A transwoman from Thailand, seeking revenge on her Japanese ex-boyfriend, tricked 73 of his fellow countrymen out of around 30 million baht, nearly ₹7.5 crore, over 13 years. According to the South China Morning Post, police launched an investigation after a Japanese man visiting Thailand reported that a transgender woman called Amy had conned him out of 15 million baht. …
Ikumen: How Japan’s ‘hunky dads’ are changing parenting Getty Images A government programme has tried to make fatherhood cool and sexy. “Utter commitment to one’s work represented the apotheosis of manliness”, writes Hannah Vassallo, who recently published an anthropological study of Japanese fathers for a book, Cool Japanese Men. Getty Images Historically, only very few Japanese men have taken parental …
