Article from BBC's frontpage - "Japanese pop star deaf in one ear"
 

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Update: Foreign articles:

BBC-NEWS

News.com (Australia)

Libero.it/ (Italy)

Wizarduniverse.com (United States)

Contactmusic.com (World)


Chinaview.com (China)

MSN.jp (Japan)

Tokyograph.com (Japan)

Japantoday.com (Japan)

English.cri.cn (China)

Lefigaro.fr (France)

Le Vif.be (Belgium)

Radio3.cbc.ca (Canada)

Elu24.ee (Estonia)

Melu.ee (Estonia)

Yahoo.com (UK and Ireland)

The Australian.com (Australia)

Taiwannews.com (Taiwan)

7days.ae (United Arab Emirates)

Trend News.com (Azerbaijan)

The peninsula Qatar.com (Qatar)

News24.com (South Africa)

macaudailytimesnews.com (Macau)

globo.com (Brazilian)

Chinapost.com.tw (Taiwan)

brunei-online.com (Brunei)

kuwaittimes.net (Kuwait)

Yahoo.com (United States)


Video from youtube (Japanese morning show):

Jesus...BBC?
Iam really :thud
Thanks!

I can't believe this made the news in the UK.

That's interesting that BBC and some other international sources publish things about Ayu. She is propably the best known Japanese artist outside Japan itself.

That is pretty damn cool tbh.

Maaan this is pretty cool :)

The BBC.
Niiiiiiiice.

Shame it's on that kind of topic :(

Ew, that pic... but that is so cool! Maybe it'll get on TV too. :O

this is a worldwide thing i think..
and i can't say anything to this tinitus thing..

is she deaf or does she have tinitus...
these are two different things..

and a tinitus can be cured a little over years ^^

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Lsx-CWqT1tc <--- anyone could translate it?

Wow...I'm surprised at how many foreign articles are appearing due to this. I know she was well-known, but I guess I never really realized HOW well-known she was. If BBC has reported on this, I wouldn't be surprised if I find an American article soon.

And I just cried again. ^_^; I think the picture did it for me...

This is amazing. Allthough the news are extraordinarily sad, it's great to see what an acknowledgement this brings.

Number 1 artist in the world NO DOUBT!!

great news XD

In France : Le Figaro
In Belgium : Le Vif

Wait, these things are supposed to be in a completely new thread? What was "News about Ayumi losing her left ear" for then? o_O
And if this thread stays, you can copy the links I posted in that thread, too, if you'd like that.

^ Both of those were already posted.

It's weird in the articles from Belgium and France, they're comparing her to Beethoven... well, I find it weird, because wasn't he COMPLETELY deaf?

Yeah, that, and Avex hasn't commented yet apparently. I can't say I'm too surprised, since she was the one that told everyone about this, and she was the one that gave us details and stuff. There's not much else for Avex to say, I guess.

that pic, it looks like her face is melting :o

anyways, I think Ayu appearing in a significant western news outlet is important enough to warrant it's own topic.

She have the same of Beethoven but just one ear... (It's several)

eww it does.

I was surprised when that this news hit BBC.

Its awesome what she's doing, even though I'm worried, and if that's what she wants I can't really say anything...

I wish her the best ofcourse.

It's sad she makes news worldwide with such a tragic story rather than her singing carrer...

Oh my god :o I hope brazilian TV do a reportage about it too :o

Aah, I see what they're talking about now. (How they both have tinnitus.)

Yay, Ayu will become famous because of her earing problems :o

i agree that the picture choice isnt the greatest...if it showed the entire pic, with her sparkly/reflecting dress, it would look better...haha.

but anyway...it's really incredible that it makes all these headlines...:(

A whole lot of articles that basically are exact copies of each other.

It feels so sad in that video where the guy reads Ayu's comment about going to doctor and finding out her ear was deaf while TW... plays in the background. :( At he part I was almost teary again but since Ayu is moving forward we must too ne~
BBC, whoa. Wish it wouldn't have to be about this topic..

http://www.china.org.cn/english/ente...ent/238321.htm What a pic... O__o

wow, i'm really surprised... it seems the West really isn't oblivious to Eastern entertainment.

