Menopausal moms see sex as formula for rejuvenation

From April 1994, pixieish child actress Yumi Adachi played the role of homeless child Suzu Aizawa in the Nihon TV drama series “Ie Naki Ko.” The story was adapted from French author Hector Malot’s 1878 novel “Sans Famille” (Nobody’s Boy).

TV viewer ratings peaked at 37.2 percent, making it the season’s smash hit, and the feisty young character’s tagline — “Dojo suru nara, kane wo kure” (If you feel sorry for me, then give me money) — became one of the top buzzwords of 1994.

Yumi Adachi is now 27, a mother, and still pursuing her career in the entertainment world. Likewise for Adachi’s 51-year-old-mother, Yuri Adachi, who recently bared her full-frontal birthday suit in several glossy photo spreads in men’s weekly magazines, as advance publicity for a forthcoming coffee table book of nude shots. Read more

Discovery of female ‘corpse’ reveals lonely man’s plight

On September 1, the Oohito police station in Shizuoka prefecture received a call reporting an abandoned female corpse had been spotted in the forest. A photo shows two feet protruding from a sleeping bag.

After the body was transported to a nearby hospital to undergo a forensic autopsy, reports Shukan Jitsuwa (Oct. 9), the medics discovered the “woman” was in fact a state-of-the-art sex doll.

“The doll was 170 centimeters tall and weighed about 50 kilograms,” a local newsman informs the magazine. “The skin was very human-like and of elaborate construction. This was an ultra high-quality ‘Dutch Wife’ that sold for over 200,000 yen.”

Five days after the discovery of the “corpse,” an unemployed 60-year-old man turned himself in to the police, and on September 16, the prosecutor’s office formally charged him with illegal dumping of refuse. It was at this time the man’s sad story came to light.

“He told us four years earlier his wife had passed away of illness and that he was living alone,” says a police source. “He had taken early retirement due to a chronic heart condition.

“He felt lonely and bought the doll for company three years ago. But when the man’s son and daughter-in-law decided to move in with him, he was forced to discard her in the woods.”

Dressing the doll up in clothes and placing her in warm sleeping bag was the man’s tender way of showing concern that she wouldn’t suffer from the cold.

“It was said that he’d even given the doll the same name as his deceased wife,” the reporter tells Shukan Jitsuwa. “He changed her outfit every day, and put her in pyjamas at bedtime.

“Apparently he also used the doll frequently for the purpose which it was intended, so much that he became worried his heart condition would worsen”

When imagining what long autumn nights were like for a lonely man who had lost his wife, and embraced a doll in her place, the writer admits he is torn between laughter and tears. (K.S.)

Source: “Dacchi waifu sodo” kanreki otoko no “kahanshin jijo,” Shukan Jitsuwa (Oct. 9, pages 233-234)

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‘Green’ film fest to feature four world premieres, close with ‘Wall-E’

TOKYO - The 21st Tokyo International Film Festival, which kicks off on October 18th, will feature four world premieres in its main competition and screen a digitally restored Akira Kurosawa classic, organizers announced last week.

The Feng Xiaoning disaster film “Super Typhoon,” Tetsu Maeda’s “School Days with a Pig,” the love story “Claustrophobia, by first-time Hong Kong director Ivy Ho, and “Echo of Silence,” the debut pic by actor Atsuro Watanabe, will premiere and compete with 11 other films for the Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix, the top prize.

As reported previously, John Woo’s $80 million historical epic “Red Cliff” will open the fest, which is touting an environmental theme. “Wall-E,” the Andrew Stanton (”Finding Nemo”) fantasy film produced by Pixar, will close the event on October 26th. Read more

Furry femme finds abundant bush no impediment to shagging

In its “Shukujo no Zasshi Kara” column that excerpts from women’s magazines, Shukan Bunshun (Sep. 25) introduces this gem from the July issue of Ai no Taiken SpDx.

“I am abnormally hairy down there,” the anonymous contributor confides. “And the hairs are so stiff, they even protrude through the material of my panties.”

Due to a complex over her luxuriant bush, she had refrained from sex. But she recently became friendly with a guy and the two felt the tug of mutual attraction. However at the moment of truth, she was overcome with shame and unwilling to go all the way. Read more

Even solo sex can kill you, medics warn

Last June, Shukan Asahi Geino (June 19) reported from the 7th Masturbate-A-Thon in San Francisco, where Japan’s Masanobu Sato, armed with a synthetic vagina from his employer, Tenga Co., emerged as the hands-down winner. Sato was accorded top honors after stroking his member for a record-breaking 9 hours, 33 minutes.

