We all have images we like to look at when we, you know, service ourselves.
Purikura are the "photo club" booths popular with young Japanese, who pose and then customize and decorate the images with their friends.
This guy seems to have a serious thing for not only female high school students -- who can blame him?! -- but also the pictures of the girls taken in the Purikura booths.
This picture was originally posted by the man himself on Twitter before it exploded online and earned the scorn of 2ch.
Fortunately he is wearing a (scary) mask but his lair, decorated floor to ...
If you're a AKB48 fan, you are probably a vulnerable individual with money to burn and an appetite for over-priced merchandise.
And if you know someone like that or come into contact with them -- be warned. They may just steal your money.
As we know, otaku fans idol groups are famously willing to put themselves into serious debt in order to purchase thousands of CDs.
But this is taking things to almost mafia levels.
Kyoto police are now set to prosecute six men, all aged 20, who stole information from other people's credit cards so that they could buy nearly 500 CDs by the group ...
Japanese girls are world experts in make-up. Almost no girl leaves the house without at least a dab of blush or foundation, and women quite advanced in years can still look superb. Skin quality is praised above sexiness.
Recently there has been a trend for celebrities posting pictures of themselves as suppin (no make-up) on blogs and so on.
Nozomi Sasaki, the popular angelic actress, has found herself caught up in the "trend" when she took part in a promo for a cosmetic product in which she appeared without make-up.
Here you can see a before-and-after.
She did it to show ...
Another day, another fetish-related crime.
We only just recently blogged about the man who stole everything from satchels to curtains from an elementary school, and now comes this news -- first shared on Tokyo Reporter -- of a thief whose interests was exclusively the shoes of hostesses.
Well, anything related to hostesses we can understand; these ladies inspire a thousand fetishes.
On Monday Tokyo Metropolitan Police announced that they had arrested a man for stealing shoes from hostesses.
Sho Sato (28) took high-heeled shoes from clubs in Tokyo, Kanagawa and Saitama.
The ...
A 53-year-old unemployed man has been arrested and charged with sneaking into an elementary school in Takaoka City in Toyama Prefecture, and stealing a large quantity of school satchels and other examples of school property.
He was first arrested and charged with stealing the satchel of a 7-year-old student on December 7th, but after that the police raided his home and found some 140 other items, such as musical instruments and bicycles.
The police chief said that the man had been using the same method to sneak into the school since 11 years ago and had been stealing kids' things, and ...
The animal.
The technician.
The flashy guy.
It's time to save women from these guys.
So say Ravijour, the Japanese maker of some very sexy bras.
As part of the lingerie brand's tenth anniversary, Ravijour has created a bra that "automatically unhooks" when the right man is on the scene.
It knows "how women truly feel."
It cannot be unhooked without true love.
Ravijour has even recruited a "human sexuality specialist," a physician, and the design lab Rhizomatics to create this concept bra.
They say that a built-in sensor reads the wearer's heart beat. This then interacts with an ...
We often talk about chikan on Tokyo Kinky. There is a strange subculture in Japan where certain men think it's okay to grope women on trains. In fact, there are even certain "clubs" that organize these kinds of mass groping sessions on public transport.
But if you get found out it can bring your fantasies crashing down.
That's what happened to one 39-year-old man on the Odakyu Odawara line when it was passing through Kawasaki, just outside Tokyo on Thursday night.
Around 9 pm a woman on the train caught his hands wandering and exposed him. The humiliated man, whether to try to ...
An otaku has made a shocking confession that he bought 3,000 CDs due to his obsession with Rina Ikoma, the 18-year-old idol and member of girl group Nogizaka46.
Naturally he is also a regular attendant at Nogizaka46 handshaking events.
These meet-and-greet sessions are where they can have a few seconds of bliss stroking the hand of the idols they adore.
He told Rina what he had done at a recent handshaking event.
Unfortunately he was less than impressed with her muted response to his confession, crushing his dreams of happiness with the teenaged idol.
He now claims to ...
Japanese police have bagged the latest major criminal in the land. An 82-year-old panties thief will meet justice at last after cops in Hyogo Prefecture arrested Tsuyoshi Matsusue on Sunday.
The octogenarian had been sighted stealing a 59-year-old woman's pair of underwear from her garden, says Tokyo Reporter. The sprightly pensioner made off with his prize on Sunday morning but the victim's husband gave chase for 200 meters.
Unfortunately, his physique was not as strong as his erotic energies, and the 62-year-old husband managed to catch up with the panties thief.
When questioned by ...
This month sees the start of the university entrance exams all over Japan.
It's a tough time to be young. Hours of cramming followed by hours of tests in strange colleges, sometimes in strange cities.
How do you keep your spirits up during this stressful time?
Well, this youngster was snapped about to take the notorious Center Test. The poor thing, he was taking comfort with a blankie around his shoulders.
This being Japan and the examinee being a boy, the blankie was of course an anime character. Moe for exam success!
Apparently the unfortunate guy, clearly surfing on his ...
