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jellyfishjuliet · 7 years ago

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KO-D Blues: The Current DDT Main Event Scene

Anyone who first heard about Cyberagent acquiring DDT back in fall of 2017 knew that change was coming. It often does with acquisitions. Sure, the general understanding was that there would be more capital to float ideas and new projects, bigger paychecks for the personnel, but with great power comes great responsibility- more capital inevitably comes with more stakeholders.

Customers, as in the DDT audience, has been the longest and most consistent stakeholder at DDT pre-aquisition, simply because of the fact that up until fall 2017, DDT was a technically an independent whose business strategy tapped into the niche puroresu market that craved the absurdist, outlandish, and overall nontraditional approach at professional wrestling in a market that was flooded with similar content (don't @ me, but every Ace is the same kinda Ace across the big Five promotions, with a lil tailoring here and there). They have several sister promotions each doing their own thing, all part of the DDT umbrella, but running their own hijinks for their small, but loyal fanbases that buy the tickets and merch as loyally as any person consuming the mainstream content.

But after fall of 2017, they were no longer a successful indy, but now a cog in a larger machine aiming to make money. They were acquired, there's technically a new boss in the story, and even though at first it didn't seem like much would change, something has.

When Shuji Ishikawa won the D-King Grand Prix, I was livid for multiple reasons. I knew there was no way in hell he was gonna win the belt off Takeshita because by that point, it was common knowledge that Shuji would be over in AJPW the entirety of April for Champion Carnival. There was no way in hell a DDT could put their top belt on a man who had to disappear for a whole month, no matter how loyal he was to his mother promotion, bc that would have inevitably started a war between President Takagi and Uncle Jun. My pick was always Daisuke Sasaki, but some wanted Akito, some Yukio, the possibilities were endless because they're full-timers, and all of them amazing wrestlers, and we already knew Harashima was well on his way to lighter feuds and semi-main event status because his Ace days are coming to an end. We knew, but we didn't fret because other people were just are ready for an amazing push, but the victory went to the man who was already known to be a special attraction at Sumo Hall. There was a reason why HaraMarufuji had to drop those belts at Sumo Hall, and only half of it was to push Higuchi, because the other half had to salvage whatever dignity the men had left bc NOAH didn't book HaraMarufuji for shit and DDT could barely make do with Marufuji's sporadic appearances. Sometimes, it works out (like with Yuko), but a lot of times it just doesn't. So Shuji wasn't gonna win, we knew, but DDT management still played the game of thrones, and that led to the upset at Judgement 2k18.

The polls wanted Shuji. The fans wanted Shuji. Deep down, I feel like god wanted Shuji too, but no one can stop Management when it's high on one person regardless of how much the fans, the culture, the whole damn industry wants otherwise. Everyone else becomes an afterthought. People who have worked hard to keep the company alive are no longer in line to get a nice push. Suddenly, everyone becomes food for the top guy, no matter how good the build-up was for the other players, no matter how hot the crowd was for the opponent, no matter how willing the crowd was to forget that Shuji had AJPW dates to fulfill in two weeks, just because they loved the build-up to the Sumo Hall show and wanted Goliath of DAMNATION to come out as champion and give Ryogoku a concert to remember. But reality won in the end, and Shuji got pinned, and there went January through March, straight to the garbage because they fed Shuji Ishi-fucking-kawa to a 22 year old boy who can barely cut a promo and keep a crowd hot after winning a main event.

It's a tragedy from three ends because 1) Takeshita's literally a fucking novice who's only been wrestling for five or so years and is literally in the age group of the current trainees of the damn promotion, 2) he has no character or personality to speak of that people can get high on except the select few that enjoy his 'notice me Endo-san' yandere tirades, and 3) ... he lacks the spirit of DDT.

If DDT was all wrestling, everyday, I'd be watching NOAH's shitty booking and eating ice cream while trying not to let my soul slip outta my mortal coil, but that's not what DDT is. DDT is fully fleshed out characters and over-the-top storylines, DDT is gay-friendly and intergender-wrestling friendly, it's gimmick fuckery for everyone in the promotion, everyone gets to have more than one character, BOYZ shows run social critiques on heterolinis, YAROZ act out the hypermasculine thotheads, Ganbare lets Imanari have emotional meltdowns during ring takedown, TJP has zombies, BASARA has a deathmatch samurai for an Ace, and a wig is the crown for anyone who wants to be general manager of the promotion. It's content fuckery at its best, and it's fun. Takeshita Konosuke? He's not fun.

I'm not gonna try and dissect why he's not getting over, but the fact of the matter is- he's not getting over. And yet- and yet he's still being pushed like he's king of the world. Suddenly we're back in Sumo Hall, and the crowd's dead for Konosuke. A couple of weeks back, when Takeshita lost, he flipped. There was something there, a spark that came and went regularly since Takeshita and Endo began feuding, a rage that bubbled to the surface whenever Takeshita couldn't get his way. There was a character- a semblance of a character worth looking forward to because there was an unparalleled emotion there that was almost tangible.

But like a dying flame, the spark fizzled out, and we were left with an inconsistent character. Like is you mad? Is you happy? You never fuckin know with Take, man. The only consistent thing about him is his undying love/hate for Endo-san.

So Takeshita won, Shuji bowed out, and then Shigehiro Irie rolled up. Suddenly, there was some hope again, because Shige had his own storyline that made sense in the grander scheme of things. With Management so gung ho behind Takeshita, it was excellent storytelling to bring in the guy who has WORDS for the promotion who conned him out of a D-King Grand Prix spot, and had him consider quitting. But Shigs had his own story, his own reason for being, a freelancer like Shuji in his own right, but still tied to the Motherland, to DDT, at the end of the day. Still a heel, but a heel of the people- and if he wins at Max Bump 2018, a champion of the people.

Akito, on the other hand, is gonna be ten years in DDT next year, and he's one of the best wrestlers on the roster, but is still one of the most underpushed (understandable as his character is rather bland even if his skills are exceptional). Coming out with a bad Prix record, he then went on to question Shige's right to challenge. Like an older brother protecting the golden baby of the family, Akito stood up against a literal beast. And he lost. More than that, he was shamed. What's a person to do?

So what changed? Over the years, a number of champions have held the coveted KO-D. OK, maybe 'coveted' is pushing it. It's a hot title, aight? It's the top guy's title, whether that top guy for the moment is Harashima, Kudo, Ibushi, Ishikawa, Sakaguchi, Togo, Poison Sawada Julie, Dino or Mikami. But that didn't mean the title didn't change hands. For its eighteen year existence, its changed enough times for a title spanning forty years, but DDT went from zero to hero. Suddenly the belts weren't all jokes, the talent wasn't just here for the shenanigans, but for an actual chance to be the rightful King of DDT. So what changed?

Across Harashima's nine reigns over eleven years, he clocked in well over a thousand days. Takeshita is on his second reign, at 22, and clocked in almost five hundred days over eleven different defenses. The push is real, but the push isn't getting over. So I wonder again- what changed?

Everyone knows the worst civil war a promotion can get into is the war with its own customer base. The crowd died at Sumo Hall after Takeshita retained, and they were barely waking up again when Irie popped up. The story's there- the Old Guard of DDT having to deal with the new Management that came with the acquisition, Irie's need to show Takeshita that DDT is still what it used to be, even if Shigs is bitter and jaded that things have changed so quickly, the constant, nagging feeling in the back of every DDT fan's mind that 'jfc, we gotta deal with Takeshita again?” There's only so much a promotion can do until the push fails. We still have to fill up seats for Peter Pan. The hottest stable on the indies for the last two years was DAMNATION, but now that their push and hype was used on Shuji and Goliath's been slayed, what's next for them? Shige is almost certain to lost at Max Bump because anyone who slays Takeshita, will be slaying the Future and taking back DDT for whatever reason. That's not happening at Korakuen with a guy who's been MIA since December. Harashima's time is over. The generation of DDT wrestlers that came after 2005 are still lagging in the midcard, and times are... intense. We have a Sumo Hall double show coming up in 2019, and it looks like we really will be hosting Tokyo Dome if 2020 if we continue at this pace.

So what changed?

I don't want to give up hope yet because I trust that crowd sentiment matters to DDT, but with Takeshita's victory at Judgment, his lukewarm hype, and now the setup to feed heel!Shige to Takeshita in order to fluff him up as a face... it's not looking too great. Shige losing now means the Old Guard loses a warhound. One of the few things that can salvage his loss is Akito having a heel turn, but the turn hasn't been triggered in years, and seems unlikely even now when the moment is most opportune. There are... no challengers left for Takeshita with a proper build. The one man who was capable of running with his push had to lose to Mike Bailey. We're at a standstill right now- halfway to the dawn of a new era, but moments away from severe backlash because of the near omnipotent reign of a boy king who can barely keep his emotions in check around his ex-bff/love of his unfortunate life. Given, DDT didn't die even when Ibushi quit, so I doubt Takeshita's lackluster reign is gonna kill the promotion dead... but it doesn’t spell out a good future if there's meant to be a cycle of this lackluster character work.