But in its issue of September 25, the magazine seems to be having second thoughts about masturbation, competitive or otherwise. Now it seems to be saying wanking won’t just make you go blind; it can even kill you outright.

Masahiko Ueno, former chief medical examiner for the Tokyo metropolitan government and author of “Shitai ga Kataru” (the corpse speaks) and other books, tells “Asagei” that in the course of his career he encountered numerous cases of males who expired during the act of masturbation. Read more

Comedy film festival holds preliminary events in Ueno

TOKYO - Stand-up comedy and film events were held in Tokyo’s Ueno district on Sunday in preparation for the upcoming First Old Town Taito International Comedy Film Festival.

At a stage near Ueno Park, fourteen comedy acts attempted to coax laughs with three-minute skits, including a vignette inspired by John Lennon and Yoko Ono from the duo Two Rice, before a panel of media industry representatives and tourist association members. Six of the acts will be selected to perform at the film festival, which runs between November 21st and 24th at theaters and halls in Taito Ward’s Ueno and Asakusa areas. Read more

Lovely North Korean agents undergo special sex training

Ever since Daniela Bianchi bedded with Sean Connery in “From Russia with Love,” the notion of agents from communist bloc countries who have been specially trained in the arts of sexual seduction has been a recurring theme in books and cinema. But do such people really exist?

Yes, reports Shukan Taishu (Sep. 22), you can believe it. As evidence, it introduces the saga of Won Jonghwa, age 34, who was arrested the end of August by South Korean security forces on charges of espionage.

“Ms. Won, who went to China from 1999, was an operative involved in the abduction of over 100 South Koreans and defectors from North Korea,” says a source in the media. “From 2001, she gained entry to South Korea through marriage. Later, through a sexual relationship with an officer in the Korean armed forces she was able to steal military secrets. She also obtained a list of people who had defected from North Korea.” Read more

Adult video broadcaster holds 24-hour AIDS telethon

TOKYO - It is a recent Sunday afternoon inside the offices of adult video broadcaster Paradise TV. Two enthusiastic female voices can be heard counting from behind a pair of covered booths: “Ichi, ni, san, shi, go!”

The entry flap of one booth is labeled with the kanji character pronounced ushiro (behind) and colored pink, the other is yellow and marked oppai (breast). Outside is a line of five men, each of whom is eagerly awaiting his turn to grab (with both hands) the bare buttocks and breasts of two adult video (AV) actresses five times for 1,000 yen - with all the proceeds being used for research to prevent the spread of the HIV virus and AIDS. Read more

Young men of the ‘AV generation’ leave gals dissatisfied

For increasing numbers of randy young women, mature men are coming back in vogue, reports evening tabloid Nikkan Gendai (Sep. 2). Such women are described with the term kare-sen, synthesized from kareta ojisama suki (like withered old dads), although in this case rather than “withered,” kareta would be more correctly translated as “well seasoned.”

The gals’ main complaints center on how younger men these days are so self centered, they don’t have a clue about how a gal wants to be treated.

“I’m through making it with young guys,” complains Miss “K,” a 33-year-old municipal employee. “They’ll walk into the hotel room and demand, ‘Suck me off,’ and as soon as they get hard they want to stick it in, with no effort to get me in the right mood.” Read more

Kiyoshi Kurosawa comes home with ‘Tokyo Sonata’

TOKYO - With a reputation garnered over the past decade as the “Godfather” of the horror genre, director Kiyoshi Kurosawa finds himself settling down with “Tokyo Sonata,” a drama centered around a struggling family and winner of a jury prize in the Un Certain Regard category at this year’s Cannes International Film Festival.

At a press luncheon last week, the 53-year-old director of such thrillers as “Cure” and “Charisma” implored that he was reluctant at first to tackle a plot line focused on the troubles of a family.

“I felt that dramas centered around the home basically had the family unit as the stage with the problems and issues taken up being internal issues,” he said. “But then I realized that I didn’t have to necessarily restrict myself. The family unit could be a place where both internal problems and external problems clash vividly.” Read more