Maebashi is a small city in Gunma, a short distance north from Tokyo and rarely in the news. That all changed this week, however, with the intense media response to reports that the female mayor has been allegedly conducting an affair with a male staffer. Society seems to respond more strongly to adultery claims when…

On September 29, Tokyo Metropolitan Police referred a 19-year-old male first-year university student from Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, to the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office on suspicion of distributing obscene images and gambling, among other charges. He allegedly sold posters featuring obscene images created using an image-generating AI, and then used the proceeds to gamble at…

We all know about Japan’s penchant for used panties. They’re not just an urban legend. They’re real and for sale. But what about used panties as a fashion accessory? Well, Shibuya-based JennyFax essentially offers this. Not exactly used panties, but it does treat underwear as something that’s not at all “under.” It’s very much “over.”…

Legal website Bengo4 recently considered a question sent in by a reader: Are there legal repercussions for not having sex on a trip with the person who paid? This isn’t just a question of guys left horny, lonely, and disappointed, forced to jerk off in an expensive hotel room they booked in the expectation of…

Readers with long memories may recall the story we published in 2015 about Rie Saito, the beautiful hostess who happened to be deaf from childhood. At the time, Saito was a single mom, Ginza hostess, and author of a bestselling memoir that was turned into a TV drama in 2010. She was also an aspiring…

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will watch the watchmen? It’s a rare Tokyo Kinky article that begins with a Latin quotation, but sometimes the story justifies such a flourish. And this one is almost stranger than fiction. Superintendent Koji Tsujimoto has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting an underage girl. He was a leading…

Erika Minatogawa is riding the wave of scandal over her arrest on a drug charge earlier this year to launch a gravure career. The so-called 32-year-old “Minato girl” and former race queen (grid girl), whose real name is Miho Okumoto, appears in the September 2 issue of Flash and has also released a digital photo…

This is a cautionary tale with a simple moral: if you hook up with a woman 20 years younger than you via a dating app, the chances are that she’s not really into you (or at least, not solely into you because of, well, you). A high school teacher has been arrested for fraud by…

In Japan, porn is everywhere but thou shalt not see genitals. Due to the wonders of the internet and mobile devices, people in Japan enjoy instant access to hardcore pornography, just like most other places in the world today. But unless the producers want to incur the wrath of police and courts, domestically made porn…

Hikaru is one of Japan’s most popular YouTubers but the 34-year-old has hit a blip in his career after publicly declaring that he was in an open marriage in a video posted on September 14. Within 24 hours of posting the video, his channel had bled thousands of followers, dropping to below 5 million. In…