anyone seen ghost in the shell ii: innocence? EOT; --- urth-urth.net-request@lists.urth.net wrote: From: urth-urth.net-request@lists.urth.net Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 12:07:19 -0700 (PDT) To: urth-urth.net@lists.urth.net Subject: urth-urth.net Digest, Vol 10, Issue 1 Send urth-urth.net mailing list submissions to urth-urth.net@lists.urth.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.urth.net/listinfo.cgi/urth-urth.net or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to urth-urth.net-request@lists.urth.net You can reach the person managing the list at urth-urth.net-owner@lists.urth.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of urth-urth.net digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: "There Are Doors" Comes To Japan (Maru Dubshinki) 2. Re: "There Are Doors" Comes To Japan (James Wynn) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 21:56:20 -0400 From: Maru Dubshinki Subject: Re: (urth) "There Are Doors" Comes To Japan To: The Urth Mailing List Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 ? I'm afraid I plumb missed the 'There are doors' connection- I don't see how it ties in. Explanation please? ~Maru On 5/23/05, James Wynn wrote: > Japanese man gets jail time for 'kidnapping' dolls > > May 23, 6:12 AM (ET) > > TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese man has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years > in jail for snatching mannequins used by a cake shop chain to tout its > wares. > "Peko-chan," a round-eyed doll around the size of a six-year-old, has been > used by Fujiya Co. Ltd. to sell sweets for five decades and her grinning > countenance is a familiar sight in front of shops around Japan. > > Recently, however, she has become a favorite of collectors, leading to a > rash of "Peko-chan" snatchings. > > Takeishi Shibuya, 31, was convicted of stealing 15 of the large dolls, > valued at about 1.1 million yen ($10,170), a court official in Yamagata > prefecture, northern Japan, said on Monday. > > In several cases, Shibuya used pepper spray and spray paint to fend off > store employees, leading prosecutors to demand a sentence of nine years in > prison. > > "But he has reflected on his crimes and feels bad about what he did, so the > sentence was lighter as a result," the official said. > > After a wave of "Peko-chan" disappearances last year, the company suggested > chaining the dolls down, but customers complained that this would be cruel. > > > _______________________________________________ > Urth Mailing List > To post, write urth@urth.net > Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net > ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 23:15:28 -0500 From: "James Wynn" Subject: Re: (urth) "There Are Doors" Comes To Japan To: "The Urth Mailing List" Message-ID: <000301c56660$e20a5a30$60a3f63f@wynnhouse> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Just a general obsession with dolls...treating them like people ala the concern that chaining them would be cruel. My first thought when I read the article was TAD. (shrug) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maru Dubshinki" To: "The Urth Mailing List" Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 8:56 PM Subject: Re: (urth) "There Are Doors" Comes To Japan ? I'm afraid I plumb missed the 'There are doors' connection- I don't see how it ties in. Explanation please? ~Maru On 5/23/05, James Wynn wrote: > Japanese man gets jail time for 'kidnapping' dolls > > May 23, 6:12 AM (ET) > > TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese man has been sentenced to five-and-a-half > years > in jail for snatching mannequins used by a cake shop chain to tout its > wares. > "Peko-chan," a round-eyed doll around the size of a six-year-old, has been > used by Fujiya Co. Ltd. to sell sweets for five decades and her grinning > countenance is a familiar sight in front of shops around Japan. > > Recently, however, she has become a favorite of collectors, leading to a > rash of "Peko-chan" snatchings. > > Takeishi Shibuya, 31, was convicted of stealing 15 of the large dolls, > valued at about 1.1 million yen ($10,170), a court official in Yamagata > prefecture, northern Japan, said on Monday. > > In several cases, Shibuya used pepper spray and spray paint to fend off > store employees, leading prosecutors to demand a sentence of nine years in > prison. > > "But he has reflected on his crimes and feels bad about what he did, so > the > sentence was lighter as a result," the official said. > > After a wave of "Peko-chan" disappearances last year, the company > suggested > chaining the dolls down, but customers complained that this would be > cruel. > > > _______________________________________________ > Urth Mailing List > To post, write urth@urth.net > Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net > _______________________________________________ Urth Mailing List To post, write urth@urth.net Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Urth Mailing List To post, write urth@urth.net Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net End of urth-urth.net Digest, Vol 10, Issue 1 ********************************************