Crap! I got an error in the explorer before I could post it. Curse you, Microsoft!!
:-)
... anyway now for something completely naval-less and useless. -_-;;
(and I do hope I made no errors and that the couple of links work)
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Yayoko’s Personality of the World.[/SIZE]
Name:
Akaibara Yayoko
Nickname: Yayo-chan, Yayakoshii
Born: 9/20/1893 in Edo
Lives: Tateishi (Echizen-ken, Fukui-gun)
Height: 156 cm
Weight: A secret ^_^
Occupation: Newspaper journalist for
Fukui Shinbun and
AWNR: Japan Star Reporter
Awards and Achievements:
“Fukui-gun Journalist of the Month: November 1920”
“Fukui-gun Journalist of the Month: January 1921”
“Fukui-gun Journalist of the Month: March 1921”
“Fukui-gun Journalist of the Month: September 1921”
“Fukui-gun Journalist of the Month: November 1921”
“Fukui-gun Journalist of the Month: December 1921”
“Fukui-gun Journalist of the Month: February 1922”
“Fukui-gun Journalist of the Year: 1921”
‘Okinawa Times’ “Best Newspaper Article Award: 1921” for
“Yayoko’s Personality of the Month”
Kyoto’s
‘Teikoku Shinbun’ “Article of the Year 1921” for
“Yayoko’s Personality of the Month”
Edo’s
‘Bakufu Shinbun’ “Article of Excellence 1921” for
“Yayoko’s Personality of the Month”
“3rd Place National Kendo Championships: Fall Tournament 1921” (October, 1921).
“National Kendo Champion: Winter Tournament 1922” (January, 1922).
Konnichiwa. Watashi wa Akaibara Yayoko. Doozo Yoroshiku. *bows*
Greetings. I am Akaibara Yayoko (or Yayoko Akaibara to all of you gaijin out there). Pleased to meet you.
Welcome to the improved variant of my award-winning article
“Yayoko’s Personality of the month” which has been a very successful article for
Fukui Shinbun. Now that I also work for
AWNR: Japan, I will also atempt to get some well-known personalities from other nations in this, my new quarterly article
“Yayoko’s World Personality of the World” .
... and since it is
my article, it is only natural to start with
myself. ^_^
Normally, I am the one asking the questions, but for this quarter’s issue, I have managed to find a reporter (read:
‘sucker’) who will ask me the questions.
AWNR: You’re originally not from Tateishi, right?
Akaibara: I was born in the Shogunate City of Edo, but when I was 5, we moved to Tateishi where I still live today. In Tateishi I also started with my first lessons in Kendo basics. Once that was done, I continued with training in Fukui at the Omakuro Dojo. In Fukui, I also learned the Art of Journalism.
AWNR: Did you intend to become a Journalist when you grew up?
Akaibara: No. My father was a general in the army of the Oda family Daimyo. I grew up with the stories he told of the great warriors of the past and I always wanted to become the Tomoe Gozen of the Taisho Era. Journalism didn’t enter the picture until someone from
Fukui Shinbun came to do an article on the Omakuro Dojo. It seemed like a very interesting job since you have the ability to meet a lot of people. So I started to study even more than I did before and in the end managed to get a position at
Fukui Shinbun.
AWNR: And it is believed that you are the only Samurai-Journalist in Japan.
Akaibara: So I have heard.
AWNR: So do you think that, being a Samurai as well as a Journalist, gives you a different look at events compared to other journalists?
Akaibara: Probably. A warrior thinks differently than a merchant or a peasant. He might consider a certain event to be positive for Japan because it is good for the military, while a merchant could consider the same event to be negative since it is bad for the economy. I guess that is why
Fukui Shinbun is so popular, not only in Fukui-gun, but also in the rest of the Empire. Its Journalists come from the various layers of Society and so its articles have a great variety of viewpoints.
AWNR: About your skills with the sword, you are the current National Kendo Champion.
Akaibara: I am, but the competition is stiff. There are many excellent men and women who practice the art of Kendo. I was lucky last time to get the hit and win, but it is sometimes necessary to have a bit of luck together with one’s skills. I hope that with both skill and luck I will be able to defend my title successfully during the Spring Tournament held this month in Edo. I do hope that all my fans reading this article will come to Edo and cheer me on.
^_^
AWNR: Are you not afraid that this will interfere with your work as a Journalist?
Akaibara: To me the Championships are more important than my job. I made this clear when I worked at
Fukui Shinbun as well as with
AWNR: Japan when they wanted me to take the position as its Star Reporter.
ANWR: Yes now…
Akaibara: And
AWNR: Japan promised to give me a bonus whenever I am victorious during the Championships.
^_^
AWNR: All of us wish you the best of luck with the National Championships (eventhough it'll come out of our paychecks)
Akaibara: (I heard that! Shut up and move on to the next question!)
AWNR: Now your look on your job at
AWNR: Japan.
Akaibara: Well, I think that becoming a reporter for
AWNR: Japan gives me a good opportunity to see something of the world. I also hope that my presence will have a positive influence on the nations that I will visit in the search for news. And I hope that I can meet a lot of interesting and important people on my journeys. I also hope to be able to meet my many fans outside Japan.
AWNR: (You have fans outside Japan?)
Akaibara: (Yes, I have. Don't trail off and go on to the next question!!)
