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9月29日 Tabe Sugi: Burst Open!It is a fact that the so-called Japanese TV talentos are the exact opposite of what their job implies, people without a single hint of talent. TV programmes from the major channels such as Fuji TV and TBS can be seen as pig farms where these social parasites are shown being continuously fed with the best food you can find in Japan until slaughter time comes, that is when their popularity stars to fade and before you know it, they have evaporated from the small screen. And this takes us to this message topic "overeating", or in Japanese tabe sugi, because this is Gyaru Sone's main talent. This gluttonous queen has appeared in various programmes quite recently. In one of these programmes Sone (1,62m and 43kg) is taken to a sushi restaurant and gobbled down 120 pieces of sushi. Later, at a clinic, she is put in a multislice TC scanner, and it is revealed that her stomach has expanded 15 times its size. A doctor explains us how Sone has trained her stomach to be able to expand to such a size, just like athletes trained their bodies, oh really? So how can she keep herself so slim? Through a thermal video we see how Sone is able to increase her body temperature by 1.5 centigrades in a matter of 7 minutes, which means she is able to burn calories as she gulps down her food. That and the massive elephant-size dumps she takes the next morning helps her to keep her figure. So no help from two little fingers down the throat is needed, then. But of course, eating such a massive amount of food can't be very healthy, can it? Not really, says a doctor. Future health problems that this disproportionate eating habits could cause, nevertheless don't prevent the TV programme from asking Sone to compete in the studio with other talento parasites. How is that for moral responsibility? And how is that for one of lowest form of entertainment you can find in salariman island? Gyaru Sone is just one of those tragic figures in modern TV culture with a popularity-seeking disorder. The best thing it could happen to her to enter into the annals of history is to have a last grand bouffe and burst open to death. We don't really need the case of Africa to highlight the enormous waste of food and lack of ethics of this kind of entertainment. Living in the second largest economy in the world and seeing a woman with a weight of 43 kilos unnecessarily shovelling 120 pieces of sushi for free without tasting a single piece whereas some children in Japanese state schools get by with a couple of onigiri or a melonpan as the only the food they have until dinner is similarly disgusting. 9月22日 NHK newsreaders are humans!So NHK newsreaders are humans after all. Quite recently, and possibly copying the format of other news channels, the newsreaders of NHK news programme Ohayo Nippon, Matsuo Tsuyoshi and Nachiko Shudo, have started the news with some vacuous, and well-rehearsed, small talk to enliven the rest of the programme. Something on the lines of how cheap the sanma (mackerel pike) is this year because fishermen don’t have to sail too far to catch it, saving in fuel and so on. The only trait of humanness they have shown so far has been when the programme switches to the weather report or sports news. At this point, NHK newsreaders show they can truly produce improvise commentaries and questions and can delight the audience with an amazing range of facial expressions and vocal tonalities. Nevertheless, when the tiny Nachiko Shudo, literally descends from her stand (not lying, check this photo) to join Yasutaka Tamura, he does really like a Japanese teacher and what an awful sense of fashion he has, to present (machikado) is time to switch to the competitors. NHK newsreaders are famous for their normative Japanese pitch accident, no doubt about that. Their accent is clear, crisp and beautifully flat. But some seem to concentrate so much on the right articulation of words that forget that, after all, they are reporting news. Watching NHK news can have the same effects of a Zelpodim overdose. 9月16日 Things you will never see on Japanese TVThere are a few things you'll never see on Japanese
TV. One of them is representatives of the police forces appearing in news and given details about cases. It's very weird. The police basically hand in written reports to the TV
channels and these just read them as if they were written in stone. Thus, TV channels become mouthpieces for the police, another case of Japanese being afraid of challenging authority, unless the police really screw it up, as when 13 men and women, ranging in age from their early 50s to mid-70s, were wrongly arrested and indicted with buying votes with liquor, cash and catered parties (see Japan Times). Another thing you will never see on Japanese TV is a day without news about North Korea. Japanese news have an obsession with the communist country bordering on the pathological. Anything really goes to keep the Japanese population scared of the red peril and, at the same time, interested in the case of the Japanese civilians kidnapped and still some accounted for by North Korea, with the effect of mitigating cries of several human rights groups calling the Japanese government to admit that the Japanese Army had forced women into prostitution along with other war wrongdoings. Soon will have reports of a North Korean plot to poison expensive matsutake mushrooms, an Autumn delicacy in Japan, that are shipped to Japan. 9月2日 "Nice backside, Ms Campbell", says Yuji ODATBS (Tokyo Broadcasting System) has done a fantastic job in its coverage of the Athletics World Championships in Osaka by focusing, almost exclusively, in
the top stars and the Japanese athletes and ignoring everyone else.
Two examples are the voyeuristic, stalking like, camera licking manner of reporting pole vaulting champion Yelena
Isinbayeva, which comes as no surprise knowing the acute fetish that the Japanese media has for sportswomen. And of course, the sickening and grinding repetition of the
4x100-metre relay semifinal in which the samurai-tachi (the samurai
group) finished 3rd managing to qualify for the final. And let's not talk about the professionalism of some of TBS commentators. What is a bad singer like Beni Arashiro doing reporting a World Athletics Championship? And are announcers Sonoko Yamagata and Mai Demizu able to think of other questions apart from "How do you feel (after the event)?" or make other comments except "many people are waiting for a world record..."). However, no one could top Yuji Oda for his sagacity. If you didn't hate him enough for his bad singing and acting, then his loud, vacuous, repetitive growls should have done the job. But the cherry on this amazing reporting cake was when he had the brilliant idea of commenting on Veronica Campbell as having a nice backside. I am really sure that many at home, whether men or women, have the same kind of thoughts when looking at the fantastic body proportions of many athletes. But is it really OK to say that on live TV? With only 4-5 minutes of continuous live broadcast between never-ending commercial breaks, the emission was a complete success in missing exciting moments that the editor then had to hurriedly chopped up and present in a messy, ultra-fast collage of highlights. And again, with the exception of the opening day and Saturday 1st August (probably due to the systematic bombardment of images from Friday's 4x100-metre relay semifinal, which gave then a mythologising effect and artificially inflated the hype for Saturday's final) the stadium has looked day and night pretty empty. Could have been the 7,000 yen that the cheapest ticket cost a deterrent? Or the fact that Japanese (pretend to) work until so late that couldn't even make it for the last event of the day? Or the asphyxiating heat and humidity? Still, I wouldn't go as far as El Mundo "sports journalist" Eduardo J. Castelao in ridiculing the underperformance of the Japanese athletic team as one of the reasons for explaining the failure of the games. His patronizing words clearly blinds him from seeing objectively the performance of his own country's team, only able, with some exceptions, to secure medals in the unglamorous sport of 20 km walk. Or the fact that Spain has recently achieved unprecedented success in events such as women's 400 metres, 60/100 metres hurdles and long jump or men's 110 metres hurdles thanks to the naturalization of a foreign legion of athletes such as Sandra Myers born in USA, Niurka Montalvo and Joan Lino Martinez born in Cuba, Glory Alozie born in Nigeria, and more recently Jackson Quiñonez born in Ecuador, who has become the first Spanish 110 metres hurdles finalist of the games. Other naturalised athletes are Alicia Matejkova, Yusef El Masri, Kamel Ziani, Yesenia Centeno, Cora Olivero and Aliuska Lopez. Related links: TBS sport experts Quiñónez, el activo más importante en la amplia lista de España |
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