Sexual harassment by teachers increasing in Japanese schools
"Teacher B was my homeroom
teacher in junior high school. He was very kind
and I used to seek his advice even after I
became a high school student. But one day, he
took me to a love hotel
and forced me to have sex with him. I was
15 back then. I couldn't talk to anyone
about it, and couldn't erase the
memory from
my mind. It has been three years
since then, and I am finally ready to
talk about it," said one girl, 18.
3-9-2005
Five arrests over Japanese 'Expo porn' Five members of a group that filmed a
porn video inside a cable car at the Nagakute venue of
the world expo in Aichi Prefecture have been referred to
prosecutors, police said.
3-9-2005
Japan's single girls turned off by pressure to turn on Shopping gets Yukari
depressed. Everywhere she goes, products are accompanied
with catch-copy promising to make her "loved" or
"popular." At 33, Yukari has never been in love. She's
never even had sex. There have been dates and some near
misses. 3-9-2005
'Narita ED' blamed for premature dimming of marital sparks in Japan About two decades ago,
observers of the Japan social scene noticed a peculiar
phenomena at the arrival terminals of international
airports: young couples returning from their overseas
honeymoons, scowling and sometimes in tears, who would
grab their baggage and head off in opposite directions.
24-8-2005
Asian neighbors not amused by Japan's selective memory This week, as it
solemnly marks the 60th anniversary of the end of World
War II, Japan is - once again - demonstrating a greater
capacity to forget than to remember. And in doing so, it
is promising to generate further conflict with its Asian
neighbors, especially China and the two Koreas.
17-8-2005
Korean WWII sex slaves fight on "Japan - reveal the truth! Admit the
crime! Officially apologise! Punish the criminals!"
South Korean protesters chant every Wednesday outside
the Japanese Embassy in Seoul.
11-8-2005
Japan: Sex career no bed of roses Kim Myongan sits back in his chair,
waiting for you to spill your darkest secrets. You are
in a large room in his penthouse in Tokyo's Kichijoji
area. 9-8-2005
Japan recruits romantic otaku geeks to revive economy Innocent
love, Mainichi claims, could restore Japan's economy to
the heights it reached until coming to a grinding halt
in the 1990s. Japan's "pure love" boom has stirred up
the murky marketplace like little else to have come onto
the horizon in recent years, with the promise of
trillions of yen. 6-8-2005
Comfort women may forgive but not forget For a decade now , Song Shin Do, 84, the
only Korean former comfort woman who lives in Japan, has
refused monetary compensation but fought bitterly for an
apology from the Japanese government, taking every
defeat handed down at the courts with a poignant
stoicism that has won her grudging admiration.
6-8-2005
Japan: Population of males falls for 1st time Japan's
population stood at 126,869,397 as of March 31, up a
mere 0.04 percent from a year earlier, with the male
population down 10,680 - the first yearly decline since
the survey was introduced in 1968.
1-8-2005
Panel backs considering women for the Japanese throne An advisory
panel on the Imperial system said Tuesday that allowing
a female to ascend the Chrysanthemum Throne should be
considered as an option to avoid an eventual succession
crisis.
29-7-2005
Former sex slave wants official apology from Japan In 1938, the
then illiterate 16-year-old was destitute after running
away from an arranged marriage in her native Korea. She
took what she thought was a job with the Japanese
military, only to find she had been tricked into sexual
slavery. 29-7-2005
Japan: City to pay damages after hospital refuses care over HIV fears The
Kofu District Court on Tuesday ordered the Kofu
Municipal Government to pay 1 million yen in
compensation to the bereaved parents of a Thai woman
over a municipal hospital's refusal to treat her on the
basis she was infected with HIV.
27-7-2005
Japan gets ticketed for trafficking in Thai teens Japan has
finally started cracking down on the trafficking of
foreign sex slaves, but those in the know say the recent
first arrests for selling foreign girls into
prostitution in this country are only the tip of the
iceberg. 23-7-2005
Japan's X-rated films give blurry view of sex Japanese censors
who insist on placing fuzzy bits over porn actor's furry
bits confounds D Bracken Dibert in a land that otherwise
seems to celebrate sexuality and oddity.
