Outspoken Osaka mayor and founder of the Japan Restoration Party, now Japan’s third largest party, Toru Hashimoto has got himself in hot water over some comments he made about the "comfort women" during the war and his recommendations for how to avoid rapes in Okinawa.
Hashimoto, no stranger to getting noticed by provocative comments, told reporters in Osaka on on Monday that the "comfort women" (local women forced into prostitution by the colonizing Japanese forces in Asia during the war) were necessary in order to maintain military discipline.
The women “were necessary in ...
Hurray for good customer service.
Over on Tokyo Reporter we read a interesting little summary of a tabloid article that claims Abenomics -- the Japanese prime minister's fiscal policies aimed at bringing inflation -- are having no effect on the sex industry.
You can still head to a soapland and have a good time with all the foam and frolics for as little as 10,000 yen, and sometimes even lower in certain east Tokyo neighborhoods like Yoshiwara.
Abenomics might have raised the Nikkei by sixty percent but actually a price war has emerged between certain establishments in notorious ...
It sounds like the plot of an ero manga but it's true, and could it only happen in Osaka?
A female teacher in Osaka working at a prefectural high school has been suspended for work for six months after it came to light that she was moonlighting as a prostitute.
The twenty-nine-year-old educator responded that "there is no excuse" for what she did and resigned.
Having accumulated debts of two million yen (at least two thirds of her salary, perhaps more) on credit card purchases of cosmetics and clothes, she turned to her other skills set to work off her loan.
She actually did ...
A 42-year-old man has been arrested for having sex with high school girls.
The company employee would approach girls on the street, offer to pay them ¥70,000 or even as much as ¥300,000 if he could also film the exploits.
After they were all finished at a hotel in Taito ward in Tokyo he would then ask them to wait on the street while he went to fetch money. Of course, that would be the last they would see of him.
He has claimed to have had sex with close to 100 high school girls in this way.
Likely if he had actually made good on his promise and paid the girls there ...
If you have ever walked up Shibuya's Dogenzaka, the hill that leads you to the love hotel district and at night is populated by Chinese street prowlers, you may have noticed this muryo annaijo (literally, free information/guidance point).
There are lots of these kinds of stations around. They act as portals where you can get information (e.g., phone numbers) for prostitutes and other kinds of sex services, hostesses, and so on.
But this particularly conspicuous one stands out not least for its location, size and prominence as the bizarre pet shop Baby Doll right next door.
Talk about ...
Japan may well have recently officially entered recession again but that does not seem to impact Nipponbashi, Osaka's run-down area known for its electronics stores and sex industry (imagine Akihabara combined with Kabukicho).
Osakans have always had very good heads for business and it seems, despite the nation's economic woes, that Nipponbashi establishments are defying the overall turn towards offering cheaper goods and services a la UNIQLO et al.
Rather, they are cunningly ripping people off in the maid cafes and sex shops.
As reported over on Tokyo Reporter, one maid cafe in ...
A Brazilian student has sold her virginity in an online auction for the princely sum of $780,000.
The stunt was filmed as part of a documentary by an Australian filmmaker, Jason Sisely, who began his project in 2009 by putting up posters in Sydney and Melbourne.
But it's tough if you're a guy; one man who auctioned himself only fetched $3,000. The 21-year old's auction was also part of the film film "Virgins Wanted" and his cherry was won by a Brazilian woman.
Catarina Migliorini, 20, had 15 bids fighting over her Hymen. In the end it was victory for the Japanese in the form a ...
Underworld investigative blogger Tokyo Reporter has shared a story about the arrest of three Yakuza gangsters on suspicion of introducing a 17-year-old girl to men for sex at love hotels in the Kabukicho red-light this March.
According to police, the teenage girl ran away from home in February. While walking through the streets of Kabukicho, she was approached by Doi, who asked, "How old are you? Will you have sex?" Miyashita then arranged an apartment the victim used while she engaged in prostitution. The girl told officers that she provided sexual services to about 100 men over a ...
It's one of the Japanese entertainment world's worst-kept secrets that minor music and gravure idols moonlight as prostitutes for various kinds of sex shops or services.
Sometimes this precedes their more mainstream bikini modeling careers; sometimes it comes after, when they get too "old" to attract offers of photo books and magazine shoots. And often it runs parallel and you get some very, very lucky customers indeed.
It has come to light that minor pop idol Kokoro Haruno has been one of the notorious moonlighters, the revelation of which possibly caused her agency to sack her and ...
Police have raided and arrested 15 staff at a self-proclaimed "super luxury" metropolitan call girl service and club, "Jukebox".
Of course, Dogenzaka is literally chocker-block with sex services, love hotels and porn shops, which begs the question why this one?
The high class service had been operating for around 13 years and had some 17,000 members (i.e. customers). It certainly was luxury; while picky people scouring for a bargain can probably find a blow-job in the same area from a Chinese lady for just a few thousand yen, Jukebox was charging at its lowest price ¥35,000 (over ...
