Linkups: Japanese News

March 2nd, 2008 by Foxes

US serviceman arrested in Okinawa despite curfew - Yahoo! News

“He has admitted to have climbed over the fence at the base… He smashed the glass door with a steel pipe,” the official said, adding that the airman had been under the influence of alcohol.

Boy cafes, sexy comics feed Japan’s girl geek boom - Reuters

In keeping with the schoolboy theme, waiters with manicured hands and soft voices pretend to be teenage students, chatting and flirting with well-dressed Japanese women playing the roles of benefactresses visiting the school.

N. K. girls flourish in pink trade - The Japan Times

Within months of settling here, she set up her own business, a Korean-style massage parlor, which she runs out of her Tokyo condominium. She says she employs several other Korean women, who perform massage of a decidedly sexual nature.

“The job is tough, but it’s a lot of fun,” Yoon laughs.

No monkeys like snow monkeys: Soak up Japan’s hot-tubbing wildlife - San Fransisco Chronicle

They are mid-sized by monkey standards, with gray-white winter fur that forms thick tufts around beet-red faces. Pity it’s so risky to look them in the eye, because they have unexpectedly expressive eyes: dark-lidded, with dark eyebrows - almost as though the macaques had applied mascara and eyeliner and are ready for their close-ups. Their eyes are surprisingly soulful, even thoughtful - at least I imagine so as I take darting, side-long looks.

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