Shukan Shincho

Ginza blues: Sister, can you spare a hostess?

By Kazutaka Shimanaka • January 22, 2012

Clubs slumped badly following last March’s earthquake and tsunami

Carnal desire and survival at Tohoku evacuation centers

By Kenji Nakano • May 14, 2011

After disaster strikes, issues like food supply, clothing, and shelter are known to be of top concern. Shukan Shincho (May 5-12) (May 5-12), however, adds that carnal pleasures are not far behind — even following the Great East Japan Earthquake in March, in which some Tohoku evacuees have been struggling to find places for intimate activities.

Sumo chairman dined at Michelin restaurant day scandal broke

By CJ • February 10, 2011

Photographed dining at a Michelin 1-star Japanese restaurant in Akasaka

Thomas the Yak Engine? Publisher alleged to host gangster front company

By Amy Takahashi • September 8, 2010

Tokyo headquarters of the well-known publisher providing office space to yakuza front company

Sumo world’s ties to gangsters, baseball betting have long legacy

By Kenji Nakano • July 7, 2010

Grapplers and mobsters go way back

Tokyo college seniors expelled over project ‘to protect ugly women’

By CJ • July 1, 2010

Two seniors develop a project named “Dobusu wo Mamoru Kai” (group to protect ugly women)

Concrete controversy: DPJ’s Mieko Tanaka travels to Yamba Dam

By Amy Takahashi • May 10, 2010

One of ‘Ozawa’s Girls’ makes pilgrimage to controversial construction site

Porn actresses pen salacious memoirs in chasing legacy of Ai Iijima

By Amy Takahashi • March 20, 2010

AV actresses release tell-all memoirs

Deflation equation: room, board, Ginza hostess — all in, 12,800 yen

By Kenji Nakano • February 19, 2010

Usually entry to a high-end Ginza hostess club requires an initial outlay of tens of thousands of yen. Yet the wave of deflation is causing one such establishment to charge a mere 12,000 yen for an hour of all-you-can-drink and — get this — food and lodging.