Bonifide Magazine is teaming up with Soundcrash for a launch party and to help raise money for Japanese earthquake relief. DJ Kentaro, Smerins Anti-Social Club and Mr Thing in room 1 whilst we’re very excited to host the Ian Drury of rap, Infinite Livez and bright young thing Bullion in room 2, not to forget our very ‘press-play-and-stop’ CDJ specialists who are bound to unnerve Kentaro.
Infinite Lives Japan inspired mini-mix ahead of his performance on Saturday. Boredoms – We Never Sleep Ryuichi Sakamoto – Riot in Lagos MimiCof – Nw Can – Vitamin C Ryuichi Sakamoto – Differencia Melt Banana – Spathic!! Kyoka – Ybe Ybe Infinite Livez – R Yeah
NISA via JIJI Press – Handout provided by Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) shows engineers checking …
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TOKYO – Japan was rattled by a strong aftershock and tsunami warning Thursday night nearly a month after a devastating earthquake and tsunami flattened the northeastern coast.
Announcers on Japan's public broadcaster NHK told coastal residents to run to higher ground and away from the shore.
The Japan meteorological agency issued a tsunami warning for a wave of up to 6 feet (two meters) after the magnitude-7.4 aftershock. The warning was issued for a coastal area already torn apart by last month's tsunami, which is believed to have killed some 25,000 people and has sparked an ongoing crisis at a nuclear power plant.
Officials at the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant said there's no immediate sign of new problems caused by the aftershock. Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said it evacuated two workers there and seven at a sister plant to the south that was not badly damaged.
Officials say Thursday's aftershock hit 16 miles (25 kilometers) under the water and off the coast of Miyagi prefecture. The quake that preceded last month's tsunami was a 9.0-magnitude.
Buildings as far away as Tokyo shook for about a minute.
In Ichinoseki, inland from Japan's eastern coast, buildings shook violently, knocking items from shelves and toppling furniture, but there was no heavy damage to the buildings themselves. Immediately after the quake, all power was cut. The city went dark, but cars drove around normally and people assembled in the streets despite the late hour.
Paul Caruso, a geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo., said Thursday's quake struck at about the same location and depth as the March 11 quake. It's the strongest of the more than 1,000 aftershocks that have been felt since, except for a 7.9 aftershock that day.
The USGS said the aftershock struck off the eastern coast 40 miles (65 kilometers) from Sendai and 70 miles (115 kilometers) from Fukushima. It was about 205 miles (330 kilometers) from Tokyo.
A Pacific Tsunami Warning Center evaluation of the quake said an oceanwide tsunami was not expected. However, it noted quakes of that strength can cause waves that are destructive locally.
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Associated Press writer Colleen Slevin contributed to this report from Denver, Colorado.
Legendary L.A. OG Slick shows some Japan Love buy yours NOW Avilable here
Slick at work designing the shirt
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A DANCE FOR JAPAN AT PLASTIC PEOPLE, FRIDAY 18TH MARCH WITH ASHLEY BEEDLE, LEO ZERO, FAZE ACTION, YAM WHO...
Following the tragic events that have unfolded in Japan over the last few days we have gathered together a group of DJs to bring you a Dance for Japan to raise money for the Japan earthquake and tsunami appeal. This event will be held at Plastic People in Shoreditch, London, on Friday 18th March.
In the last entry I mentioned Yuzuki Aikawa as a member of the Stardom roster. Yuzuki was born on May 16th, 1983 in Niihama, Ehime, Japan. Before wrestling, she was a popular Japanese Idol and also started a singing group called P-ch!. And she has eight years training in Taekwondo as well as some training in shoot boxing (which involves kicking, punching, kneeing, throwing, and standing submissions). She began her wrestling training in May of 2010 and made her debut on October 31st at the Shin-Kiba 1st Ring (although she gave a demonstration earlier in October at NOSAWA BOMBAYE 6). At that event she took on and lost to Nanae Takahashi. Even though she lost, some observers said that she aquitted herself quite well. Mainly because she took a serious beating from Nanae and hung in there.
See?
Then on February 6th, 2011 she defeated Yumiko Hotta which didn't hurt her reputation at all. Her finishing move is the Yuzupon Kick (axe kick).
Kana is a real favorite on this blog, and I'm expecting Mio Shirai to become one as well.
Mio was once one half of The Sexy Purple Thunder Sisters with Io Shirai, though I don’t know if they are still tag teaming or not.
But here is a video posted by the legendary nagashimark on YouTube of Kana taking on Mio at at show by the Japanese wrestling promotion NEO, back in February of this year in...well…in Japan of course.
