That's a question I devote considerable time each day to thinking about. Well, luckily we have some hard data to back our speculations up. Triumph, the underwear brand, has released some ...

We love documenting the intriguing fetishes that exist out there -- and be sure, we don't do out of any sense of judging! Quite the opposite, we are kind of celebrating difference. Anyway, another ...

Japanese cops have guns and in theory can shoot someone if necessary. Well, some shoot other things. Kozo Shirakawa, a 46-year-old sergeant in Kagawa, was nothing if not ingenious. He attached ...

We spend a lot of time bashing AKB48 on this blog but we have to finally admit the truth. We think Haruna Kojima is hot. Actually, keen-eyed readers will likely have already deduced this from ...

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 recently published 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 ...

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 ...