Flip fantasia: Engaging an audience with kamishibai
By • January 12, 2012
Telling a story with a series of illustrated notebook-sized cards
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TV steers Japanese cinema
By • February 16, 2010
With ad revenue falling, the major nets are partnering with Toho and other major distributors in an effort to fill that gap with features based on material with which local audiences are already widely familiar. The result is a consolidation of power in the biz — and Hollywood, with the exception of an occasional “Pirates of the Caribbean” or “Avatar,” is increasingly losing clout.
Punchy posters encourage Tokyo subway etiquette
By • June 24, 2009
A 35-year-old designer attempts to make the subway experience more pleasant
Taking manga to the masses
By • February 2, 2009
Manga is becoming hugely popular abroad, partly thanks to a number of foreign creators and enthusiasts
Love hotels becoming the last refuge of a temp-help worker
By • January 31, 2009
Actually for some time already, runaway girls in their teens could be seen loitering on the streets around love hotels in search of a man to provide them with accommodations for the night. But more recently, Nikkan Gendai (Jan. 31) reports, a new phenomenon has developed in which the runaway teens have been joined by women from their mid-20s to mid-30s.
Hentai manga to take the world
By • November 19, 2008
For decades in Japan, the detective, romance, sci-fi, and sports stories typically found in manga serials have simply been a means of enduring a long train commute or passing time on a lunch break.
Raunchy wife, flaky husband revel in kinky togetherness
By • November 18, 2008
“We’ve been married a long time, and it’s been quite a while since my husband and I engaged in any ‘night life,’” writes a …
Toshio Maeda: Hentai pioneer
By • November 8, 2008
Toshio Maeda’s groundbreaking manga series “Urotsuki Doji” from 1986 firmly placed him in the history books as the pioneer of the genre known as hentai, or perverted. The work featured violent and graphic images of shapely young women being probed, felt, and fondled by the tentacles, elongated tongues, and miscellaneous extensions of creatures. The world of manga would never be the same again.
Takeshi Oshima: adult manga artist
By • November 8, 2008
His “Kanji Sasete Baby” series from 15 years ago was his breakthrough. It appeared in Young Magazine with a translation into Italian appearing 10 years later. Bazooka, Shuman Special, Geino Nippon, and the women’s monthly Amour now regularly feature his comics.
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Distraught father-in-law wins incestuous consolation prize
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Proliferation of fake ID cards assist minors seeking work in sex trade
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Re-porn: AV industry relying on rising popularity of ‘mature’ actresses
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Out-call sex services in Tokyo compete for piece of papa-sans’ pensions
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Osaka ‘girl’s bar’ employed 12-year-old girl
