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Children’s books and criminal organizations go together like water and oil. However, reports weekly tabloid Shukan Shincho (Sep. 9), the pair is apparently coexisting under the same roof at the Tokyo headquarters of the well-known publisher Poplar Publishing, which prints Japanese language editions of the “Thomas the Tank Engine” series of books.

Established in 1947, Poplar began its shift in tenants last autumn. “In September, a company joined as a tenant on the 6th floor of the publisher’s headquarters in Shinjuku Ward’s Yotsuya district,” says an individual associated with the publisher who does not name the company in question. “This tenant joined under the direct referral of Hiroyoshi Usuda, the chairperson. The company is said to sell devices that eradicates pollutants from water.”

The website of the company — for which a Google search reveals to be NIBM — features actor Hiroki Matsukata, known for his macho roles in mafia and samurai films, extolling: “I was shocked when I used it!” The site also provides details on the product’s efficacy in purifying water. The tabloid also reports that this firm is recognized by law enforcement as a front for a Yamaguchi-gumi affiliate.

“The company’s managing director serves an intermediator for a geino production company under a boss from within the entertainment industry and the head of a group affiliated with the Yamaguchi-gumi,” an individual associated with investigations says. “This managing director has coordinated geinojin (entertainers) to attend private gatherings for this gang boss as well as reconciling any issues various geinojin have had. Post-retirement of that boss, the managing director maintained his solid relationship with the gang-affiliated organization.”

So, wonders Shukan Shincho, how does this fit into the publishing of children’s books?

“Usuda is known as an entrepreneur,” says a person with knowledge of the situation. “He has a solid record of working with companies. He is also the owner of Special Week, the horse that won the Japan Derby in 1998.”

In 2003, Usuda was involved in the founding of an affiliate company to Poplar — a move that helped him to establish himself as a chairperson. He is also the majority shareholder of the company in question.

When the managing director of the company in question was asked about Usuda’s involvement, he said, “I am not involved at all with Poplar or the yakuza.” He added, “While searching for a sponsor, we consulted with Matsukata-san, with whom I’ve had a 40-year relationship. He then referred us to Usuda-san. Usuda-san said, ‘Move into here,’ and thus we moved into the current location.”

The tabloid has also found that documents have recently been circulating with a sender’s name indicated to be “A Group of Employees Wishing for the Return of a Clean Poplar.”

The same individual associated with Poplar says that about a year ago another company whose business has no association with publishing as well moved into the building. “People appearing to be not exactly professional began to surface and employees started to feel uncomfortable,” the source adds.

What does Usuda say about all this?

“I was introduced to the managing director of the company in question by Matsukata-san, whom I know well,” Usuda told the tabloid. “I am bearing 104 million yen in monthly rent. There is no way whatsoever that the company in question is a fronting firm. If that’s true, Poplar will go down.”

Whatever the case, Shukan Shincho concludes, this is not exactly child’s play.

Note: Poplar offers a response to Shukan Shincho’s assertions here. As well, NIBM has modified its front page to respond to the allegations. (A.T.)

Source: “Kikansha Tomasu ‘Popura sha’ ni boryokudan furonto ga kisei shita,” Shukan Shincho (Sep. 9, pages 45-46)

Note: Brief extracts from Japanese vernacular media in the public domain that appear here were translated and summarized under the principle of “fair use.” Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy of the translations. However, we are not responsible for the veracity of their contents. The activities of individuals described herein should not be construed as “typical” behavior of Japanese people nor reflect the intention to portray the country in a negative manner. Our sole aim is to provide examples of various types of reading matter enjoyed by Japanese.

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While public broadcaster NHK is regarded as a conservative channel, Shukan Asahi Geino (Sep. 9) reports that it has been broadcasting some sexually-charged programming of late.

The August 22 airing of “Tokyo Kawaii TV,” a program dedicated to female fashion, focused (quite literally) on cleavage. The program was designed to empower women, informing them on various methods for presenting their chests when they wear bikinis. The program kicked off with interviews of girls at Shonan Beach. It probably goes without saying that the camera was primarily positioned below the neck area.

