Baby Kiki!

Walking in a Neon Wonderland

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September 18th 2008
Training to be a Sumo involves pleasure ("eat, you fat feck!"), and pain ("train, you lardy layabout!"), in roughly equal measures. A left over from imperial society, the fledging fatsos are beaten within an inch of their flabby lives by over enthusiastic trainers for indescritions such as: - throwing salt in the wrong part of the ring (unsurprisingly, given their enormous girth, condiments ar ... read more

Asia » Japan » Tokyo

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In 1603, a Tokugawa shogunate (military dictatorship) ushered in a long period of isolation from foreign influence in order to secure its power. For 250 years this policy enabled Japan to enjoy stability and a flowering of its indigenous culture. Fol... ... read more