Especially if they intend for him to be the Ace for good.

Alas, the main event scene at DDT right now is rife with mixed feelings while we prepare to work the five hundred other side-projects DDT has going, while preparing for a fall Peter Pan, with no clear picture of who will be the two men standing face-to-face at the last marquee event of the year. We'll see at Max Bump if Shige can win one for the Old Guard and take the belt off Takeshita long enough to build up other characters that can have formidable reigns, but until then, it's a rocky road. At least Smile Squash held it down for the crowd :/

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bubble-tea-desu · 8 years ago

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1) My translation is that of an amateur, therefore it might not be perfect.

2) I kindly ask that you don't share this translation without asking for my permission, even if you plan to do it with the proper credits

3) The translation is still a work in progress, and will be updated periodically. Keep in mind that the time elapsed to translate may be subject to change based on my school schedule

4) The author uses fictive names in the book.

Translation from Japanese into Italian by me {http://bubble-tea-desu.tumblr.com/}

Translation from Italian into English by Nemurin {http://poison-apple-lovers.tumblr.com/...}

Chapter 1

15 July 2011

It was a scorching summer afternoon and I was in the living room when my phone rang to notify that mai

l[ Object: Taiji

On the 11th of July Taiji got violent inside a plane and was arrested by the FBI.It seems like the reason was an argument with Tomomi following which he said he wanted to kill himself and lost all restraint. Afterwards during the legal procedures for the trial it seems like he planned to take his own life behind bars. Right now he is unconscious, I haven't even seen him yet. When I learn something new, later, I'll contact you.]

The sender was Kamiya Shigeo, who at the time acted as representative for YOU productions, where Taiji had transferred his management.

YOU production originally was Taiji's personal headquarters.

I'll explain it in more detail later on, but Taiji and I had been dating since the spring of 2009 and we had promised each other we'd be together for the rest of our lives, both for work and in our daily life.

The person in charge of the administrative office used to entrust Taiji's schedule to me, because by then he thought of me as someone who could support him. So once we had become professionals at YOU productions, we started sharing our workload with third parties to which we weren't directly linked.

Thinking about it now, this heavily influenced Taiji's destiny.In the mail the recurring themes were "Arrest", "Suicide", "Unconscious state".When you learn that something like this is happening to someone you love, how are you supposed to react?

There are those who fall to their knees, shocked, and those who find themselves breathless.Also those who think "This can't be!", and those who run by their side as fast as they can.Of course I too ended up losing my cool.

I just can't find the right words to describe what I felt when I read those e mails. This was because in the four days before his departure for Saipan I hadn't recieved anything that could come off as different from usual from Taiji, and the only "strange" thing, the day after, was that e mail.Regarding the credit card movements, I didn't know anything until I got a forceful e mail where I was asked my parents's address and my older sister's contact.

Then, when I tried calling Taiji, I recieved a message that said "I can't answer now.""What is happening? Taiji must've gotten in trouble..."I understood something had happened, but I didn't think it was anything that serious. Meanwhile, Taiji's contacts started asking me question as well:"What the hell is going on?""Why is something like this happening?" To the people who were worried and contacted me, I always answered "I didn't understand all that well, but based on the mail that person sent me it seems like he's in pretty bad shape... Anyway, tomorrow I'll head to Saipan." "I didn't understand all that well"... at the time, I think my head was completely full of these words. They were spoken with conviction, but I couldn't even begin to imagine that the Taiji of back then was planning to take his own life.

YOU production's representative let me know it had been an "unfortunate and sudden" occurrence, there was no reason for him to think that something had happened between Taiji and me, it was nothing more than a nonsensical statement.Then, around eleven in the evening of the same day, my confusion was incremented by a call coming from Saipan, as if to make fun of me" So you and Taiji had an argument?" "Taiji said some really horrible thing about your parents." The sender of the call was the person that acted as Taiji's manager at the time and went with him to Saipan, Hayakawa Satoko ( fictive name ). The tone of the call was impatient and aggressive.Taiji actually got along really well with my parents, and we had no arguments whatsoever as of late.

To be honest after Taiji left for Saipan I got a series of weird emails, things like " Do you remember the argument we had on my birthday?", but since they made no sense I didn't even bother answering. After all around that time Hayakawa was the one Taiji often argued with.From my point of view, the situation was like "What the heck is he talking about?????", I couldn't think otherwise since the whole thing made no sense at all."I didn't argue with Taiji; moreover, he is in good terms with my parents."I answered with candor, and it was then that Hayakawa suddendly ended the call, without adding anything more . Still, at the time I couldn't care less about her attitude."Anyway, I have to get to Saipan fast..."That night I couldn't manage to sleep, I don't even remember if I closed my eyes or not.

Confused and speechless, I just waited for morning to come visit me.I sent a mail to Mr.Kamiya to know which hospital Taiji was at, and he told me.In that situation he explained that no one but the family could visit him, and in any case I know nothing for sure concerning flying there.I left my house early in the morning the next day, the 16th, ma due to the turmoil I took a wrong turn. Instead of going to Narita airport, I went towards Ota airport. I knew that the planes for Saipan took off from Narita airport. Still, flying to Saipan takes more or less three and a half hours. Since getting to Naha airport in Okinawa takes three hours, I was convinced there was a line for Saipan even from Ota.Since I just wanted to get there as fast as I could my head was flooded by these thoughts, but a staff member told me there were none, I panicked and took a limo to get to Narita airport.It was summer vacation, but one way or another I succeded in securing plane tickets.While I sat in the boarding area, waitig for my plane, I called Dynamite Tommy to ask him for advice on how to handle the matter.

Dynamite Tommy was the only colleague who Taiji trusted completely. When I didn't know how to deal with Taiji's outbreaks, since he had many chronic illnesses, I called Dynamite Tommy, who always managed to calm him down with his peaceful attitude.

Because I was going to Saipan, Dynamite Tommy urged me to take along a recorder. I followed his advice, I bought a recorder at the airport and I got on the plane.At the time I didn't know what Taiji's conditions were, but thinking back on it now, that recorder was the first step towards the pursuit of truth concerning Taiji's destiny.

At that point, in Japan sport magazines had started publishing snippets of Saipan newspapers in which information concerning Taiji's "incident" was divulged. For example the "Sport Nippon" on the 16th of July mentioned the following article:

<< Taiji ( 45 y/o ), one of the founding members of the band X decided to take his own life on the isle of Saipan, under the jurisdiction of the United States, and according to the local papers he's now unconscious. According to the news it seems that on the 11th, inside a plane heading for Saipan, Taiji started punching the window and kicking the seat in front of his, and that he was acting violently towards a flight attendant who was trying to get him to calm down; once he got to the international airport of Saipan he was apprehended by the local authorities.Then, on the following day of detention he refrained from taking part in the interrogation and on the evening of the 14th he tried to commit suicide. As of now he's supposedly in the ICU of the local hospital, but his conditions are serious and he's unconscious.The chief of Taiji's administrative office told our correspondent the following<< I spoke with the person concerned on the phone. His conditions were good.>>

According to local sources there's a possibility that he isn't in bad condition.I'll try and explain whether Taiji actually behaved violently towards an hostess. After all I still have my doubts on such a thing really happening. First and foremost, having examined the first batch of news, what went down inside the plane is unclear.Later on I gained permission to peruse FBI's report on the incident, and I could read things concerning the ruckus that Taiji had caused.To quote the main points:

<< According to Delta flight flight attendant's deposition, she heard someone screaming furiously in business class, and the noise of things being hit. The flight attendant then entered business class, where passenger Taiji Sawada was having an animated discussion with passenger B.Passenger B had their arms around Sawada's body, and Sawada was screaming while kicking the seat in front of him.Sawada threw his body against the window. The plane had aldready started its descent in order to land.(...)According to the deposition of another flight attendant ( we'll call her flight attendant B ) since Taiji had lost all control, she had to stop him. Around thirty minutes before landing he had started angrily confronting passenger B, punching the window, kicking the seat in front of him.Flight attendant B approached Sawada, and tried to make him stop. Passenger B had supposedly tried to get him to stop punching the window, but said that he didn't stop punching and kicking.Flight attendant B informed the pilot, forcefully stopped Taiji, dragged him away from the window and made him sit.Flight attendant B had a light collision with Sawada, and it seems she was hit multiple times by Sawada's kicks. Even after his body was restrained, Sawada continued kicking and headbutting the seat.Flight attendant B then unbuckled her safety bet and hastily approached Taiji, buckled his seat belt and then went back to her place.>>

If we suppose all of this is true, moreso than Taiji "hurting an flight attendant", it looks like he was venting his frustration against the objects around him, and in the middle of his raging fit he ended up hitting the flight attendant with his foot.Moreover, in the same report, the ones involved weren't in the know regarding the circumstances, and were able to only partially see what transpired.As a matter of fact the "passenger B" mentioned above, who'd seem a stranger based on the description, was none other than Taiji's manager, Hayakawa.If the two were having a "violent discussion", then it stands to reason that the source of the whole event was a "internal argument" , but I'll go over the relationship Hayakawa and Taiji had during that time later and in more detail. I'll talk about it more in the second chapter, but Taiji regularly went to the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, and his diagnosis showed an impulsive tendency to self-destruction, borderline personality disorder, loss of self-perception, total forgetfulness of something that happened at a certain moment [ dissociative disorder ], and also panic attacks, epilepsy and other such illnesses. It's therefore likely that some sort of occurrence on the plane triggered the symptoms for one of these illnesses. Realistically after the incident Taiji could've gone on saying that he didn't remember anything at all about what happened on the plane, but Hayakawa still remains (mentioned ) in the mail sent by the concerned person.

