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Sep 11 2006 5 Comments

Guitar god

Japan already boasts the world’s greatest competitive eater amongst its ranks, with the titanic Takeru “The Tsunami” Kobayashi relentlessly gorging himself to glory; however, the nation now has a new hero to honour, after air guitar artiste Ochi “Dainoji” Yosuke clinched the 2006 World Championship in Finland over the weekend.

Dazzling the crowd on his way to the finals, Yosuke-san was supposedly awarded the title due to his simplistic and classy air ‘guitarring’ — praise that was presumably restricted to his actions and not his tiger emblazoned top.

To see the man in all his arm-swinging sweater-sporting glory, simply sit back and click on the picture below.

Categorized: Music, Odd

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  1. Bunny says

    9/11/2006 at 11:39 pm

    A true legend! A true….yes….true legend! Thank you, Lee, for sharing him with the world. Talent always deserves exposure. That’s why I write my “witty” comments here.

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  2. maique says

    9/12/2006 at 5:11 am

    thank you very much for all the stories.
    i’ve been reading you for some time and just got to the point where i had to say thank you.

    you seem to find all the great, amazing, strange things in japan and are making me want to visit even more than i wanted.

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  3. Nichola says

    9/12/2006 at 5:30 am

    I am utterly lost for words… 😀

    Cool site, BTW – just discovered it.

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  4. ashod says

    9/12/2006 at 3:15 pm

    most freak post than ever … wuuuawwww…. you rules!

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  5. Bunny says

    9/12/2006 at 3:56 pm

    Wooo Hoooh!…………Indeed.

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