Chinese hooker club busted in Shibuya

TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police on Tuesday arrested the manager and three employees of a club in the Shibuya entertainment area for violating the Anti-Prostitution Law, reports the Sankei Shimbun (Jan. 27). Read more

New Year’s Eve in Shibuya

(Photo by Tokyo Reporter, December 31, 2011) Read more

AV producer: One in 200 Japanese women performed in porn

Shukan Post (Dec. 23) closes the year out with a bang, so to speak. Citing an adult video production company employee, the weekly tabloid says that it is common knowledge in the industry that one Japanese woman in 200 has performed in a porn film.

To establish its bearings, the magazine says that in days past one porn actress per 400 female high school and university students was a standard assumption — a figure that represents roughly one woman per graduating class.

To then make the jump to encompass all women, the tabloid breaks down some numbers provided by the production company employee.

“If one considers all AV productions, including those distributed on the Internet and underground DVDs, there are 35,000 productions released each year,” the explains.

That converts to approximately 100 films a day.

“In one year,” the source continues, “between 2,000 and 3,000 new actresses will debut in conventional AV films. All told (including amateurs), the industry has 150,000 experienced women. Now, if one considers that between the ages of 19 and 55 Japan has 30 million women then…” Read more

Yamaguchi-gumi member arrested for extortion of Shibuya hooker club

TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police on Thursday arrested a member of the Yamaguchi-gumi criminal syndicate for extorting money from a club raided in September for providing prostitution services, reports the Sankei Shimbun (Dec. 15). Read more

New law to clamp down on Osaka’s ‘legal herb’ market

The Minami entertainment district of Osaka has seen a serious growth in the sales of drugs designed to fall within a legal gray zone, but law enforcement might get the upper hand with a new law, reports Shukan Asahi Geino (Nov. 3).

“Legal herbs” have documented adverse effects, but there are no laws regulating their possession and utilization, which has putting law enforcement in a difficult position.

“America-mura is known to be an area for drugs,” says a news reporter covering the society beat. “There are 20 clubs situated there, an area smaller than Shibuya, and many often receive illicit drugs, like weed, from foreigners. Pedestrians are approached out of nowhere for possible transactions.”

Dating back approximately one year, shops with signs reading “specializing in legal herbs” began to emerge. Now about 10 can be spotted in one area. With prices in the range of 1,000 to 3,000 yen per gram, most users are teenagers and those in their 20s. Read more

Dateline Tokyo: Lesbian love services in demand by guyless gals game to get it on

“These days it’s not rare at all to see two women going into a room together,” a maid at a Tokyo love hotel tells Shukan Jitsuwa (Aug. 18). “I’ve been at this job for 15 years. About five years ago, I noticed that more women started coming here together. The numbers picked up after our management instituted a ‘ladies’ day,’ offering a 30 percent discount, which we do twice a month. On those days, from noon onwards the place is filled to capacity with paired off housewives or university students.”

But, the reporter wonders, how can you know if the women are using the rooms for sex?

“When I clean out the waste receptacles there are always some telltale signs,” the maid replies. “Things like discarded tissue paper with some clear fluid having a sweet and sour scent. Some have pubic hairs clinging to it. And from time to time I’m surprised when they leave behind a vibrator.

“These days, with men falling out of favor, I guess it’s expected that more women will want to pleasure one another. And unlike sex with men, which is over once they have ejaculated, women can keep going to enjoy themselves endlessly,” the maid says. Read more

After brief spurt of demand, love hotel businesses left reeling in wake of the quake

Nikkan Gendai (Apr. 20) is 17 installments along in a series that professes to track the looming “economic depression” caused by the March 11 catastrophe in Tohoku. This time, it takes a look at the love hotel business.

“Things have hit rock bottom,” the operator of one such business whines to the tabloid. Salarymen, it seems, are just not in the mood to tipple and then, while in their cups, spend their hard-earned cash on nookie.

While the year was already starting to show signs of slumping demand from early January, customers started making a comeback in late February, and March was looking up until Friday the 11th. Then demand soared. Read more

Meanwhile, in Shibuya

(Cartoon by Politicomix, April 6, 2011)

One of the potentially most damaging side effects of the Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent crisis now gripping Japan is an austerity campaign that has seen the cancellation of hundreds of events, the skipping of the nation’s traditional cherry blossom-themed celebration of springtime, and — probably most important — the cancellation of the season finale of “24,” a show so famous here a parliamentarian recently suggested the prime minister could learn a lesson or two about disaster management from Jack Bauer.

The problem, of course, is that if people sit home all day (and night), not spending their money, businesses will go out of business. Thousands of businesses will go out of business.

Earthquake! Panic-stricken customers, girls seen fleeing Shibuya sex shop

Years from now when men reminisce over the great earthquake of March 11, 2011, only a few will be able to answer, “I was right in the middle of getting laid, and believe me, it was no fun!”

As reported by Tokyo Sports (March 13), the scenario was reminiscent of a scene from the film series “Friday the 13th.” The time was 2:48 p.m. As pedestrians looked on, two customers at an erotic massage parlor in Tokyo’s Shibuya district — and the young females who were servicing them — felt the building begin to sway ominously and came dashing out of the private rooms, down the stairs, out the door and onto the street. Read more

Samurai spirit: Liberated Japanese lasses turn seductresses in name of country

This may be the Year of the Rabbit, but Nikkan Gendai (Jan. 1) predicts that Japanese women will not be satisfied nibbling on mere carrots.

The evening tabloid says that the rise of nikushokukei joshi (肉食系女子), or carnivorous women, will continue to pick up steam in 2011. Fuzoku writer Yukio Murakami explains that women are increasingly viewing themselves differently.

“Women believe that they too should be able to freely enjoy sex just as men do,” the sex scribe says. “Even with steady boyfriends they’ll still approach men at train stations as the evening’s last train approaches. The rationale behind such behavior is rooted in simple sexual desire that occurs right before their menstrual period or the thought that it’s better to stay at a love hotel than going home. Read more

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