July 2010

Lusty late-night learning session leaves little to be lamented

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.”

Sumo world’s ties to gangsters, baseball betting have long legacy

By Kenji Nakano • July 7, 2010

Grapplers and mobsters go way back

Maria Ozawa’s deri heru debut, popularity of ‘land mine’ gals top sex biz trends

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.

Hoods sucker sumo grapplers with sex business swindles

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?

Tokyo college seniors expelled over project ‘to protect ugly women’

By CJ • July 1, 2010

Two seniors develop a project named “Dobusu wo Mamoru Kai” (group to protect ugly women)