20-7-2005
Japan installs caution signal for sex traffic Japan has
revised its criminal law to stipulate human trafficking
as a crime and punish those involved. Activists,
however, remain alarmed by foreign-staffed sex parlors
that have made the country a haven for traffickers.
20-7-2005
Filipino labor attaché in Japan faces probe for sexual harassment A Filipino
labor attaché in Osaka, Japan is under investigation
after a female administrative assistant complained of
"unwelcome advances," Labor Secretary Patricia Sto.
Tomas said in a statement Tuesday.
20-7-2005
Bold women bathers find love in Japan's hot springs
With its rock surrounds and a
bamboo wall dividing it in half, there's little to
distinguish Shosenkaku from the thousands of other hot
spring baths across Japan.
But actually, Shosenkaku is an omiai onsen, literally
a matchmaking hot spring, that aims to provide
a place for men and women to encounter a
lifetime partner. 19-7-2005
Japan's sexual slavery focus of museum In a bid to keep wartime sexual violence
against women in people's minds, female activists in
Japan are set to open a museum in Tokyo to collect and
display materials mainly about those who were forced
into sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army
during the war. 19-7-2005
Japan uncovers 29 cases of human trafficking, but report says much more is
needed They have been lied to, abused and
trapped in the seedy sex industry where defiance is punishable
by gang-rapes. And until recently, these foreign women were
viewed as lawbreakers, not victims. Many say
greater enforcement and protection of victims is needed.
19-7-2005
Ex-Bay Stars catcher Yamane arrested for prostituting indebted woman Former Bay
Stars baseball club catcher Yoshinobu Yamane and eight
other people have been arrested on suspicion of
violating anti-prostitution laws by making a woman sell
herself to a customer at a public bathhouse.
13-7-2005
Fake priests in demand in Japan White Weddings: With
Western-style weddings now the most popular choice,
Japanese couples are paying for foreign men to stand in
as 'priests'. In Japan, where a love affair with Western
"white weddings" is leading to a collapse in Shinto
ceremonies, a new figure is taking over the altar: the
gaijin, or foreign, "pastor."9-7-2005
Sex voucher for Japanese soldiers found in China A tiny little
piece of paper, found in a village in North China's
Hebei Province, would be hard evidence rebutting
Japanese government's claim of the absence of sex slaves
during World War II. 9-7-2005
Japanese college-girl pros get happy campers pitching tents - in their shorts Masami
Nemoto, 21, is a college junior who enjoys two things:
nature and sex. Well, actually there's a third things
she also likes: money. So on weekdays when recreational
campsites are normally unsupervised by park rangers and
private guards, Masami and a girlfriend pitch their
tent, unfold a couple of chairs and then start make
their male companions happy campers indeed.
6-7-2005
Ads for working girls net arrests in Japan Two sex
industry workers have been arrested for allegedly
recruiting girls for prostitution by posting
advertisements on a Web site, Kanagawa Prefectural
Police said Monday. 6-7-2005
Two accused of selling Thai teen into prostitution
Tokyo police arrested two people on suspicion
of selling a Thai teenager into prostitution, the first
arrests made under a 1999 human trafficking stipulation.
4-7-2005
US court rejects WWII sex slave lawsuit A US appellate court said Tuesday that 15
Asian women forced into sexual slavery during World War
II cannot use US courts to sue Japan. The US Court of
Appeals for the District of Columbia said the issue
involved international relations and the courts are not
authorised to hear the claims.
30-6-2005
Just between us girls, the secret slang of Japan's soapland industry To enlighten
readers of Shukan Jitsuwa (6/30) to the latest
on-the-job slang term, Nami, 23 met the magazine's
reporter at an Ikebukuro coffee shop, where she divulged
that "tokkan koji" meant climbing atop the customer and
moving her hips in a frantically rapid motion to make
customer ejaculate more quickly.
