Spa!
By Kazutaka Shimanaka • May 6, 2011
“When I was in the Onahama district of Iwaki City to view the tsunami damage, one of the locals advised me to check a certain place out,” writes the reporter for Spa! (May 3-10). “I walked along streets lined with rubble and eventually came to some fairly robust ferroconcrete structures that were still standing.”
By Kenji Nakano • February 19, 2011
A surge of in the number of women engaging in low-level, sponsor-based relationships is becoming evident in Japan’s suburbs, especially Hokkaido, reports Spa! (Feb. 22).
By Kenji Nakano • January 27, 2011
NPA commissioner: ‘It will likely become the most comprehensive (legislation) of them all’
By Kenji Nakano • December 9, 2010
‘That stare is from a man who has had so many ladies’
By CJ • October 2, 2010
An estimated 200 prostitutes openly work out of snack clubs
By Kenji Nakano • May 23, 2010
‘I used to say that I am making as much in one month as Ichiro makes in a year’
By Kenji Nakano • January 30, 2010
Osaka ‘girl’s bars’ are a hotbed of trouble
By Kenji Nakano • December 29, 2009
On a recent visit to Tokyo’s infamous Kabukicho entertainment district, Spa! (Dec. 22) discovered that the luminescent Ichiban-gai arch, which hangs above one entrance near Shinjuku Station, was unlit. Is this how far Kabukicho has sunk?
By Kazutaka Shimanaka • December 12, 2008
What’s the latest news from the commercial sex business? Only a magazine like Spa! (Dec. 16) could touch on such a topic with a headline like “Nookie-pedia 2008.” Well actually it’s “Nuki-pedia,” the term nuki being a slang term akin to “getting off.”