Backnumber of Headlines from Weekly Magazines

Unofficial translation of headlines from some Japanese major weelky magazines. (November to December of '97)

Weekly Bunshun

Dec. 25, 1997 issue

  • An exclusive interview with Mr Seiroku Kajiyama -- The ¥10 trillion new bond is just the beginning
  • The "myth of land" was a fraud
  • Mysterious foresight on the stock market by Kasuga Taisha Shrine to which brokers rush
  • The rising sun Korean economy clashed earlier than Japan
  • Mr Shintaro Ishihara gets mad about the politics that makes Shonan area dirty
  • The definitive evidence from China on the Prime Minister Hashimoto's woman suspicion
  • Dear Mr Brad Pitt -- a note of a dazzled exclusive interview
  • The reason why an Arabic quality paper reported that disaster in Luxor was a conspiracy
  • Watch out, your private data is stolen on a cellular phone and a pager
  • The secret of my son, Hidekazu Nakata, the soccer star of Japan national team, by his father
  • At last, the new influenza X appears !
  • The ugly battle to oust Tetsuya Chikushi from the newscaster in TBS

Dec. 18, 1997 issue

  • 200 amakudari or "descend from heaven" executives from MOF to financial firms must resign by themselves before using public funds
  • The Nikkei Average is not reliable -- the stock prices already broke ¥ 10,000 level
  • A warning report -- don't make contract with life insurance for these three years
  • The Kajiyama's ¥10 trillion bill plan realized
  • The real words of former ambassador to Peru Aoki and Cerpa revealed first time by a Japanese hostage
  • The Hashimoto's Chinese lady suspect
  • A false charge on Hosono family on shipwrecked Titanic was cleared by a diary
  • Ayako Sawada's strange words on divorce press conference
  • Special conversation between Hideo Nomo and Yutaka Enatsu -- Let's talk everything from Irabu to Ichiro
  • Can Okada's Japan soccer team win one game in the World Cup ?
  • The doubt of violation of the Pharmaceutical Affairs Law on Amway

Dec. 11, 1997 issue

  • Wide Special part 1 -- The Japan "bankruptcy" islands
    • Can Bank of Japan save the "dangerous" banks ?
    • The rating by Moody's Investment Service destroys financial firms
    • The last moment of the 560 thousands general constructors
    • The timing of the resignation of the "monotonic reader" finance minister Mitsuzuka
    • The former advisor to the US president said "It's MOF who made things worse"
    • The dark side of the Yamaichi's tobashi problem
    • The shock of the suicide of a Yamaichi's broker
    • "I read the Kajiyama's vision this way" by Mr Susumu Temporin, the chairman of Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd.
  • Wide Special part 2 -- How to survive the "great depression"
    • Protect your current assets by this method
    • Buy a house to lend if you have ¥ 1.2 million annual income
    • Listen to the screaming of pensioners
  • The solidity fight of the Mr Okada, the manager of Japan national soccer team
  • All about prime minister Hashimoto and the "suspicious lady"
  • Yakult Swallows manager Nomura told that Giants will not win because of the battery coach Yamakura
  • Irregular questions at the press conference by Princess Masako on her birthday
  • The ¥400 thousands gorgeous house in Egypt of Sakuji Yoshimura

Dec. 4, 1997 issue

  • An emergency proposal by the former Secretary of the Cabinet Seiroku Kajiyama -- My scenario toward the revival of Japanese economy
    • Let bank executives and MOF take responsibility, and introduce the public fund
    • Priority on the financial renaissance -- do not haste in Big Bang
    • Reduce corporate tax and give favorable treatment to venture companies
  • Special: The bankruptcy of Yamaichi Securities is the just a prologue
    • A document on 20 days before bankruptcy -- there is a trillion yen off-the-books liabilities, by an executive of Yamaichi
    • Screams of 7,500 employee of Yamaichi who lost their jobs
    • Is dandy Nagano, the director-general of MOF securities bureau "a man of inability" ?
    • The destiny of six brokers whose stock prices went under 100 yen
    • The danger rate of six banks that are named by the Financial Times
    • Is your bank saving really safe ?
  • The salaried people do not need life insurances
  • A mystery of the trouble in the prestigious golf club
  • The homosexual magazine Bara-zoku celebrates its 300th issue with four times suspension and more than 20 times letters of apology in its history
  • The ¥9 billion waste of Nagashima's Giants
  • Luxor, Egypt was excluded from the list of dangerous places by MOFA
  • Unveiling the taboo of Japan soccer team -- the eleven was almost broken up