28-6-2005
Japan's hard line on hardcore leaves crack open for femmes fatales Japan's
recent rush to create laws cracking down on sex has
opened the door for a variety of shysters looking to
make a quick buck, and on the front lines are the
tsutsutomase, the name given to beautiful women
criminals. 23-6-2005
Japanese pastor balks at sexual abuse plea A pastor at a Christian church in Kyoto
Prefecture withheld a plea Tuesday at the start of his
trial on charges of sexually abusing four girls in his
congregation between 2001 and 2004.
22-6-2005
Tokyo touting tots to tweak thinning trend Record drops in the nation's birth rate
for the past four years has finally prodded officials to
suggest sweeping changes in Japanese society to rectify
the situation, but experts say results could take longer
than expected. 17-6-2005
Nakayama: 'Comfort women' term wrong Remarks by the Japanese education minister about
the term "comfort women" not existing in the past
brought a rebuff Monday from the government's top
spokesman. 17-6-2005
Rise in Japan teen sex ignites education debate "I really don't think there's any
reason to wait," said the bespectacled first-year high
school teen, wearing her school uniform as she chatted
with friends in Tokyo's trendy Shibuya district. "It's
not realistic." 16-6-2005
Japan revises Penal Code,
immigration law to combat human trafficking Japan's parliament on Thursday
approved legislation to revise the Penal Code and
immigration law to punish those involved in human
trafficking, while granting victims special residency
status to protect them even if they have overstayed
their visas. 16-6-2005
Love Hotel - a uniquely Japanese phenomenon Love hotels are another uniquely
Japanese phenomenon and provide a haven where Japanese
couples young and old, can
escape the confines and flimsy walls of the family home. They
come in all shapes and sizes with some of the
out of town complexes being a true sight to behold with their flashing
neon lights and bright exteriors.
Japan sorry for sex slaves despite minister comment
Japan apologized again on Monday for the suffering of women
who served as sex slaves for the Japanese military during
World War II, a day after comments by a cabinet minister drew an
angry reaction in South Korea.
Rise
in AIDS, other sexual illnesses threaten Japan
A rapid spread of AIDS over
the past decade has confounded and alarmed the health establishment
in Japan, a country that has long felt protected by a first-rate health
system and widespread condom use.
Japanese:
Who's my biological daddy?
A group of people conceived through artificial insemination
by donor--or AID--have recently formed a society to share the agony and suffering
incurred from their biological history.
US
rewards Japan's stepped-up efforts to combat human trafficking The United States on Friday
upgraded its assessment of Japan's efforts to combat human trafficking, removing
it from a special watch list of countries on the
verge of falling into the worst category. But Washington also said Tokyo still
needs to make more improvements.
Japanese
youth: With a rebel yell
Japanese youth culture has long embraced bizarre fashion, subversive comics and
sexual graffiti. Now a new wave of violent female fiction
is causing shockwaves. Author Hitomi Kanehara smashes the boundries of conventional feminity in
her novel 'Snakes and Earrings'.
Japan:
Rape trauma continues after 10 years Nearly 10 years ago, Miho, then a
second-year student at a senior high school in the
Tohoku district in northern Japan, was invited by a
45-year-old teacher to go to a karaoke parlor together
on a Sunday.
Japan
cracking down on human trafficking in sex industry Angel Kiss,
Zeus and cabarets that offer "live love" still beckon
customers in Kabukicho, Tokyo's infamous red-light
district. But near-daily police and immigration raids
have banished the women who once openly solicited
potential customers on the street.
LDP considers tougher punishment for voyeurs The Liberal
Democratic Party has moved to impose jail sentences and
heavy fines for Peeping Toms, according to the outline
of a draft bill released Sunday.
Lewd
lady passengers leave Japanese cabbies drained but dazzled In the depressed economic
conditions Japan has faced over the past decade, taxi
companies have served as a last-ditch source of jobs for
salarymen who were down on their luck. The work
typically involves long hours, low pay and the stress of
increasingly heated competition for shrinking
fares.
