Take a look at the the lovlies competing in the Komaba High School's Miss Tsukukoma beauty pageant.
The beauties were all dolled up in make-up and mini skirts for the annual recent Tsukuba Cultural Festival.
Which do you think is the hottest?
But before you start licking your lips and getting horny, you should be aware of one important fact.
Komaba High School is male-only.
Komaba High School, attached to the prestigious University of Tsukuba and located in prim Setagaya ward in Tokyo, has a reputation for being a breeding ground for the next generation of ...
In desperate need of a smooch? No girl around for a good kiss when you want one?
Have this in your pocket for such situations!
Gashapon capsule toys are one of the most famous kinds of Japanese vending machines and come in all shapes and sizes. Saying that, they are usually something to do with an anime character.
But the new Smart Kiss series by Bandai, which went on sale at the vending machines in mid-October, is a bit different. It's a series of "lips," seven of them girls' and one modeled on a man's mouth.
The stickers are meant for your smartphone, though we're not ...
Idols are wonderful. We love them -- their bodies, their cute looks, their habit of posing in small bikinis...
But some people go too far.
The Japanese internet has been delighted to find that the rumors are true. There are otaku so obsessed with idols that they need serious help.
That's why there's this "consultation" helpline for people who are "dependent" on idols. I.e. the guys who buy thousands of AKB48 CDs for the votes they bring in the "election" and the people who line up for hours just for the chance to have five-seconds with their starlet as they shake her ...
When we think of Japanese virginal girls, we tend to think of cute girls like this.
But there were another kind.
The Ojiroku and Obasa was a rural custom that is said to have continued until the twentieth century.
They weren't allowed contact with anyone except the oldest son and could not marry, instead being worked by the family like a slave all their lives.
Due to Japan's mountains, there are many villages separated by peaks and forests, giving rise to unique isolated culture. Take the village of Kamihara in Nagano.
In this village, there was no space for children other ...
Japanese TV is disgraceful at times. Here is the shocking image from a TV show broadcast on state channel NHK.
It shows quite clearly a young child fondling a certain member. What a scandal!
Hang on, it's not human. Does this make it worse? Is it bestiality as well as prepubescent porn? Well, no.
But it does look a bit funny!
For your information, it actually shows a girl helping to milk a jersey cow in Miyazaki prefecture. Still, with shots as ambiguous as this, it's almost enough to make you pay your NHK ...
After it got big media attention last year, designer Kaori Kato's novel if creepy "flip-a-skirt" calendar has returned with a new edition for 2014.
We weren't sure what to make of it when we blogged about the skirt-lifting calendar last year. Now we have been thoroughly won over by its charms.
Like in 2013 you can lift up the skirt to reveal the calendar below. This year's version comes in two colors! You get the pleasure of lifting up a skirt for every month.
Plus there are memo pad-like skirts where you can attach a note to a girl's ...
For around ¥4,000 an hour you can have a girlfriend or boyfriend. Well, you can have what's nice about having a partner without the physical stuff, at any rate.
Rental friends have been around for a while in many places and the ones in Japan have often disproportionately been given space by the foreign media. Obviously they are a fringe service for certain types of people who need extra bods at weddings and so on. How much truth is there in the coverage?
Well, the services do exist, that's for sure, and they are often more innocent (and innovative) than you might think.
We read an ...
It must be the season. Just as Tokyo is getting pounded by typhoons on a weekly basis, so is the foreign media taking an interest in reporting about "nerdy" Japan.
First we had the respected newspaper the Guardian cherry-pick some statistics to produce the dubious conclusion that young people aren't having sex anymore.
Now the BBC has an article about "the Japanese men who prefer virtual girlfriends to sex". Well, my first response was -- you've just found out about this now?!
Secondly, of course, it tars us Japanese guys with the same brush as the otaku. Much as we love otaku ...
There's been a lot of media attention about stalking recently, not least due to the sad case of 18-year-old Saaya Suzuki, murdered by a stalker earlier this month.
Now comes another odd twist on the situation.
The National Police Agency (NPA) has reported a 3.8 increase on incidents of stalking by citizens over 60 over the last decade.
So much for the golden years.
Apparently stalking is on the increase in general, though the rise is much more notable for pensioners.
Stalkers in their sixties jumped from 383 in 2003 to 1,329 in 2012, plus there was an increase from 90 to 505 of guys in ...
A long article in the Guardian has been published that purports to be sociological and serious, but is actually perpetuating the usual myths we read about our great country -- everyone is unhappy, everyone only works, no one has sex.
The sexes, especially in Japan's giant cities, are "spiralling away from each other". Lacking long-term shared goals, many are turning to what [a sex therapist] terms "Pot Noodle love" -- easy or instant gratification, in the form of casual sex, short-term trysts and the usual technological suspects: online porn, virtual-reality "girlfriends", anime cartoons. ...
