#Shukan Asahi

[jailhouse41]

Toshiro Mifune (三船敏郎) Scanned from Shukan Asahi (週刊朝日), 1970 July 10.

[fuckyeahmeikokaji]

Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子) on the set of Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (女囚さそり　第４１雑居房), 1972, directed by Shunya Ito (伊藤 俊也). A caption with the photo says that she's speaking with a fortune teller and has a pearl in her hand. Scanned from Shukan Asahi (週刊朝日),  January 5, 1973.

[abdulraveman]

Kishi Yuta

Monthly SKY PerfecTV September 2023 issue

Monthly The Television October 2023 issue

TV LIFE September 1, 2023

TVfan October 2023 issue

DVD& doga haishin deta September 2023

JELLY October 2023 issue

Nico☆Petit October 2023 issue

Asahi Chuka High School Newspaper August 20, 2023

Shukan Josei September 12, 2023 issue

[mottoyomitai]

Translations Masterpost

Hi, and welcome to my long-form translation blog! Below you’ll find all the long-form translations I’ve done so far! 

JOHNNYS TRANSLATIONS

Snow Man

Group - GINGER (July 2022) cover feature

Abe - AERA (18 July 2022) solo interview

Abe - Hanako (March 2022) solo interview

Abe - QUIZ Japan (vol. 13) solo interview

Abe - SODA (May 2022) solo interview

Sakuma - NYLON (August 2022) solo interview

Sakuma - Purizm (March 2022) solo interview

SixTONES

Taiga - AERA (1 August 2022) solo interview

Travis Japan (Noel essay column on GINGER)

24 May 2024

Travis Japan (Noemaru blog entries)

28 July 2021

14 February 2022

14 March 2022

14 April 2022

14 May 2022

14 June 2022

14 July 2022

14 August 2022

14 September 2022

14 January 2023

14 February 2023

14 March 2023

Travis Japan (other translations)

Group - TV Guide Alpha Episode BBB (22 April 2022)

Noel - Myojo 10k word interview (August 2023)

Noel - Shukan Asahi (11 March 2022) solo interview

Noel - SODA (May 2022) solo interview

Noel x Genta - Stage Navi (vol. 63) crosstalk

Johnnys’ Junior & other translations

Johnnys’ Quiz Club - TV Guide (12 March 2022)

Fukumoto Taisei - Shukan Asahi (12 April 2022) solo interview

Masakado Yoshinori x Oriyama Nao - Dance SQUARE (vol. 53) crosstalk

Motodaka Katsuki - Shukan Asahi (17 June 2022) solo interview

Motodaka Katsuki - SODA (May 2022) solo interview

Nasu Yuto - Shukan Asahi (3 June 2022) solo interview

Nasu Yuto - SODA (May 2022) solo interview

Ukisho Hidaka - Shukan Asahi (10 June 2022) solo interview

Yabana Rei - JWeb (18 May 2022)

JO1 TRANSLATIONS

Kimata Sushi (Elle Gourmet regular column)

June 2022 - Syoya x Shion

July 2022 - Syoya x Shion

August 2022 - Syoya x Mame

September 2022 - Syoya x Mame

October 2022 - Syoya x Ren

November 2022 - Syoya x Ren

December 2022 - Syoya x Takumi

January 2023 - Syoya x Takumi

February 2023 - Syoya x Keigo

March 2023 - Syoya x Keigo

April 2023 - Syoya x Shosei

JO1 Meets... (ar Magazine regular column)

December 2021 - Mame x Shirahama Alan

January 2022 - Syoya x Nishikawa Takanori

February 2022 - Ruki x HYDE

May 2022 - Sho x Yamazaki Masayoshi

June 2022 - Takumi x Chiba Yudai

July 2022 - Sukai x Takeru

August 2022 - Shosei x Kaji Yuuki

January 2023 - Shion x Ishihara Shinya (Saucy Dog)

