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the Japanese surely love their panty shots....every guy seems to be getting in the act.
Top baseball commentator the latest to strike out in NTV's string of sex scandals
Perhaps the "N" in NTV stands for "naughty" considering the number of its announcers getting caught up in sordid sex scandals, suggests Shukan Bunshun (10/5).
Just a couple of months after NTV announcer Sosuke Sumitani was allegedly sprung using a hidden camera to film up an unsuspecting woman's skirt, now one of the network's most prominent talking heads is in hot water for sexual harassment.
Masashi Funakoshi held down the prime job of commentating on baseball games involving NTV affiliate, the Yomiuri Giants, in what is probably one of the most appealing jobs in Japanese sports broadcasting.
But that wasn't all the 44-year-old Funakoshi held, with a young woman working at an NTV regional affiliate saying that the silky-voiced sleaze gave her bosoms a squeeze. Reporters who've covered the case say it was a lot more than that.
"What he did was simply wicked," a reporter covering the case for a sports newspaper tells Shukan Bunshun.
Funakoshi's alleged sexual harassment occurred during the summer when the Giants played in the country, with the regional affiliate throwing a whopping party for the commentary once the game was over. Funakoshi found himself sitting next to a young woman working for the regional station.
"She's cute with big, round eyes and looks pretty wholesome. She's pretty enough to have been a beauty contest finalist during her college days," an insider at the affiliate says.
With the young woman sitting down next to him, Funakoshi started quaffing away, boasting about how he was destined to rise up through the network's ranks.
As Funakoshi bragged about one of the signature moments of his career -- attracting hundreds of complaints from viewers after he screamed "goal" at the top of his voice over 30 times upon Japan scoring in a 2000 Sydney Olympics soccer match -- the young woman turned to him and told the Voice of Japanese Baseball how she had always admired him. Funakoshi told the woman that she had "scored a goal."
He continued drinking and the drunker he got, the closer Funakoshi moved toward the young woman still gazing at him with star struck eyes. The party continued at a karaoke bar where Funakoshi grabbed the young woman, hugging her, wrapping his arm around her waist or slapping it across her shoulders as he caroused. When the singing ended, Funakoshi asked the young woman to accompany him to one more location, telling her that he was close friends with NTV executives and promising to find her a job at the network if she played along.
"The woman was forced to accompany Funakoshi on a cab ride back to his hotel. Once they were alone, he roughly squeezed her breasts, clutched her thighs and thrust his hand up her skirt. He was so rough, her thighs were riddled with bruises," the affiliate insider says. "Tthe woman thought about going to the cops to report him. But she could also see the chance of getting the job she'd always dreamed of and could do little more than cry her eyes out."
Eventually, though, the woman was so humiliated by what she'd been through, she reported the incident to her bosses, who filed a protest with NTV. Funakoshi initially denied the allegations, saying that he had been too drunk to remember anything. But then more stories of his transformation after a few drinks into a rampant pervert prompted NTV to act.
"We are not talking about the details of the case," an NTV spokesman tells Shukan Bunshun. "However, it is a fact that one of our employees violated the employee code of conduct and has been punished accordingly in line with that code." (By Ryann Connell)
the Japanese surely love their panty shots....every guy seems to be getting in the act.
Top baseball commentator the latest to strike out in NTV's string of sex scandals
Perhaps the "N" in NTV stands for "naughty" considering the number of its announcers getting caught up in sordid sex scandals, suggests Shukan Bunshun (10/5).
A Japanese mental health counselor recited pi to 100,000 decimal places from memory on Wednesday, setting what he claims to be a new world record.
Akira Haraguchi, 60, needed more than 16 hours to recite the number to 100,000 decimal places, breaking his personal best of 83,431 digits set in 1995, his office said Wednesday. He made the attempt at a public hall in Kisarazu, just east of Tokyo.
Pi is a physical constant defined as the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.
It is usually written out to a maximum of three decimal places, as 3.141, in math textbooks. But the number, which has fascinated scientists for centuries, has no theoretical limit to the number of decimal places it can be written to. It is a constant that appears in the proofs of many equations defining the universe.
"What I am aiming at is not just memorizing figures, I am thrilled by seeking a story in pi," Haraguchi said.
The Guinness Book of Records currently lists Hiroyuki Goto, also from Japan, as the official record holder for reciting pi from memory. He recited the ratio out to 42,195 decimal places in 1995.
Guinness never entered Haraguchi's 1995 feat in its record book. The editors of the book could not be immediately reached for comment regarding Haraguchi's latest attempt.
Haraguchi, a psychiatric counselor and business consultant in nearby Mobara city, took a break of about 5 minutes every one to two hours, going to the rest room and eating rice balls during the attempt, said Naoki Fujii, spokesman of Haraguchi's office.
Fujii said all of Haraguchi's activities during the attempt, including his bathroom breaks, were videotaped for evidence that will later be sent for verification by the Guinness Book of Records.
Two local education officials joined 29 conference hall staff who worked in rotation to monitor Haraguchi.
Haraguchi, who began reciting pi at 9 a.m. Tuesday, reached his previous record of 83,431 digits Tuesday night, finishing exactly at 100,000 digits at 1:28 a.m. Wednesday, Fujii said.
In 2002, University of Tokyo mathematicians, aided by a supercomputer, set the world record for figuring out pi to 1.24 trillion decimal places.
Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 46182 Location: Los Skandolous, California Country:
Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 11:06 pm Post subject:
bmwracer wrote:
Gee, and I thought I needed to get a life:
Man recites pi to 100,000 places
A Japanese mental health counselor recited pi to 100,000 decimal places from memory on Wednesday, setting what he claims to be a new world record.
Akira Haraguchi, 60, needed more than 16 hours to recite the number to 100,000 decimal places, breaking his personal best of 83,431 digits set in 1995, his office said Wednesday. He made the attempt at a public hall in Kisarazu, just east of Tokyo.
Pi is a physical constant defined as the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.
It is usually written out to a maximum of three decimal places, as 3.141, in math textbooks. But the number, which has fascinated scientists for centuries, has no theoretical limit to the number of decimal places it can be written to. It is a constant that appears in the proofs of many equations defining the universe.
"What I am aiming at is not just memorizing figures, I am thrilled by seeking a story in pi," Haraguchi said.
The Guinness Book of Records currently lists Hiroyuki Goto, also from Japan, as the official record holder for reciting pi from memory. He recited the ratio out to 42,195 decimal places in 1995.
Guinness never entered Haraguchi's 1995 feat in its record book. The editors of the book could not be immediately reached for comment regarding Haraguchi's latest attempt.
Haraguchi, a psychiatric counselor and business consultant in nearby Mobara city, took a break of about 5 minutes every one to two hours, going to the rest room and eating rice balls during the attempt, said Naoki Fujii, spokesman of Haraguchi's office.
Fujii said all of Haraguchi's activities during the attempt, including his bathroom breaks, were videotaped for evidence that will later be sent for verification by the Guinness Book of Records.
Two local education officials joined 29 conference hall staff who worked in rotation to monitor Haraguchi.
Haraguchi, who began reciting pi at 9 a.m. Tuesday, reached his previous record of 83,431 digits Tuesday night, finishing exactly at 100,000 digits at 1:28 a.m. Wednesday, Fujii said.
In 2002, University of Tokyo mathematicians, aided by a supercomputer, set the world record for figuring out pi to 1.24 trillion decimal places.
i read that this morning...friekin' amazing....albeit unpractical perhaps.
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yeah to use a slang euphemism, "he gets all the b*tches" 
