April 2010

Closing ceremonies for Kabuki-za in Ginza

By CJ • April 30, 2010

Closing ceremonies for the five-decade-old Kabuki-za theater, located in Chuo Ward’s Ginza district, will be held today.

Grand Prince Hotel Akasaka to close in 2011

By CJ • April 30, 2010

Seibu Holdings announced this week that the Grand Prince Hotel Akasaka, located in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward, will shut its doors in 2011.

Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be medics, they’ll wind up selling love

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • April 30, 2010

Young gals providing oral and manual sex at massage parlors in Kabukicho

Livedoor founder Takafumi Horie to produce porn film

By CJ • April 29, 2010

To feature the AV debut of actress Nina

Sex-trade tabloid Tokyo Manzoku News to cease publication

By CJ • April 25, 2010

The sex-service tip sheet will be issued for the final time next month

Sex sensations blossom under randy young florist’s tutelage

By Mieko Shimizu • April 25, 2010

The April issue of women’s soft porn magazine Ai no Taiken Special Deluxe, as introduced in Shukan Bunshun (Apr. 29) features a story of a middle-aged woman’s sexual awakening. “I’d led a protected life as a student,” she writes in the way of self-introduction. My marriage was arranged, and I’d never had sex with any man except my husband.”

Crummy Shibuya girl scouter nabbed with hand in cookie jar

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • April 22, 2010

At long last, the Tokyo government finally got around to passing an ordinance prohibiting men to approach women on the street and solicit them to take jobs in the sex industry. And recently, reports Nikkan Gendai (Apr. 21), Yusuke Yoshino, a 30-year-old operator of a massage joint in Shibuya, and three of his cohorts were arrested for violating the ordinance.

Paper’s pride probed for ad featuring supplement-soliciting AV actress

By Kenji Nakano • April 21, 2010

Determining that an ad in a recent edition of the Asahi Shimbun newspaper was a tad over the top — given the appearance of a popular adult video (AV) actress — weekly tabloid Shukan Bunshun (Apr. 22) defends its typically titillating turf by calling the conservative daily into account for its actions.

December dusting duties descend into delightfully dirty deed

By Mieko Shimizu • April 18, 2010

“The guy I’m going with now is such a catch, he’s made me the envy of my friends. If he has one flaw at all, I’d say he’s hopeless at home chores. So I told him I’d go to his place and tidy things up.” So begins a tasty tale from March issue of women’s soft porn magazine Renai Tengoku, as introduced in Shukan Bunshun (Apr. 22).

Delinquents, dust-ups and drunken dames — Kabukicho drifts downward

By Kenji Nakano • April 17, 2010

Tokyo’s Kabukicho area as captured at night by the camera of photographer Hajime Kiyohira is seen to be increasingly turning into a Mecca for Japan’s youth, similar to Shibuya, reports Flash (Apr. 20) in a special pull-out section.