Anyway, when I was contacted by Kamiya and headed to Saipan, even the mass media could not get a grasp on Taiji's actual conditions. According to the article in the sports magazine, there had been "a call with the subject in question and he seemed to be fine"; I gave myself an explanation akin to theirs: "I got a message from the subject in question, that means he must be alright", even if the phrasing was different, the gist of it was the same. Shocked and afraid, my words were roughly based on the article, but the news concerning Taiji were starting to get tangled.I got to Saipan in the middle of the night, considering the timezone change it must've already been the 17th of July.

Paying no mind to the time I got on a taxi that took me from the airport to the hospital were Taiji was admitted.The hospital was a building called Commonwealth Health Center ( CHC ). It's the sole public hospital complex in all of Saipan, and it seems as if this is the only place where patients can be examined 24/7.For that reason, it's possible to feel quite lost on arrival. The taxi driver was so kind as to guide me inside the hospital, and I went straight to the intensive care ward. I knew only members of the family were allowed to visit, but when a woman from the staff heard I was Taiji's fiancee she firmly explained the situation to the security guard and I was authorized to visit him. Taiji's family got to Saipan a little later than I did and they still hadn't gone to the hospital, so Taiji was there all alone until I came.

No one was allowed to visit Taiji... He was lying on his back, and on his chest left bare by the white gown there were several round devices. He had a transparent tube going throught his nose to help him breathe. The area near the stomach was illuminated by a lamp. He also had one ankle cuffed. << It's going to be ok!>> <<Wake up!!!!>> I kept shouting. His face was swollen, around his mouth there were several bits of something black, resembling duct tape, and he gave off an awful stench.I got a damp towel from a nurse and I cleaned Taiji's face. The foreign bodies near his mouth looked like they had seeped into the pores, thoroughly stuck, and I had issued peeling them off. It was like a rash similar to a beard, so I took them one by one and threw them away in the small trash can under the bed. Time passed. I think the ones that were stubbornly stuck disappeared. The ironic thing was that I heard he had hung himself, but I couldn't find anything that pointed towards that. There were, however, red bruises, long and thin all across his chest. Since his parents also said they saw something similar, it wasn't a blunder on my part. At the time it was impossible for me to keep a cool head and reflect on the meaning of it, on what was happening. I could only keep talking. Even though, to be honest, when I first saw Taiji through the glass of the ICU I had guessed he still hadn't woken up.Taiji's sleeping face, drenched in sweat, was completely different from usual, he looked like something cold. The hospital staff told me to wait until the following morning in a hotel, since the doctor was expected to come by then, and he would've given me an explaination concerning his health status. I did as I was told.The kind taxi driver from before, seeing how shaken I was through the glass of the ICU, had decided to wait for me.

On the 17th I came back to the ICU as soon as the sun was up, and I waited for the doctor to arrive.After ten, accompanied by the administrative office employees and the interpreter given to Taiji by the local authorities, came running Taiji's parents. Since Taiji had stopped seeing them several years prior, I didn't even have their address.Still, since Taiji had gotten to Saipan, shortly before YOU production spread the news that he had commited suicide, I had recieved lots of mails that asked for his parents's address.Furthermore, the exchange was completely different from normal, the mails were strict, they felt like orders. Even though I wa suspicious I tried my best to find their address; if Taiji was indeed unconscious in a foreign country, it was unavoidable to contact his family.Concerning the mails I got from Taiji, it looked like they were sent with perfect timing."Those mails, could Taiji really have been the one to send them?"After all, was it possible that the FBI would let someone who was arrested and held in detention send emails? However this series of unexplainable events intertwined inside my head and only after a long time I managed to organize them, like pieces of a complicated riddle. ("I'll meet Taiji's parents in this state...")

When Taiji's parents saw him, unconscious, we were brought to a small room and the doctor gave us an explanation concerning Taiji's health.We were told once again that it was "suicide by hanging", but as I said before those alleged traces were not on Taiji's neck at all.- I'm not convinced.- Reiterated his parents, who asked for an explanation. I was just standing beside them, dumbfounded, incapable of getting even a single word out.- When they brought him to the hospital, his brain was already dead. We did all we could to extend his lifespan while we waited for the family to arrive.-No matter how we asked, the doctor's explanation remained the same. Since the we couldn't get any information on the incident in prison from the doctor, we were told to ask the one in charge.- Spend this last moments with him peacefully.-As he said that, the doctor left the room.It looked like there was no choice other than discontinuing life support.

As soon as the life support machine was removed from Taiji's body, I immediately talked to YOU production's representative Kamiya. I'll explain in more detail later on, but he basically said - Tomo, your eyes are really puffy. It's better if you get some rest, I'll contact you soon.- I got on a white car whose driver was a local interpreter and went back to the hotel.

Nevertheless from that point forward I wasn't able to get close to the body anymore, as well as speak to his parents.

After that there was paperwork to be filled to transfer the body to Japan and I decided to go meet an employee of the administrative office. - I want to travel with the body, and I want to arrange a meeting so I can talk to everyone.- But my requests were denied, and without being able to meet anyone I had no other choice but to board a plane in the early morning of July 19th and return to Japan.

If I tried looking back on the past now, I think I d' go back to the hospital and search for the body despite being being prohibited to, I'd ask the japanese minister of foreign affairs to personally go to the Saipan consulate or the autorities in charge for the details about the incident, and I'd do anything I could to stay by Taiji's side.

Even so, the me from back then wasn't rational enough to reflect on what was best. I stayed at the hotel by myself, broken in both body and mind, and I had a feeling I would've been in danger if I lingered there any longer. Despite the condition of the me from back then being as such, there's no reason to think my words are uncertain: this is because I continued to firmly press the button on the recorder I had just gotten in Narita. Afterwards I tried to grasp the meaning behind the aforementioned conversation with Kamiya, reading it again and again. From that conversation, I extrapolated the most crucial points.

Firstly - It was possibile for Taiji to be sentenced to twenty years of prison for the crime he had committed, but they had run themselves to the ground through a judicial compromise to shorten it.

Secondly - Until Taiji's parents published an announcement regarding his condition, they fought with the media so they wouldn't let anything out. If something were to be written in contrast with the parents's statement, I was warned no one would stick up for me if I were to be called a liar.

Thirdly - Taiji lost his temper inside the plane because he was drunk. This was no one's fault.Fourthly - Taiji was delirious and killed himself because he had a fight with me.None of this arguments is convincing.

Even if what happened on the plane posed in fact a problem, the commotion only involved Taiji and his manager, and there's no reason to think anyone else was injured.Despite this he was sentenced to twenty years of imprisonment, something reserved to people who are accused of murder, but could this really be words coming straight from the american judicial authorities after just two days had passed since the incident? In America there are varying degrees of guilt depending on the state you're in, but the standard procedure from the arrest to the sentence is something like this:First of all the investigative body ( In Taiji's case, the FBI ) writes a report, then in court with the first trial the judge examines the circumstances and decides whether to accuse the defendant or discharge him. Afterwards it's decided whether to allow probation after paying to be bailed out.In this case the defendant admits to his crime and, if the law court believes there is no risk of him getting away, it allows them to be go on probation.Taiji was in a federal state with administrative autonomy, and since his passport had been taken by an independent court, normally wouldn't they have been able to give him the "guarantee he wouldn't escape" without issue? Nevertheless, Taiji was kept in prison the whole time.In case the defendant denies his guilt, I don't know if the independent law court even looks at the report or not.In the independent federal states of America, you're given an office attorney right after you've been arrested. And until the severity of the crime is made clear, most of it is settled after the arrest thorugh a quick bargaining process.But if you look at Taiji's documents, you'll come to understand the the preliminary trial was scheduled for the 27th of July.

