July 2009
By Kenji Nakano • July 31, 2009
Daily tabloid Nikkan Gendai is reporting that the situation surrounding injured and disgruntled pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka and Boston Red Sox management has reached a “cooling point” with the right-hander set to make an official apology next week.
By Kazutaka Shimanaka • July 29, 2009
Sex shops are offering increasingly extreme services
By CJ • July 27, 2009
Giant Gundam robot model stands guard in Odaiba, Tokyo to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the ‘Mobile Suit Gundam’ anime series
By Kazutaka Shimanaka • July 25, 2009
In 1993, a new shop named Oshikko Kansho Kurabu (the pee appreciation club) opened for business in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro district.
By Mieko Shimizu • July 24, 2009
“I get incredibly excited fantasizing of situations where I have sex at the workplace,” confesses an anonymous contributor in the June issue of Renai Tengoku, a raunchy vernacular women’s magazine. “Having experienced it once, now I’ve become infatuated. I’m constantly turned on thinking about it.”
By CJ • July 22, 2009
Huge fire at Olympic department store in Tokyo’s Takadanobaba district draws hundreds of emergency service personnel and onlookers
By CJ • July 22, 2009
Shinichi Kamijo of right-wing group Gishin Gokoku-kai at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward
By CJ • July 22, 2009
Colorful characters at the Sanja Matsuri in Asakusa (The Tokyo Reporter, May 2007)
By CJ • July 22, 2009
Hosts look for clients near Ichiban-gai in Tokyo’s Kabukicho entertainment district. (November 2007)
By CJ • July 21, 2009
It will be a battle of the bowls, or “woods,” a reference to the former composition of the non-spherical objects, with the pair from Japan testing their skills against the best in the world during the eight-day championship — the showcase event for a sport that for hundreds of years has tested one’s ability to read the green.