Other translations

Group - Digital TV Guide (June 2022) feature

Group - ELLE Japan (January 2022) feature

Group - Nikkei Entertainment (March 2022) feature

Group - Tokyo Calendar (July 2022) crosstalk

Group - ViVi (July 2022) crosstalk

Shion x Syoya - CanCam (July 2022) crosstalk

Sho x Ren - Stage Navi (vol. 68) interview

Lyrics translation - Bokura no Kisetsu

Lyrics translation - Toberu Kara

OTHER TRANSLATIONS

YUGO (ORβIT) - The TV Web (23 March 2022)

[iohourtime]

Shukan Asahi: Okada x Yamada Special Talk

Source: https://dot.asahi.com/amp/wa/2021100100014.html?__twitter_impression=true

(Rough translation - I paraphrased a little bit. Please let me know if anything is wrong. I also skipped the intro, which didn’t add much info.)

Okada-san played the “Demon Hijikata”. What kind of presence was Okita Souji?

Okada: Okita was very much a genius, so normal people could not understand what he was thinking. However, Hijikata and Okita acknowledged each other, so Okita did not feel scared when Hijikata got angry. Okita was played by Yamada-kun, so it was easy for me to do. He is reliable as an actor, so when the director told me “I am thinking about having Yamada-kun play Okita”, I thought that was great.

Where do you place the most trust in him?

Okada: Since I know the human body pretty well, he asked me “What is the best way to slim down?”, I said “Dehydration”, which was the toughest method (laughs). Then he actually did it, which I thought was impressive. He lost around 8kg of weight.

Yamada: I didn’t even know the word dehydration [at that time].

Okada: It is a method used by bodybuilders, first you take in a lot of water, then suddenly stop and the water will disappear from your body*. Since the blood becomes thick, it is not good [for the body]. In addition, Yamada-kun was not eating to [further] lose weight, so he did both methods…

[* In the Esse interview, Yamada said he stopped drinking water 3 days before the death scene. He also went to the sauna at the hotel, and as expected, he fell down. I know he is playing a dying character, but did he have to go that extreme?]

Yamada: You told me that potassium can also reduce the water in the body, so I took it as well. I did all the things I learned. However, it was really like hell.

Okada: You only ate chocolate?

Yamada: Almonds.

Okada: Ah, I did say nuts are good. You were rolling your tongue and eating little by little like a squirrel.

Yamada: One time, at around 3am, I had excruciating pains in my stomach, so I went to the hospital. They didn’t find anything wrong but I guess that was the price to pay. But I felt good about that too. It was like the character was starting to come alive.

Okada: Normally, if you don’t eat, you start to feel heartsick and lose your will. However, even though Yamada-kun had such a hard shooting schedule, you never lost the will to play the role and I thought you endured a lot. Although we meant to shoot the scenes where you were the thinnest at the end, the schedule [didn’t allow for it].

Yamada: When I filmed the scene just before my death, I also had to film [another scene] where I was healthy on the same day. I wanted my face to look fuller, so I ate a lot. I was trying to gain back the 8kg I lost within 1 week, so I ate about 5-6kg of rice every day. Although my body felt very heavy, I enjoyed [the experience]. I don’t hate being forced into a corner.

Okada: When you were rail thin, you never said a single thing in frustration…

Yamada: I couldn’t possibly show that sort of thing at the place where Okada-san was the center (laughs)! But I never thought about saying stuff like “This bastard”. I thought I would just grin and bear it.

Okada: There’s not much more I can say about Yamada-kun’s skill as an actor. The one thing I would add is that his earnestness towards the role was very amazing. That’s his personality & character.

Other than the body, what advice did you get from Okada-san?

Yamada: I was watching Okada-san to a somewhat disturbing extent. I was really trying to learn about each thing. For example, Okada-san can peek at the camera lens and know the angle of view. Isn’t that weird? (laughs)

Okada: I did ask you, like “Do you know the angle of view?”

Yamada: I was like “Angle of view?!” I thought I didn’t study enough. You told me everything you thought I would not understand and I am very grateful for that.

Yamada-san, what is Okada-san to you?

