I'm going to Athens! I mean, Japan!
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I'LL BE UNDER THE 3rd ROCK FROM THE 2nd CHERRY
tree next to the river that runs through the west side of town; meet you at 2AM Zulu time on the 15th!!
Frank
Golgo_13 said:
tree next to the river that runs through the west side of town; meet you at 2AM Zulu time on the 15th!!
Frank
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I'll Be Nude Except For...
a Michel Jackson white sequined glove on my left hand & I'll hold my crotch with my right hand so you will know I'm the one your looking for!
Frank
Golgo_13 said:
a Michel Jackson white sequined glove on my left hand & I'll hold my crotch with my right hand so you will know I'm the one your looking for!
Frank
kirei_na_me
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Cute, Frank. Cute.
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just got this in the email regarding Golgo 13:
'Manga' spins Japan's forex intervention as evil U.S. plot
By YURI KAGEYAMA
The Associated Press
The plot is sinister: Officials in Washington conspire to keep the dollar low and force Japanese authorities to intervene in the exchange market to buy the U.S. currency -- not to save vulnerable Japanese exporters from the dangers of a high yen, but to keep the U.S. economy from sliding.
This story line from a top selling "manga" comic book in Japan is entertaining and delightfully implausible. Nonetheless, it highlights growing fears here over seesawing currency fluctuations.
There's little doubt that if the yen rises too much against the dollar, Japan's fragile export-driven recovery could sputter. Prices for Japanese products abroad would soar and earnings of major companies would plunge.
It's true that Japanese authorities have been intervening for months, spending a fortune buying and bolstering the value of the dollar while keeping the yen lower.
Now that dry economic reality has been turned inside out to become improbable fictional fodder for fans of "Golgo 13" -- an action hero serial that's featured in the biweekly Big Comic magazine.
The main character of "Golgo 13" is a macho sniper-assassin whose illustrated exploits reflect the big social, political and financial changes on the world scene.
In the latest three-part series he's caught up in the center of a dramatic battle between the yen and dollar.
In the real world, analysts say there's no doubt Japan's shopping spree for dollars is helping the U.S. economy.
"It's keeping U.S. interest rates low and helping push up American share prices," says Mamoru Yamazaki, economist at Barclays Capital Japan in Tokyo.
But Yamazaki believes the intervention campaign has been excessive, fueled by exaggerated fears over a surging yen among Japanese officials and the media.
"Sometimes a strong yen can be a good thing, like from a consumer's point of view," he said, referring to how a strong yen would push down import prices. "Excessive intervention is distorting the market."
Japanese authorities spent a record 20 trillion yen to intervene in the currency market last year to curb the dollar's slide, and about 10 trillion yen in the first two months of this year alone.
Even so, the dollar has fallen more than 10 percent from last year to 105 yen levels in February but has recovered lately. All the while, Japan has been aggressively snatching up U.S. Treasury bonds to keep their currency from getting too strong.
Japanese officials continue to brush aside speculation that interventions may be finally ebbing.
The dollar fell in Tokyo early Wednesday amid continued speculation that Japan's interventions would ease. The greenback cost 108.32 yen at 3 p.m. Wednesday, down 1.30 yen from late Tuesday in Tokyo and also below the 108.78 yen it bought in New York later that day.
"Our stance remains unchanged," Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki told reporters earlier this week. "We believe foreign-exchange rates should move stably in reflection of fundamentals."
It's hardly the dialogue of an action hero. But the creators of "Golgo 13" have spiced things up.
The work includes R-rated sex scenes and blood-spattering violence. Although the assassin Duke Togo has yet to appear in the latest episode, he generally kills his victims by shooting them from a distance.
In it, high-profile Washington figures, including one apparently inspired by National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, are depicted as intensely worried about the dollar's possible plunge.
"The Japanese move too slowly," the character says in one scene. "They're so slow. That's why there's no progress on their reform program."
An overly weak dollar will not only set off a job exodus to China and India but will cause capital to flee from America, they fret.
The story suggests that the White House has concocted a diabolical trap to force Tokyo to cough up a massive amount of cash to finance ballooning deficits for the U.S. budget and global trade balance while preventing a crash in U.S. Treasuries.
Big Comic editor Naosumi Nishimura says "Golgo 13" appeals to Japanese because it is a fantasy based on realistic portrayals of current events. Since its start in 1968, "Golgo 13" has sold 200 million copies in various formats, including compilation books.
"Our politics are neutral," Nishimura said, adding that the bad guys and good guys shift from episode to episode. "This is just the way it turned out this time."
