It’s not looking good for Akihabara’s maid cafes as customers drift away from paying exorbitant prices for cups of coffee where there are no “extras”. According to a media report, maid cafes started in Akihabara in 2001 and then you get visit on for a drink for a mere ¥500. (These days it is more…

To celebrate the upcoming Tokyo performances of the Hatsune Miku opera “The End” we wanted to show a side to the virtual idol that likely won’t be put on a stage soon… but deserves to be. Source link

We’ve always known that the people behind AKB48 do not understand the meaning of bad taste, and here’s the latest demonstration. From Lolicon kiddy dancing to “hand-bras”, AKB48 continues to plumb the depths of the cringe-worthy. AKB48 member Yuki Kashiwagi is filmed grating a yam to make totoro for no better reason that than it…

A man has been arrested for molesting a woman on a train, known as chikan in Japan. Nothing new in that. Another day, another groper. But this time the 26-year-old man from Osaka claims the whole thing had been arranged via a special online forum. On the website people who want to molest and a…

Outspoken Osaka mayor and founder of the Japan Restoration Party, now Japan’s third largest party, Toru Hashimoto has got himself in hot water over some comments he made about the “comfort women” during the war and his recommendations for how to avoid rapes in Okinawa. Hashimoto, no stranger to getting noticed by provocative comments, told…

No one is above the law. An ex-cop from the riot police has been arrested for the attempted abduction of a 15-year-old school girl in Akishima, Tokyo. Former police sergeant Koichi Omura (32) left the force in March but has been busy since then. He is accused of coming up to a fifteen-year-old high school…

There is magic in Japan and it’s called cosmetics. It’s well-known that Japanese women spend more time and care on their make-up than women in other countries. Shiseido and its peers are respected for being some of the most successful and effective cosmetic brands in the world. Here we can see it in action. S…

A 31-year-old man has been arrested for pretending to be a comedy duo’s manager in early March and approaching gravure model Momoko Tani (28) in a department store. There she tried on some clothes and he put on a show of being helpful. “It’s dangerous so I’ll carry your bag for you,” he told her,…

Think you like a bit of MILF? Think again. You’ve got nothing on this guy. An unemployed man in his mid-forties has been arrested in Aichi, central Japan, for groping a pensioner. The man professes to be mad about mature women — so-called jukujo — and couldn’t resist the woman he saw in her seventies….

It’s that time of year again. With the AKB48 “elections” taking place to see who gets to sing in the next song, Twitter is awash with pictures of boxes of CDs and tickets purchased by passionate otaku fans. One fan has shared images of towers of boxes, boasting that they spent 1,917,800 yen on them…