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Upskirt urges

A High School teacher in Ibaraki Prefecture is currently in trouble with his local Board of Education for secretly filming up the skirt of one of his students.

The degenerate yet deviceful teacher (whose name has been withheld) managed to get his desired shots by attaching a digital camera to his sandal. Then allegedly ‘filming’ when his unknowing victim was doing a spot of cleaning.

It turns out though that this wasn’t the teacher’s only attempt at amateur movie making, as he confessed to doing the same thing during a class earlier this month. Putting his misdemeanors down to the fact that he gave in to his “desires after watching secretly filmed videos on an internet site.”

Also disclosed was that the camera-attached-to-a-sandal technique is not an ideal method for producing sharp images, as the teacher said (presumably in a desperate attempt to reduce his punishment) he had already deleted the images of the students as they weren’t clear.

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Light saber similarities

I took this picture fairly recently during a kendo tournament at the school I work in.

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Now correct me if I’m wrong, but I think it’s fairly easy to see where a certain Mr. George Lucas got a hefty chunk of inspiration from. If you take away the crappy gymnasium interior and the judges. Oh, and the school kids watching. Plus I suppose the outfits. And it’s right there before your eyes. A scene that would slot straight into any of the Star Wars movies.

No?

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Sex-crazed superhero

During a 10-day promotional tour for his latest movie, Spiderman found himself in Tokyo’s Laforet Harajuku shopping centre. And in a blatant abuse of his superhero status and abilities, he took time out to grope an unsuspecting shopper.

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Rumours of Spiderman spending the rest of the afternoon on the capital’s rail network, and inappropriately touching as many women as he could get his hands on have yet to be confirmed.

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Troy II?

The hype for Brad Pitt’s (or burapi’s) latest offering Troy, has recently moved into top gear. Or a gallop if you’ll allow me the indulgence of using some equestrian terminology. As below is photographic evidence of the most recent publicity stunt connected with the film.

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Interestingly though, the movie arrives here at the same time as a potentially historic development between Japan and North Korea. As tomorrow (Saturday 22nd), Prime Minister Koizumi will travel to the reclusive nation to discuss (amongst other things) the release of former abductees family members. A positive outcome could have long reaching and beneficial effects not only on the two countries relations, but arguably on the stability of the region in general.

But what you may ask has this got to do with the movie Troy? Well, there have been whispers (most notably around my head) that the horse pictured above is in fact a gift from North Korea. And I don’t need to remind you what happened in the original story. Hmm, something to think about there eh?

So if the diminutive and bouffanted Kim Jong-Il leaps out of that giant horse on opening night, remember that you read it here first. On the other hand, if in the unlikely event that he doesn’t, just put it down to an over active imagination, and a harmless desire to make this lots-of-hype-about-troy-movie story slightly worth reading.

But hold on, could these be the little leader’s getaway horses that I spied whilst out and about this afternoon?

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Mildly amusing Japanese-English #9

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The Japanese seem to enjoy shortening words and names. A remote controller is known as a rimocon. Jimi Hendrix becomes cute and cuddly jimi hen. And Hollywood hunk Brad Pitt gets the rather unfortunate new name of burapi.

Apparently it’s now official that Mr. burapi is the second most desirable male in Japan. The top dog of course being the god of fashion and football, David Beckham. Even despite Beckham’s recent dalliance with his assistant, Japanese ladies still regard him as the hottest catch. Allowing the England captain to continue making millions from dodgy chocolate commercials.

But lets not take anything away from Hollywood heartthrob burapi. He recently arrived in Japan to promote his latest offering Troy, and was greeted at the airport by more than 1,000 screaming fans. With presumably all of them chanting the mantra, “burapi, burapi, burapi, burapi.”

I just wish I’d been there to hear it.

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burapi in Japan yesterday