Tokyo Metropolitan Police has announced the arrest of Akira Awazu, a 51-year-old executive at an entertainment company based in Tokyo’s Shinjuku ward, on suspicion of non-consensual sexual intercourse and violation of the Child Prostitution and Child Pornography Prohibition Act, for allegedly filming himself engaging in obscene acts with a 15-year-old junior high school girl and…

And she’s back. Just weeks after she was forced to resign over a sex scandal, Akira Ogawa has won re-election as mayor of Maebashi in Gunma. Ogawa resigned in late November after a series of love hotel trysts with an older, married city worker were exposed by a tabloid scoop. The 42-year-old Ogawa tried to…

A major part of the appeal of events like the Tokyo Game Show and various car events is getting to see the slinkily dressed booth babes, known collectively as “companions” in Japanese. They stand at the promotional area, handing out flyers or otherwise attracting attention to the display with their bodies. Sure, it’s a deeply…

Marriage counseling company Presia found that 70% of married Japanese women regret marrying their husbands, according to results in a survey report announced on January 7. And the reason they regret their marriages? It’s not what you might immediately think: appearance and fashion actually came in as the top results when polled on things they…