You don’t say.
Sex
Used underwear clearance sale!
A while a go I reported that the Tokyo metropolitan government was going to implement a ban on the selling of used underwear. Well, from today’s reports, it seems that the bill will be submitted next Wednesday.
After its introduction, those caught selling underwear previously worn by anybody under 18 could be fined up to 500,000 yen (2,500 pound). And those found buying such products could get hit with a slightly reduced (but still hefty) fine of 300,000 yen (1,500 pound). Even those merely providing space for any such transaction will be similarly punished.
So, whilst I knew this day would eventually come, it’s with a heavy heart that I am now forced to bow out of this most lucrative of markets, meaning that from today it’s sale time – everything must go. As stocks become low, I will sell to the highest bidder. And up until the end I will stick by my tried and trusted policy.
No stain means no gain. So the more soiled, the more you must toil. Bid away!
Oh dear
I don’t know whether you are aware of it or not, but groping on trains is not exactly uncommon in Japan. It’s so prevalent in fact, that it could almost be viewed as a hobby. That’s no exaggeration either (well, not much of one), as why else would there be a need for women only carriages? Yes, sadly that’s how far train operators have had to go to in an attempt to stop such behaviour.
Fairly recently though, women have at last begun fighting back. Singling out perpetrators on the train, and reporting them to station officials. The only down side to this is that unfortunately some men have been falsely accused.
This is when 47 year-old Mitsuru Nagasaki stepped up to join the fray. Kindly taking it upon himself to help a group of falsely accused men. Now the only problem with this is that he has gone and got himself a suspended six month prison sentence.
And for what? Surreptitiously taking a photograph up the skirt of a woman sitting opposite him on the subway. That’s what.
His is definitely the kind of help most of us could really do without.
Perks of the job
This is a quote from travel agent Yuji Ishida concerning Japanese company trips abroad.
After a 3 day orgy involving hundreds of Japanese guests in a Chinese hotel last year, such kinds of corporate perks are making a lot of headlines.
It would be interesting to see how imaginative these businessmen are when they have to put in their claims for travel expenses. I don’t think that hospitality would quite cover it!
Minor league, major mistake
If a football player in England came out with such a confession, I dread to think what kind of heckling (at the very least) he would have to endure week in and week out.
For Kazuhito Tadano’s sake, I hope baseball’s minor league fans are a little less malicious.
Somehow I doubt it.