Regarding the preliminary trial, in order for it to become a full on trial a judge must examine the circumstances and, if there were no violations of the law, despite the accusation a judgement is established according to a ten minute testimony.In other words, this means that Taiji was already a step ahead. What could've been the reason for such a thing?From the few law court documents it seems like there was a great effort made by an employee of the administrative office in order to not request probation or anything of the sort. It appears the only ones that had any clue about what was happening to Taiji were the employees of the administrative office. Despite this, untile Taiji fell unconscious they didn't tell anyone anything at all. Before telling the parents what sort of announcement they should've made, it should've been their responsability to explain the situation. The bit about the alcohol also doesn't sound convincing to me.At the time Taiji was undergoing medical care to recover from his alcohol addiction and was abstaining from drinking. With effort, he had succedeed in his quest to stop consuming alcohol.I don't think the Taiji from back then would've easily given in to alcohol.The conversation with Kamiya went something like this:

Kamiya: So, well, you see, about what I said before, how do I say this... I don't want to slander Taiji... Basically, well, uhm... He drank, yeah, he... before waking up, you know, he had a dream. Even if this is the reason why he got mad, I'm thinking about how to announce it...

Akatsuka: About him drinking, is it really true?

Kamiya : I'm afraid it is.Akatsuka : I see, well, the thing is that him being drunk was something that Satoko ( the manager ) said...

Kamiya : Well, that doesn't mean that the issue with the alcohol isn't true, so, honestly..uhm.. there's no way to say this other than him having a nightmare and losing his mind.To be frank, well... I mean, I haven't told you this, but to tell you the truth about what happened, he took a sleeping pill together with some alcohol, yeah, so this it the reason he freaked out, and in America it was confirmed he had taken drugs.

Nevertheless, after the arrest Taiji had to take a urinalysis and it showed that there was no trace of alcohol nor drugs. Furthermore, on the topic of the "argument" Taiji and I supposedly had. This is something that left me speechless, and I have every intention of refuting it once and for all.The morning of his departure to Saipan, Taiji sent me the following e mail when he was at Narita airport: "Tomu, I'm leaving soon. Thank you for the gift. I don't want to go there. We've been arguing since this morning, I don't get this woman! According to A it'd be better to haggle over the payment. They're a bunch of goddamned assholes. I want to have an adult discussion with dad. I'm sure it'll be a success. I'll work on it as soon as I'm back! The rest is trash." { July 11th, 7:13 AM } I'll clear some things up: "Tomu" is my nickname and "dad" is my father. Also the associate with whom Taiji was arguing since that morning was his manager Hayakawa Satoko.The truth is that the day Taiji ended up flying to Saipan, 11 July 2011, Taiji repeated over and over until 3 AM "I'll stop going to Saipan."The reason was that his relationship with Hayakawa Satoko had become disturbing. I'll talk about it in greater detail in the second chapter, but both Taiji's body and mind were plagued by illnesses. When we met he couldn't focus on work due to therapy and rehab, and he was also struggling to sustain himself. That's why I left ballet, which I did in the metropolitan area of Tokyo, when we got engaged. I wanted to dedicate myself solely to supporting Taiji.Me and Taiji first met Hayakawa in 2009 in such circumstances.From that moment on theirs was a connection made of emails and occasional contact. The turning point was a visit in December 2010.At the time Taiji was looking for an attorney to consult with due to some issues that were threatening to get even bigger. The one who introduced him to Tokyo's legal office was one of Hayakawa's acquaintances, Kamiya. On that occasion they talked not only about legal problems, but also about work and his illnesses.

Every now and then they'd ask something we were uncomfortable with, but both me and Taiji then thought that Hayakawa's proposals would make our current life easier.In such a situation, since Hayakawa's husband had a resort and a music venue in Saipan, she suggested we merge Taiji's management to the administration of the venue. This is something that dates back to March 2011.On January of the same year Taiji had been hospitalized for a pleurisy, and while he continously kept up with therapy and rehab someone needed to help him with his work.Later based on a suggestion from Kamiya, who was introduced to us by Hayakawa, they took the first character from my name and started a new project called "Tomo Production", which later became "YOU Production".

Meanwhile, Taiji was rapidly starting to lose the trust he had in Hayakawa.Taiji was an artist and a man with a strong personality, but Hayakawa harbors an equally strong, yet different type of ambition.Depending on the circumstances, the more she tried to shove Taiji to the side the more appeal she exuded. Of that there are still traces to this day in the official blog that was updated up until the month that Taiji died.The update written in collaboration on the 24th of July 2011 stated "Starting with the 27th of May 2011 the contents, the text and the pictures are not Taiji's work anymore, but we want to make clear that they are redacted by YOU Production." The meaning of all this is "It was said they were written by Taiji, but the truth is that Hayakawa was behind them" and it was also her who used to diligently upload his pictures.In May of 2011, despite the shock caused by the great heartquake that hit eastern Japan, Hayakawa wrote, pretending to be Taiji and incurring in the reader's disapproval:

"On the deckchair at the SPA, looking over at the sea.Moreover, I ask that you take care of me when I update this blog. I'll wait for you in my dear Saipan! LOVE Taiji"

According to Hayakawa what Taiji felt towards the sadness of people struck by that disaster and towards the tragedy derived from the heartquake was complete indifference, and that the only thing that mattered to him was his business in Saipan. The ones who started realizing what kind of attitude Hayakawa had were the ones closer to Taii. YOU Production had a project called "Saipan tour with Taiji Sawada", but there were people who thought it was just a way to exploit Taiji's name and style to gain maximum profit.

Afterl all, neither Hayakawa nor Kamiya were business professionals. Since two characters were mixed up while drafting the contract, they were never bound by a contract until the very end, thank goodness.I remember that Taiji was upset with Hayakawa, she was getting more and more on his nervers, I think it was a hopeless situation.Then when July 2011 came around, since Taiji and Hayakawa were arguing non stop, based on Kamiya's suggestion they were going to change the administration of Taiji's management in August, to a team composed solely of men. On the day Taiji went to Saipan as well, he changed his mind about not wanting to go because of Kamiya's persuasion, but he then ended up arguing with Hayakawa again while at the airport.Also concerning the chain of events that occurred since the start of the incident inside the Delta flight to Saipan, I believe there is enough proof that clarifies why Taiji's aversion towards Hayakawa wasn't unreasonable.

As I've said more than once, since Taiji left for Saipan I got a series of strange emails from his cellphone, one after another. I got 28 in total.To be exact, the first mail I got on 12 July at 9:23 AM. Then, the 28th I got on 15 July at 3:50 PM.More or less 22 minutes later, I recieved Kamiya's notice that Taiji was unconscious.It's clear that the sender of these emails couldn't have been Taiji himself. That's because Taiji was arrested by the FBI and kept in detention. And of course the FBI wouldn't let the inmates use their cellphone to their discretion.

#taiji #taiji sawada #taijisawada #沢田泰司 #xjapan #x #jrock

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Reborn! elDLIVE Character’s 365 Profile Translation Part 2

Here’s the 2nd part. FYI both protagonist profiles and all of elDLIVE main team are here. And the contents is way fewer that the 1st part. Phew. I’m still shocked at Chuta’s profile tho. Pretty surprised at his likes and completely shocked at his dislike... in a different way. Seriously didn’t expect that.

Part 1

Mammon

●Height: 40cm ●Weight: 3.6kg ●Birthdate: 2 July ●Blood Type: A ●Likes: Money, Perfume incense ●Dislikes: Bel’s meddling, Spicy food, Carbonated Juice

Colonello

●Height: 41cm ●Weight: 4kg ●Birthdate: 7 July ●Blood Type: O ●Likes: Lal, Muscle training, Taking care of his weapons ●Dislikes: Living in a society

Kokonose Chuta

●Height: 158cm ●Weight: 48kg ●Birthdate: 20 July ●Blood Type: O ●Likes: Aunt Mimi, A new recipe, Asama Shrine ●Dislikes: His past self, Dolugh’s Rakugo, Eye Drops

Guccy (Mizoguchi Ken)

●Height: 169cm ●Weight: 56kg ●Birthdate: 12 April ●Blood Type: AB ●Likes: His childhood friends, his subordinates ●Dislikes: Doing evil for his work

Aunt Mimi

●Height: 163cm ●Weight: 53kg ●Birthdate: 3 February ●Blood Type: O ●Likes: Chuta being cheerful, Chuta’s friend, Relationship with her neighborhood, Bargain sales ●Dislikes: Passing through her birthday, Tax, When the price of muffin’s ingredients went up

Basilicum

●Height: 157cm ●Weight: 47kg ●Birthdate: 23 July ●Blood Type: O ●Likes: Japan’s culture, Kneading soba dough, Training ●Dislikes: Being mistaken as a girl

Joshima Ken

●Height: 172cm ●Weight: 60kg ●Birthdate: 28 July ●Blood Type: O ●Likes: Meat, Candies, Cake, Sleeping in his favorite blanket ●Dislikes: Warmed up dog food

Skull

●Height: 38cm ●Weight: 4kg ●Birthdate: 8 August ●Blood Type: B ●Likes: Purple (Color), When he feels like having a control over the world ●Dislikes: When he feels like Reborn and Colonello’s lackey

