welcome tamika and thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> you heard what john miller said a perception problem, do you agree? >> i think there's perception but there's also reality. what we saw that happened to eric garner on video is not perception. that's reality. and it's something that has certainly outraged new york and all over the world. >> well, it seems to me that this "us versus them" thing is building across the country, right? so when you see protesters punching police lieutenants in the face because they're trying to stop someone from throwing a trash can off a brynn, that's clearly wrong. >> certainly it's wrong and the gathering for justice and justice league, which is the committee that has been pulled together to organize some of these protests, we are totally against it. we condemn actions of violence at protests, we certainly support only peaceful protesting and it's overwhelmingly been that way. this is one incident, maybe two incidents that have happened where people have been out for nights for the last three weeks. >> but, see, it's all captured on v

notion of japanese women as shy, giggling, subservient victims of convention would be confused by tamikayou. her day job is doing this. and i gather from what she tells me that she gets plenty of work. ♪ ♪ >> the taito ward of tokyo. another complicated warren of businesses, layer upon layer. where excellent ones are well represented. places where a hard-working salary man can have a beer or some sake or many beers and many sakes. and salty, savory, delicious snacks that go brilliantly with alcohol. please. yes. tomika brings me to one of them, daitoro, to meet some friends. kusaia, grilled fermented fish, followed by some skewers of beef intestine and chicken. this place is known for its motsunabe, intestine stew with miso. so we order some of that as well. this is naga, invited along to help translate. naga runs a custom service company but he also teaches pole dancing for men. then there's this man, kinoko, one of the best-known and most respected practitioners, a master of shibari, the art of ropes, of beautiful knots, of what for lack of a better word we call bondage. so how big is

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