SEX
IN DEPTH
When freaky-deaky equals hara-kiri The
population of Japan is in
decline, the birthrate is plummeting, and the consequences
look grim. Some studies put the blame
on Japanese men who's appetite for masturbation,
sex toys and virtual tete-a-tetes are
turning them off the real thing. The
future, one might say, is in their
hands. - William Sparrow7-3-2008
Japan's
Pink Kink A new
book offers a rare and unique look into a world
that few outsiders will ever glimpse
Japan to outlaw possession of child porn Japan is to bow to international pressure
and ban the possession of child pornography, although
the new law is expected to anger child welfare groups by
exempting manga comics and animated films.
20-8-2008
Porn makers arrested in Japan Japanese police have arrested five porn
movie producers and a member of an industry
self-censorship group on charges their films were too
graphic, police said Monday. 7-3-2008
The sordid tale of the Kawasaki love hotel murder A Kanagawa Prefecture
man is now in custody awaiting trial for murder in what
appears to have been a case of "love hotel rage,"
according to Shukan Asahi. Yasuji Baba was arrested
earlier this month for the murder of 21-year-old Sumire
Abe, a coworker at the same high class love hotel near
an exit on the Tomei Expressway in Kawasaki.
29-2-2008
'Lolicon' lovers out of luck as cops put the clamps on schoolgirl smut business Japanese
authorities finally appear to be taking steps to crack
down on the widespread proliferation of child
cheesecake. Just a few years ago, pictures of scantily
clad high school girls would have created outrage, but
it has now become common to see magazines, billboards
and all sorts of other media plastered with images of
G-string-clad girls in their pre-teens.
6-2-2008
Aged 18-20? Been sexually abused by a parent? Not our problem, say Japanese
authorities Not long after she had finished
elementary school, the father of a now 18-year-old woman
identifies only as Miss A began "visiting" her bedroom
and sexually abusing her. His unwanted ministrations
continued for years. She graduated high school in the
spring of last year but failed to gain entrance into a
university, so stayed at home to study.
6-2-2008
Japanese cops set sights on matchmaking site operators Operators of
online matchmaking sites will soon be legally obligated
to register with public safety authorities and
immediately remove any posts that could incite juvenile
crime. 6-2-2008
Japan: Adult-aid maker creates tool to give evolution a helping hand "This product is going
to change masturbation techniques across the world
forever," Shigemitsu Moto, president of adult toy maker
Daihaku, boasts to Asahi Geino. "I can say with all
confidence that it's revolutionary".
3-11-2007
Japan: How low can the pseudo pedo-porn go? Japan's child cheesecake market is
thriving, but Spa! says the borderline kiddy porno
business is on the verge of belatedly being busted.
Scores, sometimes hundreds, flock daily to a store in
Tokyo's Akihabara district that deals exclusively in
products featuring models all aged under 15.
2-10-2007
Japan gets physical with a fitness flings Japan's exercise industry is going
through an unprecedented boom, but the heady times for
the workout business have had the unexpected side-effect
of sparking a wave of housewives undergoing "fitness
flings," according to Shukan Post.
2-10-2007
Japan: Web site documents wartime sex slaves A digital museum was recently launched on
the Internet to document the activities of a disbanded
semiofficial relief organization for former World War II
sex slaves, who were euphemistically called "comfort
women." 2-10-2007
Japan's porn clampdown The man, a
staff member of a producer of adult videos (AVs),
relates to Weekly Playboy what befell his company August
23, when a 300-strong force from Tokyo Metropolitan
Police spread out to conduct raids on some 20 locations.
13-9-2007
Latest investment tip: Have a dabble in Japan's hot love hotel market Lust is a prime
motivator for those who frequent Japan's love hotels,
but the subject of that hankering has moved from
physical intimacy to making money. Love hotels have
become prime targets for investors because they provide
high returns with comparatively low risks.
6-9-2007
Cyber child prostitution on rise in Japan Online crime hit a new high in Japan in
the first six months this year, with the number of cases
of child prostitution arranged on the Internet surging
more than 60 percent, police said last week.
