Toyota’s tremors send sex businesses sagging in Japan’s Detroit

“Yes, it’s true that police have been cracking down more heavily, and shop-type sex businesses have been disappearing,” says the manager of a “delivery health” (outcall sex service) in Toyota City. “There are more deri heru now, and many places let customers ‘play’ for less than 10,000 yen a visit.”

Slumping demand for automobiles, reports Shukan Taishu (Feb. 15), is proving a disaster for nightlife in Nagoya, Toyota township and other municipalities in the Chubu district.

“When Toyota was doing well, its factories operated in three shifts,” the manager continues. “We got lots of customers in the daytime too. We operated round the clock. But now the only time we get busy is on weekends.”

Toyota Motor Co. Ltd. has not been “doing well” at all. In its domestic market, the company sold 2,792,274 units in 2009 — down by a whopping 30.4 percent from the year before. The small sales boost enabled by the government’s eco car tax incentives may have helped move more hybrids, but not nearly enough to make up for the shortfall. Read more

Controversy around hitsudan hostess Rie Saito due to jealousy

Jealousy is the source of recent criticism being leveled toward deaf hostess, Rie Saito, 25, who rose to the top of Tokyo’s most extravagant entertainment quarter and has since published a best-selling book, reports Shukan Taishu (Jan. 4).

Saito lost her hearing soon after birth. While known as a bad girl during her middle-school days, she learned the subtle beauty of the hostess hospitality business and ascended to the number-one position in all of Ginza — a world of “night butterflies” — through the use of hitsudan, or written communication.

Such a drama-filled life moved many people and her book titled “Hitsudan Hostess,” published by Kobunsha in May last year, became a best-seller with 200,000 copies sold. On January 10, a TV drama of the same title and starring actress Keiko Kitagawa will be aired nationwide on Tokyo Broadcasting System.

However, there are ominous rumblings being circulated about Saito regarding her book and upcoming drama, the weekly warns. Read more

Sakai and Oshio cases leading to Tokyo ‘white powder sweep’

The high-profile drug arrests of singer-actress Noriko Sakai (“Nori P”), 38, and her 41-year-old husband, Yuichi Takaso, have prompted police to institute a “white powder sweep” through the notorious Tokyo entertainment areas of Roppongi and Shibuya, reports Shukan Taishu (Dec. 21).

Both Sakai and Takaso subsequently received suspended sentences, which have led some to question how seriously the cases were handled. “Considering their impact on society, they were treated very leniently,” says a representative within the legal community. “It would have made more sense for them to have served time.”

The police, apparently, feel likewise and, according to the article, have been utilizing undercover officers since the beginning of this month to institute street searches of pedestrians and crack down on neon-lit clubs and bars in Shibuya and Roppongi where methamphetamine distribution is known to be prevalent. Read more

Moonlighting gals augment income with part-time whoopie

Many Japanese companies, increasingly unable to give their staff raises or pay out semiannual bonuses due to the business downturn, have given the green light to permitting their workers to moonlight. The one exception being civil servants. But that hasn’t stopped females in the Japanese military from making a little on the side.

Shukan Taishu (Sep. 21) reports of a woman in the Ground Self Defense Force who had obtained a license to drive a heavy-duty truck transporting hazardous materials.

She was already aware that her male colleagues often patronized sex shops outside the base, and decided she wanted in on the action. Once day as a soldier bounced beside her in the truck cab, she grasped a cylindrical object, slid her hand along it in a vigorous up and down motion, and jokingly suggested she provide him with a friendly hand job at the affordable price of 3,000 yen. He readily agreed. Read more

Chilling out with stories of spooky sex

Mayumi, age 28, is currently employed at a Tokyo sex shop. Several years ago, however, she starred in adult videos.

She was in the process of shooting an outdoor night scene on an isolated section of the seacoast in Kanagawa Prefecture. The scene called for her to slip off her step-ins, pull up her skirt and have her posterior penetrated as she bent over the railing atop a cliff overlooking the ocean.

The cameras were rolling away and male lead was banging her from behind when Mayumi happened to glance down on the rocks about 10 meters below.

