Miyazaki’s shops supplying sleaze have beef with foot and mouth

While most media outlets have chosen to focus on the economic and health aspects of the ongoing spread of foot-and-mouth disease in Miyazaki Prefecture, weekly tabloid Shukan Asahi Geino (July 1) investigates how the outbreak has impacted the businesses most dear to its readership — namely, shops specializing in adult entertainment.

On May 18, Miyazaki Prefecture Gov. Hideo Higashikokubaru declared a prefecture-wide state of emergency. Since then, those visiting from outlying areas began canceling reservations in earnest.

The owner of Japanese restaurant Igokochiya Anbai, located in Miyazaki City’s entertainment district known as Nishitachi, tells the tabloid that sales have fallen to half of what they were a year ago. “In the beginning, the cancellations were limited to certain areas,” the owner explains, “but after the state of emergency was declared the number rose rapidly. We are now cutting part-timers and reducing advertising and supply purchases.” Read more

Maria Ozawa’s deri heru debut, popularity of ‘land mine’ gals top sex biz trends

For a rundown of the top-ten stories thus far in 2010 in the fuzoku trade — that is, businesses offering sexual services — weekly tabloid Shukan Asahi Geino (July 8) turned to Yoshikazu Murazaki, the editor-in-chief of monthly entertainment guide Manzoku.

“Shaking the industry the most has been the deri heru (out-call sex shop) debuts of big-name AV actresses Mai Nadasaka and Kei Megumi at club Muteki in Shibuya and Maria Ozawa at Club Tora no Ana,” explains the editor.

The magazine adds that AV stars had appeared at such establishments in the past but the recent trend has been with bigger names offering their services. “Over the next three months, we expect that even more girls will make their debut,” says the manager of club Muteki. Read more

Models and stewardesses become tour bus babes

Staffing and training corporation Wellcom has started a tour service employing roughly 300 ladies called Bibus, which supplies sightseeing buses with female guides who used to be flight attendants and models. The company tells Shukan Asahi Geino (July 1) that the impetus for the program was the advanced ages of many existing guides.

A member of the company’s public relations department explains: “We originally had the service Bishoku (jobs employing beautiful women) in which former flight attendants and models went through training to become receptionists and secretaries. Then we heard about the aging issue with bus tour guides.”

The Bibus program, whose name is an amalgamation of bijin (美人) (beautiful woman) and bus (バス), began taking applications in October, 2009 and kicked off services in May of this year. On a busy day, up to 40 buses will be staffed by Bibus babes.

It is not just the customers who are benefiting, Shukan Asahi Geino assures. “Needless to say, a ‘thank you’ from clients is nice,” guide Fuyuko Tajima tells the tabloid. “Moreover, kids telling us ‘See you later’ or ‘I am back!’ will relieve any fatigue we may have.” (K.N.)

Japan’s wizard of wanking to forgo world competition

Recent surveys by a British condom manufacturer have indicated that the frequency that Japanese people engage in sex is the lowest in the world. As a means of raising national pride in light of this dubious distinction, Shukan Asahi Geino (June 10) would like to introduce Masanobu Sato, a senior director at adult toy company Tenga.

Asagei reports that for two consecutive years Sato has earned the title of “the man who has massaged his ‘son’ for the longest period of time on the planet” at the World Masturbate-a-Thon in San Francisco, a one-day competition that he will not enter this year.

The wanking wonder tells the tabloid that he first entered the championship in 2008 out of curiosity. Read more

Pole-pulling pro perfected palm performance at her maternal parent’s patella

For a long time, Japan boasted a legendary lady whose hand job technique was so spectacular she was known in the trade as “the mythical shaft master” or “the wizard of jism.” Her name, reports Shukan Asahi Geino (June 3), was Reiko Oikawa.

Some two and a half decades ago Reiko gave birth to a daughter, who grew up to be a lovely lass indeed. And you’ll be happy to learn that the daughter decided to follow in her mother’s footsteps.