This match doesn’t have the high flying, high risk moves that you see a lot of times in Joshi. These ladies go down to the mat for some MMA style submission wrestling.
First Mio comes in, looking more like a female mixed martial arts fighter than a wrestler...
Then Kana comes in looking more like a female wrestler than a MMA fighter and gives Mio a nice look of disgust...or maybe contempt..
The match starts off more like kick boxing or Muay Thai....
But soon these two ladies hit the mat and begin exchanging holds and counters at an impressive speed...
After a brief exchange, Mio winds up on the receiving end of a leg lock from Kana...
Another quick exchange of holds, and Kana winds up with what looks like maybe a kneeling figure four leg lock?...
Again, Kana goes after the leg...
Now Mio comes up with her own leg lock and repays the punishment...
But Kana reverses back and traps Mio in a very painful looking arm bar (Seated armbar?)....
Here we go back to nagashimark, and a video posted of Tomoka Nakagawa taking on Mima Shimoda. Well why not? We had Mima Shimoda wrestling Etsuko Mita a few weeks ago, then Hiren wrestling Tomoko Nakagawa, so I guess this is a logical progression.
Anyway, we start off with Tomoka....
Then Mima in her corner, looking like she really doesnt like Tomoka, or anything near her for that matter...
After a few exchanges, Mima gets Tomoka down and locks on a Boston Crab...
Then she stands Tomoka up, and sinks her teeth into her forearm...
Mima stays in control, grabbing Tomoka's hair and planting a knee into the back of her neck...
Finally Tomoka turns the tables, and gets Mima in a modified camel clutch, using Mima's hair...
But Mima reverses back and clamps her own camel clutch on Tomoka. Rather than locking her hands under Tomoka's chin, Mima leaves them open to roll and grind her forearms into Tomoka's face...
That is until she locks down and almost turns Tomoka's head completely around.
This time we have a video posted by HybridDolphinELPS on YouTube of Hiren wrestling Tomoko Nakagawa in Japan for the Oz Academy wrestling promotion. I know Oz Academy started out as a stable, but I think by this time they were putting on their own shows.
This video is a little different from the others as in it is basically a beat down. Oh there are some cool MMA style moves in it, and submission holds that would make a WWE Diva or TNA Knockout (well not all of them) submit in about 30 seconds. But it's pretty much just a one sided attack.
First up you have Hiren. Hiren (Yurie Kaneko) was born on January 16th, 1986 in Katsushika City, Tokyo, Japan and made her pro wrestling debut on July 9th, 2006, wrestling Mariko Yoshida.
And her opponent Tomoko Nakagawa. She was born on September 29th, 1981, in Asahikawa Hokkaido, Japan and made her pro wrestling debut on January 23rd, 2005 with Yuu Yamagata against TAKA Michinoku and Ryota Chikuzen.
Hiren immediately takes control, as her corner people attack Tomoko and really work over her leg, like old school nWo. Then Hiren proceeds to hit her with every spare folding chair in the arena. This must be no DQ.
Focusing on the injured leg, Hiren clamps on a leg lock going for a submission.
In perfect heel style, Hiren smiles and looks like she is really enjoying punishing her opponent.
But Tomoko, isnt about to give up, she escapes and even hopping on one leg, launches her own counter-attack.
Tomoko is too badly damaged though, and quickly Hiren clamps on an ankle lock that would make Kurt Angle or Ken Shamrock proud.
This would have ended a regular match here, but Tomoko refuses to give in, and Hiren adds grinding a boot into the back of Tomoko's head to add insult to injury.
Here is the match in it's entirety, and if you like it, go to HybridDolphinELPS' page and subscribe for even more great Joshi videos.
Tamura Yoshiko, NWA Women's Pacific and NEO-certified Qualified Singles champion
NEO seems to be moving along with their wrestling organization, even though Joshi in general seems to have taken a dip in popularity.
They have four wrestling events listed on their website as upcoming in August. Two Summer Night Fire 09 events at Itabashi Green Hall (August 8th and 15th) , a NEO Show House at West Park General Gymnasium Hitachi Omiya, Ibaraki ( August 16th) and NEO STRONG HOLD IN JAPAN ( August 29th) at the Osaka Prefectural Sports Center Stadium.
The Roster includes... Tamura Yoshiko, NWA Women's Pacific and NEO-certified Qualified Singles champion Inoue Kyouko and Matsumoto Hiroyo NEO Tag Team champions Mita Etsuko, who will be retiring in November Tunney Mouse Princess Miyazaki Tamotsu Aya courage Nagisa Nozaki What NOZOMI Nakamura Yuka Shiina Yuka Satoshi Misa Matsuo Forever
I use the word 'insanity' in the above title because 'Balls-to-the-wall one-small-step-for-man cat-on-a-hot-tin-tin-roof slap-me-round-the-face-and-call-me-Tina unbelievable-awesomeness' was probably a bit too long.
