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Walectro: December 8 in Tokyo

Ongoing live music showcase Saiko presents Walectro on Tuesday December at Marz in Shinjuku, Tokyo (19:00-24:00) Tickets (¥2000 adv, ¥2500 door) are available through Metropolis Tickets and at the door. Saiko is a live music showcase in Tokyo launched by Dan Grunebaum, Music Editor of Metropolis magazine, and friends in 2007. Saiko brings ...

Gassy gal grosses out her giggling guy

In its weekly omnibus of tidbits from women's soft porn magazines, Shukan Bunshun (Nov. 12) introduces this odiferous account that originally appeared in the November issue of Amour. When engaging in etchi, it seems many females inadvertently produce manpe, or what is rather inelegantly referred to in English as "c**t farts." ...

Black widow strikes? Marriage fraud suspect Kanae Kijima linked to six deaths

Wearing white gloves, seven or eight plain-clothes cops stormed into an apartment building in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro district one recent morning. Their destination was the 14th-floor residence of Kanae Kijima, a 34-year-old native of Hokkaido who has been arrested for marriage fraud and is under investigation for the deaths of six ...

Lost gaijin: Damon and Naomi return to Japan

TOKYO (TR) - As the title "Lost Gaijin Tour 2009" might imply, the folk-pop duo Damon and Naomi are aiming for something a little different during their upcoming slate of live shows that will extend up and down Honshu over the next week. Guitarist and vocalist Damon Krukowski explained during an ...

Insider reveals the secrets of winning a fuzoku femme’s favor

In its latest weekly installment of the ongoing memoirs of a veteran writer covering the pink trade, Nikkan Gendai (Nov. 5) suggests that when it comes to scribes who scribble about sex, seniority is certainly significant. Why? While not citing his source, the writer claims that about 40 percent of female ...

Honiefaith: November 6-8 in Tokyo

Tokyo International Players present Honiefaith Friday November 6th (Sold Out), Saturday November 7th (2 p.m. and 7 p.m.) & Sunday November 8th (2 p.m. and 7 p.m.) at Our Space theater in Shibuya When a Filipino hostess' dismembered body is discovered in a Tokyo coin locker, Manila newspaper reporter Victor Balmori is ...

Saleslady in the sticks never shirked from her noontime ‘raunchy break’

"I was still in my late teens and assigned to a rural sales office in the middle of nowhere," writes the anonymous contributor in the November issue of women's soft porn magazine Amour Urajoho, as introduced in Shukan Bunshun (Nov. 5). "When noon came I would tell my colleagues, 'Well ...

Hooker housewives dispense tender, loving care to homesick johns

In 1994, a company called the "Otetsudai-san Haken Center" was established in Tokyo's Otemachi district and immediately found booming demand for its services. The firm, relates Nikkan Gendai (Oct. 24), targeted tanshin funin salarymen, company staff assigned to jobs in Tokyo where they were not accompanied by their families. The center would ...

On the ‘Tokyo Vice’ beat with Jake Adelstein

TOKYO (TR) - 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 rigid press ...

Bargain-basement hymens from Hangchow bleed on demand

The ingredients, read the label on the wrapper, include "non-allergenic natural albumin, a medicated inflation agent, water-soluble base and sodium carboxymethyl." Er, miss --- are you sure sticking one of these in your vagina seems like a good idea? Because the above, reports Shukan Post (Nov. 6), is what synthetic hymens imported ...

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DPJ's deeds of decadence still lag LDP legacy
Following an article in the Mainichi Shimbun (Sep. 30) that detailed expense claims for adult entertainment by the offices of Democratic Party of Japan members, evening tabloid Nikkan Gendai (Oct. 2) finds that the DPJ has a lot of catching up to do in becoming Japan's premier perv party.

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Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Tokyo body hair fetish shop raises arms in surrender
Kuroki appeared in a movie titled SM'ppoi no Suki, (loosely translated as Some like it SM style) and created an immediate stir not only for her personality and acting skills, but for the abundant black bush that blossomed beneath her upper limbs, which she eagerly exposed at every opportunity.
Frisky femme gets fondled at fireworks fest
I still have memories from last summer. . . the contributor to the October issue of the woman's erotic fantasy magazine Renai Tengoku sighs wistfully, as introduced in Shukan Bunshun (Oct. 1).

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Neighborly sex-tortion comes in XL proportion
It's been half a year since I began having an extramarital affair with 'J,' a salesman I'd met at the company where I work part time, writes the anonymous contributor to the October issue of women's soft porn monthly Ai no Taiken Special Deluxe, as introduced in the weekly From the ladies' magazines column in Shukan Bunshun (Sep. 24).

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Tokyo film fest to emphasize eco theme, screen controversial
The 22nd Tokyo International Film Festival will continue its push for environmental awareness and screen the controversial documentary The Cove, a film which shows the butchering of dolphins in the fishing town of Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture.

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Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Lactating ladies nurse customers at Tokyo milk bar
Now there's a way to take pub-crawling to a whole new dimension. Reporting in Nikkan Gendai (Aug. 4), writer Kazuo Kajiyama relates his experience in a Shinjuku shop named Bonyu (mother's milk) Bar. We're not talking about sterilized bottles full of formula topped with rubber nipples, but an udderly unique experience. Upon entering, Kajiyama is tit

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Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Hot seat: female Japanese politician former sex writer
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).
World War II veteran returns to South Pacific battleground
Sixty-six years ago, the Pacific island atoll of Tarawa was a World War II battlefield of billowing black smoke and death's stench. Allied and Japanese forces blazed through its coconut trees and white sands, today a part of the Pacific island nation of Kiribati, and turned it into a charred chunk of earth upon which roughly 6,000 lives were lost -

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Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Gal goes wild on shopping sexpedition
Every summer I buy a new bathing suit, writes the anonymous contributor to the September issue of the women's erotic magazine Renai Tengoku, in the digest of such stories that's featured each week in Shukan Bunshun (Sep. 10).
AV supports AIDS charity
It is no surprise that an adult entertainment broadcaster would be concerned about the spread of the HIV virus and AIDS. But for one satellite channel in Japan known for silly parodies and wacky porn programming, that concern goes beyond immediate commercial interests --- to trying to reverse wilting media attention on these debilitating illnesses.
Artistic actress flaunts furry writing bush
She goes by the moniker Minako and gave a calligraphy performance at a happening bar in Akasaka. Kajiyama was invited to keep the ink flowing, in more ways than one.