We are used to famous male celebrities committing adultery (step forward, Ken Watanabe, as a recent example), so why is it such a shock when the "guilty party" in question is female?
Why did, say, Becky attract so much vitriol over her affair with a married musician? No doubt it was partly because her "pure" image was tarnished -- but it takes two to tango, you know.
Japan is still a society dominated by men, from the corridors of power in the Diet to the corporate board rooms and even the halls of the Imperial Palace, where women are unable to inherit the throne.
Yuki Saito is a ...
It's an open secret that Arashi idol group Jun Matsumoto is dating actress Mao Inoue, though their respective agencies prevent them from getting married.
But that's not all. Matsumoto is also alleged to have had an affair for several years with someone else -- none other than porn star Tsukasa Aoi.
The scandal was exposed by a tabloid at the end of last year after Aoi was spotted entering and leaving Matsumoto's apartment building.
Matsumoto apparently treated Aoi as his "sex slave". Inoue also stopped working for a while, possibly related to the scandal.
But Arashi is a ...
Arashi's Jun Matsumoto has been dating the actress Mao Inoue, if the rumors are to be believed, but their agencies prevent the stars -- who are not getting any younger and perhaps about to pass their peak -- from making their relationship public, yet alone marrying.
So what to make of these latest tabloid allegations? Matsumoto is now apparently cheating on Mao with another woman. And she's a porn star.
Yes, it seems that being a member of Arashi is a ticket to date and (supposedly) live with a popular actress while also having fun with a member of the adult industry.
At the end of ...
Former actor Noboru Takachi has been arrested for possession of a stimulant drug and cannabis.
Best known overseas for appearing in films like Yamato, the 51-year-old was a big star in the 1990s. Takachi, whose real name is Joji Osaki, recently retired from acting ostensibly to look after his wife's father.
He was arrested at a love hotel in Yokohama, where he was staying with Atsuko Isokawa, a 33-year-old hostess.
Noboru Takachi had previously been married to AV actress Momo Aida (pictured below), though they divorced after six years together.
He then married the ...
Unfortunately this was one tabloid rumor that proved false.
Mitsu Dan is not running for political office. But what a difference she would have made to the corridors of power.
The curvy nude model and actress has denied the suggestions that she was under consideration as a political candidate for summer's election. Perhaps it was her tacit support for the peace Constitution that spiked her career as a politico? After all, the ruling LDP have mde no secret of their desire to change the Constitution.
Or perhaps it was her habit of stripping nude and appearing in bondage-themed ...
LDP lawmaker Kensuke Miyazaki (35) was lauded by many for his admirable decision to take parternity leave and set an example for men in Japan. Miyazaki was the first politician to take paternity leave in Japan.
Not only that, his wife is fellow LDP politician and Lower House member Megumi Kaneko.
Back in December he said: “I wanted to take a step toward changing our society in which male participation in child-rearing is significantly underdeveloped and women alone are saddled with its duties.”
So a devoted husband and crusader for female empowerment, then? Not ...
The actress Mai Kitajima has been in the news recently. She has currently gone through a trial surrounding the paternity of the son she supposedly had with her former husband, former Hikari Genji idol Mikio Osawa.
It seems Mai Kitajima was an active lady and had an affair with someone else, and their son was raised as Osawa's but in fact DNA testing has now categorically proved he is not related. The boy is 18.
Osawa and Kitajima married in 1996 after a long courtship, ostensibly because she was pregnant. It seems that she wasn't seeing only Osawa during this time. She and Osawa ...
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In a seeming two-fingers-up to those stereotypes of herbivore "sexless" young Japanese guys, one graduate student has proved not only is he passionate about his lover, he's willing to go to jail for it!
According to an AFP news wire story doing the rounds, a Japanese man has attacked the older lover of his wife by cutting off his penis in revenge for their adultery!
Japanese police have arrested a man accused of bursting into a lawyer’s office and cutting off his penis with garden shears before flushing the organ down a toilet.
Local media reports said Thursday ...
The Asahi Shimbun has an interesting translated story following up on the "controversial court ruling that equates a bar hostess having sex with a customer to prostitution".
We reported on this in May, when a judge said a hostess mama-san was simply doing makura eigyo ("pillow business") by sleeping with a client.
Lawyers specializing in divorce and adultery cases, private detectives who investigate cases of adultery and hostesses in the Ginza, where the defendant operates her establishment, all voiced concern. They said the ruling, by Judge Masamitsu Shiseki of the Tokyo District ...
A judge has made a ruling which should mean hostesses and hostess club mama-san's (the older ladies who own and/or manage the club) can rest easy.
The wife of a CEO who spent around seven years having an affair with the mama of a Ginza hostess club sued her husband's sexual partner for "mental suffering" she had caused. She wanted compensation of ¥4 million ($32,000).
The judge said that the Ginza mama-san was just doing makura eigyo ("pillow business"), the euphemism for when people have sex to further their career or do business. In other words, the Ginza hostess mama-san only ...