Weroniki

●Height: 154cm ●Weight: 45kg ●Birthdate: 14 August ●Blood Type: B ●Likes: Her comrades, Her friends, Sleep in nudes, Cute clothes, Cute things, Her family, Exercising ●Dislikes: Showing her weak self to Misuzu, Losing, Criminals feigning innocence

Sasagawa Ryohei

●Height: 168cm ●Weight: 59kg ●Birthdate: 26 August ●Blood Type: A ●Likes: Extreme, Boxing, Summer, Morning, Sun, Kyoko ●Dislikes: The fact that he’s a Virgo* *) Virgo is written as Maiden’s Constellation in Japanese

Gokudera Hayato

●Height: 168cm ●Weight: 54kg ●Birthdate: 9 September ●Blood Type: B ●Likes: Mysterious phenomenon, Uri’s fluffed out cheek when he saw it from behind after tilting it. ●Dislikes: The sound of piano that has not been tuned, Poison Cooking

Glock

●Height: 156cm ●Weight: 47kg ●Birthdate: 4 October ●Blood Type: ? ●Likes: Animals, Small creatures, His family ●Dislikes: Madigan, Noisy people

Madigan

●Height: 183cm ●Weight: 73kg ●Birthdate: 4 October ●Blood Type: ? ●Likes: His own way of life ●Dislikes: Fate

Xanxus

●Height: 188cm ●Weight: 80kg ●Birthdate: 10 October ●Blood Type: O ●Likes: Meat ●Dislikes: Fish

Gola Mosca

●Height: 230cm ●Weight: 957kg ●Birthdate: ? ●Blood Type: ? ●Likes: ? ●Dislikes: ?

Reborn

●Height: 40cm ●Weight: 3.7kg ●Birthdate: 13 October ●Blood Type: ? ●Likes: Espresso, Sideburns with wonderful elasticity ●Dislikes: Poking out stomach that doesn't rip even after being trained, Tsuna when being no-good

Sawada Tsunayoshi

●Height: 157cm ●Weight: 46.5kg ●Birthdate: 14 October ●Blood Type: A ●Likes: Kyoko, The sound of bell that signaling the end of class ●Dislikes: To be a mafioso, Reborn’s kick that he get when he fail to wake up

Kakimoto Chikusa

●Height: 182cm ●Weight: 66kg ●Birthdate: 26 October ●Blood Type: AB ●Likes: The tension of this world in cloudy day, The two blue stripes in his uniform sleeves, The fluffy ball in his hat ●Dislikes: Troublesome things, The “Pi” part of Kakipi

Bianchi

●Height: 165cm ●Weight: 49kg ●Birthdate: 8 November ●Blood Type: AB ●Likes: Reborn, Reborn’s mouth when he’s eating ●Dislikes: When her rich lady’s upbringing show up in her gesture

Levi-A-Than

●Height: 193cm ●Weight: 90kg ●Birthdate: 14 November ●Blood Type: A ●Likes: Porn website ●Dislikes: Porn website being closed

Ninotchka

●Height: 158cm ●Weight: 47kg ●Birthdate: 20 November ●Blood Type: A ●Likes: Her family, Her friends, A plushie bought for her when she was small ●Dislikes: Bug, Her own battle suits that has a lot of exposed part

I-Pin

●Height: 45cm 157cm ●Weight: 3.9kg 47kg ●Birthdate: 25 November ●Blood Type: O ●Likes: Master Fon, Hibari, Poison Cow Chinese Cuisine (The team she forms with Bianchi and Lambo) ●Dislikes: Cheerful Lambo

Irie Shoichi

●Height: 155cm ●Weight: 48kg ●Birthdate: 3 December ●Blood Type: A ●Likes: Blood&Pepper’s new score ●Dislikes: Being nervous, Byakuran’s impossible request

Spanner

●Height: 184cm ●Weight: 66kg ●Birthdate: 28 February ●Blood Type: O ●Likes: Tinkering with robots, Japan, Strawberry flavored candies ●Dislikes:The fact that there’s only 24 hours in a day, Japanese Pepper

Sonokata Misuzu

●Height: 156cm ●Weight: 46kg ●Birthdate: 12 December ●Blood Type: O ●Likes: Solar System District Station, Her comrades, Japanese cuisine, Bath, Shower, Nice smell ●Dislikes: The hairpin she’s wearing, Pervert, Jew’s Ear

Chrome Dokuro

●Height: 152cm ●Weight: 41kg ●Birthdate: 5 December ●Blood Type: ? ●Likes: When she feels Mukuro’s presence, Mugi Choco, Public bath ●Dislikes: When Ken being mean to her, The dryness of winter

Lancia

●Height: 194cm ●Weight: 81kg ●Birthdate: 15 December ●Blood Type: O ●Likes: The dream of his family ●Dislikes: Nightmare of the tragedy

Belphegor

●Height: 170cm ●Weight: 58kg ●Birthdate: 22 December ●Blood Type: AB ●Likes: Flowing blood, Mammon’s annoyed face ●Dislikes: Scab, The mask Flan wears

#katekyo hitman reborn #eldlive #my translation #trns #riin khr #riin eldlive

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As I Scrolled Through These Photos, My Heart Sunk More And More. But I'm Glad I Saw It.

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As I Scrolled Through These Photos, My Heart Sunk More And More. But I'm Glad I Saw It.

Each year, the World Press Association gathers to select a photo of the year. Countless photographers send in their work to compete for the award. Their work can range from sad to terrifying to joyful and to loving… a true embodiment of the human spirit. This list is comprised of every winner since the year 1955 and you won’t believe half of the things you are seeing. Who knew things like this were going on in the world every day…

1955: A competitor tumbles off his motorcycle during the Motorcross World Championship at the Volk Mølle race course. (By Mogens von Haven)

1956: A German World War II prisoner, released by the Soviet Union, is reunited with his daughter. The child had not seen her father since she was one-year-old. (By Helmuth Pirath)

1957: Dorothy Counts, one of the first black students to enter the newly desegregated Harry Harding High School is mocked by whites on her first day of school. (By Douglas Martin)

1958: National Football Championships between Prague and Bratislava. (By Stanislav Tereba)

1960: A right-wing student in Japan assassinates Inejiro Asanuma, Socialist Party Chairman, during his speech at the Hibiya Hall. (By Yasushi Nagao)

1962: Priest Luis Padillo offers last rites to a loyalist soldier who is mortally wounded by a sniper during military rebellion against President Bétancourt at Puerto Cabello naval base in Venezuela. (By Héctor Rondón Lovera)

1963: Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc sets himself ablaze in protest against the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government. (By Malcolm W. Browne)

1964: A Turkish woman mourns her dead husband, a victim of the Greek-Turkish civil war. (By Don McCullin)

1965: A mother and her children wade across a river to escape US bombing. The US Air Force had evacuated their village because it was suspected of being used as a base camp by the Vietcong. (By Kyoichi Sawada)

1966: The body of a Vietcong soldier is dragged behind an American armored vehicle en route to a burial site after fierce fighting. (By Kyoichi Sawada)

1967: The commander of an M48 tankgunner of the US 7th regiment in Vietnam’s ‘Iron Triangle’. (By Co Rentmeester)

1968: South Vietnam national police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a suspected Viet Cong member. (By Eddie Adams)

1969: A young Catholic wears a gasmask during clashes with British troops. People had been fleeing from teargas after a night of street fighting. (By Hanns-Jörg Anders)

1971: During negotiations on the safe-conduct of a group of criminals on the run, police superintendent Gross suddenly shoots down gang leader Kurt Vicenik. The gang, who had disappeared after a bank-robbery in Cologne, re-emerged near Saarbrücken, carrying a hostage with them. A chase followed and the police and the robbers met at Baltersweiler. The two other men were captured in a wild fight. The men running away from the bullets are policemen. (By Wolfgang Peter Geller)

1972: Phan Thi Kim Phuc (center) flees with other children after South Vietnamese planes mistakenly dropped napalm on South Vietnamese troops and civilians. (By Nick Ut)

1973: Democratically elected President Salvador Allende moments away from death during military coup at Moneda presidential palace in Chile. (By Orlando Lagos)

1974: The Faces of Hunger. A mother comforts her child, both victims of drought. (By Ovie Carter)

1975: A mother and her daughter are hurled off a collapsing fire-escape in an apartment house fire in Boston. (By Stanley Forman)

1976: Palestinian refugees in district La Quarantaine. (By Françoise Demulder)

1977: Police throw tear-gas at a group of chanting residents of the Modderdam squatter camp protesting against the demolition of their homes outside Cape Town. (By Leslie Hammond)

1978: A demonstrator is engulfed in flames of the molotov cocktail he was about to throw at the police during protests against the construction of the New Tokyo International Airport. The original Narita Airport plan was unveiled in 1966. To acquire the initial land, the government had to evict protesting landowners. Violent clashes between the opponents and authorities resulted in 13 deaths, including five police officers. The new airport opened in May 1978. (By Sadayuki Mikami)

