Jitsuwa Taiho

Vienna sex school welcomes Japanese exchange students

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • January 16, 2012

A school in Vienna supposedly instructs students in the arts of sex.

Inflated yen a magnet for Koreans selling spring in Japan

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • December 22, 2011

Opportunities await Korean females in Japan

Tokyo troubles: What do love hotels do with their lost & found items?

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • November 11, 2011

It seems that people who enter and leave love hotels have a lot of things on their minds. Like what will soon be transpiring after they get inside the room. Or not being spotted together.

Potential pitfalls in marrying a porn actress

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • October 13, 2011

Married women in the “ero” industry and rates their marriage prospects

Boo! Scary Japanese sex stories to make your woody wilt

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • September 17, 2010

Seven scary stories involving sex businesses

Taxi drivers’ tales of taking it out in trade

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • September 10, 2009

We’ve all heard stories about female passengers who can’t come up with the taxi fare and ask the driver if he’s willing to take it out in trade. “I’ve heard them too, but I never thought it would ever happen to me,” smiles an unnamed Tokyo cabbie to Jitsuwa Taiho (October).

Matchmaker, matchmaker, find me some snatch

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • April 3, 2009

This writer can testify from personal experience that old-style omiai (arranged marriages) in Japan are for the most part pretty stuffy affairs. The first three I tried didn’t work out well at all, and I was starting to feel all kinds of nagging self doubts when finally I went calling on the home of the miss who was eventually to become my missus.

Fritter away your 12,000-yen freebie on frolic

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • March 8, 2009

A selection of sex shops across the nation where readers can go all the way for under 12,000 yen

People who live in glass houses…

By CJ • November 1, 2008

The sad story of WaiWai’s demise, which made the news last summer, is by almost anyone’s judgment already a bit stale. But the December issue of Jitsuwa Taiho has just hit the stands, and there on page 186 is an unattributed article titled “Japanese are infuriated at sex in Japan as seen by foreigners!”

Swindlers extend ‘send money’ flimflams to the sex business

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • October 26, 2008

It’s not only foreigners who are engaging in outrageous ripoffs. Men who let down their guards are also being taken to the cleaners by native-born swindlers using a variation on the notorious “it’s me, send money” scheme.