that other old American who seems like a real pain in the arse and got American citizenship but spends most of his time outside Japan? I really don't like him.

He panders to the worst attitudes in Japan - the self-righteous 'look at those gaijin running away from earthquakes' even while in the other breath those kind of Japanese won't countenance well planned and reasonable immigration based on skill sets and proven ability to live in Japanese society with pretty much minimum fuss.

The kind of Japanese that fortunately I didn't meet much - you know, the kind who have to politely belittle you when you have good conversational skills yet if you didn't bother learning Japanese they would criticise you for it.

Donald Ritchie accomplished so much but then again he was in the right demographic for it - there's no new things for the westerner to research and win acclaim for unless you are delusional and think your videos about Japan on youtube are somehow the equivalent.

[Taro Toporific]

Now who is that other old American who seems like a real pain in the arse and got American citizenship but spends most of his time outside Japan?

That "Order of the Rising Sun, Ribbon of Golden Hemorrhoid Rays, Person of Cultural Merit" is truly the last man standing.

The real question (that nobody is willing to say out loud) is, "Why are all the 'Japanologists' of that era were gay-not-that-anything-is-wrong-with-that?"

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

"Why are all the 'Japanologists' of that era were gay-not-that-anything-is-wrong-with-that?"

A harsher, crueler, old version of myself would have been tempted to say it was because the old bean-filled pillows the Japanese used to use had hagotae（歯応え）, but my loving, tolerant self of now would never dream of voicing such sentiment....
Richie, though, was AC/DC. I once saw him greet Keene with a look of pure, unadulterated love. They reached up and touched each other's cheeks, looked deeply into each other's eyes and it was immediately obvious that they shared something deep and profound. I was so moved, I try to express something similar when I want to show my GF that I adore her. Mind you, when I do it, I don't think everybody suspects that shirts are going to be lifted, which is what I guess most people were suspecting when they saw the dalliance of the Donald duo all those years ago...

[Taro Toporific]

...they touched each other's cheeks, looked deeply into each other's eyes and it was immediately obvious that they shared something deep and profound...

And add to that mix, their three-way affair with novelist Yukio Mishima...

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

...they touched each other's cheeks, looked deeply into each other's eyes and it was immediately obvious that they shared something deep and profound...

And add to that mix, their three-way affair with novelist Yukio Mishima...

Gut-wrenching, that was....

[wangta]

Thanks, that's right, Donald Keene.

I, too, couldn't care less about the two Donalds having it off although Donald Keene is intensely annoying and probably was in his younger days.

But I do care about the Mishima three way - honestly, he is probably the most over-rated 'literary' writer in the 20th century. I read two of his books, first time in English, then in Japanese when my kanji hadn't gone to hell, and they were just flat. His body was repulsive - seeing photos of him dressed in fundoshi is a big turn off so the two Donalds must have had a thing for ugly, thick bodied, badly proportioned, disturbed Japanese men. Yuck.

[wagyl]

...they touched each other's cheeks, looked deeply into each other's eyes and it was immediately obvious that they shared something deep and profound...

And add to that mix, their three-way affair with novelist Yukio Mishima...

Gut-wrenching, that was....

Three-ways are always a problem for the odd one out, in this case the native born son. It was always going to end in blood and tragedy. And theatrics.

[Coligny]

Three-ways are always a problem for the odd one out, in this case the native born son. It was always going to end in blood and tragedy. And theatrics.

WRONG...

It's perfectly manageable...

(with a stretchy cameraman...)
(I've seen plenty movies to be real sure aboot it...)

[legion]

The real question (that nobody is willing to say out loud) is, "Why are all the 'Japanologists' of that era were gay-not-that-anything-is-wrong-with-that?"

cos the straights got married, settled down, had kids, faded into normality

[yanpa]

A violent death, some justice, few answers in Furlong case

With damning autopsy and evidence suggesting pair planned to rape, lawyers faced huge challenge defending American accused of killing Irish student

Bad guys rarely live up to their reputation, and so it was with James Blackston. Portrayed in the Irish media as a fearsome, muscle-bound rapper, in court he was a diminutive, baby-faced figure, his tattoos covered up by a cheap prison suit, mumbling his way through an incomprehensible defense for sexual assault.

A professional dancer known by his stage name “King Tight,” Blackston, was unaware he was being filmed by a surveillance camera as he mauled an unconscious girl from behind in a Tokyo taxi on May 24 last year. His friend, a 19-year-old fellow American whom The Japan Times has decided not to name because he is a minor (but whose identity has been widely disseminated in the foreign media), sat in the front seat. The fourth passenger was 21-year-old Irish student Nicola Furlong, also unconscious. She had less than three hours to live.

The camera records what would become key prosecution evidence in the trials of both men, a conversation full of leering, predatory braggadocio. “These bitches fell into our lap,” says one. “We can f—k them,” says the younger one. “We gotta keep them f—ked up.” Then Blackston: “We are going to f—k them and leave them in my room.” At one stage the men exchange fist bumps.
...more...

[matsuki]

Race, of course, has not been entirely absent. The defense has obliquely argued throughout the trial that the prosecution mistook the bragging in the taxi for real intent. “When you say ‘my nigga,’ it’s just the way you talk in your community, right?” quizzed his lawyers at one point. Toxic racist rants about the two assailants have been widely posted on the Internet, mostly by people with only a fleeting acquaintance with the case.

Anyone have any clips of the attorney saying 「マイニッガー」 ??

conviction rate of more than 99 percent

and

19-year-old fellow American whom The Japan Times has decided not to name because he is a minor (but whose identity has been widely disseminated in the foreign media), sat in the front seat.

Japaneeeze justice and 19year old children...

Defense lawyers tried to portray Nicola Furlong as a drug addict because of needle marks on her thighs. The examining doctor in the emergency room of the Tokyo Medical University Hospital explained, however, that the wounds were the result of attempting to take blood from her lifeless body.

When in Rome...?

[Samurai_Jerk]

I really wish the audio would be released so I could hear what exactly they said.