Yamada: He’s absolutely larger than life. I worship him not as a senpai. Although I’m the type who thinks that I can do whatever others can do because they’re also human like me, I cannot copy Okada-san. Like after he finished filming, he would just sleep a little and head to the gym*; although it sounds kinda bad, he’s like a monster. Really (laughs).I wonder if I will ever reach this level even after many years.

[* He just told the story on Ariyoshi x Monster - They finished filming at 2am & had to reconvene at 5:30am. In 3.5 hours, Okada managed to sleep and go to the gym and that’s why Yamada thought he was inhuman.]

What was the atmosphere on the film set?

Okada: It was an old world where angry roars were flying around. I think it was probably different from what Yamada-kun experienced before..

Yamada: If the young people of today were to jump into this, they may lose heart. You need to really hate to lose and really be motivated to live in this world.

[T/N: I’m a bit confused as to whether they’re talking about the actual film set or the Shinsengumi times. I guess maybe the Shinsengumi atmosphere bled into the set? Sounds a bit horrifying but it is a testosterone filled film. 😅] 

How would you link the unity of Shinsengumi to your “Group Bond”?

Okada: If you bring in the really strict rules that Shinsengumi implemented to the group, like whoever broke the rules would have to commit seppuku*, it will collapse.

[* Seppuku is the act of ritual suicide where the person cut across the stomach with a sword. For Shinsengumi, people could be executed by beheading or allowed to commit seppuku. Basically seppuku is the honorable way to die.]

Yamada: You’re not wrong (laughs).

Okada: Shinsengumi was a strong and unusual group. It only lasted 6 years, that’s why it was beautiful and powerful. For those of us in V6, we are made up of gentle people who all wanted to do this together for a long time rather than aim to be the bright light. How long has Hey!Say!JUMP been around?

Yamada: Next year will be our 15th anniversary.

Okada: From now on, I think it will be interesting for Hey!Say!JUMP, King & Prince, SixTONES, and Snow Man. You’re going to fight for the national idol throne. We were wondering and looking forward to find out “Who will take it!”

Yamada: We are race horses (laughs).

Okada: That’s right. These 4 groups know what their situation is like, and I think you have discussed this amongst your groups. Although it is tough, it is probably fun to be creative. What is JUMP doing?

Yamada: Recently, we are starting to find our niche individually. However, I think our rule is to try and bring something from those places back to JUMP. For example, I’m a part of “Moeyo Ken”, so people may say “Yamada Ryosuke, who played Okita Souji, is part of the group called ‘Hey!Say!JUMP’”, and that brings the topic back to the group. As for the “National Idol” throne, whether we can win will depend on how much power we can each bring by following that rule of JUMP’s.

[heysayyabu]

Can somebody translate this for all of us? (uωu人)

╥﹏╥

Onegai! 

[notokra]

2101ND●週刊朝日 1996平成8.10.11●表紙 浅野忠信/香取慎吾/坂上忍 高橋かおり/林真理子×筒井康隆/佐藤亜紀子 吉村樹里 松尾れい子他

[switcher]

Shukan Asahi

[antoine-roquentin]

Japan is arguably a male chauvinist paradise. It ranks 114th out of 144 countries in terms of gender equality, a ranking that has been in free fall since Abe assumed office in 2012.

His allies have been behaving (in)appropriately. In recent months, current and former cabinet ministers publicly ridiculed the claims of a female reporter who was allegedly sexually harassed by a senior bureaucrat and accused her of being the criminal. They were later forced to apologize when her allegations were proven true.

That was followed by an LDP lawmaker, personally recruited by Abe, penning a piece bashing homosexuals as “unproductive” because they did not produce children.

Even amid these low standards, a new nadir was reached this month. Eitaro Ogawa, an author and an unofficial mouthpiece of Abe, lobbied for the rights of molesters, or chikan.

“The deepest suffering belongs to the men who are plagued with the symptoms of train groper syndrome in which his hand automatically moves when he steps on a packed train and catches a whiff of a woman,” Ogawa wrote.

“Repeated offenses show that it is an uncontrollable urge stemming from the brain. Shouldn’t society protect and reserve their rights to grope?”

