Now the question should be:

[cstaylor]

Police said Yamashita contacted a 16-year-old schoolgirl through a telephone dating club in March last year.

How about his former students?

[sukebekuro]

...he would pay her hefty sums to accompany him to Kyoto love hotels, where they would have sex.

How about his former students?

i was thinking the same thing, i mean why pay all that hefty money when it was readily available for free at school. sorry, did i really say that?

if you look at Mainichi's "top news" headlines (at the moment), 6 out of the 9 are:

* LDP employee unleashes nasty sex attack on schoolgirl

* Burglar bashes company executive

* Chinese sex shop kidnapper nabbed

* Ax-wielding man slays 'possessed' mother

* Teacher grabbed for using schoolgirl prostitute

* Street cameras catch yakuza gang-bashing reveler

I suppose I can take comfort in the thought that I'm a fucked gaijin in a land of fucked nihonjin.

[cstaylor]

Well, you realize they're catering the English site to the down-market gaijin pervs.

Look at the top stories on the main Japanese page. It's totally different.

... they censor the news for us foreigners... that's where the Asahi comes in handy.