“Looking down, I noticed something white,” she tells Shukan Taishu (Sep. 7) in a hushed whisper. “It was a girl dressed in white.” Read more

Feisty females find cherry boys’ defloration a one-time affair

For a few feisty adult females who feel the urge, there’s probably nothing better to set their G-spot a-spasm than a pink-cheeked cherry boy.

Shukan Taishu (Aug. 17) reports on some of the seduction techniques used by mature gals to initiate innocent young fellows into the rites of manhood.

Megumi, who is 28, works at the cosmetics sales counter in a Tokyo department store. Last May she was introduced to the 18-year-old brother of Keiko, her co-worker, who had just arrived in the capital as a university freshman.

“Senpai,” said Keiko to Megumi, “my brother really admires you. How about showing him around?”

She agreed, and wound up taking him for a drive through scenic rural Chiba on her day off from work. Read more

Teen runaways offer bodies in exchange for lodgings

And I wonder–

I wah-wah-wah-wah-wonder,

Why,

Why, why, why, why, why she ran away,

Yes, and I wonder,

A-where she will stay-ay,

My little runaway,

Run, run, run, run, runaway.

Now we know the answer to Del Shannon’s ditty, at least in Japan in the summer of 2009. She’ll stay in the home of an older man, and probably have sex with him. Read more

Lovely North Korean agents undergo special sex training

Ever since Daniela Bianchi bedded with Sean Connery in “From Russia with Love,” the notion of agents from communist bloc countries who have been specially trained in the arts of sexual seduction has been a recurring theme in books and cinema. But do such people really exist?

Yes, reports Shukan Taishu (Sep. 22), you can believe it. As evidence, it introduces the saga of Won Jonghwa, age 34, who was arrested the end of August by South Korean security forces on charges of espionage.

“Ms. Won, who went to China from 1999, was an operative involved in the abduction of over 100 South Koreans and defectors from North Korea,” says a source in the media. “From 2001, she gained entry to South Korea through marriage. Later, through a sexual relationship with an officer in the Korean armed forces she was able to steal military secrets. She also obtained a list of people who had defected from North Korea.” Read more

New Yoshiwara soapland targets lusty middles

As the average Tokyo salaryman’s kozukai (pocket money) continues to shrink, businesses must constantly come up with creative new promotional ideas to entice him to spend.

Considering the post-World War II demographic bulge, this would almost certainly mean more businesses springing up which appeal to men in their 50s and over. (Who have their own bulges with which to contend, both above and below the belt.)

Sure enough, Shukan Taishu (Aug. 18) reports, a “soapland” in Tokyo’s Yoshiwara red-light district recently opened to cater specifically to the postwar baby-boom generation.

As the shop name suggests, the customers at Club 50s have passed the half century mark. So as not be accused of going overboard on its age restrictions, however, the club also accepts up-and-coming “junior associate” customers in their 40s. But it resolutely draws the line at that point. Read more

Weekly Taishu titillates readers with 3-D photos

Much to Al Gore’s chagrin, a story in the August 4 issue of Shukan Taishu debunks the effects of global warming. (“The polar ice is melting, but how come the oceans aren’t rising?” it asks.) The weekly then proceeds to raise Japan’s ambient temperature, with a steamy “summer heat-up special issue” that includes nude photos of 20 Korean cuties, a tale about nurses who secretly engage in prostitution while on hospital premises, and a nostalgic look back at two decades of extramarital affairs by female TV announcers.

What sets this week’s Taishu apart from its competitors is that it each issue is supplied with 3-D viewing “glasses” — imported from the USA, according to a notation on the paper enclosure. While holding the viewers over their eyes, readers are invited to ogle at photos of a model known as Honoka in a special tear-out section. Honoka’s bio data is rather sketchy, noting on page 98 that her date of birth is June 20, 1983; that she stands 156cm tall; and that her vital measurements are 85-56-85. Holding the 3-D viewers over the photos does makes certain things appear to pop out more prominently. A great pick-me-up for those on a tight budget, at just 360 yen a copy. (K.S.) Read more