Worried what your family might find if you were to suddenly pop your clogs? Those intimate pictures of you and your ex you keep stashed under the book case? How about over 1,000 adult movie titles? Yes, this formidable collection was discussed in the possessions of a former elmentary school teacher, according to the accounts…

Kodansha, which had planned to put the latest issue of Young Magazine on sale tomorrow (January 12), has been forced to postpone the publishing date to January 21st. Why? Because it suddenly realised that an ad page announcing a new photo book for Tomomi Kasai, soon to leave AKB48 formally and concentrate on her solo…

After a brouhaha that erupted in the last days, including Young Magazine’s latest issue being shunted to the next week, the controversy over the Tomomi Kasai photo book continues. Now Kodansha, who also publish Young Magazine, has announced that the photo book won’t be going on sale as planned on February 4th. Presumably they will…

Hyogo prefecture police this month announced the arrest of three young boys aged between 14 and 17 on suspicion of forcing a girl to dress up as Santa and walk around town. The bizarre crime in Himeji City has already been acknowledged by the arrested trio. “Our jokes went too far,” they said. The four…

Tokyo Auto Salon 2013 held the award ceremony for the Japan Race Queen Award last Friday, celebrating the best in the sexy girls who promote cars at automobile events. One of the winners was Noa Mizutani, known for her Rei Ayanami cosplay. Noa was one of five girls chosen from over 400 for prizes, as…

Kanagawa prefecture education authorities announced this week that a male teacher aged fifty-five had been given a six-month suspension from his duties. The same teacher also resigned at the same time. The educator was responsible for music clubs at his school but he apparently went beyond his remit for handling extracurricular activities. Between August and…

Continuing on from the maelstrom that engulfed Tomomi Kasai’s much-hyped photo book release, publisher Kodansha has made a formal apology for the controversial image of a young foreign boy clasping the naked bust of a smiling Tomomi. “The cause was our checking system for publishing did not get to it,” they explained. Perhaps the big…

Shotacon or Shotaro complex (正太郎コンプレックス) is a tricky subject to get into and we have been hesitating for a while, since we know it might get a harsh response from some. On the surface it looks like a gay fantasy, describing an attraction to young boys and their wily charms. But nothing is quite so…

Be careful of online dating. That’s the lesson to be learnt here after police busted DEAiBBS, a Japanese dating site started in 2005 and which has been “creative” with its user profiles for years. Apparently it was helping 120,000 lonely Japanese singles hook up — but actually some 80% of the users weren’t even real,…

Aren’t the cops meant to be the good guys? Okay, I’m being a bit ironic there but still, this story is a bit much. After celebrating at the farewell party of a colleague, two officers from the Yamato, Kanagawa, precinct, Yoshinobu Mori (35) and Yoshikazu Arakawa (38), went on for a nijikai (round two!) with…