Made-Up Japanese Sex Stories

捏造された日本のセックス・ストーリー

The good news: Everything you ever read about the sexual perversities of the Japanese may still by true. The bad: If you read it in the "WaiWai" column of the Mainichi Daily News, it probably isn't. The English-language version of popular Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun has been inventing all its best kinky features, or rather deliberately mistranslating them from the original. As it turns out, moms are not blowing their sons to get them to study harder, there is no bestiality restaurant in Tokyo, and housewives probably aren't turning tricks in suburban coin showers. The paper vows to start over fresh by hiring women to scrutinize its seedy reporting, and the internal investigation was said to rival the Times's after the Jayson Blair fiasco. The editorial apology after the jump (it does no good to nettlesome national stereotypes that the URL actually ends with "So sorry").

ジェイソン・ブレア事件とは？

「ジェイソン・ブレア事件」とは、03年にニューヨーク・タイムズ紙のジェイソン・ブレア記者が50本近くの記事を他メディアから盗用、または捏造していたことが発覚した事件で、編集主幹と編集局長が辞任するという事態に発展している。