From: ishikawa@ds5200.personal-media.co.jp (Chiaki Ishikawa)
Newsgroups: fj.misc
Subject: Re: Tokyo Journal, Heroes, Fukushima Mizuho
Date: 9 Sep 92 16:42:20 GMT
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Organization: Personal Media Corp., Tokyo Japan
In-reply-to: dave@pipi.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp's message of 9 Sep 92 11:27:34 GMT

In article <DAVE.92Sep9202748@pipi.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp> dave@pipi.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp (David Wuertele) writes:

   How many people here read Tokyo Journal?
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I once did when someone I know/knew wrote article(s) there. The food
review in it really made me droll although I never really check the
restaurants there.
Since this article seems to be about hero/anti-hero list, I didn't
bother to cross post to fj.books. Are NG cops everywhere? Just kidding!!!

   My favorite section is "The Conversation," interviews with prominent Tokyo
   people.  This month the interviewee was Fukushima Mizuho, a laywer and
   women's (and foreigners') rights activist.  I really enjoyed it, and I
   just wish the interview was longer.
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   If I were to make a list of Tokyo Hero(ine/e)s, she would definitely be in
   it.  (And Dave Specter would be in the list of Tokyo Anti-heroes)

   Who else could we include in this list?

A Dumb question.  Why do you include Dave Specter in the Tokyo
Anit-heroes? He sometimes (not ALWAYS) does an interesting interview
in weekly Bunsyun (in japanese). The recent one with a
nationalistic(?) composer Mayuzumi was interesting piece to learn
about what Mayuzumi is thinking (not about Dave Specter, mind you. He
speaks Japanese too much :-) and terrible jokes sometimes at that :-);-))

For a list for the hero, do the people have to live in Tokyo? I want
to include a writer, Inoue Hisashi, but I think he lives in Chiba or
somewhere.

Or I might want to add Okadome who is the editor of an alternative
type information magazine called Uwasa no Shinso (Truth behind the
rumors).  You may call it underground magazine because it publishes
many stories about scandals which are likely to be suppressed in major
media:every day newspaper, TV, etc.. Sort of agressive type Mother
Jones, I suppose. But more intent on the scandalous stories on
politicians, TV stars, etc.. So maybe national inquirer with political
bent? I think his magazine or office was attacked by the rightist
extremist groups when he published a pornography(?) with the emperor's
family thrown in the plot. Big printing shops refused to print his
magazine until recently after the incident. Don't know if he lives in
Tokyo, though. I don't regularly read it, but one of my friends did,
and sure enough some times it carries very revealing information.  But
it used to be an embarrassment to buy it because right at the back of
the covers were ads for adult video! You don't want to open in on a
train, see. Not in the last issue I bought. I think they are going
mainstream somehow.  Writer Tsutsui has his day in the magazine
denouncing a critque of his works to his heart content. Kind of fun
to see all the expletives thrown at a literature critique by a famous
writer :-) Publishing this type of magazine does require some form of
courage and we should count him in hero list (at least near the bottom).
[Maybe Okadome ought to be in also anti-hero list. Cause you don't
want to be a hero whose image is tarnished in his magazine, and so he
is anti-hero, got it? :-)... (Er..., this is NOT the yor original meaning of
anti-hero, of course(?)]

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