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Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 4:25 am Post subject:
Shocking Photograph Of Koizumi Remains Unpublished
Kyodo via Japan Today: Koizumi fell to his knees before Bush at 2002 summit, book says Former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi fell to his knees and prostrated himself before U.S. President George W Bush in a playful show of customary Japanese bowing during the 2002 summit of the Group of Eight major powers, a French photographer has written in a recently published book. Pascal Rostain relates this anecdote in the tell-all book "Scoop," which he co-authored with another renowned French photographer, Bruno Mouron. The book, which gives the inside story of their news coverage, says Jacques Chirac, a well-known Japanophile, spoke of the different ways of bowing in Japan depending on who one is facing. Koizumi then came up in front of Bush and said the way to bow before you is this, and fell down on both his knees and prostrated himself. Rostain took a photograph of that moment but is not making it public saying it could shock the Japanese public.
All this talk about it, yet I have no visual evidence.
If I take a picture just for the sake of showing people here, I'll be cheapening myself in my own morals. You don't want me to do that now, do you? _________________
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Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 9:37 am Post subject:
Wynter wrote:
If I take a picture just for the sake of showing people here, I'll be cheapening myself in my own morals. You don't want me to do that now, do you?
Of course you should never cheapen yourself. However posting a picture of yourself with your cleavage prominently displayed serves to settle a query in this case - the guys here are merely interested in an academic sense.
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Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 4:28 am Post subject:
Postcard Mailed During WWII Reaches Japanese Man
TOKYO - A postcard that a Japanese soldier mailed from a Southeast Asian battlefront during World War II has reached a recipient in Japan 64 years later, a university whose student helped deliver it said Saturday.
Shizuo Nagano, an 80-year-old retiree in Japan's southwestern state of Kochi, received the card Friday — by way of Nagasaki, Arizona and Hawaii — said a statement from Mukogawa Women's University.
Nagano's former colleague at a retail store, Nobuchika Yamashita mailed the card in 1943 from Burma, now called Myanmar, a year before Yamashita died at war at age 23, the university statement said.
It said the card had initially failed to reach Nagano's address in Nagasaki, and was instead collected there by an American soldier during the U.S. occupation after Japan's 1945 defeat.
The American kept it at his Arizona home until he died 25 years ago and was kept by his son — who moved to the Hawaiian island of Maui and then gave the letter to a Japanese exchange student he met through his wife, who taught her sewing, the statement said.
"I never would have guessed I could see (Yamashita) again this way ... I'm overwhelmed," Nagano said as he was handed the postcard by the student, who spent two years after her return from Maui trying to find Nagano through the government. The student, Yuko Kojima, is now a sophomore at Mukogawa Women's University.
Of course you should never cheapen yourself. However posting a picture of yourself with your cleavage prominently displayed serves to settle a query in this case - the guys here are merely interested in an academic sense.
LOL! Well... in that case.
I've posted a link to my cleav on my site, but it's hidden. You'll have to find it. Mwahaha. _________________
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