Nov. 27, 1997 issue

  • The agonies of last moments of businessmen under this great depression
    • Takugin, one of the national money centers, went bankruptcy! -- the hell for elite bankers
    • Elegant days of Bank of Japan that does only analysis without knowing any real business
    • The hustlers from Wall Street who enters Japanese market with Big Bang
    • How long will this super low interest rate be continued ?
    • Three foolish men of LDP who indulge in the playing gyokaku, or administrative reform
    • Stop the ODA that just spends 1 trillion yen every year
    • Big restructuring of 70 thousands life insurance sales ladies
    • The names of zenekon, or general constructors, that will be cut off in the end of this year
    • The setting sun, the Softbank president Masayoshi Song
    • The list of financial products with high risk and high return
    • Where gone the art collection of Sanyo Securities' Tsuchiya family ?
  • The suspicion of alteration on the translation of Viet-Nam war literature "The Sorrow of War" by former Asahi Shimbun reporter
  • The Diet men took the issue of the tax discrimination for urban residents
  • The unknown real figure of the Japan soccer team manager Okada
  • Who settle the big hit of Seiko Matsuda's new photo book ?
  • The denpa-shonen, or radio wave boy, a popular prank TV program, made police mad on the phantom attacker case in Mejiro
  • An interview with novelist Yu Miri who canceled her sign-event again due to her illness
  • The two passports that are used in different occasions by the "gray" lady around prime minister Hashimoto

Nov. 20, 1997 issue

  • The direct words with anger of eight top of major corporations -- Is there any good way to treat this "great depression" ?
  • A mysterious rumor around "the singer in tragedy"-- Was the husband of Japanese wife visiting Japan executed by shooting ?
  • The 4 billion yen that Amway pour into Nagano Olympic Game -- even the Diet questioned claims against the company
  • Yusuke Yoshinaga, former director of the Special Investigation Team of Tokyo Prosecutors Office, talks for the first time
  • The last moment of the joint wedding of the Unification Church that deceives ordinary people with "red liquid"
  • The bad rumor about the beautiful fiance of Shuzo Matsuoka, Japan's top pro tennis player
  • The terrible reality of entrance exam of famous private elementary schools reported by the "perfect manual" book, O-Juken
  • The market price of the kidnapped infant girl is 50 million yen
  • A disguised man who goes to a room of Riona Hazuki
  • The "meeting of a four at dawn" revealed by the father of Keio Univ's slugger Takahashi who named Giants
  • Unveiling the MHW's report -- the new influenza may kill a million people in Japan

Nov. 13, 1997 issue

  • Scoop: Prime Minister Hashimoto and the Chinese lady were the target of the inspection by Tokyo Metropolitan Police -- at last, the doubtful intercourse was questioned at Diet
  • Revealing the secret memo by Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications that has the instruction to stop the privatization
  • The emergency round-table talk by security brokers in occasion of the bankruptcy of Sanyo Securities Co. -- "The largest depression after the World War II by reaching the stock price down to 15,000 yen"
  • "Dear Takako Doi, is it defamation of character to report that you have a Japanese wife in your relatives ?"
  • How to travel around the world with just 195,000 yen
  • The content of the Hollywood film that mad China mad -- the troubled Tokyo International Film Festival
  • The largest taboo of the Okinawa Governor Mr Ota
  • The murderer's bold "digging a hole" by a power shovel
  • Warning to 9 million users! -- the rapid increase cases of loss of eyesight with contact lenses
  • There is still an anxiety on Japan's soccer team even though it won over Korea
  • An exclusive contribution by former pitching coach of Yomiuri Giants, Mr Sumi -- "I would speak plainly to Nagashima's Giants"

