Hardly the biggest surprise of the week but a worthy topic of news, Tokyo Reporter has highlighted an interesting report of the arrest of a Nigerian club owner arrested by police for drugging and stealing from his customers.
Officers took Emanuel John, the 44-year-old manager of Little Cat, which is located in the in the red-light district of Kabukicho, and three hostesses into custody on theft charges.
On April 20, a hostess allegedly spiked a vodka drink served to a 43-year-old male customer with a sleeping powder. His cash card was then stolen from his wallet and taken to a nearby ...
AKB48's Asuka Kuramochi has grown up. She will release her first solo photo book on September 11th called "Mimi-tabu", which means "earlobe".
We're not sure if this has some sort of coded meaning or whether the photos will showcase Asuka's lovely ears. Saying that, Asuka is known as an "ear sommelier" and apparently has a liking for liking other girls' ears...
The release will coincide with her 24th birthday, though we think the present is more for us than her!
The shoot was done in Asuka's local town, Yokohama, and handled by photographer Tatsuo Watanabe.
While ...
Four men have been arrested in Tokyo for theft by Kanagawa police after they blackmailed a man they met through a smartphone deai-kei app.
Deai-kei refers to the portals online and off where men go to meet girls for sex. It is somewhere between adultery and prostitution, but the variables are huge. You might be talking to a few men posing as teenagers or you might be arranging to meet a genuine girl who wants some cash for a new handbag.
The four men were in their teens and twenties. They apparently scouted a thirty-year-old man from Fujisawa City via the app and invited him to the mean ...
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 statistics on its bra sales and so we have some nice data on which cups sell most -- and thus, can presumably infer on the proportion of breast sizes across the country.
Note, though that the numbers are for 2011, though we doubt that Japanese breasts have evolved so much in two years.
So, here we go.
A Cup: 8%
B Cup: 23.8%
C Cup: 26.7%
D Cup: 22%
E Cup: 12.8%
F Cup: 4.8%
G Cup: ...
Just imagine you like AKB48. Now imagine you like AKB48 so much you will commit a crime.
That's what four teenagers did.
They mugged a man in order to have cash to buy special clothes to "look good" for a meet-and-greet hand-shaking event with the idol group.
Aged between 15 and 17, the kids came up to a 27-year-old grad student as he was leaving a convenience store earlier in August in Kamiya, central Tokyo. Confronting him in their best macho voices, they managed to get away with his phone, his money and even the can of beer he had just purchased. The victim apparently ...
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 example has just come to light.
A man was arrested in Kanagawa prefecture over the weekend for stealing. Nothing new in that, except that he stole bicycle seats. A lot of them. 200 of them.
Police first came to see Joji Kondo to investigate the theft of three seats from an apartment block at around 4:45 AM on August 22nd. In Kondo's lair of pungent desire, they found 200 bicycle ...
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 a special spy camera to his shoe so he could film up women's skirts. The camera was on the inside and could shoot from a small hole in the leather.
One August Sunday afternoon he took his invention to a department store in Takamatsu, where he was trying it out by filming up the skirt of a 23-year-old woman.
Surely this guy should be given bonus points for innovation and brazenness. The ...
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 certain drooling articles in the past.
We previously blogged with glee about Haruna's new work modeling for Peach John, Japan's lingerie brand that is similar to Victoria's Secret.
She's back in a new series of ads which feature Haruna sleeping... perfect for imagining what it's like to be snuggled up close to her.
We're not sure about the red hair but we do like it when she cups her bust ...
Not a question I often ask myself... but apparently they have!
So says Dr. Akiko Tanaka, who has apparently photographed over 8,000 vaginas.
Here's where we get a bit technical. Tanaka says that the labia majora in women today used to be thicker and covered the labia minora more. But now the labia stand out more than they did in the past.
Why? Apparently it's all due to dieting. The skin on the labia has got slimmer due to girls always going on diets.
All this biological change has led some girls naturally to become conscious of their conspicuous pussies, having being told by ...
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 twenty-six-year-old girl that her purse had been grabbed while cycling home, no doubt they weren't surprised.
Until she gave her description of the criminal. "This is a first," said the police.
According to the girl, the man was aged between 30 and 35, with a crew cut and muscular build.
But he had chosen to steal her handbag with its 9,000 yen inside wearing the most unusual of crime world ...
