June 2010

Japan’s first SM-themed soapland comes to Kobe

By Amy Takahashi • June 30, 2010

As a keen observer of perversions, fetishes and assorted erotica, evening tabloid Nikkan Gendai (June 29) believes it has uncovered Japan’s first club that combines soapland and SM services.

Sensual senior shamelessly slithers beneath desk for office sex session

By Mieko Shimizu • June 24, 2010

“I’ve been making it with this young guy in my office. He’s 21 years younger than me, and I’m consumed by desire.” So begins a lurid tale from the June issue of woman’s soft porn magazine Amour, as presented in Shukan Bunshun (July 1).

Models and stewardesses become tour bus babes

By Kenji Nakano • June 24, 2010

Staffing and training corporation Wellcom has started a tour service employing roughly 300 ladies called Bibus, which supplies sightseeing buses with female guides who used to be flight attendants and models. The company tells Shukan Asahi Geino (July 1) that the impetus for the program was the advanced ages of many existing guides.

Soapland boy-sans turn tables on their tormenters

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • June 24, 2010

“Over the past 20 years, the biggest change the sex industry has undergone has been the male staff at soaplands,” begins Nikkan Gendai (June 24) in the latest installment of its long-running series “The Dark Side of the Sex Business.”

Gal’s romantic reunion with old high school flame fizzles and flops

By Mieko Shimizu • June 18, 2010

“By complete coincidence, I ran into my old high school boyfriend from 14 years ago!” So begins a seemingly sexy saga from the July issue of women’s soft porn magazine Amour, as presented on the pages of Shukan Bunshun (June 24).

Photo essay from Dili, East Timor

By CJ • June 16, 2010

In May, the nation of East Timor celebrated eight years of independence from Indonesia. Yet the capital city of Dili still struggles with extreme poverty.

File-sharing program exposes problematic sex-club patrons to public disgrace

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • June 15, 2010

Customer blacklist for a famous sex shop in Nagoya leaked onto the Internet

Busted Tokyo call-girl service’s VIP customer list has cops licking chops

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • June 13, 2010

Charged with having sent a 27-year-old ‘campaign girl’ service four male customers at hotels in Shibuya

The celestial journey of Shoko Tendo

By CJ • June 13, 2010

Daughter of gangster releases her follow-up book to “Yakuza Moon”

Back to basics with Nobel Prize winner Masatoshi Koshiba

By CJ • June 12, 2010

Today Masatoshi Koshiba finds himself back to the classroom as chairman of the Heisei Foundation for Basic Science — a project that aims to get Japanese young people more acquainted with the fundamentals of science.