30-8-2007
Ladies first in Japanese love hotels The love-hotel industry is one of Japan's
most profitable. It accounts for more than ¥4 trillion a
year, a figure nearly four times than that of the profit
of Toyota Motors, double that of the anime market, and a
trillion yen more than the annual takings of the Japan
Racing Association. 30-8-2007
Jaded Japanese women can't get no satisfaction The 28-year-old woman's life started to
change about three years ago when she was picked to
become an important part of her company's systems
management project. The work was demanding and kept her
busy until the last train every night. When she got
home, her boyfriend often wanted a bit of slap and
tickle, but she wasn't interested. All she wanted was
every possible moment of sleep she could get.
8-8-2007
Japan: Cross-dressing festival lives up to its queer billing Yokohama is home to
an obscure festival where older women hand out bills to
worshippers, but the twist in the story is that the
biddies aren't quite what they seem. There's something
decidedly queer about the port city's Yasaka Jinja on
the afternoon of the festival.
28-7-2007
Sex coated with honey makes you more money, fuzoku fillies find "The most I make in one
day is about 150,000 yen. Even though I'm not especially
in high demand, that's about what a gal at a 'soap' can
expect to bring in." So says a lady who goes by the
professional name Higuchi, whose place of employment is
the romantically monikered soapland-cum-brothel "Don
Juan," situated in Tokyo's centuries-old Yoshiwara
red-light district. 15-7-2007
STDs spreading to Japan's older ranks Summer's here and that means an increase
in sexually transmitted diseases, with older Japanese
women particularly susceptible, according to women's
weekly Shukan Josei. 15-7-2007
Japan: Sexaholics let it all hang out About two years ago, 29-year-old Asuka
Hisamoto, who describes herself as a "completely
ordinary" housewife, developed an irresistible itch for
coitus. "I wanted to do it every night," the Hyogo
Prefecture resident relates in Uramono Japan. "It got to
the point that my husband couldn't stand it any longer
and began sleeping on the sofa."
5-7-2007
Nude news: Driving your tax money further Japanese taxpayers' hard-earned money is
being used to subsidize a nude news program. The program
being partially funded by public money is "Hadaka no
News Station (Nude News Station)," a Friday night
program on adult-oriented satellite channel Paradise TV
where the female newscaster removes one item of clothing
with each news piece presented until she is fully nude.
5-7-2007
Japan's love hotels flirt with retail investors An industry known for its privacy is
flirting with the public, as Japanese love hotel funds
look to entice retail investors with attractive returns.
For decades, young Japanese couples and secret lovers
have rented love hotel rooms by the hour, the experience
enhanced by novelties such as rotating beds, ceiling
mirrors and karaoke machines. 18-6-2007
Japan's 'wilted women' warm to Boy's Love manga Japan's young women are obsessed with
comics packed with stories of male homosexual sex,
according to Shukan Shincho. Tens of thousands of women
packed the Super Comic City exhibition held in Tokyo's
Ariake over the Golden Week series of holidays, with a
large chunk of them looking for Boy's Love.
21-5-2007
US report shows Japan paid sex workers in war Some Asian women working at brothels for
occupying Japanese forces during World War II were
employed and paid by owners under contract, the Sankei
newspaper reported, citing a US military report
declassified three decades ago.
21-5-2007
Korean vs Japanese otaku fetish Japan and South Korea are at it again.
This time, though, the traditional rivals aren't
fighting seriously, but they are competing to see who
can have the most effective otaku culture, according to
Weekly Playboy. 16-5-2007
Hunt for murderer of Lindsay Ann Hawker has Chiba cops losing face Accused killer Tatsuya
Ichihashi remains unaccounted for, weeks after the
brutal murder of English teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker, and
attention has turned to his wealthy parents in the hope
of picking up his trail again.
16-5-2007
Japan: Two minute tug on the rug can help you lose weight, look more beautiful Women can
lose weight and look more beautiful simply by tugging on
their pubic hair, according to Shukan Josei. Clutching
at the map of Tasmania stimulates the sex hormones, gets
blood flowing toward the genitals and releases
pheromones. 16-5-2007
Japan: Hell hath no fury like a porn star scorned - just ask her niece Age traditionally
comes before beauty; but after ex-AV star Kyoko
Teranishi found out her boyfriend had traded her in for
her 14-year-old niece, the enraged porn queen whipped
the teen round the head with a coat hanger for several
hours, leaving her with serious injuries and landing
herself a 500,000 yen fine.
