Hone-shaburi, literally sucking on bones, is a Japanese expression roughly equivalent to have been "bled dry" in English. This name has been humorously applied to the book review column in Weekly Playboy magazine. Which in its May 27 issue reviews a book titled Natto no Shokubunka-shi (The Food Culture History…
The February 19th issue of Weekly Playboy magazine features the globally recognized DJ SODA on its cover, while inside readers will find a feature on Sakuragi Cocona from Shiritsu Ebisu Chugaku (Private Ebisu Junior High School), a Japanese female idol group.
"Goodbye, fresh mangoes" seems a strange way to lead off an article, since the unavailability of mangoes, which are something of a luxury item for most Japanese, hardly seems likely to spur a great deal of anguish. But Weekly Playboy (Jan 22) thinks this is a good way to make…
Bears are marvelous creatures. They possess a graceless grace, a lumbering elegance, that is all their own. Their trained frolics are a circus delight. They balance on balls, ride spoked wheels, dance, turn somersaults. Training has involved cruelty, which draws protest, a measure of civilization’s slow advance from days when…