That nwews is extremely unprofessional. I'm quite surprised since it comes from BBC. tinnitus is not a disease, it's a symptom. That's almost like saying ayu is deaf because her ear is deaf.
On the other hand, it's interesting to seem this problem has trigged international media's interest in reporting it.

Waaah I just cried againnn :weep
OF COURSE every country almost EXCEPT THE US has a news about it!! :( lol

I will wait for the US to report =]
Well, I WISH they would! :weep

And actually, it really is also a disease :yes
It is in the disease database:yes

I think it's impressive, too--while it's sad it has to deal with negative news, it always fascinates me when I see Ayu mentioned in media outlets prominent in the West (CNN, Times, BBC).

She's the Beethoven of our era!:cry

Well they did mention her amazing success so it's not all bad. :)

It's not the news' fault if the reporter writing the article messes it up--they're unprofessional, then. Or their fact-checkers are. Though also in their defence, they make the tinnitus thing seem like a rumor/hearsay and not something 100% factual.

I almost can't believe she made it even into European news articles with this!... no Dutch ones but even Estonian and the UKs. I hope some miracle might happen and she'll heal. A friend of mine says the deafness causes the bad singing, but that her voice is still the same old. I am positive Ayu can overcome this. She is an incredibly strong woman.

when I heard on the news a man fell down a 47store building or so and lived to tell about it..... then I believe Ayu can overcome this deafness one way or another!

a professional journalist will not input their thoughts in science/economic/etc if they aren't sure what it means. Their job is to report facts but also to majke sure what they're reporting makes sense and is accptable for anyone to read. They don't need and don't have to know about everything obviously. But they usually will have an opinion from someone who understands of the matter before writing crazy assumptions about it. What if tinnitus had the same meaning as eating poo? would this journalist be just describing everything they "hear" about? It's very unprofessional, specially coming from BBC which is werll known worldwide. tinnitus is not a disease, it's a symptom, so you can't assume or even speculate her disease is "tinnitus" and that it was caused by sound exposure and led to her deafness. To the regular reader, it goes unnoticed but for someone who works with health, that article is annoying to read. If it were from a second hand company I'd let it go..but it's BBC.

I dunno if they're putting their personal opinion into the article.. I just see them making the mistake of adding something that isn't completely confirmed.

god! it's awesome to know that there are articles about her all around the world
the only thing is that it's a sad news :(
hmmm they should have taken another picture though

hey! no Canada's article :grumpy
*searching one*
impossible, I WANT A CANADIAN ARTICLE!

Maybe if she was completely deaf, but I think she'll learn rather soon to control her voice even with one working ear.. And there are awesome half-deaf singers out there. :yes

I wonder where they got that tinnitus thingy from... >___>

something that isn't confirmed and that doesn't make sense. A good jornalist (well at least what I would expect being it BBC) would do a little research or ask someone who understands of the matter and have it properly corrected before publishing that. t could be speculation, but the speculation should still make sense.

That's like they saying:

"Oh evidences is that ayu probably has a headache because her toenail hurts." Maybe for the average reader that don't understand about headaches and toenail pain will think that's normal. For someone who understands will read that and find it absurd.

^ Possibly a rumor-mag? :shrug I always hate it when news sources (some US ones do it, too) include the tidbits of information they hear from tabloids or blogs. They don't pass it off as true, mind, but mentioning it at all is still a bad idea...

It's a disease. Symptoms can't have their own symptoms. (Basically, the symptom for tinnitus is the mild / constant ringing in your ears.) Plus, symptoms don't have their national organizations.

I mean, true, tinnitus DOES show that you're starting to lose your hearing, but in the end, it's a disease.

I'm a physician and tinnitus IS a symoptom not a disease. The meaning of tinnitus is "a ringing in the ears". Tinnitus isn't necessarily related with hearing loss. It's a symptom caused wen you have a problem in the inner ear, and can be caused by SEVERAL diseases. You can go deaf without having tinnitus or you could go deaf having tinnitus, or you can have tinnitus and not go deaf. It's plainly a symptom and not a disease.


