Shūkan Asahi and the Mankini

The Japanese weekly rag Shūkan Asahi (週刊朝日), a popular general-interest magazine, weighs in on the Borat mankini being a hit in Japan with the full-page advertisement below. The Shūkan Asahi has been published since 1922 by The Asahi Shimbun, one of Japan’s leading newspapers.

The format of the publication usually combines soft news like scandals and affairs, some international rumours and relations, an occasional golf tip, a few comics that are a little erotic in nature and swimsuit models (usually on the front and back of the mag). The publication is generally targeted to Japanese salarymen.

As you can see in the image below provided by nateola from PinkNihon, it is full of high-quality content. This particular image is an advertisement that promotes a Japanese Adult Video (JAV) about a promiscuous orgy with the tagline “Sex–it’s supposed to be raunchy”. Here is the NSFW link to the vid イグイグ大乱交 (don’t click if you are easily offended).

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Borat’s Mankini Swimsuit A Hit In Japan

Who would have thought? After the mocumentary “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan!” you would be forgiven to think that only the most hardened Borat fans would be seen in a mankini.

Thanks to Sacha Baron Cohen this particular piece of fashion has caught on in Japan, well, at least to a few lovely ladies. And as Borat would say it is ‘verrry niize, I liiikke!’

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Letters from Naoko Iijima

Even though I check my letterbox daily for a letter from Naoko Iijima I don’t actually have any yet. I just thought that the title sounded cool, a play on words from the movie Letters from Iwo Jima directed by Clint Eastwood and starring the legendary Ken Watanabe.

The last time I tweaked a movie title for an article heading I managed to pick up the scraps of the internet traffic looking for The Deer Hunter. Talk about Search Engine Optimisation. That’s me, aficionado of all things SEO.

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