Train groping is indeed a problem in Japan – so much so that there are female-only cars during rush hour so women can go to work without fear of being molested. At the same time, there are also countless adult movies and comics glorifying chikan.

There are even legal sexual massage parlors that replicate subway cars, where men pay for a simulated chikan experience.

Ogawa’s essay was published in controversial right-wing monthly magazine Shincho 45, put out by Shinchosha Publishing on Sept. 18.

Predictably, a brouhaha erupted.

Within days of publication, Shinchosha apologized for its lack of oversight, and last Wednesday, announced the indefinite suspension of the magazine.

Given the damage he had caused, what exactly did Ogawa mean to say?

His intention appears to have been the denigration of sexual minorities rather than an outright promotion of sexual assault. In his essay, he argued that train gropers and LGBT are essentially the same thing – sexual deviants – and lumped them together with an anagram he himself created: SMAG – sadists, masochists, ass fetishists and gropers.

According to Ogawa’s logic, groping people on trains and being homosexual are just different kinds of deviance. Ergo: Offering to protect the rights of one group (LGBT) over another (gropers) is ridiculous.

Critics of this thinking have not held their fire.

“I think that the magazine ceasing publication has a lot do with the #MeToo movement growing in Japan and more people willing to point out what is just simply wrong,” stormed Mari Hiryama, a professor of law at Hakuou University. “The thought process behind arguing that the rights of gropers and the rights of LGBT are the same is completely mistaken.

His utterances may even discourage victims of sexual assault from coming forward. What in the world was Ogawa thinking when he made such a dubious statement?”

That is a fair question. And was he being malicious or just plain ignorant? Aya Goda, the editor of LGBTQ magazine Palette, suspects it is the latter.

“I think his inappropriate and discriminatory remarks come from total ignorance. But if we are going to blame his ignorance, perhaps we must blame the structure of Japanese society,” she said. “Japan’s schools and media aren’t fertile ground for promoting correct knowledge of LGBTQ.

“For the sake of the next generation, in order to prevent further remarks like his, we need to encourage a better understanding of sexual diversity.”

Such an understanding may be particularly essential in conservative circles, including some major publishers and close Abe allies.

The suspended Shincho 45 had previously drawn fire for an opinion piece in its August issue by Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Mio Sugita, who had been recruited into the LDP by Abe. In her column, she labelled gay couples “unproductive” on the grounds they don’t reproduce. Sugita added that taxpayer money should not be wasted on support for sexual minorities.

Despite a resultant public outcry, Abe refused to condemn or admonish her. He explained in a television program that he didn’t ask her to resign because “she’s still young.”

Sugita is 51.

She has also blamed victims of sexual assault for being victimized, has ridiculed the plights of refugees and essentially serves as the party’s leading bullhorn.

It was thanks to Sugita that Shincho 45 may have sealed its own doom. On Sept. 18th, it ran a lengthy 37-page special feature entitled “Is Mio Sugita’s article that outrageous?”

That was the title of Ogawa’s now notorious piece.

In it, he answered the question by not just penning a defense of Sugita’s homophobic rant, but by pushing the boat out even further. Ogawa also appeared with Sugita, in a joint interview for another right-wing publication, Japanism, published this August.

And it is Ogawa who is arguably the most outspoken and controversial of Japan’s right-wing writers.

Ogawa, a self-proclaimed literary critic, has made a career out of praising the prime minister while putting the boot into his enemies – making him a combination of Abe’s lapdog and pit-bull.

He was a relatively unknown author until 2012, when his book The Promised Day, lauding Abe and his first term as prime minister from July 2006 to September 2007 was printed by Gentosha, a right-wing publisher.

The book appeared shortly before Abe ran in the party’s election to be president of the LDP, and the book is partly credited with his political comeback. Abe’s political fund, Shinwakai, reportedly spent 7 million yen ($61,000) purchasing copies of the book, elevating it briefly to best-seller status.

While Ogawa has made a tidy sum wielding his pen on behalf of Abe, he has also stabbed himself with it – even before his latest blunder.

