By • September 30, 2009
Hard-hit by Japan’s recession, various business and long-term building owners came together last month in the district, located in the city’s Aoba Ward, to form the “Kokubuncho Development Project,” whose aim is to enhance the brand of the city — which has shared a style similar to the restaurants, bars and clubs found in Tokyo’s Shimbashi and Ginza districts.
By • September 30, 2009
“I still have memories from last summer. . . ” the contributor to the October issue of the woman’s erotic fantasy magazine Renai Tengoku sighs wistfully, as introduced in Shukan Bunshun (Oct. 1).
By • September 29, 2009
Actress Erika Sawajiri, a local tabloid fav for a series of headline-making scandals, has been replaced as the female lead of the SF fantasy “Space Battleship Yamato,” according to Japan press reports.
By • September 20, 2009
It was 1989, the bubble economy was careening hell-bent-for-leather toward the abyss, and naturally salarymen were partying as if there was no tomorrow. One of the places they favored, reports Nikkan Gendai (Sep. 19) was a shop in Shibuya named Joshi Kosei Kurabu (High School Girls’ Club).
By • September 18, 2009
“It’s been half a year since I began having an extramarital affair with ‘J,’ a salesman I’d met at the company where I work part time,” writes the anonymous contributor to the October issue of women’s soft porn monthly Ai no Taiken Special Deluxe, as introduced in the weekly “From the ladies’ magazines” column in Shukan Bunshun (Sep. 24).
By • September 18, 2009
22nd Tokyo International Film Festival announces schedule
By • September 17, 2009
Politician exposes her chest in cult-director Teruo Ishii’s “Blind Beast vs. Killer Dwarf”
By • September 17, 2009
Yamaguchi-gumi moving towards limiting risk in its operations
By • September 14, 2009
Sixty-six years ago, the Pacific island atoll of Tarawa was a World War II battlefield of billowing black smoke and death’s stench
By • September 14, 2009
Many Japanese companies, increasingly unable to give their staff raises or pay out semiannual bonuses due to the business downturn, have given the green light to permitting their workers to moonlight. The one exception being civil servants. But that hasn’t stopped females in the Japanese military from making a little on the side.
Distraught father-in-law wins incestuous consolation prize
Proliferation of fake ID cards assist minors seeking work in sex trade
Re-porn: AV industry relying on rising popularity of ‘mature’ actresses
Out-call sex services in Tokyo compete for piece of papa-sans’ pensions
Osaka ‘girl’s bar’ employed 12-year-old girl
