Manabu Miyazaki among those opposing anti-yakuza legislation

TOKYO (TR) – On October 5, the National Police Agency announced a revision to the Anti-Organized Crime Law to be submitted to the ordinary session of the Diet. The initiative follows anti-gang ordinances adopted by all prefectures and administrative divisions last October.

In spite of attempting to reduce criminal activities, the moves are not without their critics, reports Nikkan Gendai (Jan. 28). Read more

Weekly scatological assaults on Osaka women pooping police

Eeeek! If it’s Thursday, it must be Osaka. Duck!!

“Poop is a part of the human body,” says Osamu Seki, a lecturer in psychology at Meiji University. “The criminal, by the act of rubbing poop on women, perceives himself as coming together physically with a woman. He wants to appeal to women, and desires to touch them. But because he can not, he’s using his excrement as a substitute for sex.”

Ewwwww.

It seems that on December 8, a woman in her 40s in Osaka’s Higashinari Ward was beset upon by a man while riding her bicycle. The man, who was also astride a two-wheeler, rubbed excrement in her face. Just 10 minutes later, the same thing happened to a younger woman a short distance away. Read more

Encounter sites a hotbed of trouble, Japanese women victims of fake foreigners

TOKYO (TR) – Japan’s tabloid media contains no shortage of articles reporting on the arrests of men utilizing teenage prostitutes met on encounter Web sites. However, reports Nikkan Gendai (Dec. 9), those same sites are also rife with fraudulent activities. Read more

Tokyo times: Stressed-out salarymen going off the deep end at year-end parties

On December 7, a 25-year-old employee of Japan Railways, returning from a bonenkai (year-end party), bumped shoulders with a 57-year-old office worker. The two exchanged words, and they came to blows.

“I guess I smashed him up,” the younger man confessed to police, after knocking down the older man and kicking his face. He was arrested on charges of assault causing bodily injury.

With natural disasters, power outages that forced company staff to work on weekends, the floods in Thailand, Japan’s social pension fund in danger of running out of money and so on, what can anyone say, except that it’s been a really crappy year, writes Nikkan Gendai (Dec. 13). And now people are taking advantage of the opportunity to let off steam at the office bonenkai. Read more

Bust of Gas Panic bars in Roppongi due to ‘poorly behaving’ foreigners

TOKYO (TR) – The weekend bust of two popular nightclubs within the Gas Panic chain was due to the presence of undesirable foreigners, reports Nikkan Gendai (Nov. 30). Read more

Nikkan Gendai offices searched over ads for illegal Tokyo massage parlor

TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police arrested the president of an advertising firm last month for promoting an illegal Tokyo massage parlor inside an evening tabloid, reports the Sankei Shimbun (Oct. 27). Read more

Dateline Tokyo: First ‘alibi-ya’ busted

“Alibi-ya” is a uniquely Japanese service that skirts the boundaries of legality. Its typical function is to assist women in concealing their participation in the world’s oldest profession by providing them, for a set fee, with a respectable identity. The alternate identity is mainly used to conceal knowledge of the women’s employment from their families. The alibi-ya, upon request, will provide women with spurious tax payment certificates and other documentation needed to lease apartments or secure loans.

In recent years the service has also been alleged to create false identities for foreigners lacking legal status in Japan. Read more

Japan’s power-saving policies bringing out perverts in droves

With municipalities all over Japan trying to conserve electric power during the dog days of summer, incidents of public obscenity are on the rise, reports Nikkan Gendai (Aug. 11).

On August 9, a 33-year-old cop assigned to the Toyama prefectural police was apprehended for breaking into a police dormitory facility, allegedly on the hunt to purloin feminine undergarments.

A day earlier, a 49-year-old NHK producer was nabbed for trying to surreptitiously shoot photos up a woman’s dress, and a 56-year-old instructor at a primary school in Nara was arrested for groping. On August 7, a 26-year-old member of a university’s administrative staff was nicked for fondling a female white collar worker’s thigh on a bus. And a 26-year-old civilian employed by the police in Miyazaki Prefecture was arrested for attempting a sneak shot with his camera. Read more

Kyoto hooker’s nasty case of clap nothing to applaud

Uh oh. It has just been learned that a female sex worker in Kyoto came down with a nasty new strain of a social disease that appears resistant to conventional treatment.

Nikkan Gendai (July 22) reports that a 31-year-old hooker was found to be harboring the nasty bug, a strain of gonorrhea called HO41, in January 2009.

Now they tell us…

The woman had sought treatment after noticing a burning sensation in her urethra during urination. She had also begun excreting pus. Read more

Barmy banker no bathing beauty

On June 26, a 39-year-old man employed by a local bank made use of the women’s dressing room at a hotel swimming pool in the resort town of Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, and was arrested for his troubles.

As reported in Nikkan Gendai (July 2), Tetsuo Shimoyama’s apparent purpose, however, was not to sneak peeks at women in the buff, as one might expect, but rather to be seen as one of the gals himself.

“The man has a cross-dressing fetish,” explains a police source. “For him, women hold no sexual appeal at all. He’s a dyed-in-the-wool okama (queer). Read more

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