October 2009
By CJ • October 19, 2009
For the opener of the 22nd Tokyo International Film Festival on Saturday night an estimated 7,000 film fans gathered at Tokyo’s Roppongi Hills complex to catch glimpses of such biz luminaries as Sigourney Weaver and Zoe Saldana striding along the ceremonial “green carpet” fabricated from recycled plastic bottles — a symbol of the fest’s ecological theme.
By Amy Takahashi • October 16, 2009
Following last month’s revelations in the Mainichi Shimbun that offices of Democratic Party of Japan members spent large sums in adult entertainment clubs, weekly tabloid Flash (Oct. 20) reports on whether the establishments were suitable meeting locations, as was later claimed by the politicians.
By Mieko Shimizu • October 16, 2009
Women’s soft porn mag Ai no Taiken Special Deluxe doesn’t mince words. It has crammed 50 — count ‘em, 50 — first-hand accounts of its readers’ lurid escapades into its October issue, and Shukan Bunshun (Oct. 22) has selected what may be the spiciest of the lot.
By Kazutaka Shimanaka • October 10, 2009
In 1988, the high-class Mrs. Club opened for business in Tokyo’s Akasaka district. This was a social club that entitled paying members to have sex with married women residing in Denenchofu — the capital’s most affluent residential area.
By Mieko Shimizu • October 9, 2009
“When I was a student, a splendid male upper classman and younger female schoolmate and I went into a love hotel together,” the female contributor relates, in the October issue of the women’s erotic fantasy magazine “Amour,” as reported in Shukan Bunshun (Oct. 15).
By Kazutaka Shimanaka • October 7, 2009
“First it was Koma Stadium, which shut its doors last New Year’s Eve,” a local mutters. “Now it’s the Kabukicho McDonald’s outlet, which closed on Aug. 31. I think the place went under because it became a hangout for bar hostesses waiting for the trains to start running and homeless people, who just sat there nursing a cup of coffee.”
By Amy Takahashi • October 5, 2009
Following an article in the Mainichi Shimbun (Sep. 30) that detailed expense claims for adult entertainment by the offices of Democratic Party of Japan members, evening tabloid Nikkan Gendai (Oct. 2) finds that the DPJ has a lot of catching up to do in becoming Japan’s premier perv party.
By CJ • October 2, 2009
In a series of published papers, the university’s Fumiaki Taguchi, Song Guofu, and Zhang Guanglei demonstrated that kitchen refuse can be reduced by more than 90% in mass if aided by bacteria extracted from the feces of giant pandas.
By Kazutaka Shimanaka • October 1, 2009
Kaoru Kuroki was inspiration for Japan’s first armpit hair club