AWNR: … and what about the man that you are currently replacing, Nagano Yasunori?
Akaibara: Ohohohohoho! (*ANNOYING LAUGHTER*). He is such a fool, getting in such silly problems. Apparently he is not
manly enough to face the enemy.
AWNR: And you are?
Akaibara: *glare*
Yame Nasai!
AWNR: (
Gomen…)
Akaibara: He’s clearly addicted to gambling. That has been his flaw all the time, but he should know when to stop. I heard his debt was 15 million yen. And now, because he does not know when to stop, debt collectors are tracking him down. I do hope they get him because that would give me a good article for
AWNR: Japan.
AWNR: Moving...
Akaibara: Ohohohohoho! (*ANNOYING LAUGHTER*). Let him sweat for a while... I don't care. A nice story it will be.
AWNR: ... moving on to one of the main events of last year, the coming into effect of the Treaty of Cleito. What’s your view of the Treaty?
(OOC: Okay so it is not completely naval-less) :-D
Akaibara: I think that I might share the same view as all the other people of Japan.
NASTY is the word for it that we all use. On one hand, I think that it is good to limit the naval strength of all the nations, but I do believe that Japan did not receive the tonnages what it should have received. Still, I think that Kaetuza-dono had something in mind when he accepted to sign.
AWNR: You think something not legal?
Akaibara: How should I know?! I’m not working for
INPA!
AWNR: Well, a skillful Journalist could easily sneak into the
INPA office and find out.
Akaibara: … and I am not a ninja of the Yagyu or Nakamura clan either!
AWNR: (Not much of a Star Reporter if you cannot sneak into the
INPA office)
Akaibara:
Urusai!
AWNR: Does that mean there will be less naval news appearing in the news reports?
Akaibara: Well that would depend. If something exciting is happening in the world of the Imperial Navy, I’ll go and make the report. If not, well too bad then.
AWNR: (She doesn’t like our glorious navy) *sniff*
Akaibara: (Quit whining. You’re running out of time anyway.)
AWNR: You really do not like our navy, do you?
Akaibara: Ohohohohoho! (*ANNOYING LAUGHTER*). I have had the privilege to read the work of the Chief of Naval Weapon Development, Oonishi Tohoda. It is clear that a plane, when correctly constructed and used can blow an entire navy, no matter how big, out of the water. I think it is more important for our industry to concentrate of such aircraft rather than all those ships.
AWNR: Surely aircraft carriers have their use when it comes to aircraft?
Akaibara:
Ahou! The treaty limits the construction of such vessels so what use are they if you can only build a few of them!
AWNR: Okay. Any final words to your fans out there?
Akaibara: Yes. I do hope you all follow my news articles in
Fukui Shinbun and
AWNR: Japan and that you all keep supporting me during the National Jujitsu Championships next month in Nagoya and come watching me defend my title at the National Kendo Championships this month in Edo. I hope you will also support me to become the number one reporter of our glorious nation.
Furthermore, I hope that you consider buying my books, Manga, and Anime DVDs in order to follow my exciting and dangerous adventures, play my video games in order to be me and go on many of my exciting and dangerous adventures and buy my many CDs and listen to all my beautiful songs. Also available are a great variety of T-shirts in different size with me on it. Buy one to show everyone that you support me. Photos and posters of me are also available and if you want my autograph on them, I’m in the
Fukui Shinbun Office every first Monday of the month and two days after that in the office of
AWNR: Japan in Kyoto. Also, should you encounter any
Hentai material of me, please, please, please report this to the nearest
Shinsengumi Official.
Last but not least, replicas of my Dotanuki
“Soaring Dragon” are available, created by
Marto in Toledo, Iberia. Unfortunately no replicas are available of my…
“Golden Butterfly Sword”.
Also donations to financially support my travelling expenses can be made daily in either one of the offices. Put your donation in an envelope and write “
To Yayo-chan” on it and either deliver this envellope to one of the offices of mail it to "
Marutamachi agaru kamigyoku kyoto 602, Nippon". Please, please, please?
^_^
Ganbare, Yayoko!
Go, Go, AWNR: Nihon Suta Ripo-ta!
Ja ne!
^_^
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Yayakoshii: puzzling, tangled, complicated, complex
NASTY:
Nordmark-
Atlantis-
South Africa
Treat
y
INPA:
Imperial
Naval
Planning
Agency
Ahou: Fool, Idiot
Hentai: that would be all the naughty and kinky stuff.
Marto is an actual manufacturer in Toledo, Spain.
The (*ANNOYING LAUGHTER*) bit is a minor variant of the (*DIABOLICAL LAUGHTER*) bit in Monty Python's "
Spanish Inquisition Sketch" (Guess that would be the "Iberian Inquisition Sketch" in the Wesworld).
But unlike Cardinal Ximinez's 'Diabolical' laugh, Yayoko's laugh would be annoying, like the laugh of Naga the White Serpent from the Anime "Slayer" (
really annoying laugh, but that is one reason why she is such a great character)
I found a site and the "Marutamachi agaru kamigyoku kyoto 602" adress I got from that site is the adress of the old Imperial Palace in Kyoto... so in the Wesworld, the adress Yayoko gives would be the adress of the Emperor and Empress.
(Wonder why she did that...)
Walter