December 2009

Not out of the Woods yet — how Japanese wives deal with infidelity

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • December 17, 2009

What, Aera (Dec. 21) asks, would happen if a Japanese Woods got caught making extramarital whoopee by his tigress?

Konbini condom customers come in all sizes and shapes

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • December 12, 2009

Condoms, which were formerly sold from vending machines, have become a popular standby at convenience stores. Likewise for their packaging, reports Nikkan Gendai (Dec. 8). On former times, condoms used to be wrapped as inconspicuously as possible. But things have changed. As the executive at one chain relates, “Couples come shop together and it is the female who unhesitatingly makes the selection.”

Maria Ozawa says couples getting physical need first get critical

By Amy Takahashi • December 11, 2009

Porn starlet Maria Ozawa offers love advice

Suitor’s titanic tallywhacker takes up the extra slack

By Mieko Shimizu • December 10, 2009

“Once the man with whom I was having an extramarital affair complained to me, saying, ‘Wow, you’ve really let yourself become slack down there,’” laments the anonymous contributor to the December issue of Ai no Taiken Special Deluxe, as introduced in Shukan Bunshun (Dec. 17).

Tallying the bottom line for Tokyo women in the sex trade

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • December 9, 2009

Some soaplands have begun offering an increasingly rough-and-tumble range of services

Navigating Japan’s nyotaimori netherworld

By CJ • December 8, 2009

The practice of serving sushi on the body of a naked female’s torso has been making inroads outside of Japan

Gas Panic in Roppongi raided, six arrested

By Kenji Nakano • December 6, 2009

Two establishments within the popular Gas Panic chain of nightclubs were cited by police late last month for allowing late-night dancing, reports the Sankei Shimbun (Dec. 1)

Police vice raids provide fodder for year-end ‘tokuban’ TV specials

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • December 5, 2009

A customary part of TV fare during the final week of December is the so-called “police action close-up.” These are special programs in which TV camera crews follow around Tokyo’s finest as they sanitize the city, bursting into bars and busting bordellos.

Blotches on bedding point to passion, not pee

By Mieko Shimizu • December 3, 2009

“I have no idea why, but after my first daughter was born, it became extremely easy for me to achieve orgasm,” writes the anonymous female contributor to the October issue of Amour Urajijo, as introduced in Shukan Bunshun (Dec. 10).

Suspected ‘black widow’ Kanae Kijima with possible ties to nightclub host

By Kenji Nakano • December 3, 2009

Suspect linked to 6 suspicious deaths