You are just describing what the symptom "tinnitus" is.



Check this:

http://www.healthscout.com/ency/68/211/main.html

Sorry. ^__^; I've researched this a few times, and I've seen different descriptions for it. (I've heard it being called a symptom, a disease, and a disorder.) I just don't see why a SYMPTOM would have a national organization, like I said. (Which there is one, not lying, it's right here.)

I'm sure this will be big in HK and stuff xO!

What?! It appeared on "the Australia", must search for a copy now if it did make it physically to the paper...


"It makes me cry to think that even if she's the only one who knows that she can't hear with her left ear, she has continued to sing and showed us her smiling face. That's what I love about Ayumi Hamasaki,'' wrote a fan on a webpage." - The Australian

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...-12335,00.html :innocent

I've heard of Tinnitus being a disease and a symptom, depending on what you read. I think of it more like a symptom caused by something in your ear. Like.. I have very bad ringing in both of my ears, but the ringing in my left ear is always there, and my ear has drainage. ..so I consider my Tinnitus being caused by some trauma, or infection. :shrug

a symptom is generic. Is what the patient feels. The patient feels tinnitus but won't feel "acoustic trauma". There's an organization for it because people with differents diseases that causes the symptom tinnitus can be part of it, specially because tinnitus can cause severe disability. It's kinda like making an organization for blind people. Not all blind people had simmilar diseases in their eyes when they went blind. being blind (amaurosis) is a symptom and not a disease, just like ayu going deaf in her left ear. Being deaf is a symptom, not a disease (there was a disease that caused her to go deaf, be either acoustic trauma or something else).

This is soo cool!!!
Ayu's powerful will will be known worldwide

wow, so much coverage on this problem. poor ayu. :(

..yeah but at the cost of her hearing :P

nice that they are writing about her, but I don't really like that they took this topic, well yeah its big, since not many artists go deaf of one ear and still continue, some might quit

But they could've at least chose a better picture lol..
That picture is yucky.

yeah =/

I also have the feeling this won't have much impact on people worldwide though. They will just see it and think "oh somebbody I don't even know went deaf. Who cares....":no

Wow, these is making a lot of headlines!

She is deaf on one ear... and she had Tinitus befor.
This are not really two different things.
I also have Tinitus since years. I have it on both ears.. but much worse on the right one.
When I went to the doctor, years ago, he also told me, I should take care of loud noise. If there is to much loud noise, I can become deaf. Thats why I'm always putting something into my ear, when I'm going to a disco or something like that.
So...if you have Tinitus.. and you will hear loud noise every day, you can become deaf! Thats it. So.. in the beginning, she also had Tinitus, which becomes more and more worse, I think.
And no.. Tinitus can't really cured. Would be nice, if it can be cured really.
If you have it since a short time, there is a chance.. but not, if you have it since years.

Wow on the BBC news.

I've had temporary tinnitus once, mainly because of something really loud exploding by my side. after a few weeks, the tinnitus went away and never came back. It can be a temporary symptom and completely disappear. It all depends on what caused it. I'm not losing my hearing because of that isolated episode either. It's kinda like pain, you can have a pain that goes away after a few days (if you suffered a cut) or have an untreatable pain that never goes away (if you have an advanced cancer or something)

really the BBC!! - I'll check it out

Sometimes Tinnitus can be temporary. It depends on the damage done to the ear, if there's trauma. ..The first few times I had it, it went away after a while. But now it doesn't go away at all, and there's nothing to cure it.

I wonder if, besides tinnitus and hearing loss, ayu feels vertigo as well...she's been tripping for no apparent reasons in some of her concerts/performances...I hope she doesn't suffer with it too.:no

Point taken. :)

Why does it look like her face is melting in that pic? .__.

None of the articles I've seen have put up flattering pictures of her...

How did I not notice this article when I have BBC as my home page? :thud I should pay more attention.

I'm surprised that BBC picked up on this as well. I didn't think this would be in the news of countries other than Japan's.

