Hayabusa (wrestler)

Eiji Ezaki (江崎 英治, Ezaki Eiji) (born 1968) is a former Japanese professional wrestler better known as the masked Hayabusa (ハヤブサ, Hayabusa, "Falcon"), who worked primarily for Atsushi Onita's Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling (FMW) promotion.

Career

Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (1991–1993)

Eiji Ezaki began his wrestling career training in the FMW dojo. He would make his FMW debut on July 19, 1991, where he teamed up with Amigo Ultra to defeat Akihito Ichihara and Yukihido Ueno. As is customary in profession wrestling, especially puroresu, Ezaki lost the majority of his matches for the early years of his career. Ezaki debuted for New Japan Pro Wrestling at Super J Cup 1994 where he was defeated by Jushin Thunder Liger in the first round.

North American Excursion (1993–1995)

Ezaki adopted the Hayabusa gimmick in 1993 while in Mexico. While there, he learned the lucha libre style from wrestling instructor Rey Misterio, Sr. Ezaki wrestled for the World Wrestling Association, Asistencia Asesoría y Administración, and Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre during his time in Mexico. He then returned to Japan to face Jushin Thunder Liger in a well received first round match during the Super J Cup tournament.

Hayabusa

Hayabusa (はやぶさ, literally "Peregrine Falcon") was an unmanned spacecraft developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to return a sample of material from a small near-Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa to Earth for further analysis. Hayabusa, formerly known as MUSES-C for Mu Space Engineering Spacecraft C, was launched on 9 May 2003 and rendezvoused with Itokawa in mid-September 2005. After arriving at Itokawa, Hayabusa studied the asteroid's shape, spin, topography, colour, composition, density, and history. In November 2005, it landed on the asteroid and collected samples in the form of tiny grains of asteroidal material, which were returned to Earth aboard the spacecraft on 13 June 2010.

The spacecraft also carried a detachable minilander, MINERVA, which failed to reach the surface.

Mission firsts

Other spacecraft, notably Galileo and NEAR Shoemaker both sent by NASA, visited asteroids before, but the Hayabusa mission was the first attempt to return an asteroid sample to Earth for analysis.

Hayabusa (train)

The Hayabusa (はやぶさ, literally Peregrine Falcon) is a high-speed Shinkansen service operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) between Tokyo and Shin-Aomori in Japan since 5 March 2011. The name was formerly used for a limited express sleeping car service operated by JR Kyushu, which ran from Tokyo to Kumamoto, and was discontinued in March 2009.

Service pattern

From the start of the new timetable on 5 March 2011, there were initially three services in each direction daily, which had increased to ten services in each direction daily by October 2013, stopping at the following stations.

(*) Not served by all trains

The fastest service from Tokyo to Shin-Aomori takes 2 hours and 59 minutes.

Train formation

Hayabusa services are normally operated by 10-car E5 series trainsets, with car 1 at the Tokyo end. All seats are reserved and no-smoking.

Hayabusa (disambiguation)

Hayabusa (trans. Peregrine Falcon) was a Japanese robot asteroid mission from 2003 to 2010, a.k.a. MUSES-C. Hayabusa also may refer to:

Civilian transport

Japanese military vehicles

Watercraft:

Space exploration

Other

See also

Wrestling

Wrestling is a combat sport involving grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two (occasionally more) competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position. There are a wide range of styles with varying rules with both traditional historic and modern styles. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into other martial arts as well as military hand-to-hand combat systems.

The term wrestling is attested in late Old English, as wræstlunge (glossing palestram).

History

Wrestling represents one of the oldest forms of combat. Literary references to it occur as early as in the Iliad, in which Homer recounts the Trojan War of the 13th or 12th century BC. The origins of wrestling go back 15,000 years through cave drawings in France. Babylonian and Egyptian reliefs show wrestlers using most of the holds known in the present-day sport.

The Wrestler (2008 film)

The Wrestler is a 2008 American sports drama film directed by Darren Aronofsky, written by Robert D. Siegel, and starring Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, and Evan Rachel Wood. Production began in January 2008 and Fox Searchlight Pictures acquired rights to distribute the film in the U.S.; it was released in a limited capacity on December 17, 2008 and was released nationwide on January 23, 2009. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on April 21, 2009 in the United States. It was released in the United Kingdom on June 1, 2009.

Rourke plays an aging professional wrestler who, despite his failing health and waning fame, continues to wrestle in an attempt to cling to the success of his 1980s heyday. He also tries to mend his relationship with his estranged daughter and to find romance with a woman who works as a stripper. Writer Jadranka Skorin-Kapov describes the film as "a social critique of the contemporary fascination with public appearance, the role of the body as a predominant marker of our identity, and the consequences of bodily decay affecting the psyche."