Bargain debasements at eBay-style bordello
By • June 13, 2009
Registered members bid for women’s sexual services
June 2009
Saitama scours ‘ear cleaning’ salons peddling adult services
By • June 12, 2009
Sex establishments masquerading as salons offering ear-cleaning services have come under fire in Saitama Prefecture, according to the Asahi Shimbun (June 11). Prefectural police busted two such operations in Saitama City on June 10 and arrested three managers for providing adult services delivered like that found in a massage parlor.
Urban struggle: Tokyo’s tussle with preservation of architecture
By • June 12, 2009
Japan’s landmark properties are in danger with calls for preservation are being crushed by developers’ wrecking balls
Guide to Japan’s ghouls
By • June 11, 2009
Toho film veterans Godzilla and Mothra are well known to followers of Japanese pop culture. Less famous — but equally fearsome — are the yokai, a group of Japanese mythic monsters and humanoids. Certainly they were less widely known until last year’s publication of “Yokai Attack! The Japanese Monster Survival Guide,” a tongue-in-cheek field guide to some of these imaginary beasts, which roamed Japan’s forests, canyons and villages centuries ago
Second life for Japanese taxis in Fiji
By • June 10, 2009
The green and yellow-striped taxis (or perhaps those colored in white and orange) that motor through the Tokyo’s streets have become an unmistakable symbol of the capital. Yet one recent trip to the South Pacific revealed that these very same cabs are also in demand elsewhere.
Cops’ crackdown threatens to prick soapland bubble
By • June 10, 2009
Police raid pimping parlor openly operating in the guise of a coffee shop
BDSM performance in Shibuya
By • June 7, 2009
The ladies of La Siora participated in “Alice & Queen’s Wonder Night Party” at the Trump Room in Shibuya on Saturday. Multiple BDSM performances took place (whips, ropes, the works), and the assembled crowd was decked out in the finest nineteenth century French cancan fashions (i.e. lots of frills and filigree). Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec would have no doubt felt right at home.
Twelve-year age gap no impediment to randy couple’s fling
By • June 7, 2009
The “Amour ura joho” column in the June issue of Amour magazine (as reported in the Jun. 11 issue of Shukan Bunshun) relates a few lurid details of this estrogen-enhanced gal’s extramarital escapade.
Dim-witted johns put premium on broads with brains
By • June 4, 2009
Business at sex shops is bad, bad, bad. So it takes some real creativity to bring in customers. One way to drum up business, reports Nikkan Gendai (June 4), is to flaunt the academic credentials of a shop’s female staff.
To get wet with a gaijin, head for the hills
By • June 1, 2009
Authorities have been cracking down on red-light districts in the greater Tokyo area
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Distraught father-in-law wins incestuous consolation prize
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Proliferation of fake ID cards assist minors seeking work in sex trade
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Re-porn: AV industry relying on rising popularity of ‘mature’ actresses
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Out-call sex services in Tokyo compete for piece of papa-sans’ pensions
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Osaka ‘girl’s bar’ employed 12-year-old girl