Last year, just prior to general elections, Ogawa released a book accusing the liberal Asahi newspaper of fabricating scoops involving Abe’s abuse of power to benefit political cronies. The LDP also reportedly bought thousands of copies of that work, pushing it up onto the bestseller list.

However, the allegations in the book were so serious that the Asahi took the rare step of suing him and his publisher for defamation. That case is still in court, meaning Ogawa could end up facing severe and expensive legal repercussions.

Ogawa isn’t the only writer to be rewarded tangibly or intangibly for lavishly praising the Prime Minister.

Journalist Noriyuki Yamaguchi, who was given the scoop on Abe’s retirement in 2007, also appears to have benefitted. In 2015, while working on his book Prime Minister (Sori) about Abe’s struggles, a female journalist, Shiori Ito, filed charges of sexual assault against him.

The police began an investigation and held a warrant to seize Yamaguchi on rape charges. But on June 8, his arrest was called off at the last minute by Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Criminal Investigations Chief Itaru Nakamura.

Nakamura was a friend of the prime minister and the former secretary to Abe’s second-in-command, Cabinet Spokesman Yoshihide Suga. Nakamura not only halted the arrest, he replaced all the detectives on the case.

On June 9, 2016, while the prosecutors were still reviewing the case, Yamaguchi’s book was published by Gentosha, the same publishers of Ogawa’s 2012 work The Promised Day. On July 22,, prosecutors dropped all charges against Yamaguchi, who has denied all wrong-doing. Ogawa has publicly expressed support for Yamaguchi.

Shincho 45 once had up to 50,000 readers a month, but has suffered a drastic drop in recent years. Since 2016, it has veered to the right in order to boost sales. The publisher admits that their trial-and-error efforts to boost sagging sales resulted in insufficient oversight of content.

Ironically, after the company announced it would cease publishing the magazine, prices of remaining issues sky-rocketed, with some used copies going for 10 times the cover price.

The sad part of this debacle is that Shinchosha also publishes Shukan Shincho, a weekly magazine which features some of the best investigative journalism in Japan. In fact, it was Shukan Shincho which first published a series of articles on the obstruction of standard criminal procedure in the rape investigation concerning Shiori Ito, which was later followed up by The New York Times, while the BBC released a documentary on the case, Japan’s Secret Shame, this summer.

Ogawa has not walked back his essay, nor has he apologized. As he usually does in such cases, Abe has remained silent.

However, newspapers and commentators in Japan are now openly discussing the problems with Shincho 45, right-wing magazines like Japanism, Hanada and others. Much of the discussion centers not only on content, but on whether these magazines are acting as the voice of the administration.

While Abe has not made discriminatory or misogynist statements himself, his propensity to represent himself with misogynists, gay-bashers and accused sex offenders is raising big questions. Japan is starting to wonder.

[kurooscoffee]

Asahi Shukan, March 2018

[fuckyeahmeikokaji]

Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子)

Scanned from Shukan Asahi (週刊朝日),  May 21st, 1982.

[abdulraveman]

Shukan Asahi 21 September 2018

originally scanned and uploaded by @_WonderY and amazon.jp all credits to OP 

[iohourtime]

Hey!Say!JUMP to "JUMP" beyond Heisei, leaping further [then before] (Shukan Asahi)

2019.01.18

(Rough translation - also not complete. Will add the individual interviews later.)

For those in the group that carries the Heisei name, how do they feel about greeting the new era in May? And how did they grow and change in the 11 years since their debut?

Yabu: This is the first time the era changed since our birth, and you know, I am a bit emotional about it.

Inoo: When we debuted, we didn't think about when the era will end, just couldn't imagine it. Doesn't our group name make people think of the Heisei era?

Chinen: In order for the kids born in the new era not to think of us as an old group, we will just have to make sure we are always active in the forefront.

Nakajima: Since all the members were born in the Heisei era, we were given such a group name. At the time, the adults told us "The uncles (ojisan dachi) are the 'SHOWA STEP!'" (lol).

Yabu: Those of us who were born is the Heisei era are supported by the adults who were born in the Showa era, so now, we of the Heisei era will have you support those who will be born in the new era.