The Japan Times: March 18, 2004
(C) All rights reserved
'Manga' spins Japan's forex intervention as evil U.S. plot
By YURI KAGEYAMA
The Associated Press
The plot is sinister: Officials in Washington conspire to keep the dollar low and force Japanese authorities to intervene in the exchange market to buy the U.S. currency -- not to save vulnerable Japanese exporters from the dangers of a high yen, but to keep the U.S. economy from sliding.
This story line from a top selling "manga" comic book in Japan is entertaining and delightfully implausible. Nonetheless, it highlights growing fears here over seesawing currency fluctuations.
There's little doubt that if the yen rises too much against the dollar, Japan's fragile export-driven recovery could sputter. Prices for Japanese products abroad would soar and earnings of major companies would plunge.
It's true that Japanese authorities have been intervening for months, spending a fortune buying and bolstering the value of the dollar while keeping the yen lower.
Now that dry economic reality has been turned inside out to become improbable fictional fodder for fans of "Golgo 13" -- an action hero serial that's featured in the biweekly Big Comic magazine.
The main character of "Golgo 13" is a macho sniper-assassin whose illustrated exploits reflect the big social, political and financial changes on the world scene.
In the latest three-part series he's caught up in the center of a dramatic battle between the yen and dollar.
In the real world, analysts say there's no doubt Japan's shopping spree for dollars is helping the U.S. economy.
"It's keeping U.S. interest rates low and helping push up American share prices," says Mamoru Yamazaki, economist at Barclays Capital Japan in Tokyo.
But Yamazaki believes the intervention campaign has been excessive, fueled by exaggerated fears over a surging yen among Japanese officials and the media.
"Sometimes a strong yen can be a good thing, like from a consumer's point of view," he said, referring to how a strong yen would push down import prices. "Excessive intervention is distorting the market."
Japanese authorities spent a record 20 trillion yen to intervene in the currency market last year to curb the dollar's slide, and about 10 trillion yen in the first two months of this year alone.
Even so, the dollar has fallen more than 10 percent from last year to 105 yen levels in February but has recovered lately. All the while, Japan has been aggressively snatching up U.S. Treasury bonds to keep their currency from getting too strong.
Japanese officials continue to brush aside speculation that interventions may be finally ebbing.
The dollar fell in Tokyo early Wednesday amid continued speculation that Japan's interventions would ease. The greenback cost 108.32 yen at 3 p.m. Wednesday, down 1.30 yen from late Tuesday in Tokyo and also below the 108.78 yen it bought in New York later that day.
"Our stance remains unchanged," Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki told reporters earlier this week. "We believe foreign-exchange rates should move stably in reflection of fundamentals."
It's hardly the dialogue of an action hero. But the creators of "Golgo 13" have spiced things up.
The work includes R-rated sex scenes and blood-spattering violence. Although the assassin Duke Togo has yet to appear in the latest episode, he generally kills his victims by shooting them from a distance.
In it, high-profile Washington figures, including one apparently inspired by National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, are depicted as intensely worried about the dollar's possible plunge.
"The Japanese move too slowly," the character says in one scene. "They're so slow. That's why there's no progress on their reform program."
An overly weak dollar will not only set off a job exodus to China and India but will cause capital to flee from America, they fret.
The story suggests that the White House has concocted a diabolical trap to force Tokyo to cough up a massive amount of cash to finance ballooning deficits for the U.S. budget and global trade balance while preventing a crash in U.S. Treasuries.
Big Comic editor Naosumi Nishimura says "Golgo 13" appeals to Japanese because it is a fantasy based on realistic portrayals of current events. Since its start in 1968, "Golgo 13" has sold 200 million copies in various formats, including compilation books.
"Our politics are neutral," Nishimura said, adding that the bad guys and good guys shift from episode to episode. "This is just the way it turned out this time."
The Japan Times: March 18, 2004
(C) All rights reserved
kirei_na_me
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den4 said:Why does Pretty Eyes is now a Black-Eyed Susan? Been fighting other Advisors?
Silly!
Yeah, jeisan punched me! It hurt, too...
kirei_na_me
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Yeah, right....
mad pierrot
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Actually, at that time I might be heading up towards Osaka to check out Nishino's dojo. I gotta be sure I'll have time off and some extra cash in my pocket first.
(As long as I'm going to Osaka I usually grab some Mexican food in Shinsaibashi... man, it ain't cheap......)
(As long as I'm going to Osaka I usually grab some Mexican food in Shinsaibashi... man, it ain't cheap......)
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mad pierrot said:
Nishino's Dojo is in the Sumiyoshi area so we could meet up and get something to eat around there. I'm also going to the Sumiyoshi Shrine. I'm not eating anything in Japan that I can eat back in the States for 1/10 the price, por exemple, burritos y tacos.
How about Yakiniku?
I'll be staying at the Nankai Hotel in Sakai.
Shinsaibashi . . . isn't that where "America Mura" is?
