We recently came across a bilingual interview with a hostess on Jagr Magazine. It seems genuine, though the hostess is apparently not Japanese (shame!).
Here are some highlights.
Interviewer: How does a hostess club work?
Hostess: I came to Tokyo years ago, and I never knew what a hostessing job was, but my dad's friend told me if you want easy money, hostessing's the right job because you're a pretty girl.
I thought hostessing was escorting, but it's actually like a relationship with the men. Ginza hostessing clubs are five stars. The one that I worked at was one of the top three ...
A three-party group has put forward a bill proposing to extend the ban on so-called child porn to anyone even just possessing it.
The ruling LDP and its allies Komeito and Japan Restoration Party (led by Shintaro Ishihara and Toru Hashimoto) proffered the new bill to the Diet at the end of May.
The manga and anime industries have already reacted in horror to the new draconian bill.
But what does this mean for the law and the average person?
Well, if you are just possessing a picture showing a Gravure idol or swimwear idol under 18, then you are liable for arrest. "Possession" ...
Some people to go to ANY lengths to catch a glimpse of the holy grail, it seems.
Hyogo police have arrested a twenty-six-year-old company employee from Kobe for hiding in a 30-by-45-inch grate in the side of the road in order to spy on girls' panties as they went by.
Yasuomi Hirai has admitted his guilt.
Around 10am on June 5th, he was spotted at a grate opening in Kobe after having entered the roadside drain via a space twenty meters away.
Nearby there is a girls' college and girls' high school, and many of the students would pass by. Hirai also lived nearby.
A ...
The results of the AKB48 Senbatsu "general election" event are in -- and the participants for the band's 32nd single, as announced at an event on June 8th in Yokohama.
This year -- the fifth "general election" -- the AKB honchos changed the system slightly with "candidacies". 246 idols stood, the most of any of the elections since 2009, including girls from all the major AKB groups and the various teams within each group: AKB48, SKE48, NMB48, HKT48, JKT48 and SNH48. Six graduated members also stood, though not Tomomi Kasai.
The big surprise was the victory of "disgraced" former ...
A teacher in Shiga has been caught installing a miniature camera in the girls' toilets at the elementary school where he works.
A student found the secret video camera one morning and told the school honchos.
Before the school could even launch a full investigation the teacher responsible confessed. Apparently the fortysomething educator had been off work for almost a year for undisclosed mental issues and this was how he "celebrated" his return to his duties.
Apparently his tech skills, along with his ability to keep a secret, need some training as he failed to record ...
Saitama police have re-arrested a company employee, Kunio Kobayashi (25) for stealing women's underwear while the items were drying outside.
The same city of Hanyu has seen ten incidents of women's skirts or dresses being pulled up to reveal what is underneath, perpetrated by a horny villain who wears women's panties over his head while exposing his lower half au naturel since around November last year.
Kobayashi has hinted at his guilt for at least some of the crime.
"I was filled with lust and wanted to taste the thrill of doing it without getting caught."
He was previously ...
It's election time for the AKB48 idols. But lurking under the surface right now are several unsavory rumors.
For a start, the alleged connections between AKB48 executives and the yakuza. These have emerged again even after AKB48 big wig Yasushi Kubota sued the Shukan Bunshun last year for such remarks.
Now there are also suggestions that Kubota and former AKB48 hottie Tomomi Kasai (21) -- and no stranger to her own sex-related scandals -- are conducting an affair.
Images have been published supposedly showing the pair returning late at night to a luxury condo.
Kasai is also ...
The culture of chikan and up-skirt photography is catching, it seems!
Police in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, have arrested a petty officer third class stationed at the nearby US naval base. The 22-year-old took a bus in the town but decided to take in the view not just from the window.
At around 8:20 in the morning he was caught trying to snap a shot with his smartphone up the skirt of a third-year high school girl.
A 39-year-old woman thought something was suspicious and grabbed the man, reporting him to police. The soldier then sealed his guilt by notably smashing up his phone prior to ...
Japanese porn star Sola Aoi (aka Sora Aoi) is immensely popular in China but her latest attempt to flog her titillating DVDs has backfired with the establishment.
She has now indulged in some calligraphy in the country, though it has been criticized as "unskilled" by traditionalists.
That hasn't stopped it from being auctioned for $95,000!
Sola wrote eight Kanji characters at a theme park in Ningbo, which were sold this month.
However, the media has tried to use the opportunity to criticize this "foreign" invader of the flesh.
"The style of calligraphy is childish, ...
Here's something we always suspected!
A Japanese tabloid has published rumors that the founders of AKB48 may not simply be sickening old men with a liking for teenaged girls -- but have close connections with the yakuza, the Japanese mafia.
Given that the Japanese government is using public funds for its risible "Cool Japan" schemes, which have Yasushi Akimoto as an advisor, essentially this means the government has been paying a mafia-related organization to promote the nation.
The weekly Shukan Shincho has published a picture and allegations that one of AKB48 founders Kotaro Shiba ...
