Morning market in Hakodate, Hokkaido
September 4, 2011
Morning market in Hakodate, Hokkaido
(Photo by Tokyo Reporter, August 20, 2011) Read more
Brazilian Festival at Yoyogi
September 4, 2011
Brazilian Festival at Yoyogi
(Photo by Tokyo Reporter, September 3, 2011) Read more
Nighttime in Hakodate
August 22, 2011
Streetcar lines at night in Hakodate, Hokkaido
(Photo by Tokyo Reporter, August 19, 2011)
Tour through Sapporo’s red-light district of Susukino
August 22, 2011
Soapland tout in Susukino, Sapporo
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Tokyo porn channel wraps ninth AIDS charity fund drive
August 21, 2011
MC Myu (center) and a 33-year-old virgin participate in Paradise TV's 'Eroticism Saves the Earth' fund drive.
(Photos by Tokyo Reporter, August 21, 2011)
TOKYO (TR) – In its typically provocative and uncompromising style, adult satellite channel Paradise TV on Sunday wrapped the ninth edition of its two-day AIDS fund drive.
The channel, which specializes in wacky porn programming that often features naked news broadcasts, “strip” mahjong exhibitions, and auctions of sex toys, holds its “24-Hour TV: Eroticism Saves the Earth” fund drive each year to raise money and awareness to assist in reducing the spread of AIDS, a condition that continues to be a worsening problem in Japan. Read more
Right-wing groups at Yasukuni Shrine on August 15
August 16, 2011
Right-wing group Gishin Gokoku-kai at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward
(Photo by Tokyo Reporter, August 15, 2011) Read more
Effects of soil liquefaction in Urayasu following Great East Japan Earthquake
April 17, 2011
Effects of soil liquefaction in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture following Great East Japan Earthquake
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Letter from Sendai: A dispatch from the disaster zone
March 31, 2011
A sofa sits among cars tossed by the tsunami in Wakabayashi Ward, Sendai.
(Photo by Tokyo Reporter, March 14, 2011)
SENDAI (TR) – I cannot recall ever attempting to take gasoline from a car by sucking through a rubber hose. But on Monday last week there I was, standing in a dirt parking lot while contemplating proper tube diameter to access the tank of our Toyota Belta sedan in the town of Kawasaki, a small suburb just west of disaster-ravaged Sendai.
The magnitude 9.0 earthquake that occurred off the coast of this city in Miyagi Prefecture at precisely 2:46 p.m. three days earlier set off a string of events that the city and its citizens are still struggling to overcome.
One of the more crucial concerns is the shortage of gasoline. The destination for the fuel pumped by mouth was a van carrying a group from the local Sendai-Finland Wellbeing Center. Read more
Sendai’s Wakabayashi Ward following magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami
March 25, 2011
A car moved by the tsunami sits in a field in Wakabayashi Ward
(Photo by Tokyo Reporter, March 14, 2011) Read more
Yu Asakura wins Best Actress at 2011 porn awards
March 25, 2011
Saori Hara presents Yu Asakura with Best Actress at the Sky PerfecTV! Adult Broadcasting Awards 2011, which took place earlier this month at a hotel ballroom in Tokyo's Chiyoda district
(Photo by Tokyo Reporter, March 7, 2011) Read more
