Getting a side job where you can watch uncensored porn sounds like a male dream come true. But hang on. Uncensored porn? Oh, right, in Japan, due to bizarre adherence to a century-old regulation created to try to make Japan similar to “moral” Christian western nations, porn has genitals blurred out. Technically, if you are…

Tokyo Reporter has an intriguing little report from a tabloid. In the January 31 issue of Shukan Asahi, Minori Kitahara expressed concern over the popularity of a male masturbation aid that attempts to simulate the feeling of sex with an underage girl. Kitahara is a fortysomething female “sexpert” and bestselling author. She was apparently shocked…

A 55-year-old man interested only in money and exploiting scantily-clad teenagers in his quest to empty the wallets of naive otaku and corporations with tastes bad enough to agree to advertising campaigns featuring his minions — Yasushi Akimoto, the producer behind AKB48 and all its spinoffs. This is a man whose only goal is to…

Kanazawa is a genteel small city near the western coast of Japan, sandwiched between the central mountains and the Sea of Japan. It is home to samurai houses, art museums, a famous garden, and an old geisha district. In other words, it is like an alternate Kyoto. But don’t be fooled. Underneath this exterior of…

The winner of the coveted Miss Universe Japan 2014 title has been announced as Keiko Tsuji, a twenty-year-old student from Okinawa and representing Nagasaki Prefecture. She will next represent Japan at the Miss Universe beauty contest. Tsuji was chosen from a shortlist of around 40 after roughly 5,000 candidates applied from all over Japan. These…

On March 18th, pop singer Hikaru Utada has activated her Twitter account for the first time in 1.5 months. And one of her surprisingly rare tweets involved her confessing that “I have never been to a love hotel.” Utada of course has been famous since a young age, making her debut at 15. Even wandering…

A 22-year-old self-proclaimed “talent” has been arrested for shoplifting, in the process of which she claimed to be popular actress Emi Takei. Misaki Hashikawa went to a specialist shop in Ikebukuro and tried on some 40 leotards, shoplifting 22 of them. She then sold the leotards in online auctions, rather foolishly using her own name….

He’s at it again. TV personality and comedian Sanma Akashiya (58) is known as a ladies’ man but isn’t this going too far? Late last year it was reported that the TV veteran was sleeping with Makoto Yuuki, then a mere 23 to Sanma’s nearly 60. We were steaming with envy at the idea of…

Police in Nishi-Biwajima in Aichi Prefecture have arrested three people for public indecency. The leader was company employee Hiroki Muramatsu (51) from Saitama, who was shooting two models in the buff. They were Eri Nishiyama (22) from Nakano in Tokyo, and an unnamed 19-year-old minor. Muramatsu had apparently been doing a shoot at a studio…

Be careful if something seems too good to be true. It usually is. If you are on the street and are enticed by a woman, remember — only fools rush in. But perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised. The “woman” in question certainly didn’t look like this. No, instead Kyoto police have arrested self-employed Naohiro Nagaoka…