A man from New Zealand has been arrested in Japan for attempted extortion after he sent messages to a girl in her teens. The 56-year-old man, who says he is a chef but is unnamed in media reports, was arrested when he landed at Komatsu Airport in Ishikawa, a prefecture on the Sea of Japan…

Nagisa Watanabe is to release her first photo book, published in Japan on June 25. Though still officially unnamed, it is very widely assumed that the former TV announcer is the woman at the center of the Masahiro Nakai sex scandal, which has ended his career and brought one of Japan’s biggest broadcasters into disrepute….

The special menu they offer you at that bar in Shibuya or Shinjuku may well be too good to be true — and it might well land the proprietor in trouble. A bar in Shibuya offered a “VIP course” to customers who wanted to eat and drink while watching scantily clad female bar staff take…

With a few notable and noble exceptions, politicians are mostly on the fiddle or on the pull, their hands in the expenses till or around some girl’s body. It’s a story as old as the hills and pretty much the same in any country, including Japan. You might think that any politician from the Democratic…

Yes, I know. Us Japanese are a strange bunch. There are plenty of folks who like used panties of course. And there are even people who like refrigerated panties! A hot day? You want an ice cream? A cool drink? No, let’s get some nicely chilled panties! Yes, for 980 yen (about $11.60) you can…

Hug pillows (dakimakura) are nothing new in Japan. There is a wealth of pillows out there with cases featuring idols or in the actual body shapes of young girls. Here’s a new twist and its all a marketing stunt. How do you make cockroaches appealing? That’s the dilemma facing Gokiburi Kujo Meister, an extermination company….

We’ve been holding back on this story to see how it developed. No fireworks yet, but it’s still juicy. Does women’s used panties fetish go right to the heart of government in Japan? A Cabinet minister stands accused by a tabloid magazine of stealing female panties. The newly appointed Tsuyoshi Takagi is minister in charge…

The flight attendant is, of course, a much-fetishized occupation. They rank highly among male fantasies, whether that’s joining the mile high club mid-flight while receiving some extra service, or having a liaison at an airport hotel during a stop between flights. Themed costumes are one way to sate your appetite for flight attendant sex role…

The syphilis epidemic in Japan is something that has featured on this blog countless times. Just last year, we wrote about its alarming further growth. We wish we had something more positive to share with readers, but the news just keeps getting worse. The total number of cases in 2023 has already exceeded 10,000 —…

Do androids dream of electric sheep? Do otaku date non-2D women? These are the eternal questions of our times. In the case of the latter, it seems that are some otaku who are keen to branch out into three dimensions. So much so that, well, there’s an app for that. Otakoi (Otaku Love) is a…