That's why she fell right before DOME TOUR 2001 started. I'm not sure if that's why she fell at some other performances, though...

Ah yes.. thats it. Sometimes.. it is temporary.. and sometimes not.
I have it for such long years.. I don't think, it will disappear sometimes.
And... last year, I had a loud noise again on the right side.. and since that, it becomes a litte bit worse.

I'm surprised, too. The fact that it was on the front page, too, is quite interesting, and not solely in the Japanese news section...

Edit: Okay so it doesn't seem to be on the front page per se, but in the Asia-Pacific section. Still that's an accomplishment--at quite a loss, of course.

That is just unusual. How could the news go around the world? I don't know why...

South africa news?
news24.com

Wow she hit BBC.. hmm not her best picture tho

Nice BBC :yes Sad news, but I think everyone should know

yep! I agree

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/2...1109mo2.th.jpg

Yeah like others said, I wish it was positive news instead of this about her ear. =\

Well, I guess its kinda cool to see her in articles world-wide? ^^;;

I :heart you ayu

Wow, what a terrible picture of her to use :O

Now is the perfect time to release a single in the west... followed by A BEST 2 B&W

^ HEAR, HEAR!

Lol i went to the newsagent to buy todays newpaper and i asked for yesterdays one too. Too bad no ayu in it even though it's on their site >.<!

^ The website allows more range for their coverage. And Ayu wasn't on their front page, but featured specifically in the Asia-Pacific section.

That's really sad D: I should do something drastic to myself so I get on the news.

I can't believe it's on BBC news.

wow it's getting big so quickly!

º____º

an international news... so

WHY IN THIS COUNTRY DON'T TALK ABOUT HER!!!

*go to punch the pillow*

thanks for the info!

This news makes me cry

mehh, i remember when RAIN/Bi went to Sydney in Australia for his concert it was on my msn news where everyone can see when they sign on msn...and they can just one click to go into the article

i really want ayu to make an interview about her left ear
like what she did on 2000 and 2004, especially this year is her 10th years anniversary, i hope there will be an interview with NTV again
and wow..this news become worldwide...

ITS EVERYWHERE NOW...even in singapore's newspaper...my japanese friend also emailed me yesterday that the news was saying about it the whole morning yesterday...

i feel sad hearing all these...hope japanese pp will still support her despite of her deft left year.

wow...Ayu is really famous all around the world...
*but the articles are almost written in the same sentences... are they copying each other? LOL~*

I would say that it is likely that Ayu also has tinnitus. It was clear that she had it in 2001 according to the documentary and possibly still now as well, since as far as I know, even with deafness, the ringing in the ears can still remain. (wasn't that Beethoven's fate as well?)

I sympathize with .llama - after sitting front row at a rock concert, I had tinnitus for a week and I thought I had permanently damaged my ears. Luckily for me it eventually went away, but it definitely sucked having it.

Yes, I agree that a different picture could've been used. ^^;;

Wow, though. News travels quite quickly!

i wun feel sad anymore, i feel extremely proud of ayu!!

i hope ayu will be a good role model for the singers all around the world. to keep moving on despite difficulties..

Dunno if it's already posted, but I found it in a Brazilian website as well:

http://g1.globo.com/Noticias/Musica/...STA+SURDA.html

LOL they just translated the BBC news :P I'm glad they chose a much better picture of ayu though! And it's nice to see they've brought it up here as well.

wow. cool. maybe this ear thing is a blessing in disguise and will get her more coverage and maybe take her outside of Asia ^^

Haha, that's what I noticed xD

News travels fast guys! But I had nooo idea that it would make headlines OUTSIDE of Japan o.o Now if they could just get her on TV here in the US...:innocent Hehe. NBC news! xD

I'm so proud of her and being a fan of hers gives me great joy :D

I'm glad I'm not too sad about the news anymore..
but it's weird to see the news go all over world and most ppl don't giving a crap..

well it's just weird when you love and admire a person so much.

i think the main thing is how Ayu faced and handle the problem.. She is a role model for all over e world.. God Bless Ayu-chan.. =)

I can't agree with you more :D