If you’re a young girl in school in Japan, take a close look around you. Are those boys in your class really boys? One of them might just be a much older guy in disguise! That is, if the recent case in Kumamoto is anything to go by. A 33-year-old man in Kumamoto City on…

Be careful what is being poked into your genitals. You might just be losing your life blood… literally. Though Kyoto might have a reputation for being the sophisticated old capital of Japan, there’s plenty of kinkiness under the surface. One of these is needle play. Tokyo Reporter had a nice, intriguing report on a recent…

No, of course not. But this is too tempting. Kyary Pamyu Pamyu may well have a reputation for wacky Harajuku fashions but is she also moonlighting as an JAV star? Sora Harumiya is a brand new starlet who looks set for fame primarily for her looks partially similar to the pop and fashion icon. A…

Otaku of the world, rejoice. Your dreams have come true at last. Virtual idol Hatsune Miku is now “fully” interactive. We already can see and hear her, but now an app allows you to touch and smell her — and, best of all, to sleep with her. The Sleep With Her app started when an…

Our image of the pimp is typically a young wannabe gangster, flashy clothes with sunshades and a toothpick in his teeth. Beware an old man in a hurry, as the saying has it. The elderly chap in spectacles might just be rushing around arranging sexual encounters for his fellow older acquaintances. Such was the case…

Megumi, Kazuki, Tadashi and I like to scour the streets looking for new adventures in Tokyo. But we also make time to read. Obviously, with the amount of crime and dirty antics we report on in this blog, we need to keep a close eye on the weekly tabloids. But we also like to read…

Mobile phone games can be addictive. One cop found this out to his cost. The 44-year-old Takahiro Ueyama from Hyogo has just got an 18-month sentence for using his position to keep up with his mobile phone game debt, which had apparently reached as high as ¥500,000 ($5,000). That is some addiction! What was the…

What were we saying yesterday about the police? Well, now they’ve turned their attention to someone who has been delighting Tokyo in recent months. Twitter has been abuzz with images snapped of an old guy wandering the city dressed in sailor school uniform cosplay and very happy to pose for pictures. He has companions who…

A long article in the Guardian has been published that purports to be sociological and serious, but is actually perpetuating the usual myths we read about our great country — everyone is unhappy, everyone only works, no one has sex. The sexes, especially in Japan’s giant cities, are “spiralling away from each other”. Lacking long-term…

There’s been a lot of media attention about stalking recently, not least due to the sad case of 18-year-old Saaya Suzuki, murdered by a stalker earlier this month. Now comes another odd twist on the situation. The National Police Agency (NPA) has reported a 3.8 increase on incidents of stalking by citizens over 60 over…