Tokyo Reporter recently published an intriguing (if worrying) article recently from the Japanese media about a maid cafe in Roppongi being raided for employing underage girls. Officers took Ryuji Shimizu, 41, the manager of Archangels Tokyo, into custody for allegedly employing a 16-year-old girl as a waitress after 10 p.m. — a violation of the…

The annual AKB48 General Election Book (AKB48総選挙！水着サプライズ2013) has this year been proving a hit, with sales of 60,000 copies a week since it was released on August 5th. Though the 2012 wasn’t as successful, both the 2010 and 2011 editions were likewise bestsellers. It was first released in 2009. This year (“Swimsuit Surprise”) features all…

It was just after three on the afternoon of August 16th, a scorching hot day in Hirano, east Osaka. Hirano is notorious for bag-snatching and other crime, so when police got a call from a twenty-six-year-old girl that her purse had been grabbed while cycling home, no doubt they weren’t surprised. Until she gave her…

Not a question I often ask myself… but apparently they have! So says Dr. Akiko Tanaka, who has apparently photographed over 8,000 vaginas. Here’s where we get a bit technical. Tanaka says that the labia majora in women today used to be thicker and covered the labia minora more. But now the labia stand out…

We spend a lot of time bashing AKB48 on this blog but we have to finally admit the truth. We think Haruna Kojima is hot. Actually, keen-eyed readers will likely have already deduced this from certain drooling articles in the past. We previously blogged with glee about Haruna’s new work modeling for Peach John, Japan’s…

Japanese cops have guns and in theory can shoot someone if necessary. Well, some shoot other things. Kozo Shirakawa, a 46-year-old sergeant in Kagawa, was nothing if not ingenious. He attached a special spy camera to his shoe so he could film up women’s skirts. The camera was on the inside and could shoot from…

We love documenting the intriguing fetishes that exist out there — and be sure, we don’t do out of any sense of judging! Quite the opposite, we are kind of celebrating difference. Anyway, another example has just come to light. A man was arrested in Kanagawa prefecture over the weekend for stealing. Nothing new in…

Just imagine you like AKB48. Now imagine you like AKB48 so much you will commit a crime. That’s what four teenagers did. They mugged a man in order to have cash to buy special clothes to “look good” for a meet-and-greet hand-shaking event with the idol group. Aged between 15 and 17, the kids came…

That’s a question I devote considerable time each day to thinking about. Well, luckily we have some hard data to back our speculations up. Triumph, the underwear brand, has released some statistics on its bra sales and so we have some nice data on which cups sell most — and thus, can presumably infer on…

Four men have been arrested in Tokyo for theft by Kanagawa police after they blackmailed a man they met through a smartphone deai-kei app. Deai-kei refers to the portals online and off where men go to meet girls for sex. It is somewhere between adultery and prostitution, but the variables are huge. You might be…