The rewards Japanese police are offering from taxpayers' money for the capture of fugitives are little more than a shambolic farce, according to Weekly Playboy (7/23).

A novel Osaka cafe has got dog lovers howling with delight by providing them with a chance to get cozy with canines, according to Sunday Mainichi (7/22).

Japan is starting to come to grips with tackling sex addiction, but the front lines in the fight are hurting, according to Spa! (7/10).

As surely as spring becomes summer, stars rise and fall with meteoric velocity in Japan's entertainment universe.

"The most I make in one day is about 150,000 yen.

Summer's here and that means an increase in sexually transmitted diseases, with older Japanese women particularly susceptible, according to women's weekly Shukan Josei (7/17).

Unmarried Japanese women are most unlikely to compromise and tie the knot with a guy if he has a smelly penis, according to Spa! (7/10).

Takeyuki Sakai, known within his company Matsushita Electric Works Ltd. as Mr.

A compact car in a parking lot. A man and a woman making love in the front seat. The man licks the woman's breasts.

Japanese taxpayers' hard-earned money is being used to subsidize a nude news program, according to Shukan Shincho (7/5).

Well, the rainy season has started in Tokyo for real now and Japan's wacky weeklies have responded by getting wet and wild.

About two years ago, 29-year-old Asuka Hisamoto, who describes herself as a "completely ordinary" housewife, developed an irresistible itch for coitus.

Using a mobile phone gives an unbearable headache; simply walking by a utility pole brings on nausea -- these are just a couple of symptoms often felt by the growing number of Japanese suffering from electromagnetic wave hypersensitivity, according to Sunday Mainichi (7/8).

Reika is a Piruya, making her living through illicit sales of the Pill and Morning After Pill to minors, according to Spa! (7/3).

Notorious curry killer Masumi Hayashi plans to run for next month's Upper House elections from Death Row, screams Shukan Gendai (7/7).

Japanese schools are getting filled with more kids that stink, according to Sunday Mainichi (7/8).

A Shinto shrine in the ancient capital of Kyoto has become a magnet for those looking to sever ties with less pleasant people they've known in the past, according to Josei Jishin (7/3).Yasui Konpiragu Shrine's Engiri Enmusubi Ishi has become a monument dedicated to those looking to break off links with unsavory people.

With the already mercury on the rise, leave it to the weeklies to heat things up even more.

"She looks like a sick monkey," remarks one blogger, describing an old black-and-white photo of Aki Hoshino, taken about 15 years ago in her middle school uniform.

Following the crossover success of such girls' stories as "Nana" and "Honey and Clover," Japanese male manga fans are about to get their own girls' manga, according to Cyzo (July).