The Meaning of Japan

[version]

SINGAPORE, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Japanese stocks raced to a record peak on Thursday, breaking levels last seen in 1989 during the halcyon days of the bubble economy, as cheap valuations and corporate reforms lure foreign money looking for alternatives to battered Chinese markets.

 

[luka]

what do you take from that piece of news version?

 

[craner]

what do you take from that piece of news version?

He should preface all his posts with BREAKING:

 

[version]

what do you take from that piece of news version?

Exciting times.

 

[luka]

it;s a shame america nobbled them. a japanese future seemed way more enticing than a arab or a chinese one

 

[craner]

Tokyo Decadence

 

[version]

Tokyo Decadence

Have you seen that film? Seems very you.

Tokyo Decadence (1992)

A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is apparently trying to find some sort of appeasement for the fact that her lover has married.

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[craner]

Have you seen that film? Seems very you.

Tokyo Decadence (1992)

A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is apparently trying to find some sort of appeasement for the fact that her lover has married.

letterboxd.com

No, I mean how can any film live up to that fabulous title?

 

[Mr. Tea]

Have you seen that film? Seems very you.

Tokyo Decadence (1992)

A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is apparently trying to find some sort of appeasement for the fact that her lover has married.

letterboxd.com

Love the tagline: "Erotic sex or dangerous fantasy?"

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[Mr. Tea]

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Was going to use the actual gif for this but then remembered the girl in it is about seven.

 

[version]

@dilbert1 has provided us with some glorious Japanese footage hosted by Vicent Price;

Life of Militancy: Japan’s Long ’68 • Ill Will

Sabu Kohso on the rise and fall of Japan's revolutionary movement, with lessons for today.

illwill.com

 

[mixed_biscuits]

it;s a shame america nobbled them. a japanese future seemed way more enticing than a arab or a chinese one

The more advanced a society is the lower the birth rate gets. Japan would have died out by now had America not nobbled them; America's intervention saved Japan.

 

[WashYourHands]

@dilbert1 has provided us with some glorious Japanese footage hosted by Vicent Price;

Life of Militancy: Japan’s Long ’68 • Ill Will

Sabu Kohso on the rise and fall of Japan's revolutionary movement, with lessons for today.

illwill.com

Was not expecting Mr Price to be narrating alongside rioting footage, incongruence personified

Horror actors could have opened up a whole new front - Christopher Lee live from Toxteth just imagine the extra gravitas, Ingrid Pitt live from Brixton with her dulcet tones conveying chaos anthropologically and … well said cohort were mostly all deceased by London in 2011

 

[version]

@dilbert1 has provided us with some glorious Japanese footage hosted by Vicent Price;

Life of Militancy: Japan’s Long ’68 • Ill Will

Sabu Kohso on the rise and fall of Japan's revolutionary movement, with lessons for today.

illwill.com

Watched this again earlier. Astonishing images. Like one of Kurosawa's battle scenes. Here's a photo too:

 

[dilbert1]

The ones at the front are screaming "I'm not touching you!!!"

 

[dilbert1]

Looks like Yoko got John in on the fun

 

[dilbert1]

Forgot that the different distinguishing helmets are a pretty big part of it all. Unique

 

[dilbert1]

From ages 11 to 14 I lived on a US Air Force base outside of Tokyo called Yokota. It wasn't uncommon to see very small groups of Japanese protestors demonstrating against the base every now and then, but it looks like a group (Kakurōkyō) dating back to the Narita airport struggle (its members are in their 60s) suffered raids and arrests in 2016 after launching mortar shells at it.

 

[Mr. Tea]

From ages 11 to 14 I lived on a US Air Force base outside of Tokyo called Yokota. It wasn't uncommon to see very small groups of Japanese protestors demonstrating against the base every now and then, but it looks like a group (Kakurōkyō) dating back to the Narita airport struggle (its members are in their 60s) suffered raids and arrests in 2016 after launching mortar shells at it.

Well that's one way to make the powers that be take you seriously, I suppose.

 

[dilbert1]

When you're an aging New Left groupuscule and intensity of state repression is your exclusive metric for success, sure