1979: A Cambodian woman cradles her child while waiting for food to be distributed at a refugee camp. (By David Burnett)

1980: A starving boy and a missionary in Uganda. (By Mike Wells)

1981: Lt. Col. Antonio Tejero Molina orders everyone to remain seated and be quiet after armed Guardia Civil soldiers stormed the Assembly Hall of the Spanish Parliament. Three hundred deputies and cabinet members were in session to vote upon the succession of premier Suarez. They were released next morning after having been held hostage for almost 18 hours; the coup was a failure. (By Manuel Pérez Barriopedro)

1982: The war in Lebanon: The aftermath of the massacre of Palestinians by Christian Phalangists in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. (By Robin Moyer)

1983: Kezban Özer (37) finds her five children buried alive after a devastating earthquake. At five o’clock in the morning she and her husband were milking the cows as their children slept. A few minutes later, 147 villages in the region were destroyed by an earthquake of magnitude 7.1 on the Richter scale; 1,336 people died. (By Mustafa Bozdemir)

1984: A child killed by the poisonous gas leak in the Union Carbide chemical plant disaster. (By Pablo Bartholomew)

1985: Omaira Sanchez (12) is trapped in the debris caused by the eruption of Nevado del Ruíz volcano. After sixty hours she eventually lost consciousness and died of a heart attack. (By Frank Fournier)

1986: Ken Meeks’ (42) skin is marked with lesions caused by Aids-related Kaposi’s Sarcoma. (By Alon Reininger)

1987: A mother clings to a riot policeman’s shield at a polling station. Her son was one of thousands of demonstrators arrested because they tried to prove that the presidential election on December 15, which was won by the government candidate, had been rigged. (By Anthony Suau)

1988: Boris Abgarzian grieves for his 17-year-old son, victim of the Armenian earthquake. (By David Turnley)

1989: A demonstrator confronts a line of People’s Liberation Army tanks during protests for democratic reform. (By Charlie Cole)

1990: Family and neighbors mourn the death of Elshani Nashim (27), killed during a protest against the Yugoslavian government’s decision to abolish the autonomy of Kosovo. (By Georges Merillon)

1991: US Sergeant Ken Kozakiewicz (23), gives vent to his grief as he learns that the body bag at his feet contains the remains of his friend Andy Alaniz. ‘Friendly fire’ claimed Alaniz’s life and injured Kozakiewicz. On the last day of the Gulf War they were taken away from the war zone by a MASH unit evacuation helicopter. (By David Turnley)

1992: A mother carries her dead child to the grave, after wrapping it in a shroud according to local custom. A bad drought coupled with the effects of civil war caused a terrible famine in Somalia which claimed the lives of between one and two million people over a period of two years, more than 200 a day in the worst affected areas. The international airlift of relief supplies which started in July was hampered by heavily armed gangs of clansmen who looted food storage centers and slowed down the distribution of the supplies by aid organizations. (By James Nachtwey)

1993: Boys raise toy guns in a gesture of defiance. The Palestinian uprising, which began in December 1987, strengthened the Arab population in their determination to fight the occupying force. In March Israel closed its border with Gaza, causing a massive rise in unemployment. With more than 800,000 people contained in the Israeli-patrolled, eight-km-wide strip of land, bloodshed increased sharply. The peace agreement signed in Washington on September 13 promised limited authority for the Gaza Strip and a withdrawal of the Israeli army. (By Larry Towell)

1994: A Hutu man at a Red Cross hospital, his face mutilated by the Hutu ‘Interahamwe’ militia, who suspected him of sympathizing with the Tutsi rebels. (By James Nachtwey)

1995: A bus on the road leading to Grozny during fighting between Chechen independence fighters and Russian troops. The civil war which erupted when President Yeltsin sent troops to the rebellious province in December 1994 was still dragging on months later. When the Chechen fighters fled Grozny, the capital, where the war had claimed a horrendous human and material toll, Russian troops pursued them into the countryside to the south and east. (By Lucian Perkins)

1996: Landmine victims in Kuito, a town where many people were killed and traumatized during the civil war. (By Francesco Zizola)

1997: A woman cries outside the Zmirli Hospital, where the dead and wounded were taken after a massacre in Bentalha. (By Hocine)

1998: A woman is comforted by relatives and friends at the funeral of her husband. The man was a soldier with the ethnic Albanian rebels of the Kosovo Liberation Army, fighting for independence from Serbia. He had been shot the previous day while on patrol. (By Dayna Smith)

1999: A man walks the streets in one of the largest gathering points for ethnic Albanian refugees fleeing violence in Kosovo. (By Claus Bjørn Larsen)

2000: The mother of a Mexican immigrant family makes piñatas to support herself and her children. The family numbers among the millions of ‘uncounted’ Americans, people who for one reason or another have been missed by the national census and so don’t exist in population records. (By Lara Jo Regan)

2001: The body of a one-year-old boy who died of dehydration is prepared for burial at Jalozai refugee camp. The child’s family, originally from North Afghanistan, had sought refuge in Pakistan from political instability and the consequences of drought. The family gave the photographer permission to attend as they washed and wrapped his body in a white funeral shroud, according to Muslim tradition. In the overcrowded Jalozai camp, 80,000 refugees from Afghanistan endured squalid conditions. (By Erik Refner)

2002: A boy holds his dead father’s trousers as he squats beside the spot where his father is to be buried, surrounded by soldiers and villagers digging graves for victims of an earthquake in Armenia. (By Eric Grigorian)

2003: An Iraqi man comforts his four-year-old son at a holding center for prisoners of war, in the base camp of the US Army 101st Airborne Division near An Najaf. The boy had become terrified when, according to orders, his father was hooded and handcuffed. A soldier later severed the plastic handcuffs so that the man could comfort his child. Hoods were placed over detainees’ heads because they were quicker to apply than blindfolds. The military said the bags were used to disorient prisoners and protect their identities. It is not known what happened to the man or the boy. (By Jean-Marc Bouju)

2004: A woman mourns a relative killed in the tsunami. On December 26, a 9.3 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, triggered a series of deadly waves that traveled across the Indian Ocean, wreaking havoc in nine Asian countries, and causing fatalities as far away as Somalia and Tanzania. (By Arko Datta)

2005: The fingers of malnourished Alassa Galisou (1) are pressed against the lips of his mother Fatou Ousseini at an emergency feeding center. One of the worst droughts in recent times, together with a particularly heavy plague of locusts that had destroyed the previous year’s harvest, left millions of people severely short of food. (By Finbarr O’Reilly)

2006: Young Lebanese drive down a street in Haret Hreik, a bombed neighborhood in southern Beirut. (By Spencer Platt)

2007: A soldier of Second Platoon, Battle Company of the Second Battalion of the US 503rd Infantry Regiment sinks onto an embankment in the Restrepo bunker at the end of the day. (By Tim Hetherington)

2008: Detective Robert Kole of the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Office enters a home, following mortgage foreclosure and eviction. He needs to check that the owners have vacated the premises, and that no weapons have been left lying around. (By Anthony Suau)

2009: Women shout their dissent from a Tehran rooftop on 24 June, following Iran’s disputed presidential election. (By Pietro Masturzo)

2010: Bibi Aisha, an 18-year-old woman from Oruzgan province in Afghanistan, fled back to her family home from her husband’s house, complaining of violent treatment. The Taliban arrived one night, demanding Bibi be handed over to face justice. After a Taliban commander pronounced his verdict, Bibi’s brother-in-law held her down and her husband sliced off her ears and then cut off her nose. Bibi was abandoned, but later rescued by aid workers and the U.S. military. (By Jodi Bieber)

2011: A veiled woman holds a wounded relative “inside a mosque used as a field hospital by demonstrators against the rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, during clashes in Sanaa, Yemen. (By Samuel Aranda)

2012: A group of men carry the bodies of two dead children through a street in Gaza City. (By Paul Hansen)

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5/4/2010 max bump Omega & Tomomitsu Matsunaga vs Poison Sawada Julie & Tiger Toguchi

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DDT Ultimate Tag League 2022 Finals 2/27/2022; DDT Judgement & TJPW Grand Princess ‘22 Full Cards; Dragon Gate, NOAH, AJPW, STARDOM Results; NJPW Strong Episode 80 - 2/26/2022

DDT / Tokyo Joshi

The winners of the Ultimate Tag League 2022, as well as the new KO-D Tag Team Champions, have now been determined. The Final was held today at Tokyo Korakuen Hall, and you can see it now on Wrestle Universe. Antonio Honda was off this show despite a negative test, as he appears to just be ill, however Toi Kojima tested positive, so he was also off this one. Matches were changed accordingly.

