Shibuya
By Kazutaka Shimanaka • April 19, 2011
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.
By CJ • 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.
By Kazutaka Shimanaka • March 13, 2011
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!”
By Kenji Nakano • January 6, 2011
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.
By CJ • November 26, 2010
Tokyu offers a glimpse at the ongoing underground construction project in Shibuya
By Amy Takahashi • August 8, 2010
Glut of gals on summer break and harsh economy combining for good times
By CJ • July 1, 2010
Two seniors develop a project named “Dobusu wo Mamoru Kai” (group to protect ugly women)
By Kazutaka Shimanaka • June 13, 2010
Charged with having sent a 27-year-old ‘campaign girl’ service four male customers at hotels in Shibuya
By CJ • April 25, 2010
The sex-service tip sheet will be issued for the final time next month
By Kazutaka Shimanaka • April 22, 2010
At long last, the Tokyo government finally got around to passing an ordinance prohibiting men to approach women on the street and solicit them to take jobs in the sex industry. And recently, reports Nikkan Gendai (Apr. 21), Yusuke Yoshino, a 30-year-old operator of a massage joint in Shibuya, and three of his cohorts were arrested for violating the ordinance.