Illegal Tokyo casinos popular with baseball stars

In November, Japanese prosecutors arrested Mototaka Ikawa, 47, the former chairman of Daio Paper, after he admitted to a breach of trust in connection to 10.6 billion yen borrowed largely for gambling purposes.

“In the beginning, he used to go to gambling joints in Japan,” a reporter for a national paper tells weekly tabloid Shukan Taishu (Dec. 12). “But he eventually went overseas, where he was able to bet higher. He then became addicted.”

The tabloid says that Ikawa started in the murky underworld of illegal Japanese casinos — establishments that big-name celebrities and sports stars also frequent.

(It should be noted that, aside from motorbike, horse, boat, and bicycle racing, gambling is prohibited in Japan. Pachinko is not classified as gambling.) Read more

Dial-a-dalliance: Nagoya’s amateur prostitution service set to spread nationwide

“Moshi-moshi, is this Kana-san? I was given your number by our mutual friend Mr. T.”

“Hai, but I’m at work right now. Would you mind calling me back later?”

From the various sounds audible in the background, it would appear that Kana, as advertised, is a genuine OL (office lady).

The reporter for Shukan Taishu (Oct. 10) exhales with excitement; it looks like he’s on to a really hot story.

“Currently in Nagoya, there’s a service that sells the phone numbers of women who are into enjo kosai (amateur prostitution),” the unnamed writer for the pink trade had told him. “It’s really popular. There’s a good chance it will catch on in Tokyo as well, maybe as soon as the end of September.” Read more

NPB players shunning high-end soaplands for extra-inning erotic endeavors

With the pennant races heating up, now is the time for NPB players to be at their best. Yet a feature in Shukan Taishu Venus (August 23) explains that the serious stick-playing begins after each game’s last out — albeit in a fashion that is more discreet than in days gone by.

In Tokyo, heavy hitters used to swing their bats in expensive soaplands in the Yoshiwara brothel district, and that is still true to some degree. “There’s a player with a bancho attitude that comes around,” says a beat writer with a sports paper. “He is a legend for using shops as his post-game shower room. He’ll play with three girls, no problem.”

However, a Yoshiwara street tout tells the tabloid, “We don’t see players come and play here as much as we used to.”

A fuzoku writer — that is, one who covers the sex trade — says that players are tending to use deri heru (delivery health) escort services as a means of discretion. “Since you can use your own hotel,” the source says, “there is no risk of fans or paparazzi finding out. SM clubs seem to be quite popular these days.” Read more

Scouts reveal trade secrets for recruiting housewives into the sex trade

Time for a quiz: You want to come on to a perfectly respectable looking married lady who you spot on your train. Which of the three places is most likely to elicit a favorable response? A) Aboard the train; B) on the platform; or C) at a public place outside the station area.

“If you’re going to approach a married woman, the important thing is not to scare her. So the right answer is B,” Kazuki Uesugi tells Shukan Taishu (Mar. 28).

“A would come across as recklessly impulsive, giving the impression of lacking common sense,” Uesugi points out, “And C might make the woman feel that she’s being stalked.”

Uesugi ought to know. As a 30-year veteran street scout, he’s recruited over 1,000 women into sex industry jobs — about 300 of whom were married at the time. Read more

Ohmigosh! Horny OL onanists diddling selves on company time

From the title of our story, writes Shukan Taishu (Feb. 28), we know what you’re probably thinking. “Yeah, right, another one of those made-up stories from a sleazy weekly tabloid, designed to give its male readers a woody.” Right?

But the magazine insists it’s true. A surprising number of office ladies like to go waltzing into the lavatory and stimulate their matildas to orgasm.

For the poop on the scoop, Shukan Taishu goes to Ms. Y, age 53, who works part-time for an office clean-up crew.

“Almost anybody who does our work has at least once or twice gone into the ladies’ room had heard peculiar noises emanating from the lavatory stall,” she says. “It happened to me not so long ago.”

It was around 11:00 a.m. Y had gone in to tidy up and noticed all three stalls in the room were occupied. Read more

Proof of Tokyo ‘hooker pub’ proves elusive

Hai, irasshai! What would you like to eat, sir?

“So desu ne. . . How about bringing me a mug of draft beer, five sticks of yakitori, some edamame and, uh, a woman.”

“Kashikomarimashita. Comin’ right up.”

It’s unlikely the above conversation ever took place, but that doesn’t mean something along those lines never happened. Shukan Taishu (Feb. 7) reports that as one result of the intensified competition at izakaya (Japanese-style pubs), shops have been giving first priority to hiring young and cute waitresses.

“These days in Tokyo telephone booths and public toilets in parks and so on, you see handwritten advertising fliers pasted up. Their contents boggle the mind,” a “pink” industry reporter tells the magazine.

One such flyer, measuring about 10 centimeters square, read, “If you request a Chinese employee Ms. So-and-so, she can fix you up with a girl.” Read more

AV star Saori Hara promotes voting for 2011 porn awards

TOKYO (TR) – Reigning adult video queen Saori Hara is now lending a hand, so to speak, to the promotion of the online voting for the upcoming and much heralded Sky PerfecTV! Adult Broadcasting Awards, reports weekly tabloid Shukan Taishu (Jan. 31). Read more

Japan’s sexy izakayas battle deflation

The arrival of a Hooters outlet to Tokyo earlier this year caused many tabloids to associate the move with kurofune, or black ships, a term often used for a non-Japanese person or entity who holds a threatening marketing position, but Shukan Taishu reports that Japan is no slouch when it comes to dining in a sleazy atmosphere.

With the economy still in a tailspin, the weekly tabloid explains that it is important to understand that customers are still tight with their spending.

“Restaurant businesses in Japan typically provide a wide variety of choices,” says a reporter from the economic section of a national newspaper. “But offering good-tasting dishes alone is not enough to attract customers. With deflation ongoing, price competition is very tense, and services need to be designed such that they go beyond what has been in the past.”

The “girl’s izakaya,” which is an establishment characterized by waitresses with exposed midriffs, is now garnering attention. Read more

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

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