Tohoku tremors send sex-service gals scampering southward

While the general mood of consumer self restraint that has followed the Great East Japan Earthquake has extended to Kansai, that area’s fuzoku industry — the commercial sex trade, to be clear — is showing signs of stimulation, reports Shukan Jitsuwa (May 5).

The tabloid says that fuzoku girls from Tohoku are moving to Tokyo, which in turn is seeing its gals go to Kansai, a development that has guys licking their chops, or rather, getting their chops licked.

“A week after the earthquake we started to see this shift,” says a writer covering the fuzoku trade. “In terms of types of services, most of them are working in health clubs” — which have nothing to do with fitness but everything do with blow-jobs — “and soaplands in Kobe’s Fukuhara red-light district. One can even hear Tokyo accents in quickie joints located in Osaka brothel areas like Tobita Shinchi and Kujo.”

One 24-year-old female health employee, who used to work in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro area, tells the tabloid why she moved: “Tokyo still has aftershocks and supplies in general are insufficient. I cannot focus well. While some may say they don’t like Osaka, I am fine with it.” Read more

After brief spurt of demand, love hotel businesses left reeling in wake of the quake

Nikkan Gendai (Apr. 20) is 17 installments along in a series that professes to track the looming “economic depression” caused by the March 11 catastrophe in Tohoku. This time, it takes a look at the love hotel business.

“Things have hit rock bottom,” the operator of one such business whines to the tabloid. Salarymen, it seems, are just not in the mood to tipple and then, while in their cups, spend their hard-earned cash on nookie.

While the year was already starting to show signs of slumping demand from early January, customers started making a comeback in late February, and March was looking up until Friday the 11th. Then demand soared. Read more

Top Sendai sex service offers free frolic to rejuvenate hard-hit industry

In the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, there have been no shortage of first-hand accounts that recall details of the tragedy.

For weekly tabloid Shukan Jitsuwa, that has meant focusing on tales from the commercial sex biz. This week (Apr. 28) it seeks out the manager of Tohoku’s largest deri heru operation (that is, a service that operates on an out-call basis), which has introduced a special campaign to inspire the struggling industry.

The manager of the Sendai branch of Okusama Tetsudo 69, which specializes in delivering married ladies to hotel rooms, tells the magazine that once the quake struck a PC flew off a desk, books tumbled from shelves, and fluorescent lights fell from the ceiling.

(The club’s Web site indicates that it was forced to suspend regular business until April 2. It also shows that basic services start at 16,000 yen for 70 minutes.) Read more

Effects of soil liquefaction in Urayasu following Great East Japan Earthquake

(Photo by Tokyo Reporter, April 17, 2011) Read more

Oui, oui mademoiselle: Frisky French tutor dispenses beaucoup plasir pour une femme japonaise

“I wanted to refine myself, so I began taking lessons in French. The teacher was extremely earnest. I wasn’t very good at memorizing the textbook drills, so I stayed behind after class for some supplementary lessons.”

Thus begins an account of a young woman’s international tête-à-tête, sourced from the March issue of Renai Tengoku, as appearing in Shukan Bunshun (Apr. 21).

“At some point we began to feel rapport toward each other,” she continues, “but I wasn’t sure if it was a student-teacher relationship, or if he was regarding me as a woman.”

But while in the course of dispensing his private lessons, the teacher soon made his sentiments known. Read more

Troubled Tohoku sex clubs receive assistance from surrounding regions

Numerous industries in the Tohoku area have been negatively impacted by the Great East Japan Earthquake of Mar. 11. Businesses specializing in the fuzoku trade, that is commercial sex, are no exception, but Shukan Jitsuwa (Apr. 14) reports that assistance is being provided through a nationwide ring of cooperation within the industry.

Closures of soaplands (erotic bathhouses) in the cities of Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture and Onahama, Fukushima Prefecture are hitting female staff members hard, notes a writer who covers the fuzoku biz. “There are more than a few hundred girls working in just these two cities,” the source says. “They are temporarily unemployed. But numerous helping hands are now being extended.”

One of the first to offer assistance has been Eikokuya, which proudly flies a British flag as its symbol. It is a well-known soapland catering to the Katayamazu Onsen area in Kaga, Ishikawa Prefecture. Read more

Demand firms up at Tokyo’s sex businesses following earthquake

Despite the mood of jishuku (self-restraint) due to the understandably gloomy mood in the wake of nature’s wanton destruction, sex shops, at least in the greater Tokyo area, seem to be making a comeback.

“Men have been rushing to shops out of concerns that the girls they took a liking to are all right,” Akira Ikoma, editor of a guide to men’s entertainment called Ore no Tabi (My Trip) tells Tokyo Sports (Apr. 6). “Or perhaps some men might just feel anxious being home alone and crave a touch of human kindness. I myself went out to a place as well. And enjoying just one brief moment in the midst of all this sadness turned out to be an unforgettable experience.” Read more

Meanwhile, in Shibuya

(Cartoon by Politicomix, April 6, 2011)

One of the potentially most damaging side effects of the Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent crisis now gripping Japan is an austerity campaign that has seen the cancellation of hundreds of events, the skipping of the nation’s traditional cherry blossom-themed celebration of springtime, and — probably most important — the cancellation of the season finale of “24,” a show so famous here a parliamentarian recently suggested the prime minister could learn a lesson or two about disaster management from Jack Bauer.

The problem, of course, is that if people sit home all day (and night), not spending their money, businesses will go out of business. Thousands of businesses will go out of business.

Ai Haneda, Yu Kawakami, and Yu Asakura take top 2011 porn awards

(Photo by Tokyo Reporter, March 7, 2011)

TOKYO (TR) – Former IT mogul Takafumi Horie made a splash last year with his announcement that he was set to produce an adult video that would feature the debut of actress Nina.

With such celebrity backing, the 20-year-old rookie, whose “Nina Debut” included multiple partner action, was the clear-cut favorite to snatch the Best New Actress title last month at the Sky PerfecTV! Adult Broadcasting Awards. Yet it was Ai Haneda who came out on top, so to speak.

“Thank you for letting me appear on this stage,” said Haneda, 21, who was attired in a sleeveless white dress adorned with sakura prints during the ceremony that took place at a hotel ballroom in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward. “I would like to thank my supporters. Right now, I just can’t find the words.” Read more

Tokyo rad

(Cartoon by Politicomix, April 1, 2011)

Radiation leaks from the damaged nuclear reactor cores at the Fukushima Nucelar Power Station have sparked panic as far away as Europe and the United States.

The radiation levels are indeed high, but dangerous (at the moment) only in the area immediately surrounding the plant. Once the weather warms up a bit in Tokyo, Japanese are expected to irradiate themselves normally.