A nineteen-year old university student was in the college library when he got a message from his mother. “Super Sonico hug pillow has just arrived” it read. The student was obviously very ashamed claimed he wasn’t sure if he should go home or rather fling himself into the nearest river. Japan’s embarrassed men buying ero…

A man has been arrested for running an online dating (deai-kei) scam that scammed 2,100 otaku out of 210 million yen over the years. Deai-kei websites are common portals in Japan, usually a ruse for informal prostitution or enjo kosai. In this case, the owner tricked members into thinking they would be able to exchange…

Toshiki Hanai, a twenty-eight-year-old assistant district court judge in Osaka, has perhaps not surprisingly lost his job. When you get caught filming up a girl’s skirt (panchira) on a train, you might reasonably expect there to be repercussions if you are supposed to be an upholder of the law! That’s what Hanai was apparently caught…

On April 7th the Kanamara Matsuri was held in Kawasaki, near to Tokyo, and one of the most popular of Japan’s phallic fertility festivals. The highlight of the festival is the parade of the giant cock through the streets as it is processed between two shrines. This is stroked and touched by the crowds as…

Any excuse to show some girls in skimpies. Ravijour, the Japanese equivalent of Victoria’s Secret (or Peach John) for gyaru, has launched a new range of sexy lingerie. Basically we saw the photos, thought they were super hot — and decided to blog about it just to indulge in the images! The models include Elli…

Another day, another celebrity lady bites the dust. Despite having split up with her boyfriend in January, popular fashion model Maki Nishiyama has announced that she is five months pregnant. After a few days of will-they-won’t-they, she and her actor ex-boyfriend Taichi Saotome have not only got back together, but are getting married. Perhaps she…

With fame and sudden popularity comes unwanted side-effects. Curvy over-thirty sexpot Mitsu Dan is not afraid of stripping off and revealing all, but she has acquired some undesirable fans among her legions of admirers. After her home was shown on a TV program, she has had men apparently hanging around in her neighborhood. Most celebrities…

An online survey has found some surprising results about identification with otaku, proving that we have come so far since the days of Tsutomu Miyazaki. 137,734 people were asked, “Do you consider yourself somehow an otaku?” Yes: 42.2% No: 57.8% That’s a lot of supposed otaku! Here’s the breakdown per generation: Teenagers: 62.0% Twenties: 55.6%…

Imagine you are a young Japanese girl. You are on a train. You sit down. You put on some earphones and listen to music. You close your eyes. Probably you are tired and just want some rest on the way home. You have made a fatal mistake. That’s what one Japanese girl in her twenties…

A 42-year-old man has been arrested for having sex with high school girls. The company employee would approach girls on the street, offer to pay them ¥70,000 or even as much as ¥300,000 if he could also film the exploits. After they were all finished at a hotel in Taito ward in Tokyo he would…