A recent study suggests that one of the top professions young Japanese ladies are going for these days have nothing to do with an office and everything to do with using their feminine charms to get into mens' wallets. According to News-Post Seven a study was taken back in 2007 and found that many lower class ladies strove to become kyabukura (hostess club) girls due to the lack of prerequisites to enter the job and the great steady salary. When the study was redone recently, they found that this trend has spread to young girls all over Japan. Some even as young as elementary school ...

Spring in Japan is marked by cherry blossom, the start of the school year -- and legions of new office works beginning their corporate careers. The following is an abridged translation from a story appearing in the May 2009 issue of Document Eye... Yuri Ishida (false name) (26): man-eating office lady When spring arrives there are always lots of newbies at the place where I work part-time. Surely there's someone for me, I always think! I've been at this place for four years and work for the new employee training program -- no one comes more into contact with the newbies than me. This is ...