Nov. 6, 1997 issue

  • Mr Hashimoto, you are the cause of the great depression -- the complete data of his failure on economic policy over last ten years
  • There is a relative of the SDP leader Takako Doi among the Japanese wives in North Korea
  • A question on the successive exposures of "providing benefits" -- corporate will ruin while "sokaiya" racketeers flourish
  • A report by a Russian paper -- did Kim Jong Il rape the kidnapped Japanese lady ?
  • Anger against unjustified tax -- this is the trick to exploit the tax
  • The all truth about "the tragedy of Everest " of an woman climber
  • The Big Bang for OL (office ladies) arrived
  • The surprising alternation of experiments data of "dream anti-cancer drug" taxol -- an urgent contribution by Makoto Kondo
  • Three ladies whom the murdered Gakushuin Univ. student had played with
  • Scoop: the partner of Amuro has a history of the breach of engagement last November

Weekly Shincho

Dec. 25, 1997 issue

  • The Kajiyama's ¥10 trillion bond will ruin the nation
  • The year end strange incidents:
    • The Mitsubishi Electric's payment in kind
    • The managers rush to the Tokyo Human Resource Bank
    • That's why we cannot believe banks -- The Takugin's ¥1 trillion debt excess
    • The ¥1 stock of Yamaichi owned by its employees
    • The minus growth is inevitable by the slump in the year-end market
    • The Nomura, Nissei and Tokyo-Mitsubishi got fish in troubled water of Yamaichi's fault
    • Will Japan travel together with Korean's great depression ?
  • How long will the scandal of Shuzo Matsuoka and Ms Taguchi last ?
  • A warning to the falling Japanese economy -- The big tax cut is the breakthrough -- by Katsuhito Uchihashi
  • The tragic real figure of Japanese wives told by a refugee from North Korea

Dec. 18, 1997 issue

  • The way to pass through this great depression -- my plan to reconstruct Japanese economy
    • Reduce politicians and bureaucrats by half
    • Build an organization to buy out the land claim
    • Scrap bad banks as soon as possible
    • Increase consumption tax to 20% so that income tax be 0%
    • Restoration of manufactures by deregulation
    • This is a chance of denomination
    • Ask the Japan Communists Party
    • Supply ¥150 trillion with the government endorsement
    • Stop all ODA's
    • ... etc...
  • A shocking interview with a soldier who sneaked into North Korean submarine
  • A farce in COP3 that has only doubtful scientific background
  • Why the recruiting rush from a thousand companies for ex-employees of Yamaichi Securities

Dec. 11, 1997 issue

  • The prelude toward the downfall of Japan -- the aftereffect of the Yamaichi's fault
    • Anger against public support without tax reduction
    • Dangerous banks whose deposits go away because of bad rumors
    • Can general constructors be active until the new year ?
    • Then next fault of life insurance companies that many customers canceled their contracts
    • The crisis of uncontrolled non-guaranteed loan
    • The restart by 490 to-be-hired and 7500 employees
    • How long should the to-be-listed companies wait for their turn ?
    • The Big Bang already started
    • The hypocrisy of Hashimoto's one and only slogan "save customers"
  • The professor of Meiji Gakuin University, who was accused in charge of rape, his major is "the moral of sexuality"
  • The unreported past of the suspect of the kidnapping a doctor's wife in Kumamoto
  • "The pot calls the kettle black" of the diet summons on the accused Izui

Dec. 4, 1997 issue

  • The landslide of Japan -- the great shock of the fault of Yamaichi
    • The decision at the last board meeting
    • The root of illegal trade
    • The indecisive primary supporter Fuji Bank
    • Successive bankruptcy with ¥6.7 trillion debt
    • The future of 7,500 jobless employee
    • Do not offer the special finance by BOJ
    • How far will the pointless words of Finance Minister Mitsuzuka continue ?
  • The reason why it will take ten years to recover the economy
  • A chairman of a credit bank who was accused his ¥60 million pocket by his love who was former Miss Nippon
  • Exaggerated rumor about the scuffles between the Asahi Shimbun's famous writer Taoka and a writer of Mainichi Shimbun
  • The "criminal group" who made desperate effort to ruin the administrative reform
  • The court judge who allowed Eichu Kyo to travel for twenty times