DDT Ultimate Tag League 2022 The Final!! - 2/27/2022, Tokyo Korakuen Hall (Wrestle Universe)

Yusuke Okada [Burning] d. Yuki Ishida (Boston Crab, 6:34)

Danshoku Dino [Pheromones] NC Hiroshi Yamato (5:44)

Toru Owashi & Shuji Kondo d. Soma Takao & Kazusada Higuchi (Kondo > Takao, King Kong Lariat, 9:16)

Ultimate Tag League 2022 B Block: Chris Brookes & Masahiro Takanashi d. Shunma Katsumata & MAO [The 37KAMIINA] (Brookes > Katsumata, Praying Mantis Bomb, 7:03)

Ultimate Tag League 2022 B Block: HARASHIMA & Naomi Yoshimura [DISASTER BOX] d. Yuki Iino & Yumehito Imanari [Pheromones] (HARASHIMA > Iino, Forward Rolling Cradle, 12:30)

Ultimate Tag League 2022 A Block: Konosuke Takeshita & Yuki Ueno [The 37KAMIINA] d. Tetsuya Endo & Jun Akiyama [Burning] (Takeshita > Endo, Plus Ultra, 24:09)

Daisuke Sasaki, Minoru Fujita & MJ Paul [DAMNATION TA] d. Yuji Hino, Akito & Yukio Naya (Sasaki > Akito, La Mistica, 13:23)

Sanshiro Takagi & Maya Yukihi d. Yukio Sakaguchi & Saki Akai [Eruption] (Yukihi > Akai, Snowton Bomb, 12:23)

Ultimate Tag League 2022 Final: HARASHIMA & Naomi Yoshimura [DISASTER BOX] d. Konosuke Takeshita & Yuki Ueno [The 37KAMIINA] (Yoshimura > Ueno, Shonenba, 20:14) - HARASHIMA/Yoshimura win the Ultimate Tag League 2022 - HARASHIMA/Yoshimura are the 72nd KO-D Tag Team Champions

The perennial ace of DDT and partner Yoshimura win the League, and the titles they vacated at the start of the tournament. They had to beat Pheromones in order to get there. Konosuke Takeshita got a direct win over his KO-D Openweight challenger for Judgement 2022, Tetsuya Endo, on his team’s way to the Final as well. So maybe Endo should like his chances at Ryogoku now, going by the rules of pro wrestling booking. Yoshimura challenged Brookes/Takanashi, who won the Asia Dream tag belts in ChocoPro yesterday, as the only team that beat DISASTER BOX in the league, so Yoshimura wants to set that right.

Final Ultimate Tag League 2022 Standings:

A Block Takeshita/Ueno – 6pts (3W 0D 1L) ***WINNER*** Akiyama/Endo – 6pts (3W 0D 1L) Hino/Naya – 4pts (2W 0D 2L) Higuchi/Okatani – 2pts (1W 0D 3L) Kondo/Hirata – 0pts (0W 0D 4L)

B Block HARASHIMA/Yoshimura – 6pts (3W 0D 1L) ***WINNER*** Sasaki/Paul – 4pts (2W 0D 2L) Iino/Imanari – 4pts (2W 0D 2L) Brookes/Takanashi – 4pts (2W 0D 2L) MAO/Katsumata – 2pts (1W 0D 3L) At the end of the show, DDT announced the full card for Judgement 2022, DDT’s 25th Anniversary show, on 3/20/2022 from Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan. It’s a show that will not only feaure a bunch of title matches, but also LiLiCo’s retirement, and a special 30th Anniversary match for Jun Akiyama.

Judgement 2022 – DDT 25th Anniversary Show - 3/20/2022, Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan (Wrestle Universe)

Yusuke Okada, Yuya Koroku & Ilusion v. Toi Kojima, Yuki Ishida & El Unicorn

Time Admission Tag Battle Royale: Tomohiko Hashimoto & Seiya Morohashi v. Soma Takao & Shota v. Minoru Fujita & MJ Paul [DAMNATION TA] v. Yuji Hino & Yukio Naya v. Gorgeous Matsuno & Gota Ihashi v. Andreza Giant Panda & Super Sasadango Machine

KO-D 10-Man Tag Team Championship: Toru Owashi, Antonio Honda, Kazuki Hirata & Yoshihiko © v. Poison Sawada JULIE, Takashi Sasaki, GENTARO, MIKAMI & Tanomusaku Toda

LiLiCo Retirement Match: LiLiCo, Ryohei Odai & Akito v. Danshoku Dino, Yuki Iino & Yumehito Imanari [Pheromones]

Yuki Sakaguchi [Eruption] & Isami Kodaka v. Yuki Ueno & Shunma Katsumata [The 37KAMIINA]

Saki Akai [Eruption] v. Maya Yukihi

Jun Akiyama 30th Anniversary Match: Jun Akiyama [Burning] & Takao Omori [AJPW] v. Kazusada Higuchi & Hideki Okatani

DDT 25th Anniversary Match Special Singles Match: Sanshiro Takagi v. Michael Nakazawa [AEW]

DDT Universal Championship Hardcore 3-Way Match: Daisuke Sasaki [DAMNATION TA] © v. Jun Kasai [FREEDOMS] v. MAO [The 37KAMIINA]

DDT’s next show is on Wednesday 3/3/2022, from Tokyo Shinjuku FACE.

Tokyo Joshi was yesterday from Osaka. Maki Itoh and Miyu Yamashita are now free and clear of COVID-19, so they were back on the card for this show.

Tokyo Joshi 2022 Winter - 2/26/2022, Osaka Azalea Taisho Hall (Wrestle Universe)

Suzume d. Kata Toribami (Ring A Bell, 7:15)

Nao Kakuta d. Haruna Neko (Shiden Kai, 7:51)

Maki Itoh & Yuki Kamifuku d. Raku & Pom Harajuku (Itoh > Harajuku, Itoh Punish, 11:09)

Rika Tatsumi, Miu Watanabe & Moka Miyamoto d. Shoko Nakajima, Hyper Misao & Mahiro Kiryu (Watanabe > Kiryu, Tear Drop, 12:36)

Miyu Yamashita & Marika Kobashi d. Hikari Noa & Arisu Endo (Yamashita > Endo, Skull Kick, 10:05)

Yuka Sakazaki & Mizuki d. Nodoka Tenma & Yuki Aino (Sakazaki > Tenma, Toy Story 4, 15:10)

It’s been noted this is the last time in TJPW that Nodoka Tenma and Marika Kobashi will be in Osaka. Maki Itoh said she burned the pasta that the Japanese government provided as a care package for COVID cases, but she ate it anyway so as not to waste taxpayers’ money.

In other TJPW news, the card for Grand Princess ’22, their own Sumo Hall supercard, has also been announced. More matches may get added to this. Besides the title matches, and the only singles match between the Bakuretsu Sisters before Nodoka Tenma’s retirement, Hikari Noa will face off against AEW’s Hikaru Shida.

Grand Princess ‘22 - 3/19/2022, Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan (Wrestle Universe)

Juria Nagano Debut Match: Juria Nagano v. TBA

Hyper Misao v. Sanshiro Takagi

Nodoka Tenma v. Yuki Aino

Hikari Nao v. Hikaru Shida [AEW]

TJPW return to Ryogoku KFC Hall on Saturday.

Dragon Gate

Dragon Gate wrapped up the Truth Gate 2022 tour this weekend.

Truth Gate 2022 – Final Burst Out! K-Ness Forever Night 10 - 2/26/2022, Aichi Tsushima Bunka Gynmnasium

Naruki Doi, Kota Minoura & Kaito Ishida d. Kzy, Genki Horiguchi & U-T [Natural Vibes] (Minoura > Horiguchi, Gang, 11:28)

Jason Lee & Ho Ho Lun d. Eita & Yosuke Santa Maria (Lee > Yosuka, Eita threw in towel, 0:05)

Jason Lee & Ho Ho Lun d. Eita & Yosuke Santa Maria (Lee > Yosuke, Pinfall after Eita low blow, 5:29)

Takashi Yoshida d. Ryu Fuda (Stretch Muffler 6:25)

Dragon Dia & Yuki Yoshioka d. Yasushi Kanda & Takuma Fujiwara (Dia > Kanda, 10:26)

Big Boss Shimizu & Susumu Yokosuka [Natural Vibes] d. KAI & SB KENTo [Z-Brats] (Shimizu > KAI, DQ, 11:48)

YAMATO, Dragon Kid, Ben-K & Keisuke Okuda [HIGH-END] d. BxB Hulk, HYO, Diamante & Shun Skywalker [Z-Brats] (YAMATO > HYO, Galleria, 14:45)

The main and semi-main from this show are on YouTube.

