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redSky location: Seattle (formerly ATL) Gender: Male SPECTRE Vanguard \| \|	haikyo < on 10/19/2010 6:07 PM >

	Found a great Japanese UE site (in english) called Tokyotimes. It's strange to see what we do filtered through an eastern lens. The think I found really interesting was the word Haikyo, which appears (from context and dictionaries) to mean a) Abandonment b) to abandon and c) UE (as in the activity). Any Japanese speakers who can shed more light on this? Check it out at http://www.wordpre...otimes.org/?p=4478 And read the comments, it's funny compared to our more... uh... colorful commentary. SPECTRE - Repariamus Urbes Occultas

redSky

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Re: haikyo
<Reply # 1 on 10/19/2010 6:17 PM >

And if you're in the mood for pics from abandoned Japanese whorehouses, check out http://www.michael...gallery/soaplands/ You can file this text under thing you'll never hear on UER...

Inside, its gaudy rooms still sing of forbidden pleasures, the walls plastered with bright helios, lurking cheetahs, and naked Bathsheba`s, though I doubt any lusty couples have joined in their bawdy chorus for some time...

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Steed location: Edmonton/Seoul Gender: Male Your Friendly Neighbourhood Race Traitor \| \|	Re: haikyo <Reply # 2 on 10/19/2010 8:27 PM >

	Haikyo is composed of two characters, "hai" which means "abandoned" and "kyo" which means "place." The word in its entirety has also come to have a meaning that is accepted to stand in for "urban exploration" and I bet most Japanese urban explorers don't even know the English word. Let's face it, it is a better term than "urban exploration," even if it has some drawbacks of its own. If it weren't for the incredible lameness of western people always getting so obsessed with Japanese culture, I'd've been leading the campaign for us all to adopt that name. PS) I don't speak Japanese, just know some hanja.

Kuroneko

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Tokyo
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Re: haikyo
<Reply # 3 on 10/20/2010 12:58 AM >

Found a great Japanese UE site (in english) called Tokyotimes. It's strange to see what we do filtered through an eastern lens.

Not so. Not Japanese at all. Actually the opposite. The haikyo community in Japan is waiting for these guys to be prosecuted for trashing places...

Real photographers & writers are waiting for them to be prosecuted for use of possessive apostrophes for plural's (sic), and for selectively colorized HRD crappy photographs.

Itinerant, car-less, English teachers here are called Charisma Man here in Japan for a reason. Neko.

http://en.wikipedi.../wiki/Charisma_Man

Steed location: Edmonton/Seoul Gender: Male Your Friendly Neighbourhood Race Traitor \| \|	Re: haikyo <Reply # 4 on 10/20/2010 1:01 AM >

	I did find it odd that the links given were foreigner websites. Got any dirt on Michael John Grist?

redSky location: Seattle (formerly ATL) Gender: Male SPECTRE Vanguard \| \|	Re: haikyo <Reply # 5 on 10/20/2010 4:21 PM >

	Lulz! To be fair I posted this b/c of my complete ignorance of the topic. Thought it was odd that these guys had foreign names, but I assumed that their peculiar use of the english meant they were locals, rather than itinerant english teachers (sorry japan). So is there a local UE tradition competing with a foreign one? And if these sites are crap what would you recommend? I dont' mind a little translation. Btw that bit about Charisma man was interesting. [last edit 10/20/2010 4:23 PM by redSky - edited 1 times] SPECTRE - Repariamus Urbes Occultas

edsel location: Under your skin \|	Re: haikyo <Reply # 6 on 10/20/2010 11:13 PM >

	Im actually in Japan right now doing some haikyo. Only hit up one place so far and it was the main reason I am in Japan. This weekend I have a few places planed to go to. Some amazing stuff over here to shoot. www.flickr.com/edsel12

Gakuranman location: Tokyo, Japan Gender: Male \| \|	Re: haikyo <Reply # 7 on 11/3/2010 11:16 AM >

	I feel the comment by Kuroneko above was unjustified. I've been exploring with Lee before and know that he respects and appreciates the sites he visits just like the many Japanese haikyo photographers out there. As for the viewing through an Eastern lens part, my Japanese explorer friends have commented before on how the pictures taken by foreign nationals highlight interesting parts of the ruins and are taken in a way that perhaps native Japanese people wouldn't see. So perhaps a Western lens of an Eastern ruin, but fantastic work nonetheless .

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