With the ink on her 2012 divorce to an Austrian actor still fresh, singer Ayumi Hamasaki is rumored to have taken up with another “white” lover. The pair were spotted at a luxury resort in Bali, where they apparently shared the same hotel suite. Ayumi seems to have been around for an eternity, though she…

We’ve looked at surveys before — from men who never date to the best breasts, habits and the most-viewed Wikipedia pages. Now Sagami, one of Japan’s leading condom makers, has released the results of a big nationwide survey, Nippon no Sex, it did in January this year. It surveyed 14,100 men and women online (plus…

After making tentative moves at the end of last year, US gaijin tarento and Gravure model Leah Dizon has at last fully begun her comeback in Japan. She appeared for the first time professionally in public in Tokyo at an event for a men’s cosmetic brand since leaving the country three years ago. “Long time…

Life is short. Have an affair. So says the slogan Ashley Madison, the infamous social media for adultery, which has 1.8 million unique users. It started in Canada in 2001 and now has finally come to Japan. It works by users purchasing credits, which they can use to send mails to potential partners, so in…

The discovery of one picture on the Internet has led to speculation that now Japanese schools are brimming with boys and girls who kiss each other for fun. Well, that of course sounds like a perfectly ordinary school activity. But the “school rule” is that you can only kiss members of the same sex. The…

You gotta admire the guts of Miyabi Asai, the member of the Kawasaki City local idol group Kawasaki Junjo Komachi whose friend was groped on a train — known as chikan — but then grabbed the culprit and held onto him. This has made her a bit of a star, thus doing more than even…

Imagine you are out for a night of fun at a Tokyo strip club. Your eyes are naturally scanning the unbelievably hot girls on the stage. Then you catch sight of two ladies in the audience who look familiar. Hey, aren’t they famous models? When a friend or companion assures you they are, you can…

Another day, another chikan story. To grope one girl is risque. To grope two girls is rather cheeky. But to grope thirty, well, that’s just getting carried away. Or not, especially when it’s a cop and he gets caught — then it’s just unprofessional in the literal sense of the word. On a train in…

Back in May we reported on the incredible story — actually one of the most intriguing things we have ever heard — of a chikan incident on a Wakayama train in which a woman was groped by two men who believed that the woman had asked them to do it via an online forum. In…

If you thought AKB48 fans were bad enough, boybands like Arashi and KAT-TUN have plenty of local (and foreign) fanatics among their following who will do all kinds of embarrassing things to show their love for the pampered soshoku danshi. A billboard currently on display in an underground passage of Shinjuku has generated some particularly…