Meeting Tokyocooney

On April 26, I met Mr. Kevin Cooney aka Tokyocooney.

I do not remember exactly when I started watching his videos,
but at least like two years and half ago, I think.
At that time, still only a few Gaijins were doing
a vlog thing on YouTube though now there are too many to follow.
He is mosdef one of the pioneers of J-Vloggers
and still remaines as the very famous one
& one of the most popular ones if he is not THE MOST.


I am usually not the type who likes to attend this kind of meet-up.
However, I decided to do so as I have been a fan of his videos
and also because of not wanting to stay home
and be depressed that night
as my cat Maxi who had been my companion for 21 years
had passed a few days before this meet-up.

The place was a village bar called "Peculiar Bar",
which did not look peculiar at all to me
but looked like one of those
which had not changed for last 50 years or so.
and about ten people gathered there for this meet-up,
including three of his old friends,
and only one of them was female,
who Kevin claimed he had used to date.
I guess checking Gaijin's vlogs on YouTube
is a more male thing to do
or more like a male Otaku thing to be accurate maybe.

At first I felt like a little kid who met "Mr.Rogers" in person,
being puzzled about why he was not in sweet YouTube-land any more.
Actually the real Kevin talked & acted just like the one in YouTube
and told us many things about himself, Japan and J-vloggers.

Among all those subjects he talked about,
at one point, he fiercely defended Japan about whaling.
He said some kinds of whales were threaten to be extinct,
but some others were not.

Being an animal lover and anti-whaling person,
I simply do not believe there is any justifiable reason
for Japan to continue whaling.
Until like 150 years ago, a whale had been a gift from heaven
to poor fishermen villages in Japan.
And they used to catch one with simple woodden small boats
and very primitive tools like spears.
Naturally they could not
and did not have to catch whales more than that
since they did not have technologies
to preserve and transport them to distant city areas.

Now I do not know any Japanese who say that
they love to eat Whale meat at regular basis
as Japanese have too many other good things to eat
and as the matter of fact, they waste tons of food every day.
However, they still catch whales
because someone still can make money with them.

I wrote about this issue
on some Japanese magazine about two years ago,
and harshly criticised about their very low awareness of
political and social issues in general.
And one of my readers wrote that
I had been brain-washed by Americans, hahaha.

Anyway, I was actually more impressed by
how fiercely Kevin defended Japan about this issue
than his argument itself.
I could have a big urge to defend Japan
anytime I hear some U.S. media trashing Japan
and also I could have a big urge to defend America
anytime I hear Japanese unfairly criticising America,
as I feel I am somewhere in between of these two now.

Probably Kevin feels the same way as I do,
and also he wants to clarify some issues surrounding Japan
as he does not want his family and friends to wonder
why he is living in a horrible country
where people are not concerned about great animals like whales.
So for him, to defend Japan is really to defend himself
who chooses to live in Japan
which is still an odd place to choose to live
for most of Americans.

Also Kevin talked about how cruel American soldiers were
to Japanese soldiers during the pacific War,
and which cracked me up a little
because I saw a documentary just a few weeks ago on PBS,
which said the completely opposit things.

But again I felt his urge to defend Japan,
and he really was defending himself by doing so.

There were his two male friends,
one of them were his SKA band mate before he left for Japan,
and the other was the guy who lived in Japan for 8 years.

He said he did some odd jobs there
and one of them was a fake pastor.



Many young Japanese couples think that
getting married in church is romantic.
Therefore there is a demand and business for this kind of place,
a fake church-marriage hall, and a fake pastor.
Qualifications to be a fake pastor in Japan is

1) Being White
2) Looking like a pastor
3) Some acting ability

He said he made a good money as a fake pastor,
but I did not ask him then why he left Japan after 8 years
as I almost knew it.

Being a Gaijin means a being a novelty.
Most of Japanese are nice to Gaijins,
White or American/European Black people,
because Japanese see a glamorous images of
western cultures behind them,
which are exaggerated by irresponsible medias.

Some Gaijins learn to enjoy being a novelty,
but many of them don't.
That's why they leave Japan after a few years.
It is a simple fact that
we all have a desire to be accepted
as just a person by the society.

Then how come Kevin is staying there
even without being married with a Japanese girl,
which can be one big reason that some Gaijins stick to Japan.
I did not ask him but I could imagine that
one of the reasons is that he is doing well with his career.
while most of Gaijins are struggling
to go beyond teaching English and novelty type jobs.

Good for him!
and I am looking forward to seeing more of his fun videos!

Are Japanese perverts #1

"Ame Nochi P Shimasho (Let's do P after the rain!)"
by Ike Ike Girls

NO, you do not read like Ike of Ike and Tina Turner.
It is more like Ekay Ekay Girls.
"Ike Ike" was the popular term in the early '90s,
which means literary "Go Go"
and could be a noun or an adjective describing
girls who loved to play around with dresses of revealing body lines.

"Ame Nochi P Shimasho"

I am so wet because of rain
But I cannot sleep because of you
You are the kind of guy who does not move quickly
In your arm, I have to sigh again
Girl's mind depends on weather
That kind of kiss just does not do me
Let's do P after the rain
Let's do it passionately
If it turns out to be a fine weather
Please love me more like sending to paradice
Let's do P after the rain
Let's do it until we lose control
Hold me like a burning flame

Because I love him more than before
I wanna feel it like crazy more than before
After I get a very nice tan
Though it might be painful
I want you to hold me tighter
The uncertain rainy cloud started to move
I just can't wait, I am about to explode
Let's do P after the rain
It's about a time to do it
With my burning skin, I am swayed to paradice
Let's do P after the rain
Let's do more & more
Hold me till I melt away

Let's do P after the rain
Let's do it PPPPPPPP
If it turns out to be a fine weather
Love me more like sending me to paradice
Let's do P after the rain
Let's do it till we lose control
Hold me like a burning flame


This P means of course, SEX,
and tha rain is the metaphor of, hmmmm, not sure.
But It is totally a sex song.
They are pretty girls but what a hell are they wearing?
Those bottoms looks like diapers, don't they?
And at that time, so many girls like them on TV.



"Stand UP" by T-Backs

T-Back is a thong.
Japanese call a thong "T-back"
because it look like T
when you look at someone wearing it from behind.
And this clip is from the show on morning hour.
Can you immagine to see something like this on "Good Morning Ameica"?

Jikan Desuyo (1970-1973)

It is an interesting fact that
even when I was a young kid in early '70s, we could see
woman's bare boobs on a prime time TV show in Japan.
That show was called "Jikan desyo(It's time)" and
it was about a family who ran a Sento
(Japanese style public bath house)
and almost everytime, they showed boobs in a female undressing room.
My mother complained about that but she did not change the channel
because she knew everybody enjoying the show.
Something like this simply cannot happen in U.S. even in this day.
But in Japan, showing genitals in any media
is still strictly, well probably not so much, prohibited by law.

I still remember my teacher said not to watch
Sally Field's "Flying Nun" because it was on the air
after 10:00PM in the area I lived
So I did not watch it as a model kid.
But still I could watch this bare boob show
and teachers did not say anything about it.

And one other thing I remember is that
every summer there was a TV special that
many young stars gathered and did swimming competitions.
And the during the show, every time without a fail,
some girl's bikini top fell down accidentally,
well that's what they said, bare boobs were exposed
and always they were caught by a TV camera clearly.
Those were prime time shows with many celebrities
who were adored by kids.

To be continues