The 5,000-yen mistress favorable to recession-hit fellas

In this era of deflation, reduced fees at fuzoku establishments, such as 4,800 yen for entering an ime kura (image club) or a soapland’s 10,000 yen “early bird” special, are tough to top. Yet Shukan Post (Jan. 14) believes there exists even better cost performance: a mistress for a mere 5,000 yen.

During the bubble era, the tabloid says, it was not unusual for allowances given to mistresses to be roughly 200,000 yen per encounter or 1 million yen a month.

A-san, a 42-year-old sales rep working at a major manufacturing company, has discovered a much more reasonable option. For a year, he has been seeing an executive secretary, 24, who he met at a club designed for singles.

The initial outlay for registration is 50,000 yen but after that expenses are minimal. “The only money I pay to her is 5,000 yen per meeting for car money,” he says. “The club has a policy that makes the male member pay his female date this transportation fee as a minimum. But this girl is telling me that ‘that’s the only allowance I seek.’” Read more

Little progress in ‘black widow’ case, fraud victim still uses matchmaking sites

Police are not making substantial inroads in bringing murder charges against suspected “black widow” Kanae Kijima, the 35-year-old arrested for fraud and linked to the suspicious deaths of six men, reports Shukan Post (Jan. 1).

Police are presently building cases for murder around two of the deaths. Thus far, Kijima has been arrested five times for defrauding over a dozen other men, in their 40s and 50s and residing in various prefectures across the Kanto region, after posing as a prospective marriage partner on Internet matchmaking sites. All told she is believed to have collected 100 million yen from her victims.

“The police are trying to make cases for the burn death in May in Chiba Prefecture and the guy in Tokyo who died in a car in August from carbon monoxide inhalation,” a writer specializing in the legal profession tells the tabloid. “However, it is hard to gather evidence against her since she herself has remained silent.” Read more

Maria Ozawa says couples getting physical need first get critical

The apparent rise in the number of carnivorous women (i.e. aggressive females) and their counterpart, herbivorous men, who are said to lead a passive existence ensconced in hobbies, has been frequently reported in the news media this year.

Society as a whole may have accepted this shift, but does that then mean that these newly invigorated ladies will happily welcome ambivalence on the part of men when it comes to bedroom activities? That does not appear to be the case, reports Shukan Post (Dec. 11), and porn starlet Maria Ozawa believes she can lend a hand, so to speak.

The tabloid explains that nowadays there is no shortage of unsatisfied women. In October, condom maker Durex made public survey results that indicated that only one in five married women in Japan were pleased with their love lives — a figure that is less than half that reported for China, the U.S. and France. “I am really bored because it is the same routine each time,” complains an office lady in her 20s. “My husband doesn’t say a word. So it is hard for me to understand if he is excited. It would be nice if he would say a few things when we do it.” Read more

‘Black widow’ strikes? Marriage fraud suspect Kanae Kijima linked to six deaths

Wearing white gloves, seven or eight plain-clothes cops stormed into an apartment building in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro district one recent morning. Their destination was the 14th-floor residence of Kanae Kijima, a 34-year-old native of Hokkaido who has been arrested for marriage fraud and is under investigation for the deaths of six men, reports Shukan Post (Nov. 13).

“The officers stayed for a week, working 24 hours a day, and they took her wine-red Mercedes,” a resident of the building tells the tabloid.

News reports indicate that Kijima has conned numerous men, whom she met on Internet dating sites, out of sizable sums of money. The police are treating four of the subsequent deaths, which took place in Tokyo and Chiba and Saitama prefectures, as murder. Information on the other two deaths has not yet been released.

“Sometimes she was wearing a black one-piece dress with an open front to display cleavage,” says another tenant. “But usually she didn’t wear make-up and sported worn-out jeans and t-shirts. To be honest, it is hard to believe that kind of lady was able to deceive men.” Read more

Bargain-basement hymens from Hangchow bleed on demand

The ingredients, read the label on the wrapper, include “non-allergenic natural albumin, a medicated inflation agent, water-soluble base and sodium carboxymethyl.”

Er, miss — are you sure sticking one of these in your vagina seems like a good idea?

Because the above, reports Shukan Post (Nov. 6), is what synthetic hymens imported from China are made from.

Under the name jinko shojomaku, these sham cherries are being imported by individual entrepreneurs and marketed on the Web for around 2,300 yen a pop.

The manufacturer claims that upon insertion, the body temperature causes one to expand across the opening of the whatchamacallit — you know, where babies come out.

