Japan’s cunning bottakuri bars con compliant customers
By • January 30, 2010
Osaka ‘girl’s bars’ are a hotbed of trouble
By • January 30, 2010
Osaka ‘girl’s bars’ are a hotbed of trouble
By • 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.
By • 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).
By • 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).
By • January 24, 2010
Erotic dancers at bar Red Shoes in Tokyo’s Aoyama district.
By • January 23, 2010
Yukiko Miyake, Kumiko Hayakawa, and Mieko Tanaka ponder DPJ’s direction
By • January 18, 2010
Senior-level members of the Yamaguchi-gumi crime syndicate make first shrine visit of the year
By • January 17, 2010
Police crackdowns have led drink-spiking gangs back to Ueno
By • 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).
By • 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.