While our culture mandates that the majority of adverts must be safe, inoffensive dross, with across-the board appeal, the Japanese are busy creating some of the best minute-and-a-half moments of beauty ever to grace a TV screen. Take for example computer game adverts. Something we have a history of doing very badly (see Morcambe and Wise and Trevor Brooking trying to sell the Atari). Over here, the Nintendo DS launched with one of the most yawn-worthy and stale moments of boyfriend-girlfriend flirty interaction ever seen. Meanwhile, in Japan, a Wii game is launched with the following campaign:
We get: a smug Lee Ryan lookalike cooing 'that's definitely a keeper' as his overly hot girlfriend digitally alters a photograph so that their skin looks blue. Blue I tell you! Oh how we laughed.
The Japanese get: constellations in the shape of muscles; near naked body builders running through walls; a startling array of rainbows, sheep, aliens, rhinoceroses and penguins; a polar bear in speedos; and a digital representation of Hulk Hogan when he's eighty doing the wanker sign as an over excited man shouts "NAUGHTY, NAUGHTY, NAUGHTY, NICE MUSCLES' over the top. All soundtracked by some lovely female sung Japanese pop.
HOW IS THIS FAIR?
This horrible mismatch continues in every field of advertising and entertainment. We have Duffy advertising Coke. The Japanese have Arnold Schwartzenneger advertising something that may or may not be a drink. In the west, our game shows all now seem to involve an array of talentless buffoons listening to odd members of society cry and sing opera. In the east all their game shows seem to involve members of the public being submitted to humiliating and terrifically painful ordeals, all the while maintaining their good humour:
A while back I mentioned some really good Japanese professional women wrestling matches on YouTube, well here is one from Veoh posted by shupercousin. It's a match between Mima Shimoda and Akira Hokuto from August 30th, 1995. Mima Shimoda, Etsuko Mita and Akira had once formed a group called "Las Cachorras Orientoles" or LCO in AJW, but this looks like it too place after all that was over.
Meiko Satomura, one of the co-founders of SENDAI Girls
Founded in 2005 by Meiko Satomura and Jinsei Shinzaki, SENDAI Girls' Pro Wrestling is a Japanese female wrestling promotion based in the city of Sendai, Miyagi in the Tohoku region. It is also known by SGPW and Senjo. Meiko Satomura was a successful female wrestler in the 2000's, wrestling for promotions like GAEA Japan where she was both a two time singles champion and two time tag team champion. Jinsei Shinzaki, a male pro wrestler is the prsident of Michinoku Pro Wrestling. He wrestled in the US for the WWF and ECW.
At first, Satomura was the only experienced wrestler on the roster, and she served as not only a wrestler, but also the trainer and booker. SENDAI held it's first show on July 9, 2006 at Sendai's Sun Plaza. Because of the small roster, the matches consisted of Senjo's first four wrestlers making their debuts in singles matches against four experienced female wrestlers.
And because of the small roster size, most of their shows are SENDAI Girls versus other promotions, which over here would be like WWE and TNA wrestlers facing each other at a show, or WWE and ROH.
According to their website, their roster currently stands at: DASH Chisako Hiren Meiko Satomura Ryo Mizunami Sendai Sachiko Yukari Ishino
DASH Chisako (Chisako Kanari) was born on August 24th, 1988 in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. She made her pro wrestling debut against Dynamite Kansai on July 9th, 2006. DASH wrestles for the SENDAI GIRLS wrestling promotion in Japan. Here is a wrestling video of Dash Chisako going up against Kaoru Ito from a Sendai versus Ito Dojo Show. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOBK8PIgZmE
Hiren (Yurie Kaneko) was born on January 16th, 1986 in Katsushika City, Tokyo, Japan. She made her pro wrestling debut on July 9th, 2006, wrestling Mariko Yoshida. Hiren also wrestles for the SENDAI GIRLS wrestling promotion in Japan. Her is a video of Hiren wrestling Commando Bolshoi at a JWP versus Sendai show in Japan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHOQVt06_T0
Ryo Mizunami (Ayane Mizumura) was born on March 24th, 1988 in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. She made her pro wrestling debut on November 3rd, 2004 against Carlos Amano. Ryo has wrestled for GAEA and SENDAI GIRLS in Japan. This is a video of Ryo Mizunami wrestling Hiroyo Matsumoto at the Jaja Uma Tournament Finals in Japan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18MDBFCXB_s
