University teachers are generally seen as figures of respect in Japan, like elsewhere, but they sometimes do things that seriously endanger that status. Who can forget the Taisho University educator who was found wandering the campus in the buff, having been ordered to strip off by his student lover? But the case of a 49-year-old…

A Japanese man has been arrested for public indecency after exposing his lower body to a woman on the streets of Hongo, Tokyo, in January. The 29-year-old Masaya Yamada was arrested in April, though the crime was only reported this week in the Japanese media. The incident took place on the night of January 18….

The results of the AKB48 Senbatsu “general election” event are in — and the participants for the band’s 32nd single, as announced at an event on June 8th in Yokohama. This year — the fifth “general election” — the AKB honchos changed the system slightly with “candidacies”. 246 idols stood, the most of any of…