Back at the studio, host Ikki Sawamura, an actor, asked his counterpart, recording artist BENI, about the theme of the program. BENI responded, “cleavage.” Sawamura then quickly fixed his stare at BENI’s.

Then two girls who have bikini complexes arrived. One was an attractive graduate student from the University of Tokyo. The other was a girl who possessed nice assets and wishes to become a gravure idol. Sawako Nakata, a stylist who specializes in developing attractive breast lines, and Yuko Takasaki, who is known for homemade bikinis, served as cleavage consultants.

Nakata redesigns the concept of the simple bikini. By sewing bikini cups in a certain way, she can force all the volume toward the center. She also adds silicon and lemon-shaped pads. The college student was excited and indicated that she was eager to share the new swimsuit with her boyfriend.

Takasaki employs an idea of adding a ring to bikini strings which allows breasts, whose shape goes outward, to face toward the center. The potential gravure model showed how she built up her cleavage by pulling some flesh from under her armpit areas to the front part of her body and against her breasts. The final step involves tightening her breasts down so that the extra flesh doesn’t become too loose. When watching this process live, Sawamura was at a loss for words.

Similarly smutty, says Asagei, was NHK’s “Asa Ichi” program that aired on June 23. It covered the issue of sex (actually the lack thereof) among couples beyond their 40s. The tabloid reports that the host used the word “sex” 30 times during the show, which recorded an 11% viewer rating.

Columnist Yoichi Matsuo finds this new direction to be a positive.”NHK has in the past regarded eroticism as something of a taboo,” he says. “The irony inherent with how NHK has evolved should be acknowledged. It is likely that older generations will not welcome this but, but young people will approve.”

Not just the young, snaps Shukan Asahi Geino, middle-aged men will welcome this softened approach as well. (K.N.)

Source: “NHK ga shiroto no oppai miseta! Gamen ippai ni kyonyu ga yurete…” Shukan Asahi Geino (Sep. 9, pages 42)

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It’s kind of hard to ignore a 36-point headline emblazoned with the words “Men’s Nipples.” Why has Sunday Mainichi (Sept. 12) chosen to raise this heretofore largely ignored topic? “Many women,” it writes, “take an interest in men’s nipples that protrude through their linen shirts or polo shirts. Rather than men’s backs, we’re in an era when men’s nipples are discussed.”

“I was in a beer garden the other day. The nipples of the man at my table were poking through his polo shirt, and I couldn’t get my mind off them!” pants Mika Naito, a 39-year-old author of erotic fiction.

Naito says she is particularly turned on by the “fresh” nipples of young acting hunk Haruma Miura, age 20.

An unnamed female journalist is quoted as saying she likes big, dark ones. “Because I feel more secure when I’m with someone with the same color and shape as mine,” she explains. “A guy with little nipples is also a little man in other ways,” she adds.

The above are by no means isolated instances. When essayist Sachiko Ikeno asked 100 girls in their 20s working in Tokyo if they had any interest in men’s nipples, 57 replied that they did, and 77 conceded they liked men to have “nice nipples.” Other remarks were offered concerning the degree of hairiness and one gal’s amazement when discovering that a certain gentleman’s nipples were inverted.

“I was surprised by the large number of women who say they’re interested in men’s nipples,” Ikeno says. “This may be evidence that more barriers between human males and females are disappearing.”

One 28-year-old survey participant working for a manufacture of pharmaceuticals complained that the sight of a male co-worker with nipples visibly poking through his shirt distracted her to the point that she “couldn’t get any work done.”

Authoress Naito remarked that she uses different descriptions of men’s nipples to indicate whether they’re slobs or narcissistic fops.

The next astonishing bit of information served up by Sunday Mainichi is that more men are undergoing cosmetic surgery to make their nipples smaller. Tatsuro Kamakura, who oversees a chain of eight surgical clinics in around the nation, says he performed 17 boob jobs on men last year, and this year (as of end-August) he’s up to 10 already.

