Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, the UN’s special rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, has been in Japan for a week-long visit. At the end of it she praised Japan for tightening up the law and banning possession of child pornography in June last year. But she said Japan must do more…

While this is a creepy, you’ve got to hand it to the man for dedication. A 51-year-old man has been arrested for indecent assault on a female neighbor, who he attacked by digging a hole down into her apartment from his home above. The man was obsessed with the woman, aged 39, was injured in…

Shibuya was an insane spectacle last night, with tens of thousands of revellers out for Halloween — many of them wearing all variety of costume. As expected, Halloween in Tokyo has less to do with Hallows’ Eve than with cosplay for its own sake. And so you get almost every type of costume imaginable. Many…

We all know that Japanese girls have small busts. While, some say local breasts are getting larger, But for many guys that doesn’t matter — they prefer flat chests (hinnyu). (There are even bras that REDUCE bust so you can get that kawaii bust look.) Japan’s cute-but-hardly-there chests have previously inspired one female fashion designer…

Get your boys’ love fix with the new PC and phone battle card game Out Division. As with any such game, you collect character cards and build up a strong team. The difference is that all the characters are male and what men they are… What has been called “the most unexpected element” of the…

The opening of Japan’s first major public exhibition of shunga erotic prints is quite a landmark event. We finally got to go recently. We went on a Saturday and the line to get in stretched out of the venue. They were there in their hordes: men, women, couples, foreign tourists (European, American and Asian). Lining…

Some people don’t learn their lesson. Well, Yasuomi Hirai is nothing if not consistent. We first reported on his unique “talents” back in June 2013, when he was arrested for hiding in a drain in order to look up the skirts of girls passing by over him. Two years on, and Hirai is at it…

When Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, the UN’s special rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, told the media that Japan should “ban sexually abusive images of children in manga” at the end of her visit in October, you might think the manga industry would be the ones to get all hot under…

The tale of the 28-year-old serial drain voyeur keeps on getting better. It was amazing enough that the man, arrested in June 2013 for the same crime, would again risk hiding in a drain for hours in order to look up the skirts of passing women (a fetish known as panchira in Japan). Yasuomi Hirai…

Saeko has been slowly but surely transforming herself from a model and tarento famous for being famous (a status mostly created by marrying and divorcing the baseball pitcher Yu Darvish, just after he signed a $60 million deal with the Texas Rangers in 2012). Part of this was stripping off (in part, at least) and…