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AKB x MSN:  pop culture curiosities further validated via real news

Posted on January 11, 2023

May, 2014: Two young members of Japanese idol group AKB48 were assaulted by a misguided young man wielding a folding saw during a meet-&-greet publicity appearance.  Unsurprisingly, the incident made headline news in Japan for a day or two, relevant points dutifully touched upon with requisite Japanese concern.  

Associated Press picked up the story and it went global.  MSN news was among those recounting the story, albeit with only cursory mention as an entertainment sidebar and coverage which read more like a monthly AKB newsletter than news report.  An attack of this nature is  newsworthy, to be sure, but as much for reasons beyond the innocent-young-girls-beset-upon-by-evil, sympathetic slant expounded thus far…

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noun・linguistic neologism   \ jə-ˌ'pan-glish,  jə-ˌ'paŋ-lish, ジャパングリッシュ \ ... A modern derivation of Japanese language exhibiting English influence. Its origins trace to the beginnings of Japanese contact with Western civilization which led to the country's 1854 "opening" from isolation...

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