Sanja Matsuri in Asakusa
By • May 16, 2010
Participants at the Sanja Matsuri in Asakusa, Tokyo.
May 2010
Hard times: Japan’s commercial sex version of ‘fast food’ squeezes it out to rake it in
By • May 16, 2010
Even with Japan’s economy in the doldrums, salarymen have not necessarily forgone the pleasures of visits to sex shops. They’ve just reduced their outlays.
Why wily academics were willing to work weekends
By • May 15, 2010
“It was my third year after meeting this guy at college. We were both working as assistants to a professor in the graduate school, and our busy routine left us with no time to date each other.” Thus begins another torrid tale from the April edition of Ai no Taiken Special Deluxe, as introduced in Shukan Bunshun (May 20).
Japanese gals flock to Bali’s Beach Boys for lots of Fun, Fun, Fun
By • May 11, 2010
Singapore-based writer and director Amit Virmani’s documentary film, “Cowboys in Paradise,” takes up the subject of “beach gigolos” at the Indonesian resort of Bali. Nikkan Gendai (May 11) reports that Virmani got the idea for his film after learning that the young hunks were hitting the books to learn conversational Japanese.
Concrete controversy: DPJ’s Mieko Tanaka travels to Yamba Dam
By • May 10, 2010
One of ‘Ozawa’s Girls’ makes pilgrimage to controversial construction site
Tortoise return to Japan
By • May 9, 2010
Tortoise’s blending of dub, electronica and jazz over its two decades in existence has established the instrumental five-piece as the band that brought progressive rock into the present.
Yet 2009’s “Beacons of Ancestorship” sees the Chicago-based band, which will appear in Japan for two shows next week in Tokyo and Osaka, going in a different direction.
Fruits in the Womb provide minimal daily requirement of Vitamin H
By • May 8, 2010
“When my boyfriend really gets going, he likes to work me over with a vibrator, but we sort of overdid it and it broke. But he still wanted to poke me with something, so he went looking in the kitchen.” Thus begins a confidential coital anecdote, as chronicled in the April issue of women’s soft porn magazine Shukan Bunshun (May 6-13).
Koji Wakamatsu challenges merits of war with ‘Caterpillar’
By • May 5, 2010
From his start in erotic “pink” films in the 1960s to “United Red Army,” the 2007 film about Japan’s leftist student movements from four decades ago, director Koji Wakamatsu has never shied away from provocation. For his new war drama “Caterpillar,” he attacks the hypocrisy inherent in nationalism and the suffering of innocent civilians.
Denizen of the Dotonbori district of Osaka
By • May 4, 2010
Denizen of the Dotonbori district of Osaka.
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Distraught father-in-law wins incestuous consolation prize
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Proliferation of fake ID cards assist minors seeking work in sex trade
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Re-porn: AV industry relying on rising popularity of ‘mature’ actresses
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Out-call sex services in Tokyo compete for piece of papa-sans’ pensions
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Osaka ‘girl’s bar’ employed 12-year-old girl