“Nearly all of them want smaller nipples,” says Kamakura. “Sometimes men are embarrassed when their children tell them, ‘Daddy, your boobs look just like mom’s!’”

The article also takes up the uplifting topic of brassieres for men, which was previously featured in this column.

Naito even goes so far as to predict that based on the rising number of herbivorous males in their 20s, it’s only a matter of time before some fashion house introduces bikinis for men.

“It would direct women’s attention toward men’s’ breasts as an erogenous zone,” says Naito with an approving nod. (K.S.)

Source: “Onna ga sono ki ni naru otoko no chikubi,” Sunday Mainichi (Sep. 12, page 134)

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The Japan pavilion has been a popular attraction at the Shanghai World Expo 2010, now at its midway point, but frustrations are mounting among female staffers who have been banned from mingling with men from other countries, reports Shukan Post (Aug. 20-27).

Officially termed “attendants,” these companion ladies have been told by their superiors that partaking in group gatherings, termed gokon, with males from other Expo nations is out of the question.

“A male director who supervises us said during our morning briefing that international meetings in the evening, such as wining, dining and partying with VIPs and staff members of other pavilions, are prohibited,” one Japan pavilion gal tells the tabloid. “One girl argued the point, asking for an explanation, but it was simply explained that working with professionalism at all times is the priority.”

The Japan pavilion has 148 companions, who were selected from a pool of 1,500 applicants. Aged in their 20s and 30s, they work as receptionists, tour guides or attendants to VIPs and are lodged in 55 apartment rooms.

“We cannot stay overnight elsewhere without permission,” complains another companion. “Some girls stayed at a Swiss staffer’s place one time. For some days after, we were able to play without making too much noise but one night a sign was posted in the elevator about a party held in a room. This led to the organizers of the Expo hearing about it, and this was what lead to the ban.”

Shukan Post notes the determination on the part of some, working relentlessly to establish international communication…and hook a rich foriegn guy.

“One girl seems to be going out with a rich boy from Dubai working at Saudi Arabia pavilion,” says the first companion. “They dine at expensive Chinese restaurants. Some other girls also find their boyfriends here. They tend to be Russians and Australians.”

The Japan pavilion’s public relations department had little to say, only offering, “We train them to be professional at every morning briefing.”

While this might be overkill, Shukan Post concludes of the ban, we hope eye candy is not the only thing the Japan pavilion is offering. (A.T.)

Source: “Shanghai banpaku nihonjin konpanion ni ‘gokon kinshirei’ ga hatsuryo sareteita!” Shukan Post (Aug. 20-27, page 169)

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“The other day my boyfriend bought a new car, and we promptly headed for a drive through the mountains to admire the scenery. The skies had been fair, but clouds began forming and we ran into an unexpected rainstorm. Before long it was coming down in buckets.”

Thus begins an excerpt by an anonymous contributor to the September issue of women’s soft porn magazine Renai Tengoku, as introduced on the pages of Shukan Bunshun (Aug. 26).

“Anyway, rain was falling so hard even with the wipers going full blast we had practically no visibility, so we pulled off the road at the first parking area we came to.

“He grinned at me and said, ‘Hey, you wanna do it here?’ He yanked the handle so that my seat went horizontal and began kissing and groping me.

“After I gave him lip service he invited me to take the lead, which was unusual for him. I wrapped my fingers around his red, swollen shaft and slowly slipped it inside me.

“With him above me, he began thrusting his hips, and we could easily hear our genitals slipping and sliding together (a sound she onomatopoeically describes as jupo-jupo), even with the rain pounding down on the car.

“Now I’m completely hooked on car sex!” she enthuses.

Bunshun’s practiced punster, obviously a great admirer of Gene Kelly musicals, gives the contributor the byline of “I’m chin-chin in the rain.” Chin-chin is vulgar slang for penis, but can be used euphemistically to mean having sex. (W.W.)

