The trial of former House of Representatives member Tamotsu Shiiki got underway at Tokyo District Court on December 24. He is standing trial for sexual assault of a junior high school first grader in August last year, having picked the runaway up in Kabukicho — one of many such so-called Toyoko kids in the Shinjuku…

In Tokyo, we always see signage warning to be on the lookout for chikan (train groping) at stations and inside carriages. The government and police frequently issue awareness and prevention campaigns. We see videos on social media of passengers detaining a perpetrator or of suspects fleeing dangerously across the rails between platforms. And of course,…

Police in Hyogo Prefecture have arrested a fisherman on suspicion of illegally filming women at local beaches. The 53-year-old has admitted to using an infrared filter on a camera to take images of women in swimwear. According to a police announcement on January 15, Norimasa Miyake allegedly took photos of eight women in swimwear between…

Last year, we reported on the strange case of the Japanese guy with four “wives.” The situation seemed straight out of a manga and yet it was true. In that case, the man and his harem were all relatively young. But age didn’t stop another man. The 76-year-old Hirohito Shibuya lived with nine wives in…

Ayana Shiramoto appears nude in The Box Man. The 2024 film, which is adapted from Kobo Abe’s modern classic, is a typically weird story about a man who lives inside a box. That’s basically the whole plot. Shiramoto plays a nurse who develops a kind of relationship with the protagonist. She walks around nude in…

The gravure idol and actress Ayano Sumida has released a statement about inappropriate physical contact at a launch event she recently held. On January 27, Sumida posted on social media about “contact” with someone that wasn’t included in the “perks” that attendees had purchased. The incident took place on January 25 at a launch event…

A month ago, we wrote about the trial of former House of Representatives member Tamotsu Shiiki underway at Tokyo District Court, accused of sexually assaulting a junior high school first grader in a karaoke parlor in Kabukicho. Shiiki’s excuse was that he “didn’t ejaculate.” He also tried to claim that he was trying to help…