Mishima stuff to be auctioned July 2, 2009 - StraitsTimes.com
TOKYO - A Japanese bookseller will on Sunday auction off letters and photos of the nationalist author and poet Yukio Mishima, famous for his writings and his public samurai-style suicide in 1970…
….The 1967 and 1970 letters, addressed to his American friend Jan von Adlmann, an art museum director, hint at a possibly intimate relationship between them…
…Mishima in both letters spoke of Saint Sebastian, a third-century Roman martyr and an oft cited symbolic figure of homosexuality…Mishima enclosed black-and-white photos showing himself posing naked as Saint Sebastian, with his wrists tied up over his head and bleeding with arrows piercing his body…more...
Although the news reports about this don’t make it clear, the photo above of Mishima as Saint Sebastian seems to be, “One of the photos was made public for the first time,” according to antiquarian bookseller Shigeru Natsume, who went on to say that, “I suppose it was not allowed to be published as it shows his naked lower body, although Mishima seemed to have liked it better.”
That photo is certainly more-over-the-top than the “standard” Saint Sebastian photo that Mishima’s estate had released years ago (below).
Coming soon to Burger King Japan
The copy from the above ad of Burger King Singapore actually reads (via Fox News)…
“…Fill your desire for something long, juicy and flame-grilled with the NEW BK SUPER SEVEN INCHER. Yearn for more after you taste…”
Need I write more?
Fuji circuit withdraws from F1, report says Agencies | 2009-July-2 —Toyota-owned Fuji International Speedway is reportedly planning to pull out of hosting the 2010 Japanese Formula One Grand Prix…
…Toyota has been hit by the global economic downturn….the current fiscal year through March 2010 to be its worst ever financially, forecasting a net loss of US$5.7 billion.
Fuji Speedway hosted the Japanese Grand Prix in 2007 and 2008 for the first time in 30 years, replacing the Honda-owned Suzuka circuit. The 2009 Japanese Grand Prix will be held at Suzuka, near the city of Nagoya. It was expected that the race would alternate between Suzuka and Fuji beginning this year…more...
FANS STEAL LEONARDO DICAPRIO’S SNEAKERS nypost.com - June 29, 2009…. During a visit to a hilltop shrine in Kyoto…DiCaprio was asked by a couple of fans to pose for a picture — but he declined, pointing to a sign prohibiting photography on the premises. Feeling slighted, the fans waited until he removed his Nike Dunks to enter the temple and then stole them.”…more...
No, no, no, this Japanese gadget does not have anything to to do with the previous 3Yen reports on the Robot hand-job or the always fun venue in Tokyo once a year, the Adult Treasure Expo.
Combine this brainwave control with Toyota’s i-Real electric vehicle covered on the 3Yen yesterday (2009-06-28), and BINGO, you have a winner.
BSI-TOYOTA Collaboration Center Develops Real-time Control of Wheelchairs with Brain Waves June 29, 2009 - RIKEN - TOYOTA …succeeded in developing a system which utilizes one of the fastest technologies in the world, controlling a wheelchair using brain waves…new system fuses RIKEN’s blind signal separation1 and space-time-frequency filtering2 technology to allow brain-wave analysis in as little as 125 ms, as compared to several seconds required by conventional methods.…more…
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