A Korean politician on a board for women and families once claimed that there are around 50,000 Korean prostitutes in Japan, some 2,500 in Australia and 250 in Guam. "In the whole world there are ...

It was just after three on the afternoon of August 16th, a scorching hot day in Hirano, east Osaka. Hirano is notorious for bag-snatching and other crime, so when police got a call from a ...

The annual AKB48 General Election Book (AKB48総選挙！水着サプライズ2013) has this year been proving a hit, with sales of 60,000 copies a week since it was released on August 5th. Though ...

Tokyo Reporter had an intriguing (if worrying) article recently from the Japanese media about a maid cafe in Roppongi being raided for employing underage girls. Officers took Ryuji Shimizu, 41, ...

It is customary to have a celebrity make the first pitch at baseball games in Japan. Last Saturday sexy thirtysomething model Mitsu Dan made the pitch for a game in Akita and did so in her ...

Shijonawate City in Osaka prefecture has punished two twenty-year-old firefighters with a six-month suspension. What did they do wrong? They appeared in a porn film. Firefighters in Japan have a ...

That's the important question being asked by the Miss Cutest High School Girl contest, a competition in Kanto region to decide which Japanese schoolgirl is the best looking. The finalists were ...

Just when you thought she couldn't reveal any more, gravure idol and actress Kokone Sasaki (23) has released a new "hair nude" (full-frontal) photo book. After shooting soft-core porn films and ...

Like girls in knee-high socks? Tick. Like girls in swimsuits? Tick. Then you will definitely like Underwater Knee-High Girls by Manabu Koga, a photobook that goes on sale at the end of ...

Forget Toyota and Sony, the real beneficiaries of Abenomics and the boost to the economy Japan is receiving (at least in spirit) is Yoshiwara, the old red light district near the Tokyo Sky Tree and ...