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...Japanese who travel in groups, tours tend to be rigidly organized. Says Hepfner: "The tour guide tells them when to take pictures and where." Planning even extends to sex. In Bangkok, tours will split: women go on to still more shops, while men head off for a "massage" in Thaniya Road, a nighttime erotic pleasure zone - with clubs catering exclusively to Japanese - that is handily located in the central business district. In Seoul's Itaewon, visits to girlie bars are inclusive of transfers: guides drop clients off, wait outside and return them to the hotel...
Hair curlers and Pocket Monsters, comfort women and labor camps. Like young Lee Doo Dam and retiree Park Sung Pyo, much of Asia sees Japan as a country with a split personality, a hard-to-understand culture that inspires contradictory sentiments. It represents evil. And fun! Fear. And awe. No matter what the impression, the stereotypes fail to capture the nuances of the culture - or the postwar relationships that have evolved between Japan and its Asian neighbors. Instead, the images of Japan - the warmonger, the economic powerhouse, the rich sugar daddy and the epitome of teen cool - are like...
...junior Ben Crockett in perhaps his final Ivy League game, the Harvard baseball team (18-24, 11-9 Ivy) will not win the Red Rolfe division this season, as it lost three of four games to Dartmouth (18-16, 12-8 Ivy) over the weekend. Harvard needed only to split the four games to secure a one-game playoff for the title against either Dartmouth or Brown. Unfortunately for the Crimson, the Big Green swept Harvard on Saturday and then won the first of two games yesterday, a 4-2 victory in ten innings, to crush Harvard's playoff...
...Crimson (21-18, 11-3) now share the title with Cornell (32-16, 11-3), which was hoping for a split between Harvard and the Big Red in order to claim sole possession of the crown...
...those of you PSLM members who are starting to fume and feel that sending me a nasty e-mail is the best way to release that anger, just count to 10, then think of rainbows and little tweeting parakeets, and then go buy yourself a fudge-covered banana split. See, that wasn’t so hard...