July 2010
By Winnie Waniguchi • July 8, 2010
“My close friend ‘R’ and I managed to both gain admittance to our first choice of universities,” writes the anonymous contributor to the April issue of Ai no Taiken Special Deluxe, as introduced in Shukan Bunshun (July 15). “Soon after classes began R made friends with a guy, and he introduced me to his friend, T. The four of us would go out on dates together.”
By Kenji Nakano • July 7, 2010
Grapplers and mobsters go way back
By Amy Takahashi • July 4, 2010
For a rundown of the top-ten stories thus far in 2010 in the fuzoku trade — that is,
businesses offering sexual services — weekly tabloid Shukan Asahi Geino (July 8) turned to Yoshikazu Murazaki, the editor-in-chief of monthly entertainment guide Manzoku.
By Kazutaka Shimanaka • July 2, 2010
The media has been full of reports about ties between professional sumo and the Japanese underworld. The first question that comes to almost everyone’s mind is, how could these guys be so dumb?
By CJ • July 1, 2010
Two seniors develop a project named “Dobusu wo Mamoru Kai” (group to protect ugly women)