By • January 8, 2010
With the year winding down, the Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza group entertained 1,200 members of the Kobe community with food and gifts in an effort to convey a sense of civic goodwill, reports Shukan Shincho (Jan. 14).
By • November 12, 2009
Reporting on the arrest of accused murderer Tatsuya Ichihashi on Nov. 10 in Osaka port, Shukan Shincho (Nov. 19) was really quick on the draw, with five short items in its latest issue, just two days after the arrest. From one article, readers learn that the police dragnet last year had extended to the notorious gay enclave in Tokyo’s Shinjuku 2-chome.
By • November 8, 2009
Suspect arrested for marriage fraud and is under investigation for the deaths of six men
By • October 27, 2009
The extortion, racketeering, prostitution and gambling rings associated with Japan’s yakuza criminal organizations have been written up in books and glorified in films too numerous to count. Yet a substantial first-hand peek inside this insidious underworld by a foreign journalist — not straitjacketed by Japan’s press system — has not existed. Enter reporter Jake Adelstein, author of the recently released memoir “Tokyo Vice,” an account of his 12-year stint of working the crime beat for the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest newspaper.
By • October 7, 2009
“First it was Koma Stadium, which shut its doors last New Year’s Eve,” a local mutters. “Now it’s the Kabukicho McDonald’s outlet, which closed on Aug. 31. I think the place went under because it became a hangout for bar hostesses waiting for the trains to start running and homeless people, who just sat there nursing a cup of coffee.”
By • September 13, 2009
Among the 119,021 voters casting ballots for Democratic Party of Japan representative Mieko Tanaka in Ishikawa Prefecture Constituency No. 2. during last month’s lower house election few probably knew that the candidate once dressed in costumes while interviewing ladies employed in the sex trade, reports Friday (Sep. 18).
By • September 2, 2009
It didn’t take the tabloid media long to put its own original spin on the landslide Aug. 30 victory by the Democratic Party of Japan. Shukan Shincho (Sep. 10) reports on some of the ways the sex industry took advantage of political excitement in the run-up to last Sunday’s general election.
By • March 7, 2009
300 ladies served drinks to customers at the club’s 600 seats
By • August 12, 2008
Sex businesses are showing a true spirit of creativity
Distraught father-in-law wins incestuous consolation prize
Proliferation of fake ID cards assist minors seeking work in sex trade
Re-porn: AV industry relying on rising popularity of ‘mature’ actresses
Out-call sex services in Tokyo compete for piece of papa-sans’ pensions
Osaka ‘girl’s bar’ employed 12-year-old girl