As a follow-up to the insertion of a throbbing male organ and the inevitable sound effects, who knows what dialog might actually ensue. Read more

Men’s 3-D undies trump trunks and beat briefs

Uniqlo may indeed be the star within today’s apparel industry, but also worth noting is manufacturer Gunze’s Body Wild men’s underwear, which has achieved a steady growth in sales for over a decade, reports Shukan Post (Aug. 21).

The key to the Gunze garment is a special sewing machine that weaves a pair of boxers out of synthetic fibers. The result is a comfortable, tight-fitting form between the abdomen and the groin — a state-of-art design that competitors cannot match.

The firm boasts that Japanese men are no longer confined to the routine that finds them sporting white briefs as a child and trunks upon reaching middle school.

Since its introduction in 1998, the product has achieved double-digit growth in sales.

Shukan Post’s writer, however, is skeptical, noting that these claims makes little sense given that he have been satisfied with his 100 percent cotton briefs, in either black or gray, which do not have any special design. Read more

Female carnivores use new DVD to bone up on sex techniques

This year “carnivorous” women are poring over books about enjoying sex. Shukan Post (July 31) reports such titles written by former top AV actress Honoka (age 26), as “Koakuma Sekkusu” (“Little devil sex,” published by Best Shinsho) and “Karada no Kairakuai no Katachi” (“The shape of corporeal love pleasure,” by Fusosha) are being snatched up in impressive numbers.

“The old view of sex leaned toward how men could pleasure women,” says Honoka on her Web blog. “But originally sex was meant for males and females to enjoy each other together. My book explains how women can take the initiative, but the result will be that the two parties share mutual feelings.”

Harnessing the market carved out by her books, Honoka has released a new DVD titled “LOVE 48,” which is already reported to have sold 10,000 copies.

The “48″ in the title derives from the famous shijuuhatte (48 hands or coupling positions) made famous in old erotic woodblock prints. Rather than convoluted anatomical postures, however, the DVD introduces variations on “tonguing techniques,” “fingering techniques,” “penetration methods” and so on in ways to demonstrate mutual affection. Read more

Kansai sex businesses taking flu scare in stride

With the swine influenza infections threatening to run rampant in Kansai, the Fukuhara soapland district in Kobe has taken on the appearance of a ghost town over the past couple of weeks.

The manager of one establishment tells Shukan Post (June 5) his business is down by around 70 percent.

“Our girls all wear surgical masks on their commute to work, and we’ve installed air purifiers in all the massage rooms,” he says. “But the customers seem a bit anxious about catching a bug. We’ve had a case where a masseuse coughed once and the customer immediately demanded he be assigned a different girl.”

Other customers, however, have found the slack period has its advantages.

“If you go now, it’s easier to reserve more popular girls who are usually harder to get,” the regular patron at one shop grins. Read more

Kusanagi’s naked romp and arrest now a virtual tour

Now dubbed “The Incident,” the nude romp and subsequent arrest on April 23 of SMAP’s Tsuyoshi Kusanagi continues to be replayed at a Tokyo park by fans of the J-pop group, reports Shukan Post (May 22).

Hinokicho Park, located within the Tokyo Midtown complex where the pop-star lives, has become a hot tourist spot. A housewife in her 40s, who resides in a building facing the park, says, “This is the first time I have seen so many people in the park in the five years I have lived here. There have been a few young people with their tops off and screaming “Shingo! Shingo!” or “What’s wrong with being naked?” to imitate Tsuyoshi on the night of the incident.”

In spite of the charges for public indecency having been dropped and his return to showbiz scheduled for May 28 his fans seemingly can’t get enough. Read more

‘Cabaret bus’ carries customers to a carefree night on the town

Have you got 40,000 yen to blow on a tour of Tokyo night life? Well, suggests Shukan Post (March 20), you might want to consider showing up at Tokyo Station at 6:30 p.m. for a “Basu Kyaba Tsuaa” (cabaret tour by bus). The tours, initiated from the end of February, take in three cabarets in the Asakusa, Ueno and Roppongi areas.

What’s more — and this part sounds almost too good to be true — the interior of the bus is partitioned with tables and hostesses go along for the ride, pouring customers’ drinks and making the whole experience a nonstop party on wheels — except when the signals turn red.

According to Mr. “A,” the writer who reports on his experience, the customers were joined by eight charming gals, including the lovely 21-year-old Naomi who was clad in a revealing pink camisole. Read more

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