Flash

Porn to be wild! Kokomi Naruse, Maki Hojo, and Kana Yume star at 2012 AV awards

By CJ • March 3, 2012

AV gals pick up prizes

Tsukasa Aoi takes Flash media award at 2012 porn awards

By CJ • February 28, 2012

Sky PerfecTV! Adult Broadcasting Awards 2012 took place on February 14 in Shinagawa

Yamaguchi-gumi member linked to Shimada rings in New Year at Kobe shrine

By Amy Takahashi • January 8, 2012

Japan’s largest criminal organization goes to Gokoku Shrine

Out-call sex club just one mystery surrounding death of Kanazawa woman

By Amy Takahashi • March 8, 2011

The operation of a deri heru business, that is, an out-call sex service, can be a dangerous venture — so much so, believes Flash (Mar. 15), that it was likely one factor in the mysterious death of a woman in Ishikawa Prefecture.

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.

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

By Kenji Nakano • July 7, 2010

Grapplers and mobsters go way back

Delinquents, dust-ups and drunken dames — Kabukicho drifts downward

By Kenji Nakano • April 17, 2010

Tokyo’s Kabukicho area as captured at night by the camera of photographer Hajime Kiyohira is seen to be increasingly turning into a Mecca for Japan’s youth, similar to Shibuya, reports Flash (Apr. 20) in a special pull-out section.

DPJ’s nighttime dalliances deemed dubious

By Amy Takahashi • October 16, 2009

Following last month’s revelations in the Mainichi Shimbun that offices of Democratic Party of Japan members spent large sums in adult entertainment clubs, weekly tabloid Flash (Oct. 20) reports on whether the establishments were suitable meeting locations, as was later claimed by the politicians.

Lexicon guide for browsing a Japanese adult site

By Amy Takahashi • March 30, 2009

Riddled with puns, obscure language, and tongue-in-cheek phrases, the typical Japanese adult site can be challenging for even the most astute reader of the …