With fame and sudden popularity comes unwanted side-effects. Curvy over-thirty sexpot Mitsu Dan is not afraid of stripping off and revealing all, but she has acquired some undesirable fans among her legions of admirers. After her home was shown on a TV program, she has had men apparently hanging around in her neighborhood. Most celebrities…

An online survey has found some surprising results about identification with otaku, proving that we have come so far since the days of Tsutomu Miyazaki. 137,734 people were asked, “Do you consider yourself somehow an otaku?” Yes: 42.2% No: 57.8% That’s a lot of supposed otaku! Here’s the breakdown per generation: Teenagers: 62.0% Twenties: 55.6%…

Imagine you are a young Japanese girl. You are on a train. You sit down. You put on some earphones and listen to music. You close your eyes. Probably you are tired and just want some rest on the way home. You have made a fatal mistake. That’s what one Japanese girl in her twenties…

A 42-year-old man has been arrested for having sex with high school girls. The company employee would approach girls on the street, offer to pay them ¥70,000 or even as much as ¥300,000 if he could also film the exploits. After they were all finished at a hotel in Taito ward in Tokyo he would…

It’s a classic trick. Pretend to help when your motivations are much less pure. A female high school student (15) was in the part that connects two train carriages on a train in Wakayama prefecture hen a company employee from south Osaka groped her breasts. The twenty-one-year old’s fantastic lead-in on the busy evening rush…

It’s not looking good for Akihabara’s maid cafes as customers drift away from paying exorbitant prices for cups of coffee where there are no “extras”. According to a media report, maid cafes started in Akihabara in 2001 and then you get visit on for a drink for a mere ¥500. (These days it is more…

To celebrate the upcoming Tokyo performances of the Hatsune Miku opera “The End” we wanted to show a side to the virtual idol that likely won’t be put on a stage soon… but deserves to be. Source link

We’ve always known that the people behind AKB48 do not understand the meaning of bad taste, and here’s the latest demonstration. From Lolicon kiddy dancing to “hand-bras”, AKB48 continues to plumb the depths of the cringe-worthy. AKB48 member Yuki Kashiwagi is filmed grating a yam to make totoro for no better reason that than it…

A man has been arrested for molesting a woman on a train, known as chikan in Japan. Nothing new in that. Another day, another groper. But this time the 26-year-old man from Osaka claims the whole thing had been arranged via a special online forum. On the website people who want to molest and a…

Outspoken Osaka mayor and founder of the Japan Restoration Party, now Japan’s third largest party, Toru Hashimoto has got himself in hot water over some comments he made about the “comfort women” during the war and his recommendations for how to avoid rapes in Okinawa. Hashimoto, no stranger to getting noticed by provocative comments, told…