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Females forced to work off debts on hands and knees

In September 2008, a 23-year-old employee of a cabaret club (kyabakura) approached real estate operator Yu Shimojo, 41, for a loan,... 

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Lady Slatterly and her lover literally rock around the cock

“It happened several decades ago, when my husband went on an onsen trip with his male chums,” the anonymous female narrator... 

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‘Sakura police’ on pervert patrol in Tokyo

Recent news articles detailing the arrest of two men, aged 30 and 52, for displaying their private parts to middle and high school... 

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Toyota’s tremors send sex businesses sagging in Japan’s Detroit

“Yes, it’s true that police have been cracking down more heavily, and shop-type sex businesses have been disappearing,”... 

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Co-ed college cronies couple in raunchy reunion

“Here’s a confidential story of something that happened to me last Christmas.” So begins a tasty tale that appeared... 

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Japan’s cunning bottakuri bars con compliant customers

Last month’s incident in the Minami district of Osaka in which comedian Tamotsu Kuroda of the group Messenger was arrested for... 

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Ex-dog’s AV bark worse than her overbite

As any television viewer knows well, there’s pulchritude a-plenty on the Japanese airwaves. The possible exception would be a... 

Japan News

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Michelin Tokyo guide turns to local inspectors, tops Paris for three-star awards

TOKYO (TR) – After France-based tire manufacturer Michelin targeted Tokyo with its famous culinary guide and three-star... 

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‘Tokyo Vice’ author was offered $500,000 to cut liver transplant scoop

TOKYO (TR) – The shocking revelation that Japanese yakuza gangsters received liver transplants in the U.S. over a four-year... 

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Lost gaijin: Damon and Naomi return to Japan

TOKYO (TR) – As the title “Lost Gaijin Tour 2009″ might imply, the folk-pop duo Damon and Naomi are aiming... 

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Tokyo film fest to emphasize eco theme, screen controversial ‘The Cove’

TOKYO (TR) – The 22nd Tokyo International Film Festival will continue its push for environmental awareness and screen... 

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Gundam director likens giant robot replica to Statue of Liberty

TOKYO (TR) – Yoshiyuki Tomino, the director of the popular robot anime television series “Mobile Suit Gundam”... 

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‘Giant Torayan’ on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

TOKYO (TR) – “Giant Torayan,” sculptor Kenji Yanobe’s 7.2-meter-tall robot that emits flames from its mouth,... 

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Former IT entrepeneur calls Japanese judiciary a ‘hostage system’

TOKYO (TR) – Known for his fondness for t-shirts and shaking up Japan’s business world, Takafumi Horie, founder... 

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‘Roppongi Art Night’ to rejuvenate nightlife quarter

TOKYO (TR) – A one-night event taking place later this month intends to highlight the city’s artistic attractions... 


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International Reports

Return to Tarawa

TARAWA, KIRIBATI (TR) – Sixty-six years ago, the Pacific island atoll of Tarawa was a World War II battlefield of billowing black... 

September 14, 2009 | Read the story »

King copra

MAJURO – The continually hot and dusty conditions found on the Marshall Islands’ capital of Majuro can be rough on the... 

December 23, 2008 | Read the story »

Slots of fun in Vanuatu

PORT VILA – There is a knock at the door. Allan Palmer raises his head and greets a middle-aged housewife as she steps inside... 

November 4, 2008 | Read the story »

Shanghai’s Bund traders

SHANGHAI – Not one tourist is spared. “Rolex?” questions a young, slender man in his thirties, tobacco-stained front... 

October 4, 2008 | Read the story »

Museum Tour: The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

PHNOM PENH – It is estimated that during the Cambodian Genocide (1975-1979) 1.7 million people lost their lives at the hands... 

October 4, 2008 | Read the story »

The Alotau Canoe Festival

ALOTAU – As John Kaniku tells it, the appropriate beginning to canoe construction is simple enough: you have to choose a tree... 

July 18, 2008 | Read the story »

The Bomana War Cemetery

PORT MORESBY (TR) – Local birds on spindly legs dash between the marble headstones set within the manicured green lawn of the... 

July 18, 2008 | Read the story »

Interviews

On the ‘Tokyo Vice’ beat with Jake Adelstein

TOKYO (TR) – The extortion, racketeering, prostitution and gambling rings associated with Japan’s yakuza criminal organizations... 

October 27, 2009 | Read the story »

Sounds of Kabukicho: White Rabbit Press takes you on an audio tour

There has been some buzz lately about Max Hodges and his new audio-guided walking tour through Tokyo’s Kabukicho entertainment... 

January 4, 2009 | Read the story »

Toshio Maeda: hentai pioneer

Toshio Maeda’s groundbreaking manga series “Urotsuki Doji” from 1986 firmly placed him in the history books as the... 

November 8, 2008 | Read the story »

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