July 2010

Tryst with precocious teen turns out to be a case of dorky deja-vu

By Winnie Waniguchi • July 29, 2010

“While on the way home from shopping, I was accosted by a boy in his teens. I was already in my 30s and a housewife, so I thought he was just kidding, but his voice had a desperate ring to it.”

Tarawa: at world’s edge

By CJ • July 26, 2010

The view of Tarawa from the window seat of an Air Pacific plane doesn’t properly convey its incredible fragility. Shaped like a fishhook with a turquoise-blue lagoon in its center, the coral landmass, which forms the capital of the central Pacific nation of Kiribati, appears through the clouds as a narrow, curved strip that extends for over 50 kilometers.

Women flee nursing, insurance trade for ‘pink’ careers

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • July 25, 2010

Ask a gal working at a pink business what she was doing before she went into the life, and you’re likely to be told she had formerly worked as a nurse or an insurance saleslady.

Sumo world’s connection to mob begins in university

By Kenji Nakano • July 23, 2010

With the Nagoya tournament now underway, Flash (July 27) reports that the ties between sumo and the criminal underworld run much deeper than simply the recent revelations that wrestlers frequently gamble on baseball games and mobsters are provided seats to matches.

No way to one-up a friend: Promiscuous miss leapfrogs to 75

By Winnie Waniguchi • July 22, 2010

“I attended an all-girls high school and my parents were also strict, so at the time I entered college I was a prissy, introverted virgin,” relates the writer in the August issue of women’s ero fantasy magazine Ai no Taiken Special Deluxe, as introduced in Shukan Bunshun (Jul. 29).

Illegal Tokyo casinos under scrutiny after sumo betting scandal

By Amy Takahashi • July 18, 2010

Underground casinos coming under fire

‘Carnivorous women’ with yen for men find licking to their liking

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • July 17, 2010

With growing numbers of hesitant, herbivorous males matched by more assertive, carnivorous females, sex in Japan has truly turned topsy-turvy. Nikkan Gendai (July 17) reports that increasingly libidinous Japanese women have been flocking to discreet “sensual massage parlors,” where they pay to be pampered by young hunks.

Here cums the bride, as groom goes down inside wedding gown

By Mieko Shimizu • July 14, 2010

“I’d become engaged to a co-worker and we were making preparations for our wedding,” writes the anonymous contributor to the August issue of Ai no Taiken Special Deluxe, as introduced in Shukan Bunshun (July 22).

AV actress Reiko Yamaguchi matures into bar mama in Kabukicho

By Kenji Nakano • July 12, 2010

Ten years after her porn debut she finds herself as a mama-san in Kabukicho

Miyazaki’s shops supplying sleaze have beef with foot and mouth

By Amy Takahashi • July 9, 2010

While most media outlets have chosen to focus on the economic and sanitation aspects of the ongoing spread of foot-and-mouth disease in Miyazaki Prefecture, weekly tabloid Shukan Asahi Geino (July 1) investigates how the outbreak has impacted the businesses most dear to its readership — namely, shops specializing adult entertainment.