Nov. 20, 1997 issue

  • "No Future for Us" (Japanese title for 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde) due to inability Hashimoto government
  • "The US investors forsake Japanese market" warned by Citibank's strategic planner Tatsuo Kubota
  • The "homosexual" scandal that attacks the Itochu Trade president Murobushi
  • The grudge of Japanese wives who were not welcomed by their families
  • The Japan soccer team will be defeated severely in France even though it won against declining Iran team
  • The suspicious behavior of the judge at the Daisaku Ikeda's rape trial
  • The bottomless slump of stock prices, what will come next ?

Nov. 20, 1997 issue

  • The big sin of journalism that made Japanese wives decided to go to North Korea by writing as if it was a paradise
  • How many more banks, brokers and insurance companies will bankrupt ?
  • The big miscalculation about 1.2 billion yen invitation of Tiger Woods that resulted in very few gallery
  • "A man in doubt" named by neighbors regarding to the three spirited-away ladies
  • The loose spirit of Japan soccer team
  • The unknown "achievement" of professor Hirofumi Uzawa who was awarded the Order of Cultural Merit
  • The big fault of the Hashimoto's administrative reform
  • Special report: the sexual entertainment road map (2) -- Kyoto and Kobe version

Nov. 13, 1997 issue

  • The last agony of Prime Minister Hashimoto who was questioned his "sexual scandal"
  • The stock price went to 15 thousands, and came the break point to rush into the great depression
  • The merits and demerits of endless exposure of corporate with sokaiya racketeer scandals
  • Special contribution: why the world wide stock plunge happened ? by Keitaro Hasegawa
  • Special report: the sexual entertainment road map -- Osaka version (1)
  • The aimless ruling parties' delegation to North Korea that would not talk about the "kidnapping" problem
  • The wicked Jiang Zemin who flattered Japan on airspace while accused it on Pearl Harbor

Nov. 6, 1997 issue

  • The crisis of Japan that cannot see the future of the business trend
  • The trouble for Hashimoto and Ozawa by the defeat in the Miyagi governor election
  • Is the marriage of Amuro such a big issue as reported in major newspapers ?
  • Can prosecutors prove the Nepalian guilty for the murder of Tokyo Electric Power Co's lady with such a poor opening statement ?
  • The tree faces of the Gakushuin Univ. student who was killed by his lover in sexual industry
  • The sharp decrease in the Japanese visitors to Hong Kong by the jumping prices

Weekly Asahi

Dec. 26, 1997 issue

  • Is ¥10 trillion national bond just a waste ?
    • The Kajiyama's plan became a tool of political conflict
    • There are so many questions on the way to use the fund
  • '97 closing wide -- Ah! The latent loss of these people:
    • The taste of "Wine of Paradise Lost" boosted by Naomi Kawashima
    • The cursed land of Chiyoda Life Insurance that experienced so many cancels
    • The result of ¥3 billion investment of Giants manager Nagashima
    • The gloom of the production of Namie Amuro
    • The conditions not to be able to sell the expensive Irabu
    • "Voice of grudge" by those who bought apartment houses in the Tokyo area
  • The complete analysis -- the worst 10 apology press conferences in 1997
  • Where went ¥2 trillion money that expired postal savings ?
  • A talk between two grassroots governors, Shiro Asano of Miyagi and Daijiro Hashimoto of Kochi -- "The local power will break the Kasumigaseki politics"
  • Water in danger (3) -- The wired Kasumigaura lake where green plants disappear and pollution in progress

Dec. 19, 1997 issue

  • The decline of Fuyo corporate group
    • The real power of the "middle ranked" Fuji Bank that is tested by the financial crisis
    • The latest rating and management power of top 19 banks
  • The Hashimoto-Kato pair's lack of policy on the financial crisis that was revealed by the approach to the former prime minister Miyazawa as the finance minister
  • SHANZA -- the year-end party song that even middle aged can sing
  • Watch out! The sexual disease are contagious through your throat
  • The reportage on making your own whisky that is aged for ten years
  • Water in danger (2) -- The carcinogens that destroy the ground water
  • Get back over-paid medical expense (4) -- The wise way to protect yourself against illegal billing
  • The enquete to the major companies -- Does "in-the-house-entrepreneur" take root ?

