SV: Re: (urth) "There Are Doors" Comes To Japan

nastler · 03 Jun 2005, 00:53 · from 2005-June.txt.gz

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From: nastler at yahoo.dk (nastler)
Date: Fri Jun  3 00:53:49 2005
Subject: SV: Re: (urth) "There Are Doors" Comes To Japan
In-Reply-To: <000301c56660$e20a5a30$60a3f63f@wynnhouse>
Message-ID: <20050603075346.28346.qmail at web54204.mail.yahoo.com>

Or Hethor...

--- James Wynn <thewynns at earthlink.net> skrev:

> 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" <marudubshinki at gmail.com>
> To: "The Urth Mailing List"
> <urth-urth.net at lists.urth.net>
> 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 <thewynns at earthlink.net>
> 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.
> >
> >
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