No sooner had we blogged an odd story about a bus driver trying to kiss his lone teenaged passenger in Tokushima, then along comes another peculiar tale of groping on the subway. Two Chiba residents have been arrested by Tokyo police on suspicion of trying to grope a woman on the Tokyo subway during the…

While some idol groups make a lot of money, the idols themselves are not getting rich per se. The management companies keep them on salaries representing their worth and this is a policy reflected across the Japanese entertainment industry. That said, this is the first time we’ve heard of a Japanese idol group deliberately launched…

A doujin-made comic cooking book is provoking some eyebrow-raising online. The title for Oyako to shimai o oishiku itadaku 15 no houhou translates literally as “15 ways to deliciously eat mothers-and-daughters and sisters”. What the heck does that mean? No, the creators, doujinshi Poisson Rouge, are not promoting cannibalism. Certain dishes in their book are…

Otoko no Ko “male daughter” cross-dressing cosplay is really getting big in Tokyo now. The fetish subculture has its only monthly event in Shinjuku called Propaganda. There are shops, maid cafes and even special photobooks. Even more intriguingly, there are many Otoko no Ko cosplay adult toys too, mostly created by Tama Toys — from…

It’s that time of year again. Every year we snigger gleefully at the return of the “flip-a-skirt” calendar. The tribute to groping in paper form allows you to see the dates by literally lifting up the skirt of a cute girl! And the best thing is that it is a high school girl’s skirt too!…

We’ve been reading some interesting reports about goings-on in Osaka, which despite its inferior size compared to Tokyo, is often the first to try certain trends. And we suspect this might be the case here. Following a recent series of arrests and police raids on “suspicious” maid cafes and schoolgirl “massage” parlors in Akihabara and…

Our friends over at Japan Trends picked up on a very funny about this pop-up cafe about to open this weekend in Harajuku where women (we presume only women) can get the experience of being pressed up against a wall by a hunky guy. This is known as kabe-don in Japan and typically sees a…

Japanese sexy lingerie brand Ravijour has held its first solo strip show — sorry, we mean fashion show. To look at the pictures, it’s an easy mistake to make! Models include Elli Rose, Mayuko Arisue and Natsumi Yoshida strutted their stuff on October 8th and showed off their slinky bodies in Roppongi to celebrate 10…

Okay, we’ve very late with this — a quick search reveals people were talking about this back in 2012! But for some reason we’ve only just found out about it and it’s so cool, we wanted to blog it now, two years after everyone else. Sexual harassment is a serious issue in Japan — especially…

That’s the question that Time Out Tokyo asked its readers online back in August. Unfortunately we have no idea how many people answered and what proportion were looking at its Japanese website or English one — so this could in fact just be a handful of people’s preferences. Still, beggars can’t be choosers and in…