Tokyo Reporter has blogged a story from the tabloids that reveals the notoriety of Osaka is not without merit. A gangster from the Yamaguchi-gumi, Tatsuya Kajiwara, has been arrested for employing minors at the establishments under his control in Osaka, all so-called girls’ bars. Girls’ bars are kind of super low-price hostess clubs in which…

These ladies look pretty hot, right? Well, actually these are otoko no ko (男の娘), crossdressing males, photographed by Naoko Tachibana. They feature nine crossdressers from the cafe and bar New Type, which opened in Akihabara in May 2009. Tachibana has put these together as a photo book, “Yuri Danshi“, 10,000 copies of which have been…

Recently the netizens of Japan got a chance to have an online Q&A with someone who used to work as a cleaner at a love hotel. Here’s a summary of what they were asked and how they responded. The person claimed to be in charge of making up the beds after guests were finished with…

That’s the important question being asked by the Miss Cutest High School Girl contest, a competition in Kanto region to decide which Japanese schoolgirl is the best looking. The finalists were recently decided! Voting for the favorite continued till yesterday (August 7th) and the announcement of the winner will be today (August 8th). Over 30,000…

Shijonawate City in Osaka prefecture has punished two twenty-year-old firefighters with a six-month suspension. What did they do wrong? They appeared in a porn film. Firefighters in Japan have a reputation for playing the field, earning good money and spending it on girls. These two clearly wanted to combine the two by getting some extra…

It is customary to have a celebrity make the first pitch at baseball games in Japan. Last Saturday sexy thirtysomething model Mitsu Dan made the pitch for a game in Akita and did so in her typically alluring style. We’re not sure how this would have gone down with the mothers in the stadium or…

Tokyo Reporter recently published an intriguing (if worrying) article recently from the Japanese media about a maid cafe in Roppongi being raided for employing underage girls. Officers took Ryuji Shimizu, 41, the manager of Archangels Tokyo, into custody for allegedly employing a 16-year-old girl as a waitress after 10 p.m. — a violation of the…

The annual AKB48 General Election Book (AKB48総選挙！水着サプライズ2013) has this year been proving a hit, with sales of 60,000 copies a week since it was released on August 5th. Though the 2012 wasn’t as successful, both the 2010 and 2011 editions were likewise bestsellers. It was first released in 2009. This year (“Swimsuit Surprise”) features all…

It was just after three on the afternoon of August 16th, a scorching hot day in Hirano, east Osaka. Hirano is notorious for bag-snatching and other crime, so when police got a call from a twenty-six-year-old girl that her purse had been grabbed while cycling home, no doubt they weren’t surprised. Until she gave her…

Not a question I often ask myself… but apparently they have! So says Dr. Akiko Tanaka, who has apparently photographed over 8,000 vaginas. Here’s where we get a bit technical. Tanaka says that the labia majora in women today used to be thicker and covered the labia minora more. But now the labia stand out…