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It’s been a couple years now since we started EWC and I get nearly daily emails from readers all over the world asking me: “What does Shinsano really look like?”.  Today, we lay that question to rest as the Marmot’s Hole brings us exclusive coverage of Aaron cheering on Coach Brian and his protege from [...]

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In an earlier April post so clairvoyant that it was erroneously dismissed as an April Fool’s joke by some EWC readers, I hipped readers to the fact that Hideki Irabu was on the comeback trail.
Patrick at NPB tracker brings word from Japan that the comeback is indeed in full effect. Irabu has joined the [...]

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Yes, welcome to Korea where you can not only get sent to jail for a year-and-a-half for adultery (if you’re a woman), but apprently for seduction as well.
Guilty as charged. Ahem. The story only identifies the player as “Mr. A,” but he was arrested in Inchon and is a “star” player. Apparently police waited to make the [...]

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From the AFP story: Woman arrested for calling Japanese police 7,177 times
Japanese police arrested a woman for making more than 7,000 emergency telephone calls because an officer did not take her initial complaint seriously, a police spokesman said Wednesday.
The 38-year-old was arrested on Tuesday on charges of obstructing police work, a police spokesman in western [...]

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I’ve been having a few computer problems so I can’t do this article justice with one of my snappy introductions/commentaries, but this is a subject I enjoy and that I’ve written about a couple times on here — Vietnamese women marrying Korean men.
This is an update on a story  written last year by Norimitsu Onishi [...]

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One of my favorite articles from this past year was the February New York Times piece Korean Men Use Brokers to Find Brides in Vietnam  written by Norimitsu Onishi.
It tells the story of two Korean men, Kim Wan-su  and Kim Tae-goo, who, through matchmaking services,  travel to Vietnam in search of brides. Anyone who’s [...]

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One of my favorite novels is Platform by Michael Houellebecq, which primarily centers around the the sex tourism industry in Thailand. I was excited by this idea, not because I neccesarily wanted to run and do it, but because Houellebecq’s narrator lays it out in such a frank but explicit way (to paraphrase): people travel, [...]

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