Japan’s first SM-themed soapland comes to Kobe

TOKYO (TR) – 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. Read more

Sensual senior shamelessly slithers beneath desk for office sex session

“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).

“Naturally the best way to do it is a hard romp atop a bed, but he’s good for almost anyplace, at any time. So I look for ways to sneak in some fun even while he’s on the job. While he was typing at his computer keyboard, there were people just outside his door, so I crawled under his desk on my knees and gave him a nice suck.

“In a few moments he murmured to me, ‘Ahhh, it feels good. . . You’re getting hot too, aren’t you?’ and I slipped off my clothes and he took me from behind. He’s always surprised at how aroused I am. Read more

Models and stewardesses become tour bus babes

TOKYO (TR) – 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. Read more

Soapland boy-sans turn tables on their tormenters

“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.”

These staff, known as “boy-sans,” typically robust young lads with crewcuts who bow welcome and see off visitors to their erotic bathhouses, belonged to a clearly established pecking order.

In the past, the boy-sans were expected to be particularly deferential to top earning hookers at the shop, who in a good month brought in as much as 7 million yen in revenues, the source of their regular paycheck. Read more

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

“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).

“It really brought back memories,” she sighs. “He was the first boy I dated, the first one to kiss me after class and the first to do etchi with me. The latter was a bittersweet experience for us kids; for me it hurt, and he came almost instantaneously.

“After our recent re-acquaintance we exchanged emails for about a month, and finally went out together. I hadn’t had any sex for the past six years and had gained a lot of weight, so I went on a diet to slim down. Read more

Photo essay from Dili, East Timor

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

When customers at sex shops get a little too frisky or imaginative, causing injury and/or humiliation to the female staff, management is left with little choice but to yank in the welcome mat.

It’s bad enough to be turned away from play for pay, but to make matters worse, reports Weekly Playboy (June 28), it seems that through a flaw in Winny, a notorious file-sharing program, the customer blacklist for a famous sex shop in Nagoya was leaked onto the Internet.

Along with the customer names were details of what they had done to wear out their welcomes. “He repeatedly blew air into the girl’s vagina and then pushed down on her stomach,” read one. “He bites girls’ genitals,” read another. Read more

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

On June 3, the Tokyo MPD’s vice squad slapped the cuffs on a baker’s dozen of people allegedly involved in call-girl ring. Shukan Jitsuwa (June 24) reports that Michinori Matsushita (age 31), the operator, was charged with having sent a 27-year-old “campaign girl” to service four male customers at hotels in Tokyo’s Shibuya district between March 18 and May 23.

But the cops were astonished to find that the scale of the operation was a lot more than they had bargained for.

“The club operated under 13 different names,” a crime reporter for a daily newspaper is quoted as saying. “The number of registered club members was about 27,000, and its revenues over the past two years is estimated to have exceeded 1 billion yen.”

The secret of the success of club “Innocent,” or “White Love” — or any of the other names by which Matsushita marketed his ladies — was that it delivered a high-quality product. He is reported to have maintained a stable of 200 females, many of whom, he claimed, worked in show business or as fashion models. Read more

The celestial journey of Shoko Tendo

TOKYO (TR) – Upon introduction, author Shoko Tendo does not offer the image of a woman who has spent much of her life mixed up with drugs and yakuza gangsters.

With straight brown hair and sharp facial features shaped by reconstructive plastic surgery, this 42-year-old daughter of a mobster reveals no visual hints as to her past, aside from the occasional glimpse of one of her elaborate tattoos peering from under the cuff of her long shirtsleeve.

She is not shy about revealing that striking artwork covering her pencil-thin frame. A courtesan with a dagger gripped in her teeth fills her back as serpents crawl along her arms and legs. Kanji characters and carp fill in the spaces between and around.

“In public, people don’t see tattoos,” explains the soft-spoken Tendo, seated in a coffee shop in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro Ward on a rainy day in February. “They disapprove. But when I grew up I saw my father and people around him with tattoos. It was close at hand, and I thought, that’s me.” Read more

Back to basics with Nobel Prize winner Masatoshi Koshiba

TOKYO (TR) – Following his graduation from the School of Science at the University of Tokyo in 1951, a young Masatoshi Koshiba departed on a two-week voyage by ship from Japan, still under Allied occupation following World War II, to the United States. He knew that with his father having served as an officer in Manchuria for the Imperial Army that there would be a psychological conflict. But after landing in Seattle, he was soon overwhelmed by something else altogether.

“The first impression I had of the U.S. was that it was such a big country,” says the soft-spoken Koshiba, 73, sporting a tweed jacket during an interview in April at Tokyo University, where he is professor emeritus. “People were eating a very big bowl of ice cream soda. And for me, during the war, that was something so high up in the sky. If these people are eating this everyday, I thought, it is no wonder that we lost the war.”

He graduated with a PhD in physics in 1955 from the University of Rochester, and through his future work he found more than sweet dreams high up in the heavens. In 2002, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his observations of neutrino particles, which result from nuclear decay reactions, such as those taking place in stars like the sun. Read more

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