Source: “Shukujo no zasshi kara,” Shukan Bunshun (Aug. 26, page 105)

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As the world of sumo continues to grapple with revelations that wrestlers routinely gambled on baseball games, Shukan Jitsuwa (Sep. 2) reports that police authorities are now targeting entertainers for the same illegal activity.

A former member of a gangster organization is at the center of a police investigation.

“The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department seems to know which entertainers are involved in baseball betting,” says a person related to the investigation. “And in tracking them down, it all is going back to the same former gangster. So he is the key guy in the betting scheme.”

Among those suspected to be partaking are a famous idol and an enka singer.

“The idol is a huge fan of the Yomiuri Giants,” explains a production manager at a big firm. “He’ll wager around 20 or 30,000 yen on Giants games. Even though the amounts are small, that is still betting. The enka singer owns his own team, and he loves betting. He’ll put down one million yen a week. He’s even been getting enka composers involved.”

According to a person with knowledge of baseball betting, the enka singer has had a strong relationship with the former gang member. “He was a sponsor to the enka singer,” says the source. “That’s how the gambling started, and he became addicted. The gang member also has access to underground casinos, and he sponsored wrestler Chiyotaikai, the former ozeki, who was never questioned in the betting scandal.

“The gangster wound up marrying a large-breasted model after engaging in extra-marital affairs with her,” the course continues.

A person in the mass media adds, “The former gangster was marked by the police, mainly due to unusual behavior resulting from suspected drug use. When he was first seeing the large-breasted model, he ran a high-end real estate firm.”

But now, Shukan Jitsuwa says, the former gangster is nowhere to be found.

“The police are attending parties and events organized by the former gangster,” adds the same source close to the investigation. “But they can’t find him, and he’s since divorced the big-breasted model.”

Should the former gangster be found, the tabloid concludes, a can of worms will be opened up regarding illegal activities within the entertainment world. (K.N.)

Source: “Sosatokyoku ga maaku suru yakyu tobaku no omono ichimi,” Shukan Jitsuwa (Sep. 2, page 209)

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In her latest weekly installment in Nikkan Gendai (Aug. 12) the pseudonymous Shoko Harano, a divorcee who has spent three years working at the front desk of a Tokyo love hotel, relates a wacky incident in which she was involved.

Such hotels do not have restaurants on their premises; but as sexual activity tends to give some people a ravenous appetite, it’s common for customers to phone out for food. So as part of her duties, Harano is required to deliver snacks or meals. (Payment for food is added onto the room bill and usually made at checkout. The hotel then settles with the restaurant when their delivery staff comes to collect the dishes.)

This time, when Harano buzzed the room, a grinning young woman, about age 20, swung the door open. She was naked as a jaybird but shyly used both hands to conceal her secondary sexual characteristics.

“Actually seeing naked customers is not so unusual,” writes Harano. “Maybe three or four times a year it happens that I’d catch a glimpse of a male or female customer in the buff. Well that’s what they’re here for — so it’s nothing to get embarrassed about.

“But this time, the girl had swung the door wide open, and I sensed something suspicious. Standing behind her was a man holding a video camera, recording both of us.”

If such an episode were to take place out on the street, the couple could be charged with public indecency. But their being inside a love hotel, where customer anonymity is the general rule, blurred any legal distinctions.

“In love hotels, sometimes it happens that a woman will open the door undressed to receive a food delivery,” Harano explained. “The daytime staff at our place is all female, but a man handles the front desk after midnight. He told me such things occasionally happen to him sometimes as well. For instance, when you buzz the room, the occupants might just be getting out of the shower at the moment the food arrives. (Or in the middle of having sex.)

“The rooms are provided with bathrobes and normally they will put one before opening the door, but there are times when they don’t.

“But what really teed me off,” fumed the furious Harano, “was that it looked like they intentionally wanted to capture the surprised expression on my face in the video. That’s taking things too far, dammit!” (K.S.)

