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 ...

Sad news, folks. Tarento Jun Natsukawa (32), who has been gracing our screens and fantasies for years, has announced she is five months pregnant. Jun married a man one year younger than her on ...

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 ...

Parks are not just for strolling around in. Unlike other cities, Tokyo's parks are open all night. Photographer Kohei Yoshiyuki used to visit Chuo Park in the early Seventies and search for ...

You may have heard a lot about instant messaging app LINE over the last two years. It is meant to be the most rapidly rising and exciting social service in Japan and other parts of Asia. Well, ...

That's what the results of a survey would have us believe. It surveyed 3,616 men and women aged 20 to 49 around Japan on the theme of marriage and children online in early February. 30% of ...

The car in front is a Toyota. Really? Yes, Toyota has proved that otaku are valuable members of its customer base by creating an itasha decorated vehicle especially for the Anime Contents Expo ...

The movie of the bizarre manga Hentai Kamen, about a hero who wears panties on his face, has released a suitably odd trailer. Apparently Hentai Kamen's groin has the potential to block phone ...

...if these pictures are to believed, showing a group of high school students engaged in some very well-orchestrated recreations of Dragon Ball powers. And it's not just the ...

There are people with smell fetishes everywhere and we are not sure if there are more in Japan -- or whether the Japanese are simply much better at integrating their fetishes into products and social ...