16-5-2007
US GIs visited WWII sex slaves Japan's abhorrent practice of enslaving
women to provide sex for its troops in World War II has
a little-known sequel: After its surrender - with tacit
approval from the US occupation authorities - Japan set
up a similar "comfort women" system for American GIs.
1-5-2007
Japan scholars say military sex slaves confirmed in '40s Evidence submitted to
the post-World War II trials of Japanese war criminals
shows Japan's military forced Asian women into sexual
slavery during the war, historians said Tuesday, citing
newly unearthed documents.
21-4-2007
From profession to prostitution Prince Genji was apparently among the few
to resist the charms of those bands of young women who
made a living by offering themselves. Upon seeing such a
group at Sumiyoshi Shrine, the hero of the "The Tale of
Genji" agreed that there were a number of courtiers who
might find them interesting but that he was after bigger
game and saw no advantage "to getting oneself in a
casual affair with someone a bit inconstant."
24-3-2007
Japanese too busy to have sex The
secret of Japan's exceptionally low birthrate is out -
more than a third of married couples do not have sex.
16-3-2007
Japan: No new apology for WWII brothels Japan will not apologize again for its
World War II military brothels, even if the US Congress
passes a resolution demanding it, Prime Minister Shinzo
Abe told parliament this week.
8-3-2007
Why Japanese guys don't give head - here's the 'science' Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe's "Beautiful Country" plan aims to
reinvigorate the nation, but Weekly Playboy uses some
cunning linguistics to come up with an idea it says will
really lick Japan into shape.
24-2-2007
Japan's femmes frolic in Fukuoka foam Japan's sex services have catered almost
exclusively to a male clientele, but now, according to
Shukan Post, there are soapland brothels who have opened
their doors to women looking to open their legs.
24-2-2007
Japan condemns US sex slave bill Japan has denounced a resolution before
the US Congress demanding that Tokyo make amends for
forcing foreign women into sexual slavery during World
War II. 24-2-2007
Japan: What to do if a groped gal fingers you Toei-affiliated theaters around Japan are
currently showing a controversial film entitled "Even
then, I swear I didn't do it." Directed by Masayuki Suo,
the movie is based on the true story of a 26-year-old
man, accused by a high school girl of groping her on a
packed rush-hour train, who went through a living hell.
14-2-2007
US lawmaker urges Japan to apologize for WWII sex crimes There is no deadline
for an official apology for past wrongdoings, says US
Democratic Rep. Michael Honda, who on February 8
submitted a resolution to Congress demanding that Japan
apologize regarding the Japanese army's taking of women
from other Asian countries as sex slaves during World
War II. 14-2-2007
Specialist call service takes taboo issue of disabled sex head on in Japan It's a fact of life
that without the facts of life, there is no life.
Period. Even so, in Japan the issue of sexuality among
the disabled is shunned from the public forum and
discussion about it is regarded as taboo, one of the
many unmentionable issues that Cyzo takes up in its
February issue. 4-2-2007
A not so intimate encounter with a Japanese love hotel On the way back from
Naha one day, my friend and I noticed one of the love
motel billboards and it sparked an interesting
conversation. I always assumed love motels were for
those looking for extra-marital affairs because Japanese
men are famous for their mistresses in the city with
their wives holding the fort back home, wherever that
may be. 4-2-2007
US lawmakers seek to prod Japan on WWII sex slaves A proposed US
congressional resolution urging Japan to apologize to
women forced into sexual servitude for Japanese soldiers
in World War II should come up for debate this month,
its sponsor said this week.
4-2-2007
Horny housewives heading off to Bangkok to grab a slice of the Thai life Herds of horny
Japanese women are flocking to Thailand to make sure its
capital city lives up to its name. Bangkok and its
myriad netherworld charms have apparently been drawing
Japanese women by the planeload over the past few years.
23-1-2007
Sony refuses to help the porn industry with Blu Ray licenses Sony declared
recently that it will not provide any help to the adult
film industry for their movies on its proprietary
Blu-ray disc format, but it will not try to stop them
completely. 23-1-2007
