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It’s cherry blossom viewing time again in Japan – but it shouldn’t be. And that’s causing plenty of headaches for those who make a buck during the few days that the country’s national flower is resplendent in its bloom, says Shukan Taishu (4/5).

Normally, cherry blossoms bloom in early April, turning Japan’s usually drab cities into seas of pink and setting off raucous parties beneath almost every cherry tree in the country.

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It may not have been the “Nutcracker Suite,” but, judging by the photo spread in Shukan Taishu (3/15), Soft on Demand’s foray into the world of ballet certainly contained elements of “nutcracker” and “sweet.”

Soft on Demand (SOD), of course, is Japan’s most profitable producer of adult movies.

It struck gold with its “All Nude” series of films in the early Noughties, which featured a cast of dozens, nearly all women, who went about such activities as athletics or playing in the nude while entirely buff.

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Upper echelons of Japanese society are packed with graduates from Waseda University in Tokyo. So it should hardly come as a surprise that an alum from the classy college is being hailed as the Messiah of the country’s flagging brothels – even though she’s a woman in a man’s world, according to Shukan Shincho (3/4).

Despite a huge, literally in-your-face sex industry (think of bukkake), Japan’s soaplands are the only establishments where carnality means copulation, but the industry has gone flaccid amid fierce competition from other types of services.

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Drinkable turds have saved the fortunes of troubled Japanese municipalities, according to Weekly Playboy (3/9). Many Japanese municipalities like tiny Tenkawa in a rustic part of Nara Prefecture were hit hard by the London Convention, which bans the dumping of human waste in oceans from July 2007.

But, thanks to Kunihiko Yamamoto, the president of an Osaka water purification company, they can now pooh-pooh their problems with a scatological soda.

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About the only things to have toughened up in postwar Japan, according to Shukan Post (8/22-29), are shoes and women.

And nowhere is the empowerment of gals more evident than when it comes to sexual ethos as the typically demure prewar submissive woman gave way to a predatory vixen, according to Japan’s top-selling weekly, which cites a poll of 300 young office workers at the country’s top companies that shows nearly two-thirds have had at least more than five sex partners.

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Note: Japanese Translation for this article can be found below.

Outbound travel has been hit hard this year by such factors as the war on Iraq and the SARS outbreak, but plenty of Japanese have headed overseas on underground tours involving sex, slavery and savagery, according to Tokusatsu Shinsengumi.Japanese used to their peaceful lives in their sheltered archipelago would be horrified to learn what goes on in developing countries.Many overseas travelers are on the lookout for something new and, in poorer parts of the world, they’re likely to find locals willing to supply them with illegal options to their tours provided the price is right.Take Indonesia, the magazine suggests as an example.

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Russian Roulette is filled with inherent dangers, but Japanese schoolgirls have apparently devised a version where there are plenty of shots fired, but none of them are bullets, according to Hanashi no Channel (2/20).

Instead of a single bullet being loaded into a revolver chamber and the trigger pulled until it lets off with a blast, Russian Sex Roulette, the schoolgirls’ derivative game, sees the girls allow any number of men to unleash their weapons in her chamber.

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Note: Full Japanese translation of this article is available below, entitled:「エロ寿司屋で舌なめずりするようなご馳走」

Nothing like the fragrance of fresh fish to stimulate one’s appetite, right guys? We’re talking, of course, about sushi, one of the more popular comestibles to grace the Japanese table at mealtimes.

But only in Japan, perhaps, could one find such an creative means to appeal to two distinctly different physical urges. To find out more, a reporter for That’s Dan (February) journeys to Otaru, the Hokkaido port city on the sea of Japan, where he has heard an underground establishment is offering an erotic twist to this traditional fare. In fact, that’s the name of the shop: Ero Sushi-ya.

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Is a vibrating condom a humdinger? Apparently so, according to an otherwise skeptical Shukan Post (9/6), which notes that Japanese sex lives are becoming like sports where those who are least proficient often have the best tools to at least make them look the part.

Top Japanese prophylactic manufacturer Sagami Industries Co. has unsheathed the latest weapon in its already formidable armory. Marketed by Ii Project, which refers to it as a “world’s first revolutionary product,” it’s a condom that apparently vibrates slightly by drawing on the body’s ki, it’s life-giving energy source. And it’s apparently selling like hotcakes.

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Though it’s been a tough slug for the past decade or so, Noughties Japan still leads the world when it comes to such technological wonders as supertankers, cars, household electronics, audio-visual equipment and, especially, life-sized figurines.

Fever Dolls are sold only over the Internet, but with 300 of the life-sized mannequins having been bought in recent months, they are, according to Weekly Playboy (7/30), something of a surprise hit.

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