Source: “Zenra josei no ushiro kara video ga jii,” Nikkan Gendai (Aug. 12, page 19)

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“The wheezy old air conditioner in my apartment finally gave up the ghost, but my cheapskate landlord was dragging his heels on getting it fixed, and in this unbearable heat, I got desperate for new digs. Fortunately this guy at the place where I work part-time had a spare futon and invited me to come over to his place and cool off.”

Thus begins a steamy selection from the September issue of the women’s soft porn magazine Renai Tengoku, as introduced in Shukan Bunshun (Aug. 12-19).

“On the way, we dropped into a convenience store to pick up some booze,” she continues, “and after relaxing over a few drinks we found we both had the hots for each other.

“My heart throbbing with excitement by this unexpected turn of events, he led me to his bed and undressed me. He inserted his finger and I felt this exquisite sensation, and at that moment — for the first time in my life — I began spouting like a porpoise, and was then wracked by tremors of pleasure, one after the next.

“Without missing a beat, he slammed his salami into me and began thrusting forcefully, and overcome with ecstasy I completely blacked out.

“Now we’re practically living together, and he gets me off every day!”

The story’s pseudonymous byline is “Manatsu no Ka-chitsu,” a raunchy revision of the 1990 hit song Mananatsu no Kajitsu (ripened fruits at the peak of summer), with kajitsu (ripened fruits) playfully punned to read ka-chitsu (juicy vagina). The timing also serves as a considerate “get well” message to vocalist Keisuke Kuwata, formerly of the Southern All Stars, who underwent cancer surgery earlier this month. (W.W.)

Source: “Shukujo no zasshi kara,” Shukan Bunshun (Aug. 12-19, page 103)

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A young girl plying the trade known as enjokosai, or compensated dating, is hardly new. Yet, observes Shukan Jitsuwa (Aug. 19), the glut of school gals on summer break and the harsh economy are combining to make present conditions in Tokyo anything but a seller’s market.

The tabloid cites the entertainment areas of Shinjuku, Ikebukuro and Shibuya as common hot spots. Many young females migrate from the countryside and must offer sharp discounts, or gekiyasu enko, as slashed bonuses for salaried workers have become the norm.

Seated on a street corner is a 19-year-old from Niigata Prefecture. “I came to Tokyo to earn money for one week,” says the brown-haired girl. “I have only have a few hundred yen. Tonight I can’t find anyone. If someone will pay 5,000 yen and the hotel fee that’s acceptable…”

In Shibuya, the writer finds a deeply tanned female in a miniskirt. She does not offer sex, only hand-jobs, and handles five customers a day. Referred to as tekoki enko, the service costs 3,000 yen a pull.

Oftentimes, however, the girls will abstain from independent contracting and utilize agents, who entice prospective talent with rates of 50,000-yen per day. On websites or through ads in evening sports newspapers, the pimps will collect clients interested in Lolita-like lasses and arrange a deri heru, or call-girl, setup at a love hotel.

“A high school girl and can get 50,000 yen a day,” explains a writer for a national daily. “For a middle school girl it’s around 70,000 yen. But recently elementary school girls have been able to fetch 120,000 yen for one shot.”

The money is just one thing, says the writer. The girls also find the arrangement safer than working solo as the chances for trouble from an uncooperative client are reduced.

“If the police crack down on one organized service,” continues the source, “there will always be another ready to serve. There are so many students out on summer vacation.”

Cafes described as deai-kei establishments oftentimes will specialize in matching hookers with Johns. Girls enter free and can enjoy surfing the Web or reading manga comics. Guys observe their activities through a one-way mirror and then choose a girl who meets their fancy. The couple will then move to another booth and talk for 10 minutes. If an agreement is brokered, the guy will pay a fee to the cafe and transportation costs to the girl before heading out on a date.

Once summer vacation starts, Shukan Jitsuwa notes, the cafes are at full capacity.

“Most deai cafes are just for prostitution purposes,” explains fuzoku writer Yukio Murakami. “Probably 70 to 80 percent of the girls will allow sex if the money is right.”

