Adultery is often far more tolerated among couples in Japan than in other countries. Especially older women accept that their husbands will shop around occasionally. When the shoe is on the other foot, though, things work out differently... A Kanagawa public official, Gen Noda (47), recently suspected his wife was having an affair. No man to take this lying down, he began following his wife. Soon enough he rumbled her entering a "hotel" with another man, a company employee. Despite the flagrant adulterer's younger age, the cuckold wouldn't stand for this effrontery -- and promptly ...

Famous Hong Kong actress Carina Lau is the subject of HK gossip columns at the moment, following sightings of her in intimate dinner meetings with mega rich entrepreneur Jing Bai Fu. Carina is of course one half of a major HK celebrity couple -- her husband is the lovely Tony Leung, who she married in 2008 in a lavish ceremony. Is Carina having an affair? Is such a thing even thinkable, let alone possible?! Whereas us Japanese tend to me more forgiving when it comes to adultery (though not drugs), the HK media is pretty moralistic. Aside from her famous love life and career, ...

The news over here has been raging with the scandal of a doctor arrested on suspicion of causing his pregnant girlfriend to miscarry. He is alleged to have given her a hormonal agent and admitted he got the agent from a hospital where he worked. Tatsunosuke Kobayashi is a 36-year-old doctor at a Tokyo hospital and said, according to sources, ‘‘I put [the drug] in an intravenous drip pack that I took from my family’s hospital." [Pic source] Apparently he told her -- a nurse at the same hospital -- that it was a nutritional supplement! He clearly wasn't happy about the ...