Dec. 12, 1997 issue

  • The big sin of Yamaichi's boss and Ministry of Finance
    • The current manager reveals the secret action to conceal liabilities
    • The war criminal bureaucrats and politicians
    • The tactics of tobashi deals in which loss-making portfolios are shifted form client to client
    • The heaven and hell of 7,500 job-losing employee
    • The reliability of Moody's Investor Service that gave the death sentence
    • Mr president, it's not time to cry
  • Emergency talk by Kenichi Ohmae -- "The world financial panic originated from Japan comes close"
  • The actual face of the arrested man in disguise who is suspected about the disappearance of a doctor's wife in Kumamoto
  • The new accusation series -- Water in danger (1) -- The myth of the "safe tap water" has fallen !
  • Get back over-paid medical expense (3) -- What is the rapid growing kezuri-ya or agent to cut expense ?
  • The exciting talk between the commanders of Japanese and Korean soccer teams

Dec. 5, 1997 issue

  • The indiscriminate terrorism -- a temple in blood from Egypt
  • Dual faces of a wife in her 55 who killed her husband's love and children
  • The Dutch-roll of MOF that was unveiled by the fault of Takugin
  • An emergency warning by Taichi Sakaiya -- Japan might become just an out-of-the-way part of Asia
  • You are called even in the bath room -- a sensation of a PHS for every employee in Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications
  • Get back over-paid medical expense (2) -- the inside of 75 billion yen of special corporation with 'parachuted' ex-bureaucrats
  • Selection of interesting Ninth Symphony concerts that traditionally performed in the end of the year in Japan
  • Soccer wide: Going to France for the World Cup !

Nov. 28, 1997 issue

  • How far is it going down, the doodlebug of the stock prices that once went under 15,000 yen
  • incomprehensible disaster that a high school boy stabbed his grandmother to death
  • Who is Mr Tetsuo Gyotoku, the master of the Japan BE Research Lab, who drew people's attention as the matchmaker of Shuzo Matsuoka and Emiko Taguchi
  • The fear of big companies about the successive firing of top executives such as in Mitsubishi Motors
  • The nuclear power plant will not be proof against the earthquake, warned by the professor Ishibashi who advocates the danger of Tokai Earthquake
  • This is the cipher used by the espionage of North Korea on the Japanese kidnapping
  • The own making fault of Hashimoto's reckless "administrative reform" that could not achieved any plan
  • Get back over-paid medical expense (1) -- Illegal claim amounted 9 trillion yen !? The all tactics of exploitation

Nov. 21, 1997 issue

  • The "next one" will not be relieved -- the bankruptcy of Sanyo Securities
    • The negative inheritance of former president Tsuchiya's "bubbling" investment
    • The ranking of 25 security firms
    • The deposit of customers would be no more protected
  • The backside of backside of the tear of Keio Univ's slugger, Takahashi, who named Yomiuri Giants as his desired ball club
  • The plot to ruin Ozawa with the change of election system by the acting secretary Nonaka
  • Accusing the fear of dioxin (5) -- Five knowledge to prevent the damage
  • No more such a public enterprise (10) -- A question on 100 billion yen highway construction
  • A walk through nice museums in Tokyo and Osaka with a few thousands yen
  • A reportage by novelist Ryu Murakami, "Japan soccer team, you should know your ability"