Asagei tracked down the young woman, who goes by the professional name of Nana, at a sex shop in Tokyo’s Kinshicho district called “Ikenai Shika Eiseishi” (the naughty dental hygienist).

“Yes, Reiko was my mother,” she readily admits. Read more

Sales rising for used AV actresses’ undies sold at auction

Doing stellar work among Web sites auctioning the underwear and personal items once used by adult video (AV) stars is SEXUS, concludes Shukan Asahi Geino (Apr. 8).

Established four years ago, SEXUS allows customers to bid on the briefs of such starlets as Rin Aoki, Risa Tsukino, Kirara Asuka, Saori Hara and Maiko Yuki.

“All the items have gone through an approval process with the actresses’ production companies,” a representative of SEXUS tells the weekly. “There are of course no counterfeit items. We have 40 production companies, ten manufacturers and three publishers participating in this auction. We even have it set up so that customers can participate via mobile phone.” Read more

Crackdown on Tokyo fraud ring closes ‘encounter’ Internet sites

Law enforcement authorities from Tokyo and Miyagi Prefecture have shut down a major fraud ring involving online-dating sites designed to generate massive profits out of membership fees, reports Shukan Asahi Geino (Mar. 11).

On January 16, Noriyuki Hoshi, the leader of the operation, and ten others were taken into custody by police for defrauding members of deai-kei (encounter) matchmaking sites by hiring male actors to take on online personas of ladies seeking dates.

A reporter responsible for covering social media explains to the weekly that the victims were registered with such social networking sites as Mixi and Mobagetown. Between July 2005 and the day of the crackdown, the nationwide scam had swindled 1.4 million individuals out of a total of 2 billion yen. Read more

JAL gals unloading uniforms as bankruptcy begins

As if the historic bankruptcy of Japan Airlines were not enough, smut peddler Shukan Asahi Geino (Mar. 4) firmly sticks tongue in cheek in deeming the increase in abundance of flight attendant uniforms hitting the market to be a further indignity.

For fans fostering a uniform fetish, stewardess attire is hard to obtain, with JAL’s being up near the top of the pecking order. Japan’s flag carrier strictly regulates the distribution of each gal’s gear, requiring return upon termination of employment, and affixes registration numbers inside. It’s serious business: a special section within JAL monitors Internet auction sites for illicit sales and five years ago a contract worker was arrested for attempting to broker a sale for a uni sported by airline lounge employees. Read more

Carnivorous consumer of young hunks does her shopping in Shinjuku

A popular neologism in 2009 was nikushoku-kei joshi (carnivorous women). Some such females, of the arafoo (around age 40) persuasion, can sometimes be found trolling for male company in Shinjuku 2-chome, Tokyo’s largest gay enclave.

Divorcee Mie Takeuchi, age 41, is in the habit of heading for 2-chome on evenings before a holiday.

“I like to hang out in gay bars and enjoy the music. And best of all, men don’t come on to me,” the slender, attractive Mie tells Shukan Asahi Geino (Dec. 31-Jan. 7).

It seems that Mie, in the fashion of a true carnivore, is the type who likes to make the first move on a guy. Read more

Navigating Japan’s nyotaimori netherworld

TOKYO (TR) – For at least as long as nyotaimori — the practice of serving sushi on the body of a naked female’s torso — has been making inroads overseas, the media has been raising the same question: Where does the practice fit within the context of Japanese culture?

For an answer, one can turn to the 168-cm-long body of Miho Wakabayashi. Until last year, the 30-year-old’s bare stomach and limbs were adorned with fish and fresh fruit slices once a month at the Sleeping Beauty “happening bar” in Tokyo’s Shibuya district. (Such a drinking establishment is one in which customers engage in uninhibited intimate activities with one another.)

“It was a show promoted as a special event,” says Wakabayashi, who is also a part-time stripper, sometimes performing at the legendary Rokku-za theater in Asakusa, and an actress in adult films. “It was used as a kind of ice-breaker intended to draw laughs.” Read more

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