Truth Gate 2022 – Final Burst Out! K-Ness Forever Night 11 - 2/27/2022, Hyogo Kobe Art Center (Dragon Gate Network)

Naruki Doi, Kota Minoura & Kaito Ishida d. Kzy, Genki Horiguchi & U-T [Natural Vibes] (Minoura > Horiguchi, Gang, 11:40)

Jacky “Funky” Kamei [Natural Vibes] TLD Takuma Fujiwara (15:00)

Diamante & Shun Skywalker [Z-Brats] d. Takashi Yoshida & Jason Lee (Skywalker > Lee, 9:36)

Battle Royale: Susumu Yokosuka [Natural Vibes] d. Kagetora [HIGH-END], Masaaki Mochizuki, Don Fujii, Super Shisa, Yasushi Kanda, Konomama Ichikawa, Strong Machine J, La Estrella, BxB Hulk [Z-Brats], Ho Ho Lun, Riki Iihashi & Ryu Fuda (Yokosuka > Kanda, 15:21)

YAMATO, Dragon Kid, Ben-K & Keisuke Okuda [HIGH-END] d. Eita, Yosuke Santa Maria, Mondai Ryu & Punch Tominaga (Ben-K > Yosuke, Pinfall after low blow from Eita, 14:08)

Big Boss Shimizu [Natural Vibes], Dragon Dia & Yuki Yoshioka d. KAI, HYO & SB KENTo [Z-Brats] (Shimizu > KAI, Shotput Slam, 17:54)

Shimizu gets another direct win on KAI, in the Champions v. Challengers match, as HYO & SB KENTo challenged DiaYoshi for the Twin Gate titles on Wednesday. Takuma Fujiwara gets a TLD rub from an established roster guy, on his way to challenging for the Brave Gate belt on 3/5/2022. Apparently there were issues with the stream during the second match, so the on-demand is delayed a bit whilst they repair the video.

The next show is on Wednesday 3/3/2022 from Tokyo Korakuen Hall. Naruki Doi’s unit will reveal their name and colors here, and we get the second K-Ness tribute match as Jimmys reunites. In the meantime, on 3/4/2022, YAMATO will be at Ryukyu Dragon’s show from Tokyo Shinjuku FACE which will be on Twitcast. He and Gurukun Mask will be in a tag match against two deathmatch icons, Jun Kasai & Takashi Sasaki. Also, Natural Vibes’ Kzy & U-T challenge for Ryukyu Dragon’s tag belts held by Minoru Fujita & Churaumi Sabre.

Pro Wrestling NOAH

NOAH held their last Step Forward 2022 show on Friday from Yokohama.

Step Forward 2022 - 2/25/2022, Yokohama Radiant Hall (Wrestle Universe)

Junta Miyawaki d. Yasutaka Yano (Falcon Arrow, 6:44)

Muhammad Yone [Funky Express] d. Kinya Okada (Kinniku Buster, 7:31)

Tadasuke & ALEJA [Kongo] d. Hao & Kai Fujimura (Tadasuke > Fujimura, Fuyuki Special, 10:35)

HAYATA, Yoshinari Ogawa & Yuya Susumu [STINGER] d. Kotaro Suzuki, Ikuto Hidaka & Super Crazy [Perros del Mal de Japon] (HAYATA > Hidaka, 11:18)

Go Shiozaki & King Tany [Funky Express] d. Manabu Soya & Nio [Kongo] (Shiozaki > Nio, Short Range Lariat, 10:19)

NOSAWA Rongai & Eita [Perros del Mal de Japon] d. Daisuke Harada & YO-HEY (Eita > Harada, Trauma, 12:30)

Naomichi Marufuji [M’s Alliance], Masaaki Mochizuki [M’s Alliance] & Daiki Inaba d. Takashi Sugiura [Sugiura-gun], Masa Kitamiya & Yoshiki Inamura (Inaba > Inamura, Extreme Warp, 19:59)

Kenoh & Hajime Ohara [Kongo] d. Kaito Kiyomiya & Atsushi Kotoge (Ohara > Kotoge, Finnish Forearm, 20:12)

Ohara beats his former partner Kotoge. In other Kongo news, judging by the lineups I posted yesterday, it looks like ALEJA is now going by Alejandro, and is out of Kongo. You really do need a scorecard to keep up with this faction.

NOAH have a rest until Saturday 3/5/2022. I posted that schedule yesterday.

All Japan Pro Wrestling

AJPW finished the Excite Series for 2022 with a show in Chiba.

Excite Series 2022 Night 6 - 2/27/2022, Chiba 2AW Square (AJPW.tv)

Daiju Wakamatsu [2AW] d. Ryo Inoue (Boston Crab, 7:57)

Yoshitatsu & Izanagi d. Takao Omori & Black Menso-re (Yoshitatsu > Menso-re, Yoshitatsu Rhapsody, 8:59)

Yusuke Kodama [TOTAL ECLIPSE] d. Dan Tamura [Evolution] (Mad Splash, 8:06)

Shigehiro Irie & Ayato Yoshida [2AW] d. Yuma & Atsuki Aoyagi [NEXTREAM] (Irie > Atsuki, Flying Headbutt, 12:08)

Shuji Ishikawa & Fuminori Abe d. Kento Miyahara & Rising HAYATO [NEXTREAM] (Abe > HAYATO, Ghost Clutch, 12:52)

Suwama, Shotaro Ashino & Kohei Sato [Evolution] d. Ryuki Honda, Hokuto Omori & Koji Doi [TOTAL ECLIPSE] (Suwama > Doi, Backdrop Hold, 16:46)

As predicted, Shuji Ishikawa will be Kento’s next challenger for the Triple Crown.

The next tour begins Monday 3/7/2022.

New Japan Pro Wrestling

Last night’s NJPW Strong was, in fact, the last from the New Beginning USA tapings, not last week’s like I erroneously thought. The main event was a title match.

Karl Fredericks d. Ethan HD (MD, 11:51)

El Phantasmo [Bullet Club] d. Matthew Rehwoldt (Quebradora, 9:45)

NJPW Strong Openweight Championship: “Filthy” Tom Lawlor [Team Filthy] © d. Taylor Rust (Rear Naked Choke, 19:11) - Lawlor succeeds his 7th defense

Did anyone think this reign was going to go this long? Because I didn’t. It’s a good thing, honestly. I know Ethan HD on Twitter, hi Ethan.

Next week’s episode will start the Rivals series of tapings from last week in LA.

STARDOM

STARDOM ran twice this weekend. Cinderella Journey in Nagaoka is now on STARDOM World, incidentally.

- 2/26/2022, Hyogo Acrier Himeji

Mina Shirakawa [Cosmic Angels] d. Rina [Oedo Tai] (Implant DDT, 8:10)

Natsupoi & MIRAI [Donna del Mondo] d. Hanan & Koguma [STARS] (Natsupoi > Hanan, Backlash, 7:26)

Syuri, Maika & Himeka [Donna del Mondo] d. Tam Nakano, Unagi Sayaka & Waka Tsukiyama [Cosmic Angels] (Maika > Tsukiyama, Yamachaka, 15:04)

Mayu Iwatani, Hazuki & Momo Kohgo [STARS] d. Giulia, Thekla & Mai Sakurai [Donna del Mondo] (Hazuki > Sakurai, Michinoku Driver II, 11:12)

Saki Kashima, Ruaka, Starlight Kid & Momo Watanabe [Oedo Tai] d. Utami Hayashishita, AZM, Saya Kamitani & Lady C [Queen’s Quest] (Ruaka > C, Freezer Bomb, 17:38)

- 2/27/2022, Mie Messe Wing Tsu

Saki Kashima & Ruaka [Oedo Tai] d. Tam Nakano & Waka Tsukiyama (Kashima > Tsukiyama, My Emblem, 10:21)

Mina Shirakawa & Unagi Sayaka [Cosmic Angels] TLD Thekla & MIRAI [Donna del Mondo] (15:00)

Giulia & Mai Sakurai [Donna del Mondo] d. Mayu Iwatani & Momo Kohgo [STARS] (Giulia > Kohgo, Flacon Arrow, 10:01)

Rina, Starlight Kid & Momo Watanabe [Oedo Tai] d. Hanan, Koguma & Hzuki [STARS] (Rina > Hanan, Gory Bomb, 11:41)

Syuri, Maika, Himeka & Natsupoi [Donna del Mondo] d. Utami Hayashishita, AZM, Saya Kamitani & Lady C [Queen’s Quest] (Himeka > C, Powerbomb, 17:15)

STARDOM are in Tokyo Korakuen Hall on Tuesday.

Other News

Sendai Girls has a new Junior champion, as Tomoko Inada beat Yurika Oka today in Nagaoka. Team 200kg (Chihiro Hashimoto & Yuu) defeated DASH Chisako & Hiroyo Matsumoto to retain the tag team titles in the main event as well.

Big Japan and Pro Wrestling ZERO1 ran a joint card from Shinkiba on Friday.

2AW, Dotonbori Pro, FREEDOMS, HEAT UP, Ice Ribbon, Michinoku Pro, ChocoPro, Ganbare Pro and PURE-J all ran this weekend too.

Back Tuesday, for the NJPW 50th Anniversary event.

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