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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Sep 30, 2013
India's plan for 'women-only' spaces welcomed, criticized
In the months since a gruesome gang rape riveted India, a "women-only" culture has been on the rise, with Indians increasingly seeking out women-only buses, cabs, travel groups and hotel floors.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal / FOCUS
Sep 26, 2013
Wealthy guru's arrest on teen sex assault charges divides India
Men lay prostrate on the floor in front of the elevated seat of their guru: the man they call Asaram Bapu. Pictures of his avuncular face, with its flowing white beard, hang everywhere in his sprawling 12-hectare ashram in Motera, western India.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 13, 2013
Neuroscientists reveal the sexiest parts of the body
The mind, said Raquel Welch, is an erogenous zone. And it is the brain, and how it organizes our erogenous zones, that has intrigued scientists for decades. Why is a nuzzled neck sexy when few would be turned on by a nuzzled nose? And why do men seem to have fewer erogenous zones than women? A new study...
JAPAN
Sep 5, 2013
Chinese plaintiff over wartime rapes dies at 83
A Chinese woman who joined a lawsuit to seek damages from the Japanese government for repeated rapes by Japanese soldiers during the war has died in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, her supporters in Japan said Thursday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 1, 2013
Nevada brothels shriveling as Net disrupts oldest trade
In a dim parlor furnished with red velvet couches and a stripper pole, Brooke Taylor is having a sale on herself. "I offer a lot more specials and discounts and incentives for people to come in to see me," said Taylor, 32, a brunette prostitute in a short, green dress at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch outside...
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Aug 31, 2013
Married or single, Japan is a desolate country
"The past century is a history of sexual distortion," social psychologist Hiroyoshi Ishikawa told Time Magazine in 1983.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Aug 30, 2013
Kim Jong Un's ex reportedly executed
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's former girlfriend was among a dozen well-known North Korean performers who were executed by firing squad on Aug. 20, a South Korean paper has reported.
JAPAN / History
Aug 11, 2013
Campaign aims to introduce U.N.-recognized day in memory of wartime sex slaves
Activists launch a campaign to introduce a United Nations-proclaimed day to remember wartime sex slaves and end sexual assaults against women in wartime.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Aug 9, 2013
Sex addiction? Sorry, chaps, it's just plain old lust
Candidate Anthony Weiner is unlikely ever to trouble British voters, that is not to say Weiner can be filed away, with complete confidence, under the category "U.S. politicians who have incautiously disseminated images of their private parts, using the alter ego Carlos Danger." For one thing, given the...
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Aug 2, 2013
Exhibit highlights Taiwan sex slaves
A Tokyo museum focusing on wartime sex slavery is holding an exhibition on how Taiwanese women exploited by the Japanese military have struggled to recover from their ordeals.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jul 28, 2013
Weiner wife emerges as husband's chief defender despite repeat of sex scandal
It was his news conference, but it was hard to take your eyes off her. With Huma Abedin's emergence as her husband's chief defender and protector in a second sex scandal, she made a public transformation from being the victim of Anthony Weiner's transgressions to a full partner in his ambition.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 27, 2013
Jilted mistresses emerge as China's new whistle-blowers on corruption
As President Xi Jinping pledges to clean up government corruption in China, an unlikely group of self-styled whistle-blowers has emerged: jilted mistresses.
JAPAN
Jul 26, 2013
China sex slave who sued Japan dies
Guo Xicui, a Chinese woman who filed a lawsuit against the Japanese government seeking reparations for wartime sexual slavery, has died, a source who knew her said. She was 86.
JAPAN
Jul 26, 2013
'Comfort women' to Aquino: Sit Abe down
A women's rights group in the Philippines has asked President Benigno Aquino III to bring up the "comfort women" issue with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe when the two leaders meet Saturday in Manila.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 25, 2013
California sex slave monument draws fire
The government has expressed its displeasure to U.S. officials over a plan to unveil in California next week a monument dedicated to Korean "comfort women" forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during the war, according to diplomatic sources.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Jul 11, 2013
Complications reported in 15% of sex change operation patients
About 70 percent of 105 Japanese people who had gender reassignment surgeries abroad and in Japan between 1995 and 2012 said they were satisfied with the results, but 15 percent said they had serious complications or they needed another operation after the procedures, a survey showed.
EDITORIALS
Jul 7, 2013
Step toward equality under the law
The U.S. Supreme Court walked a fine line in ruling that same-sex couples are entitled to federal benefits. It washed its hands of the most polarizing point.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 20, 2013
San Francisco hits sex-slave remarks; Hashimoto defiant
Osaka Mayor and Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) co-leader Toru Hashimoto remained defiant Wednesday in the face of a fresh round of domestic and international criticism over his comments that Japan's wartime "comfort women" system of sex slavery was necessary at the time.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Jun 9, 2013
Unraveling the mystery of male birds' missing members
How the chicken lost its penis: It sounds like a weird cousin of one of Rudyard Kipling's 'Just So Stories for Little Children' from 1902, which featured 'How the Leopard Got His Spots' and 'How the Camel Got His Hump.'
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 8, 2013
Forcibly recruited Korean sex slaves a myth: lawmaker
Nippon Ishin lawmaker: Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) Lower House member Nariaki Nakayama wades into the 'comfort women' fray by claiming Korean females were not 'forced' to work in wartime military brothels.
Who needs AI when you have Hatsune Miku?
Over the first six months of 2024, a handful of songs using Vocaloid singer Hatsune Miku’s voice have enjoyed widespread attention, underlining a global interest in the character and the technology she represents.
Bloodied Trump survives assassination attempt at political rally
Former U.S. President Donald Trump is surrounded and evacuated by Secret Service agents at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday. Trump was rushed off stage at the rally after shots rang out.
Shooter came within inches of killing Trump, but left few clues as to why
An aerial view shows the stage where Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump had been standing during an assassination attempt the day before, and the roof of a nearby building where a gunman was shot dead by law enforcement, in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Sunday.
Yen’s woes seem too big for even a BOJ hike this month to solve
The Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo
How to beat Japan’s summer heat in ways better for the planet
Tenugui towels hang up to dry at a dyeing company in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on May 8. The durable and versatile tenugui, which many people have in their homes, can be used in many ways to cool one’s body.
The neurological disorder that 'kills culture'
Akiko Trush says her experience with the neurological disorder dystonia left her feeling like she wanted to chop her own hand off.
How to beat Japan’s summer heat in ways better for the planet
Tenugui towels hang up to dry at a dyeing company in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on May 8. The durable and versatile tenugui, which many people have in their homes, can be used in many ways to cool one’s body.
After Trump shooting, U.S. presidential race might take a violent turn
United States Secret Service Counter Snipers stand guard on a rooftop during a campaign rally for U.S. President Donald Trump in Avoca, Pennsylvania, in 2020.
No AC this summer? No problem (for me).
Think air conditioning is a requirement for a Tokyo summer? Think again.
She’s paying ¥1 million to help behind the scenes at the Paris Olympics
Mai Tarumi, who previously volunteered at the postponed Tokyo Olympics in 2021, has a travel budget of ¥1 million for her trip to volunteer at the Paris Games.

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