It's that time of year again. With the AKB48 "elections" taking place to see who gets to sing in the next song, Twitter is awash with pictures of boxes of CDs and tickets purchased by passionate ...

A 31-year-old man has been arrested for pretending to be a comedy duo's manager in early March and approaching gravure model Momoko Tani (28) in a department store. There she tried on some clothes ...

Last autumn a sensual ad for Glico's sweet Dororich drink with five Gravure idols was a big hit. Glico had such a good time with the curvy ladies that they made a new one! This time ...

No one is above the law. An ex-cop from the riot police has been arrested for the attempted abduction of a 15-year-old school girl in Akishima, Tokyo. Former police sergeant Koichi Omura (32) ...

Outspoken Osaka mayor and founder of the Japan Restoration Party, now Japan’s third largest party, Toru Hashimoto has got himself in hot water over some comments he made about the "comfort women" ...

Boys, time to despair. The pages of your tabloids won't be filled with images of sexy Gravure model Yumi Sugimoto for a while. The top sexpot has come down with acute pyelonephritis, meaning she ...

We've always known that the people behind AKB48 do not understand the meaning of bad taste, and here's the latest demonstration. From Lolicon kiddy dancing to "hand-bras", AKB48 continues to plumb ...

It pays to be careless sometimes, it seems. For a Japanese porn star, despite all those nakadashi (creampie) scenes, you would think that getting pregnant was the thing they fear most. It signals if ...

To celebrate the upcoming Tokyo performances of the Hatsune Miku opera "The End" we wanted to show a side to the virtual idol that likely won't be put on a stage soon... but deserves to ...

It's not looking good for Akihabara's maid cafes as customers drift away from paying exorbitant prices for cups of coffee where there are no "extras". According to a media report, maid cafes ...