Arioka: But we are not "Heisei", we are "Hey! say!", isn't it?

Yamada: Then again, in the beginning when Johnny-san told us our group name, he wrote "Heisei JUMP" on the white board, no? At that time, I was honestly thinking "Seriously? You're adding the era to the name?" (lol) When it went from that to the English phonetic version we use now, I thought thank God (lol).

Yaotome: Since we were named as the special super of the "World Cup Volleyball 2007", they also added "JUMP" [to our name]. It made our group name high impact and interesting, didn't it?

Takaki: However, I do appreciate how people think of us when they think about Heisei ending. People who has no interest in us normally are wondering and asking "What's going to happen to Hey!Say!JUMP?"

Arioka: It was certainly good to have a little chance for that. For the last night of Heisei, we need to see through it together as members, don't we?

Yaotome: As the new age is upon us, we, who hold the name of "Heisei", will work hard in 2019 so that we can take a great leap and jump beyond Heisei.

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[heysayyabu]

SHUKAN ASAHI January 18, 2019 Issue

[masatokusaka]

Shibata Aya’s Twitter 171106

柴田阿弥‏ @_shibata_aya 2:49 PM - 6 Nov 2017

So, I just had lunch at a restaurant, and when I tried to pay for the bill, the clerk told me “That was already paid for 👍”、、I asked where the person was sitting, so I pretty much know who it was... I’d like to thank that person. Thank you so much! That was really cool, but I feel sorry about it. I appreciate the thought, but from now on that won’t be necessary ☺️🙏

柴田阿弥‏ @_shibata_aya 9:07 PM - 6 Nov 2017

Notice (｡･ω･｡) I discuss the Queen Elizabeth II Cup in the issue that was released today! Please check it out 🦄🌈 #Shukan Asahi

柴田阿弥‏ @_shibata_aya 9:30 PM - 6 Nov 2017

I was grateful for so many things again today! I felt really pleased both yesterday and today, so I hope tomorrow will be that kind of day too. ☺️

[nulltune]

“ ‎ ‎ yes, ‎ that is exactly what i am saying. ‎ ‎ ” ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ solemn is her tone, ‎ and hakuno needn't change her expression from her naturally deadpan face to add to this effect ‎ ( a good thing, ‎ in this particular instance, ‎for she was never good at emoting; ‎much less forcing it on herself ) . ‎the frustration that tinges porcelain features is genuine, ‎ however, ‎not at all enjoying this... ‎ patronizing sort of reaction from the each other. ‎at this point, ‎ it's safe to assume that both of them were aware ‎— ‎ that she was trying to pull a little trick on him, ‎ and that he was playing along cheekishly.

such would be grounds for one to give up on what truly is a childish act, ‎but hakuno can be painfully stubborn when it comes to these things ‎ / ‎ most things ‎/ ‎ everything.

“ ‎ ‎you ought to treat this matter with a bit more caution, ‎mister. ‎ while it's easy to brush the kuchisake-onna as mere folktale, ‎ there's been reports of her in several publications dating back to 1979— ‎ like in the gifu nichi nichi shinbun on 26th january, ‎the shukan asahi on 23rd march, ‎ and the shukan shincho on 5th april. ‎scary, ‎indeed. ‎young children would sometimes have to be be accompanied by members of parent–teacher association groups while walking home from school out of fear for her. ” ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ though— ‎well— ‎ this little bit of exposition is... ‎not exactly scary !

...she's not fooling him, ‎alright, ‎and that's a fact he makes abundantly clear with the start of a countdown. ‎ in her panic, ‎ she halts his movements ‎—— ‎ the other's face forcefully ‎( but still carefully and gently ) ‎kept in place as his cheeks are smushed together by small dainty hands. ‎ instant regret overwhelms her, ‎but she's in too deep, ‎ isn't she ?? ‎pensive hazel eyes stare into his, ‎and if he looked closely, perhaps he could tell she was internally cringing at herself. ‎still in this pose, ‎ and still staring, ‎she blurts out: ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ “ ‎ ‎...i apologise. ‎ ‎”