The annual AKB48 General Election Book (AKB48総選挙！水着サプライズ2013) has this year been proving a hit, with sales of 60,000 copies a week since it was released on August 5th.
Though the 2012 wasn't as successful, both the 2010 and 2011 editions were likewise bestsellers. It was first released in 2009.
This year ("Swimsuit Surprise") features all 64 members of the world's largest bikini model music group (AKB48, SKE48, NMB48, and HKT48) who ranked in the election in barely-there swimsuits.
The book has been released ahead of the new single that comes out on ...
Tokyo Reporter recently published an intriguing (if worrying) article recently from the Japanese media about a maid cafe in Roppongi being raided for employing underage girls.
Officers took Ryuji Shimizu, 41, the manager of Archangels Tokyo, into custody for allegedly employing a 16-year-old girl as a waitress after 10 p.m. — a violation of the Law Regulating Adult Entertainment Businesses.
The girl, who was attired in a light kimono known as a yukata, received an hourly wage of 1,050 yen per hour.
This reminds us of the recent girls' bar scandal in Osaka and it seems police are now ...
It is customary to have a celebrity make the first pitch at baseball games in Japan.
Last Saturday sexy thirtysomething model Mitsu Dan made the pitch for a game in Akita and did so in her typically alluring style.
We're not sure how this would have gone down with the mothers in the stadium or watching on TV, but the dads seemed to love it at any rate.
After coming out in the team uniform, Dan quickly defies the usual way of doing things by stripping down to a very revealing swimsuit to throw her pitch, and then proceeds to frolic with the team mascot.
Apparently the ...
Shijonawate City in Osaka prefecture has punished two twenty-year-old firefighters with a six-month suspension.
What did they do wrong?
They appeared in a porn film.
Firefighters in Japan have a reputation for playing the field, earning good money and spending it on girls. These two clearly wanted to combine the two by getting some extra cash for making an appearance in an adult flick.
Apparently they were approached at Suma beach near Kobe in August last year by a scout. "You've got good bodies. Would you let us film you screwing some girls?"
They then went to a nearby condo and got ...
That's the important question being asked by the Miss Cutest High School Girl contest, a competition in Kanto region to decide which Japanese schoolgirl is the best looking.
The finalists were recently decided!
Voting for the favorite continued till yesterday (August 7th) and the announcement of the winner will be today (August 8th). Over 30,000 votes were collected and nearly 5,000 comments.
Let's take a look at some of the girls. Hikauncho has the most page views.
While Misaki here has the most "likes" on Facebook.
Yuttan is a Twitter favorite, it ...
Recently the netizens of Japan got a chance to have an online Q&A with someone who used to work as a cleaner at a love hotel. Here's a summary of what they were asked and how they responded.
The person claimed to be in charge of making up the beds after guests were finished with their stay.
Q: There's no cameras, right?
No, only in the corridors and parking lot.
Q: Did you ever bump into guests?
Sometimes. But usually we were hiding away somewhere until the guests left.
Q: Can you hear the groans?
If the inner was left open we could hear. We could hear in front of the door.
Q: Is ...
These ladies look pretty hot, right?
Well, actually these are otoko no ko (男の娘), crossdressing males, photographed by Naoko Tachibana.
They feature nine crossdressers from the cafe and bar New Type, which opened in Akihabara in May 2009. Tachibana has put these together as a photo book, "Yuri Danshi", 10,000 copies of which have been printed -- that's quite a demand!
We think you'll agree that these ladies look lovely.
Otoko no ko culture -- a mixture of cosplay and crossdressing -- is huge in Japan, with its own magazines, shopping sites ...
Tokyo Reporter has blogged a story from the tabloids that reveals the notoriety of Osaka is not without merit.
A gangster from the Yamaguchi-gumi, Tatsuya Kajiwara, has been arrested for employing minors at the establishments under his control in Osaka, all so-called girls' bars.
Girls' bars are kind of super low-price hostess clubs in which the staff will all be female and there will be a small-ish charge. The decor will be typically rather kitsch or sporty, than sexy, and have a fixed bar behind which the flirty girls -- always young and not usually glamorous like hostesses -- ...
Just when you thought she couldn't reveal any more, gravure idol and actress Kokone Sasaki (23) has released a new "hair nude" (full-frontal) photo book.
After shooting soft-core porn films and mountains of Gravure shoots, now Kokone has gone that one bit further, following in the footsteps of Rie Miyazawa and other famous full-nude models.
It was shot at summery Shodo Island in the Inland Sea and includes full nude shots of Kokone on the beach and being at one with nature.
Unfortunately we can't find many images online yet so some nice older ones will have to ...
Like girls in knee-high socks? Tick.
Like girls in swimsuits? Tick.
Then you will definitely like Underwater Knee-High Girls by Manabu Koga, a photobook that goes on sale at the end of August.
Why have one fetish when you can have two?
Koga is known for underwater photography, such as in the Mika Ninagawa film Helter Skelter.
Koga's project features around 100 photos of smiling and alluring ladies underwater while wearing the cosplayer's favorite kind of footwear.
So what do you think? Is this aquatic malarkey ...
