At least 75% of pregnant women end up having stretch marks. They do appear in the breasts, abdomen, legs, and arms. As in the case of those who are in their puberty stage, it is a given fact that people grow taller and wider. Then he adds, in his self deprecating way, that he is lucky to be tall 193 centimetres as ''there'll always be boofhead roles''. He has never been much of a planner, he says, preferring instead to roll with the punches. But he is obviously a hard worker: The Laughing Clowns is his sixth book, and he has a long list of acting credits to his name..

Roughly 300 businesses, including the 24 Kaikan, are squeezed into Ni chome's couple of blocks, from sex shops to watering holes that cater to a staggering array of tastes known in Japan as kei (speciality). Bars for overweight men, transvestites, spankers, the hirsute, the young, men over 70, older men who want to be with younger men; with names such as Popeye, Tarzan, Duke, Brutus and Bambi. One establishment