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Samurai Screams TOKYO - "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!" A loud scream is vital just before you are about to have your belly sliced open. With your sword raised above your head, you then attack. Your opponent, legs slightly bent at the knees, brings his sword horizontally across your gut as you lunge at him. He is careful ...


Shanghai’s Bund Traders SHANGHAI - Not one tourist is spared. "Rolex?" questions a young, slender man in his thirties, tobacco-stained front teeth and hands moving through his outer jacket pockets. It is an evening on the riverbank promenade of the Bund - Shanghai's strip of historic art deco buildings aligned along the curve of the ...


Museum Tour: The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum PHNOM PENH - It is estimated that during the Cambodian Genocide (1975-1979) 1.7 million people lost their lives at the hands of the Khmer Rouge. During that time, radical left wing politics mixed with a complete lack of regard for human life to create one of the most vicious and ...


How far do those room-service masseuses go? You're away from home on a business trip. It's too early to sleep, so out of a mixture of boredom, curiosity, and horniness, you phone the front desk and summon a masseuse to your room. The prices are cheap enough, somewhere in the neighborhood of 4,000 yen or so for ...


Menopausal moms see sex as formula for rejuvenation From April 1994, pixieish child actress Yumi Adachi played the role of homeless child Suzu Aizawa in the Nihon TV drama series "Ie Naki Ko." The story was adapted from French author Hector Malot's 1878 novel "Sans Famille" (Nobody's Boy). TV viewer ratings peaked at 37.2 percent, making it the season's ...


Discovery of female ‘corpse’ reveals lonely man’s plight On September 1, the Oohito police station in Shizuoka prefecture received a call reporting an abandoned female corpse had been spotted in the forest. A photo shows two feet protruding from a sleeping bag. After the body was transported to a nearby hospital to undergo a forensic autopsy, reports Shukan ...


‘Green’ film fest to feature four world premieres, close with ‘Wall-E’ TOKYO - The 21st Tokyo International Film Festival, which kicks off on October 18th, will feature four world premieres in its main competition and screen a digitally restored Akira Kurosawa classic, organizers announced last week. The Feng Xiaoning disaster film "Super Typhoon," Tetsu Maeda's "School Days with a Pig," the ...


Furry femme finds abundant bush no impediment to shagging In its "Shukujo no Zasshi Kara" column that excerpts from women's magazines, Shukan Bunshun (Sep. 25) introduces this gem from the July issue of Ai no Taiken SpDx. "I am abnormally hairy down there," the anonymous contributor confides. "And the hairs are so stiff, they even protrude through the material ...


Even solo sex can kill you, medics warn Last June, Shukan Asahi Geino (June 19) reported from the 7th Masturbate-A-Thon in San Francisco, where Japan's Masanobu Sato, armed with a synthetic vagina from his employer, Tenga Co., emerged as the hands-down winner. Sato was accorded top honors after stroking his member for a record-breaking 9 hours, 33 minutes. ...


Comedy film festival holds preliminary events in Ueno TOKYO - Stand-up comedy and film events were held in Tokyo's Ueno district on Sunday in preparation for the upcoming First Old Town Taito International Comedy Film Festival. At a stage near Ueno Park, fourteen comedy acts attempted to coax laughs with three-minute skits, including a vignette inspired by John ...