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See Asia Like Asians Do. Yes it’s from Ukraine where there’s probably Chinese businessmen and Mongolians and that’s the extend of it. If there were Asian Americans, all hell would break loose. (Huffpo – Racist)
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People have heard over and over that this crab once fell and crushed people. It’s like a urban myth. It’s something you’ll see in Osaka for some reason. They give an hour by hour list of things to do. Some of it sounds familiar, and some isn’t. But you can just take a short train to Kyoto and blow all this off which might be the best call of all. (NY times – 36 Hours in Osaka)
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Why Tokyo is #1? Interesting that CNN would go out and just say this even if it’s just “CNNgo” but it’s saying a lot from a news organization that is supposed to be… a news organization. We can agree Tokyo might be #1 among many great places, but it’s almost child like to say this! (CNN – Tokyo #1)
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Although it claims to not be finished, this is an exhaustive and harrowing story of a guy stuck in detention in Narita airport. Sounding like Disneyland’s mythical jail, the story is about being flagged, then being extorted and abused and not by Japanese but by a security force that sounds something like Blackwater. We’ve heard the stories about being sent back to America when people aren’t allowed in but who pays and how much? Sometimes it’s in the 1000s for a plane flight. A mean in jail might cost you, and the “hotel” of a jail cell is $300 a night. Where’s the money going? G4S is a security company from where the photo below was taken. They are the “police” force who aren’t necessarily Japanese, and are the folks who rough up the folks who are detained. 20,000 get removed from Japan annually via the Narita Airport jail. The right question is, Who’s watching the guards. (globalite.posterous.com – gaijin tank)
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I was lucky to visit Vancouver last month, for the first time… been hearing a lot of great things about it, and was excited to check it all out.
Greeted by some totem poles
I was picked up by my host, Canadian Animator and Filmmaker Jeff Chiba Stearns, whom I met in Eugene earlier in the year.