June 2010
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.
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).
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.
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.”
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).
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.
By Kazutaka Shimanaka • June 15, 2010
Customer blacklist for a famous sex shop in Nagoya leaked onto the Internet
By Kazutaka Shimanaka • June 13, 2010
Charged with having sent a 27-year-old ‘campaign girl’ service four male customers at hotels in Shibuya
By CJ • June 13, 2010
Daughter of gangster releases her follow-up book to “Yakuza Moon”
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.