Comments on: Noriko Sakai haunted by ghost

By: helical

helical — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:20:57 +0000

Hey, I AM a ghost, you insensitive clod!

By: Ra

Ra — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:59:49 +0000

WOW.

I am sooooooooooooo scared now.

Now I realize why I am SUCH a drug-addict! It’s them damned ghosts hanging around me making me do such nastiness!

By: Ken Y-N

Ken Y-N — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:30:45 +0000

Ahh, I see now – my notebook monitor is a bit crap!

Isn’t it just one of these pics where they blur out the background, only this time someone was in shot, rather than the usual advertising backdrop?

Anyway, the Japanese seem to love (I’m sure I’ve got a survey on that somewhere!) this sort of “ghostly image” shot…

By: canadian_person

canadian_person — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:15:11 +0000

that ghost head I think is some kind of electronic crosstalk in the digital camera, like image smear for instance in the image sensor.

By: yoga boy

yoga boy — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:34:23 +0000

Better to keep the public entranced with this celeb gossip news instead of the economic apocalypse around the corner. Japan’s news is just as bad as America’s in that it completely dumbs everyone down. Enough already…please.

By: LondonGaijin

LondonGaijin — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:12:01 +0000

1) Ghosts arn’t real
2) Putting your tag up on a place which will be seen by everyone, means you win the popularity contest.

By: Yuki

Yuki — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:36:52 +0000

That’s the ghost kid from Ju-On.

By: Haf

Haf — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:29:36 +0000

That blur? It’s fake.

The meaning of the Graffiti? It’s a tag!

Noriko Sakai? Stop wasting your air time with stupid reports about her!

By: Iago

Iago — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:29:23 +0000

I don’t think it’s a ghost. I think it’s the monkey on her back.

By: gilgamesh

gilgamesh — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:08:02 +0000

Since when is someone in the background of a photo considered a “ghost?”

I once took a video with my digital camera of some friends at a party and when I played it back, there was a single frame of what looked like the yip-yips from Sesame Street snuck in there. Turned out it was just a fuzzy version of a picture I had taken earlier. No ghosts. Even though the days of double-exposures from film cameras are about gone, digital cameras aren’t 100% fool-proof, either.

And like Kade said above, taggers want their graffiti to get noticed, that’s why they tag overpasses and the sides of big buildings and whatnot. A lot of the graffiti kids (I know a few personally) where I live (not Japan) will use four-letter tags: some are shortened versions of words–i.e., “ARSN”–while some of them are completely arbitrary. And I’m sure whoever tagged Nori-P’s “summer home” is thrilled to death that the news agencies are running around in circles trying to figure out what it means. 10:1 it’s just the guy’s meaningless tag: either a corruption of “bless” or “breath.”

Oh, and I’m surprised the news outlets haven’t insinuated something about her last name being “酒井”: “She was born to be an alcoholic! Or worse!!”

By: James

James — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:34:23 +0000

There’s a sort of blur between their two heads. The blur contains what looks like an eye.

By: Ken Y-N

Ken Y-N — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:32:16 +0000

Err, where’s the Nori-P ghost? I don’t see anything unusual in that photo.

Oh, and just charge her already for something, anything, to get her off every bulletin!

By: himawari

himawari — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:42:55 +0000

I can’t watch the news anymore without being bombarded by stupid updates on this case. Everyone just get over it already, pleeease. Even one of the morning newscasters yesterday prefaced their coverage of the story with もう聞きたくない話ですが… for sure.

By: Kade

Kade — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:38:35 +0000

As a graf writer in the past, the reason for the person doing a throw up like he did is to take advantage getting his stuff seen, meaning or no meaning. I once noticed they did my local news weather at a certain place everyday outside the TV station so i went there and tagged the brick wall behind where the weather man always stood…it worked and my tag was on tv for many weeks….The “Bles” is maybe the graf writer wanting to say “God (Bless)” but missspealed Bless with Bles, he must have been Japanese…..

By: Bad Wolf

Bad Wolf — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:26:48 +0000

I think I have figured out why the MassGomi is all wee-weed out over this story. I think the truth is that stimulant drug use is rampant in the geinokai. It would certainly be understandable given the workload many of the talento have and the fact that they must appear so hyper all the time, giving off camera-worthy reactions to every little thing. So I figure most, if not all, are chemically enhanced pretty much all the time they are working. Why the hysteria? What better way to distract attention from themselves.