The magazine then moves on to a street filled with kyabakura clubs, which offer hostess services, to examine the swindling of university students.

Waseda, Rikkyo, Meiji and Gakushuin universities are usually well represented but nowadays Tsuda College and Aoyama Gakuin University, known as “princess” schools since girls from wealthy families often attend, are entering the picture.

The con takes place at the recruitment stage. Students will be offered a generic kyabakura role only to later find out that the establishment is a sekukyaba,, where the kissing and fondling of exposed breasts is offered, or ichakyaba, in which touching takes place through worn garments.

“Even when they find out that touching and kissing are allowed they won’t quit because they are getting paid,” says a kyabakura employee. “It’s easy to trick them because they don’t know how the night world works.”

Runaways, it seems, have it no better. Wayward females will post requests for lodging on online sites. “In the postings, they’ll use the word kami (god) to describe the potential suitor but really he is an okami (wolf),” explains an editor at a fuzoku rag. “Since no one will offer free lodging, they are going to want sex. And since they are runaways, they have no means of recourse if there is a problem. I know of one girl that wound up shooting up on dope and got raped.”

Speaking of drugs, the use of shabu is escalating at an alarming rate, reports the magazine. Inexperienced girls will try it for the first time at a club, perhaps in Shibuya. “The girls will be told by a seller that they can get high on MDMA for 5,000 yen,” says a person in the club industry. “MDMA is a drug that enhances sexual pleasure, and one hit could lead to repeated use.”

Law enforcement authorities tell the tabloid that summer can be the start of a dangerous descent. “They might think that they are doing enko ‘only for summer vacation,’” says a source related to the police. “But that is just the beginning. There could be stress so they might go to a host club. They might also start up with drugs, pile up debts, get mentally sick or suffer a physical ailment. Life can get bizarre. It’s dangerous earning money in the sex trade, and it’s best to be on guard.” (A.T.)

Source: “Nettaiya ni ugomeku aoise wo uru shojotachi michaku 24ji,” Shukan Jitsuwa (Aug. 19, pages 52-54)

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There’s flaky and then there’s outright weird. The Nagoya police ought to know, reports Nikkan Gendai (Aug. 7). A 33-year-old salaryman assaulted a woman on an escalator in an heretofore unheard-of manner.

According to police, while exiting the Meitetsu railway station in August last year, the perpetrator had thrust his hand up a 39-year-old woman’s skirt and dashed the contents of a small plastic case containing his own semen onto the woman’s underwear.

“The police eventually spotted the man based on the victim’s description, and were astounded to find at the time of arrest he had a plastic case brimming with jism in his possession,” says a police source.

The man afterward admitted to investigators he had committed similar assaults “about 30 times.” His motive? “To satisfy my sexual urges.”

“He was an nerdy *otaku* type and apparently spilling his seed via the container was enough to keep him sexually satisfied,” the police source says.

In Tokyo, meanwhile, a 21-year-old male resident of Ota Ward was recently arrested on suspicion of ripping off a women’s spats. Not from a clothesline, but from the wearer’s body. Late one night last May in Machida City he had pounced upon a female university student, pushed her to the ground, straddled her, yanked off her spats and fled.

After his capture, the man admitted to police, “I only wanted the spats. I didn’t go after her underwear and didn’t touch her body.” According to a police source, the perpetrator’s crime occurred as a result of his threadbare existence and psychologically depressed state. He told the cops he’d committed the theft to “cheer himself up” but said he’d discarded the spats while fleeing the scene.

“Then why did you steal them in the first place?” the cops asked. The man shrugged and gave no reply.

Police are still searching for the evidence, a generic brand that cost their owner all of 200 yen.

That’s a hell of a price to pay for a permanent criminal record, Nikkan Gendai remarks. The current heat wave begs the question of what new sex crimes will appear before the arrival of autumn. (K.S.)

Source: “Mosho de hentai otoko kyuzo no kowasa,” Nikkan Gendai (Aug. 7, page 5)

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