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Frank D. White said:a Michel Jackson white sequined glove on my left hand & I'll hold my crotch with my right hand so you will know I'm the one your looking for!
Frank
painful, I'd say
mad pierrot
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Sounds like a good idea.
Maybe you could show me exactly where the dojo is! (Still not sure, haven't called them yet...)
If I go, I'll be there the weekend of the 17-18th, crashing at my friends house, not far from the JR station. Yeah, I dig yakiniku. Heh, if I were you, wouldn't wanna spend a ton of cash on Japanese-Mexican food, either!
Oh yeah, it's not far from Ame-mura. That place cracks me up. Japanese people wearing Fubu-clothes, and gaikokujin trying to be Japanese. It's like a messed-up scene from Blade Runner!
Maybe you could show me exactly where the dojo is! (Still not sure, haven't called them yet...)
If I go, I'll be there the weekend of the 17-18th, crashing at my friends house, not far from the JR station. Yeah, I dig yakiniku. Heh, if I were you, wouldn't wanna spend a ton of cash on Japanese-Mexican food, either!
Oh yeah, it's not far from Ame-mura. That place cracks me up. Japanese people wearing Fubu-clothes, and gaikokujin trying to be Japanese. It's like a messed-up scene from Blade Runner!
Golgo_13
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mad pierrot said:Maybe you could show me exactly where the dojo is! (Still not sure, haven't called them yet...)
If I go, I'll be there the weekend of the 17-18th, crashing at my friends house, not far from the JR station. Yeah, I dig yakiniku. Heh, if I were you, wouldn't wanna spend a ton of cash on Japanese-Mexican food, either!
Oh yeah, it's not far from Ame-mura. That place cracks me up. Japanese people wearing Fubu-clothes, and gaikokujin trying to be Japanese. It's like a messed-up scene from Blade Runner!
I don't know where the Dojo is either. It costs a fortune to call from the U.S. so I was gonna call once I got to Osaka. We still have time to work this out.
mad pierrot
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Cool. In that case, I'll just call from here and see how much I can get with my Japanese. I'll ask around!
Golgo_13
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Oniichan,
I just found this site on Kozo Nishino's Dojo. Check it out. There's an English version of it.
西野流呼吸法・西野塾・公式ホームページ
I just found this site on Kozo Nishino's Dojo. Check it out. There's an English version of it.
西野流呼吸法・西野塾・公式ホームページ
mad pierrot
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Wow. Great website!!! I wonder why I never found it, I searched high and low on the net for information. Btw, is Golgo 13 a TV series or a movie? I caught a show on NHK last weekend with a guy who looks EXACTLY like your avatar.
Golgo_13
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Golgo 13 is one of the longest running manga comic series in history. Its Tankouhon (individual trade paperback issues) currently run 132 volumes. It has been made into films, with Takakura Ken and Chiba Shin'ichi playing Golgo_13, as well as into anime which was probbaly what you saw.
Too bad I'm not in show business anymore. I could play him.
Too bad I'm not in show business anymore. I could play him.
Golgo_13
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Piero Oniichan,
If you're coming from Wakayama, I guess you'll be taking the JR Hanwa line. You'd have to transfer to the north-bound Nankai Kouya-line at the Mikunigaoka station, then take a local to the Tezukayama station.
Once you get off the train, the map on the site is pretty clear.
I've e-mailed them and asked if it would be possible for me , as a visitor, to do a "Tai-Ki" with Nishino sensei or one of the instructors. I can produce pretty strong Chi. I haven't heard from them yet.
Read on the site about the experiences of some of the foreignors who have experienced Nishino-style Chi Kung. There was a professor from MIT or somewhere.
If you're coming from Wakayama, I guess you'll be taking the JR Hanwa line. You'd have to transfer to the north-bound Nankai Kouya-line at the Mikunigaoka station, then take a local to the Tezukayama station.
Once you get off the train, the map on the site is pretty clear.
I've e-mailed them and asked if it would be possible for me , as a visitor, to do a "Tai-Ki" with Nishino sensei or one of the instructors. I can produce pretty strong Chi. I haven't heard from them yet.
Read on the site about the experiences of some of the foreignors who have experienced Nishino-style Chi Kung. There was a professor from MIT or somewhere.
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Hi Golgo_13,
I窶冦 very interested to Nishino Breathing Method, and I practice it at home.
Did you meet Nishino Sensei ? Have you done Taiki ?
Thanks
I窶冦 very interested to Nishino Breathing Method, and I practice it at home.
Did you meet Nishino Sensei ? Have you done Taiki ?
Thanks
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Golgo hasn't posted here in almost two years, I'm afraid your question might not reach him, nishino-san.
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Golgo_13 said:
Bumped forward for nishino_aiki87
Frank
