HeyJaredRionne’s Writings
Life in Japan and anything else I can think of. Views and opinions are my own.
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The Christopher Payne Case: A Tokyo High Court Ruling Cast Doubt on the DNA Evidence (opens the original)
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« Please note that this is not my work, it’s an English translation and based on reporting by journalist Masao Awano, published on the Keiji Bengo Oasis criminal-defense portal, September 2, 2026 - Rionne »On the morning of July 15, an American man in his mid-thirties sat across an acrylic partition in a Tokyo Detention House visiting room, speaking fluent Japanese. Christopher Stephen Payne, the son of a Greek father and an African-American mother, raised in the United States, has spent close t
Son of Yellow-Haired Aodh (opens the original)
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I’ve been chipping away at research into my surname for months now, and I finally feel confident enough to actually write it up properly. I’ve always known the short version of this. McAvoy is Irish… In fact, my late Aunt Mabel traced our McAvoy roots all the way back to 1796 when John McAvoy married Ann O’Neil who was 21 years younger than him. <a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ai42!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-med
When Japanese Pro Wrestling Meets Anime (opens the original)
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I have to admit, I am not a big anime fan. But there is a funny connection between anime and my own childhood.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1233" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xpx9!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/h
すべての寄り道が、今につながっている (opens the original)
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「監督のプロフィールを送ってください」とよく言われている。プロフィールというのは、人生を実際よりずっと整理されたものに見せてしまう。僕の場合、「武道を学ぶために
Today 81 years ago... August 15th, 1945 (opens the original)
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I quite often find myself forgetting the anniversaries of two very important dates in Japanese history right up until the day itself, and they are two dates that I really should have etched in my memory after living in Tokyo for more than 23 years. The first is August 6, 1945, when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and the second is August 9, when another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. To this day, the United States is still the only country to ever use an atomic bomb
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