[The Waiwai page, a weekly summary of stories from
lurid Japanese newsmagazines, appeared in the Mainichi Daily News from 1989 to 2008. Tokyo Confidential collects various Waiwai columns from 1992 to
2000.]
Mark Schreiber, ed., Tokyo Confidential: Titillating Tales From Japan’s Wild Weeklies
(Tokyo: The East Publications, Inc., 2001), p. 96.
Gay Bosses Leaving Their
Marks on Male Subordinates
Shukan Jitsuwa
5-29-97
“I was on a business trip with my boss,” a young
company man tells Shukan Jitsuwa. “We stayed at a business hotel. ‘You better
take this, I snore like the devil,’ said the boss, handing me a sleeping pill.
The pill worked. I heard not a single snore. But I woke up with a sharp pain in
my anus. Was it possible? Had I been raped in my sleep?”
Very possible indeed. […]
Schreiber, Tokyo
Confidential, 169.
Weirdo Patients Making
Doctors Sick to the Stomach
Sunday Mainichi
3-7-99
[…] And some patients are just a little – well,
unclear as to how things should be done. One elderly patient, a doctor relates,
sent a beautifully wrapped package to the hospital where he worked. The doctor
opened it, eagerly anticipating delectables. But found it filled with feces.
The woman had gift wrapped a fecal specimen intended for the pathology lab.
Schreiber, Tokyo
Confidential, 225.
Railway Rage
Shukan Bunshun
7-29-99
[In a heated argument with a punk on a train, a
salaryman declares his intention to fight him at the next station. But when the
train doors open, he runs out and up the exit staircase three steps at a time.]
Schreiber, Tokyo
Confidential, 253-4.
Homestay Porno Queens Get Bed
But No Breakfast
Shukan Post
3-19-99
Division head Suzuki, posted to the United States on
an extended business assignment, prepares for another quiet evening alone. To
alleviate the boredom, he picks up a few X-rated tapes from a video rental
shop. He pops one entitled “Asian Fever” into his VCR and settles back with a
scotch and water in hand to watch. To his utter amazement, his 21-year-old
daughter Sachiko appears, cavorting naked with not one, but two well-endowed
young men.
Is such a thing possible? Well, notes Shukan Post,
demand in the United States is booming for adult videos featuring Asian
performers. And of some 190,000 Japanese who go abroad each year to study, a
disproportionate number happen to be females in the 19-to-22 age bracket.
Suddenly it all starts to make sense. […]