Nov. 14, 1997 issue

  • The next stage of the stock slump that shook the world
    • Will Japan suffer from the worst depression after the World War II ?
    • The new 6 trillion yen bad loan that would attack banks and insurance companies
    • "The only way left for world money is to cling to the US stocks" by Ken-ichi Ohmae
  • Finally the Tokai Great Earthquake approaches ? -- The scenario toward tragedy
  • The fired vice chairman of Tokyo Chamber of Commerce talks hard -- "It's the old-age-problem, chairman Inaba, who should resign"
  • The serious defeat of ho-ho rengo, or conservative alliance, at Miyagi gubernatorial race -- Will Shinshinto be split ? The last struggle of Ichiro Ozawa
  • Accusing the fear of dioxin (4) -- The crying of local government to the MHW's policy on the large scale incinerators
  • Series:The ten matches of Koichi Hori (10) -- "Business is not a preestablished harmony" by Yoshihiko Miyauchi, president of Orix
  • The insurance companies that discriminate the contractors
  • To reconstruct the bright Japan, by Terry Ito (1) -- The ultra personnel plan for the Nagashima's Giants

Nov. 7, 1997 issue

  • An emergency round-table talk of "sokaiya" corporate racketeers -- "No future for us"
    • The natural result of Matsuzakaya department store's own misdeeds of inner trouble
  • The great depression came to the sports business world -- no good news in economy and no star player
  • The scenario towards the collapse of Hashimoto government -- will the November political change come true ?
  • The big sin of MOF that overlooked the illegal persuasion by banks behind the fault of Nissan Life Insurance
  • Accusing the fear of dioxin (3) -- the degree of pollution in Japan islands measured by Japanese black pines
  • Series:The ten matches of Koichi Hori (9) -- "Do it with as much power as almost destroying the organization" by Mr Minoru Makihara, the president of Mitsubishi Trading
  • The straight love to the marriage of Amuro and SAM

Sunday Mainichi

Dec. 28, 1997 issue

  • Mitsuzuka is not appropriate for the Finance Minister -- the rating of the politicians
  • The video about "dangerous life insurance company" demonstrated by Nissei made Chiyoda mad
  • Elder people, don't borrow money with our pension fund!
  • A junior high school teacher who tells the "casual sex for money" in practice
  • Live report on the angry shout about 1997
  • At last it comes, the very dangerous influenza
  • The salaried men began escaping from Tokyo
  • The reason why Kinki and V6 won't appear the Kohaku, NHK's year end song festival
  • A 28 year old office lady, with ¥170 thousands monthly salary, saved ¥10 million
  • Sakakibara apologized with tear!

Dec. 21, 1997 issue

  • The savings that can be saved and that cannot
  • The human resource who can be re-hired and who cannot
  • The Haruomi Hosono family clears the Japanese name of a stigma -- a new fact on the sunk Titanic
  • Triple dialogue:
    • Kaoru Takamura vs Michio Sato -- the company spoils human
    • Shigeru Itoh vs Karel van Wolfren -- SDP will break away from LDP....
    • Sachiko Kagami vs Etsuko Komiya -- What a hell of announcers these days
  • Is the manager Okada's calculation, 1 win - 1 loose - 1 draw, possible in the next World Cup Soccer ?
  • A serious words of the mother of a girl who sells her sex without the sense of sin -- "I want to kill my daughter!"
  • The "standard" of women who are bashed by woman's magazines
  • The "right" way to entertain your customer with golf

Dec. 14, 1997 issue

  • The financial panic begins:
    • Which company will be the next ?
    • The betrayal of MOF that leave financial firms bankrupt
    • A suspicion with former chairman of Yamaichi about the large amount of selling his stocks before the price slump
    • It is just his own position that Prime Minister Hashimoto is taking care of
    • Incomprehensible high salary even just before the bankruptcy
  • The doctors witnessed -- married couples who are not able to live their sexual life
  • Prestigious Waseda University's soccer club dropped to the second class league
  • The unprecedented challenge to the diet by Konishiki who just retired from the Sumo wrestling
  • Six methods to save your living expense up to ¥100 thousands per month

Dec. 7, 1997 issue

  • Your company fails !
    • There is no 21th century for 646 thousands zenekon workers
    • Grudge of 8 thousands employees of Takugin and Sanyo
  • A big booing from doctors about the popular TV drama "A physician Ryoko"
  • The businesses that earn big money in this recession
  • The list of world's dangerous tour resorts -- a must read for tourists at the fin de siecle
  • A talk between two grassroots governors from Kochi and Miyagi -- "Hashimoto and Ozawa will work more if they are praised"
  • A surprising reportage -- walking along the bankruptcy street
  • Finally introduced a no-barking dog
  • Loose socks even for school boys ?
  • How much does the spacewalk cost ?
  • The ultimate method to solve your stiff shoulder

