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Uyoku

Uyoku (Japanese nationalist right-wing groups) drive by my place in their scary-looking noisy sound buses at least once a week (or so it seems to me). They came by the other day while I happened to be out on the balcony with my video camera. Here's a... ...full story at Kyklops

from Kyklops on Tue, Sep 30 2008

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