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2月18日 Miss Rikudoru, we bid you farewell!!! In Japan there is an idol (idoru/アイドル) for every age, profession and sexual orientation. Otakus have them, cram school teachers have them, too and even METI public servants have them. And what about the Jieitai (自衛隊) or so-called Self-Defence Forces? Of course, they couldn't continue with their rebuilding programme in Samawah (Iraq) unblocking sewage drains and fixing light bulbs without their own pin-up to shorten up their lonely nights in the desert. And this tonic in the shape of a woman is Wakada Fukushima (福島和可菜) AKA "Rikudoru" (リクドル, a combination of the terms "rikugun" , 陸軍 or army, and idoru). But, hang on! because this muse of the Japanese spirit (Yamato damashii, 大和魂) has just retired. And this very same morning at that temple of enlightenment on Fuji TV called "Megamashi Terebi" she made a final guest appearance. Please send a warm "hip, hip, hooray" to this much-needed army morale builder's personal blog. 2月9日 Sportswomen Fetish/スポーウーマンのフェチJapan has a fetish, among innumerable others, for its sportswomen. You name the sport and you'll get them: golfers (Ai Miyazato, 宮里 藍 Sakura Yokomine, 横峯さくら), figure skaters (Miki Ando, : 安藤美姫), skiers (Aiko Uemura, 上村愛子), snowboarders (Mero Imai, 今井メロ), volleyball players (Kaoru Sugayama, 菅山かおる, but really the whole team had be to included, for example Megumi Kurihara, 栗原恵, Sachiko Sugiyama, 杉山祥子, Saori Kimura, 木村沙織 ) and so on. Nevertheless, the prize for the most desired sportswomen has to go to beach volleyball player Miwa Asao (浅尾美和) and "Ogushio" (オグシオ), the nickname given to the doubles badminton team, Kumiko Ogura (Ogu, 小椋 久美子) and Reiko Shiota (Shio, 潮田 玲子 ). Fuji TV, that bastion of lowbrow entertainment, has become the number one sponsor of these sports queens, through programmes like "Junk Sports"(ジャンクSPORTS) hosted by Downtown member Masatoshi Hamada (浜田 雅功) or their hijack of last year's Volleyball World Cup and the year before World Championship hosted by Japan. In a shameless display of chauvinism, Fuji TV almost never showed a replay of a point scored by the rival team, concentrating only on the movements of their national idols cheered by a mass of patriotic Japanese supporters, the ubiquitous bunch of talento parasites an upcoming boy band that the channel is trying to promote (This use of boy and girl bands to "liven up" volleyball games is a constant in Japan TV practices to promote them. Just an example, in 1999, Arashi's debut single, simply titled "A・RA・SHI", became the theme song for the 8th World Cup of Volleyball hosted by Japan in that year. Recently, the morning programme preferred by Japanese teenagers, Mezamashi Terebi (めざましテレビ), presented a new female sports idol, the car racer Mika Kagoshima (神子島みか), who happens to be also a model with gigantic eyes. The type of girls chosen by current fashion magazines to illustrate their front pages. This ocular feature is emphasized so much that the girls really look like they have been through a session of Ludovico Technique. One can imagine those Ero Jiji at Fuji TV board of directors, headed by chairman Hisashi Hieda （日枝久) grinning their teeth at the prospect of a new sports idol generating loads of free publicity and higher viewing rates for their own channel. |
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