Nov. 30, 1997 issue

  • Again, the global slump of stock prices
    • Unreliable Nikkei average
    • The reputation of the "guardian" Bank of Japan falls sharp
    • The last moment of Yamaichi Securities
    • Economic Planning Agency understands nothing
  • An oracle of Kasuga Taisha shrine that even brokers rely on
  • No tax reduction. Then what will you do !?
  • Exclusive: Tetsuya Watari, an actor whose cancer found again, talks about his will
  • An interview with the president of Japan Football Association, Ken Naganuma
  • The increasing senile, suicide and sudden death among the men in their 40s
  • The single "tuna" (very passive) men seek batsu-ichi-onna, or divorced women
  • "Osaka is the Galapagos in Japan"
  • Examples of unique entrance exam of universities

Nov. 23, 1997 issue

  • Which one will be the next ? -- a complete check of the degree of danger of 16 life insurance companies
  • A stimulants of the wife of an elite prosecutor -- a swinging mind between "justice" and "husband"
  • The backstage of the agony press conference of Keio Univsersity slugger Takahashi who counter appointed Yomiuri Giants
  • Why sold out such a gorgeous mansion in this bad economic situation ?
  • Protect your money by yourself -- right before the panic -- housing, life insurance, savings, stocks...
  • The troubled Nagano Olympic's ski operation -- a hodgepodge of politics, bureaucrats and business
  • "Even a married wife does when a chance arrives"
  • The J League chairman Kawaguchi's idea is almost dying by the crisis of the citizens soccer club Espars
  • Is your welcome entertainment manner OK ?

Nov. 16, 1997 issue

  • The footstep of the great bankruptcy
    • Stock price will go down to 14,000 yen by the end of the year
    • Annihilation of small enterprises
    • Standing death of zenekon, or general constructors
    • Still more depression caused by politics
  • 85 million yen from the chairman of Mitsubishi Estate Co. to his "lover" -- all the same, do you fear sokaiya corporate racketeer ?
  • Troubling "Jodoshu" Buddhist denomination -- secretary general Mr Terauchi returns
  • You ladies in 30s, learn from Naomi Kawashima, who does not wither even being B grader
  • Scoop: MHW overlooks the illegal depilation
  • The two faces of Mr Kim Dae-jung who is likely to become the next president of Korea
  • The field of the cellular phone companies where death of active workers increase
  • The equipments cost of Postal service amounts 1.2 trillion yen

Nov. 9, 1997 issue

  • Scoop of top secret paper -- MPT, are you doing even such a thing !?
  • Oh! Meiji University -- the "hard fight" of the board that even its famous baseball team would have been put to shame
  • The former coach of Yomiuri Giants, Mr Sumi -- "Only three minutes of conversation with the manager in half a year"
  • Do you find any reality in the sexual novel for women ?
  • The reason why so many CF's feature the couple with age gap
  • The ranking of 280 university hensachi, or deviation value to measure the difficulty in entrance exam, for liberal arts
  • Can your baldness be treated by pollen ?
  • Where is the suspect Eichu Kyo ?
  • What is the poke-mon or pocket monster that brought big rating to TV Tokyo
  • The list of dangerous medicine that a famous monthly magazine did not publish
  • An anonymous round-table talk by security business people on the dangerous stocks

Nov. 2, 1997 issue

  • Making money under super low interest rate
  • The resigned chairman counter attacks -- the breach of trust problem in Tokyo Science University
  • The high school girls who raise their favorite men
  • An interview with Health Minister Koizumi -- "I would not die to no purpose"
  • The live report on very short term divorces -- the claims of husbands and wives
  • The list of 165 private high schools' hensachi, or deviation value to measure the difficulty in entrance exam
  • The day when the Boy A will come out from jail
  • Return the "stolen" consumption tax of 430 billion yen
  • A reportage by an woman editor of the magazine -- living with 500 yen a day, taking the great depression in advance