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…

Former AKB48 idol Rina Hirata has announced that she will no longer release image videos. Her latest DVD, My Girl’s Weird Sense of Distance, which came out on September 23. The DVD, her first in over a year, is an incredible 190 minutes and features Hirata barely clothed throughout. The tiny bikini she wears in…

Here’s something we did not expect to be on our radar. The actress Megumi Kagurazaka has made a surprise return to gravure. Now aged 44, the married mother is to release her first photo book in 14 years. The as-yet-untitled book will come out in Japan on December 18. She has kicked off her return…

The Japanese interweb is raving over Ai Tano (田野和彩), a 21-year-old employee at a girls bar in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. Netizens are beside themselves at how in the images of her doing the perp walk for the media, she looks just like a model or celebrity (we think there’s something of Mei Nagano about her). Talk…

Chisato Morishita’s trajectory from gravure favorite of the late 2000s to mainstream politics is now complete. After the former model won her first election last October, the 44-year-old with the winning smile has now been appointed to new prime minister Sanae Takaichi’s Cabinet as Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Environment. It’s a junior role, of course, under…

Saika Kawakita is one of the biggest porn stars in Japan and a probably familiar face to most readers of this blog. She has gained global fame more recently because a GIF from one of her porn productions inexplicably became a meme on social media in December 2024. According to a scoop by the tabloid…

Maebashi is a small city in Gunma, a short distance north from Tokyo and rarely in the news. That all changed this week, however, with the intense media response to reports that the female mayor has been allegedly conducting an affair with a male staffer. Society seems to respond more strongly to adultery claims when…