this is the other tokyo. 12-hour flight and i m baked. no sleep. might as well must go out. the kabachiko district near my hotel has the advantage of being where the subterranean life, the repre repress repressed i.d.s of the japanese male, some female too, come out to play. joining me is japanese film producer and production manager maso sokubel. always a good sign when protective chains protect entertainers from the soon to be entertained. right? prepare yourself for the greatest show in the history of entertainment.
age to put aside childish things. the action figures, dolls, features of our imaginations, to arm ourselves with the brutal realities of the real world, real combat, real sex. in japan, increasing numbers of people don t. they continue to live a life inside four walls, inside their mind, the life we call the computer geek, the nerd, as avatars. there s a name for it, a whole subculture of what s called otaku. once a derisive term, now a proud identifier of the geek, one who has turned his back on the real world and finds satisfaction elsewhere. manga, or comic books, hold a different place in the cultural landscape here and address different needs. there s yowi, for example. otherwise known as boys love manga, extremely popular with teenage girls. stories change, but the core
mubarak decides it s time to use live ammunition or to really go full-on aggressive mode and repre repress. so that s the question here. and if the military feels that the momentum is going in the direction of the protestors, which it does seem to be, they might start to ask themselves, well, do we want to be with the winners or do we want to be with the loser snz do we want to be remembered as the military that sided with an apressive regime or do we side with our own egyptian brothers and sister snz i think that s the decision that military dmapders are going to have to take. i think after what we saw in tunisia, as the military served as protectors of the people, i think tunisia really provides a model we can only hope the egyptian military follows. that s a very good point. there s two sides to this. could they act against the president, stage a coup, or