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It’s happening. Maybe that trip to China won’t be as fun if you’re Japanese. Japanese cars being flipped over by a thousand protestors over the Senkaku Islands dispute. Guess what? If it were obvious as to who’s a Japanese person, they might get curbed. (Autonews – Japan Bashing)
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It’s unofficial esp the backside, but it’s close
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Sounds like a movie title in the making, but this is a 62 year old man, Jinichi Kawakami who learned the fine arts of being a ninja and while he’s a master, there will be no successor and the martial art that he specializes in, will be over. (NY Daily News – Ninja) His farts make no sound. He needs no food. He gets vitamins from breathing air. His home has no bathroom or kitchen or bed. He can catch the stars that he throws. He’s so stealth, his ninja outfit only needs to hide his clothes. He sleeps when he’s awake. Chuck Norris learned from him. He’s never made a sound. His lethal blow darts are really just his spit. He thought Man on a Wire was a comedy. His face is actually a mask.
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My wife and I had tickets to Touch-and-Go Records’ 25th anniversary celebration in 2006, and I was really amped about seeing the back-in-action Three Mile Pilot–not to mention the reunited Negative Approach and Big Black, the always amazing Shellac, our friends in Seam, the folks from Enon… And then the magazine schedule ran late and we decided to cancel our trip to Chicago. Man. I still get bummed when I think about it. So when last Friday’s show at The Echo was announced, I was super amped to get to see the progenitor of Black Heart Procession and Pinback once more in a small club.
We covered him far back in issue 10 of Giant Robot, which was an issue that was heavily dedicated to the Asian American Civil Rights “Movement”. On of the interviews was of Richard Aoki. He had associations with the Black Panther Party as it’s now coming out that he was also an FBI informant – one of the worst possible things to have been. It’s all in print now in a book which is soon to be published, Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power. “In 2007, two years before he committed suicide, Aoki was asked in a tape-recorded interview for the book if he had been an FBI informant. Aoki’s first response was a long silence. He then replied, ” ‘Oh,’ is all I can say.” He was confirmed to be an FBI informant by a former FBI agent who provides more details. Richard Aoki was known as a great piece of the puzzle of the Asian American movement in the later 60s and 70s and continued to teach and more. He committed suicide in 2009. We’re soon to hear more news soon. (SF GATE – Richard Aoki)
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