Or what ever is Tokyo’s news district.
According to Japan Probe-the Mainichi Shimbun is no longer publishing the Wai Wai column. Which is really dissapointing to bloggers like me looking for funny things to publish:
For years, Mainichi’s English language website has been translating bizarre stories from Japan’s least credible tabloid magazines and publishing them as news articles in a special column called WaiWai. The wacky stories of perversion and vice undoubtedly attracted a lot of traffic to Mainichi’s website, exposing the stories to readers who were unaware the articles were based on unreliable tabloids. Predictably, this caused stupid and false information about Japan to spread around the world.
In recent months, Japanese bloggers and 2-channelers have become increasingly fed up with the international media’s biased coverage of their country as a wacky land full of twisted perverts, bizarre forms of prostitution, and sex dolls. They specifically targeted the WaiWai column, which had the name of a credible Japanese newspaper attached to it, as a major source of inaccurate and unfair portrayals of Japan as a perverted and screwed up country. Their efforts paid off two days ago when J-Cast picked up their story and ran it on Yahoo! Japan News.
As of today, Mainichi’s WaiWai column has ceased to exist
Predicatble but kind of sad in its own way too. Because the tabloids are still out there-advertising on the trains and printing some really amazing things. Some of which were true.
Guess it will be up to blogs like Japan Probe and Japundit to pick up the slack. Maybe Gendai could publish its own page……
Besides where can I find pictures like this?
