January 2010

Japan’s cunning bottakuri bars con compliant customers

By Kenji Nakano • January 30, 2010

Osaka ‘girl’s bars’ are a hotbed of trouble

Ex-dog’s AV bark worse than her overbite

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • January 29, 2010

Did we say sex? Well, kindly remain calm until we can provide a few more details from Shukan Jitsuwa (Feb. 11). After the unattractive subjects of “Beauty Coliseum” are paraded before the cameras, they are shuttled off to a team of plastic surgeons, cosmetic dentists, physical therapists, hair stylists and fashion advisors.

Ouch! Fetishists at love hotels leave behind bloody, malodorous messes

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • January 28, 2010

The writer is the pseudonymous Shoko Harano, a 36-year-old divorced mother of two, who spent three years at the reception of a love hotel before spilling her memoirs in Nikkan Gendai (Jan. 28).

‘Super copy’ brand goods help guys to bag girls

By Amy Takahashi • January 28, 2010

Offering a kyabajo, or hostess, a “super copy” of a brand name bag is becoming a better way for playboys to play the field, reports Nikkan Gendai (Jan. 25).

Erotic dancers in Tokyo

By CJ • January 24, 2010

Erotic dancers at bar Red Shoes in Tokyo’s Aoyama district.

Ozawa’s gals appearing anxious as party ponders path

By Kenji Nakano • January 23, 2010

Yukiko Miyake, Kumiko Hayakawa, and Mieko Tanaka ponder DPJ’s direction

Yamaguchi-gumi increasing operations prior to release of boss from prison

By Amy Takahashi • January 18, 2010

Senior-level members of the Yamaguchi-gumi crime syndicate make first shrine visit of the year

Drink-spikers return to old hunting grounds in Ueno

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • January 17, 2010

Police crackdowns have led drink-spiking gangs back to Ueno

Woman gets helping hands to overcome hardships of overseas assignment

By Mieko Shimizu • January 14, 2010

“Right after I married my husband he got posted to a two-year assignment to Europe, and I accompanied him,” the anonymous female narrator relates in the December issue of the women’s soft porn magazine Ai no Taiken Special Deluxe, as reported in Shukan Bunshun (Jan. 21).

Medieval Japan’s prolific predators weren’t plagued by Tiger traps

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • January 11, 2010

“Even before Nobunaga wed Kicho at the age of 15, he’d engaged in any number of clandestine affairs with women,” Hitoshi Ejima, a researcher into sexual practices, tells Sunday Mainichi (Jan. 24). He adds that Tokugawa Ieyasu, founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, went from preferring older widows in his salad days to a preference for Lolitas in later life, still managing to romp with a 13-year-old at the ripe old age of 68.