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, it's not just about chatting and sharing cute virtual stickers. When you have 100 million users, you can guarantee that a certain proportion of them will be horny.
And when you get horny users, you get porn!
Some creative users have been creating conversations where the chat bubbles only just about preserve the modesty of sexy idols.
Okay, so here's the secret ...
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 men in both their twenties and thirties answered that they had never had sex or been in a relationship. The numbers of people dated increases for men in their thirties compared with respondents in their twenties, but the proportion of people who with no experience of romance among the unmarried remains the same.
On the other hand, girls in their twenties with no experience of a relationship is ...
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 2013.
The itasha car is available for both the Prius and Vitz models, and has been customized with images from the Girls and Panzers anime.
The cars will also be sold from a showroom in Ikebukuro.
Otaku certainly have enough cash to buy AKB48 singles by the thousands -- but do they have the means to purchase a car? Toyota hopes ...
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 signals, obstruct camera lens and even blaze light to punish the selfish members of the audience.
It is actually a parody of the much-mocked "No More!" video that is featured before showings of movies in Japanese cinemas, warning people not to make illegal recordings of films.
Hentai Kamen is released in Japan on April ...
...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 girls...
So, if you are thinking of trying to seduce a Japanese high school girl, be ...
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 structures.
Either way, you can find a ton of pretty amazing smell fetish goods out there.
We went shopping...
Japanese Schoolgirl Armpit Smell Bottle
This bottle collects the aroma of a sweaty schoolgirl's armpit especially for your pleasure.
Japanese Virgin Girl Sweat Spray
And if it's just perspiration you are after, try this virgin sweat spray, which is great for adding to clothes, ...
They might have chunkier thighs and muscular arms, but a new generation of Japanese women's volleyball players is winning hordes of fans.
A million miles from the non-sporty bodies of AKB48's minions, nonetheless these girls are cute, erotic and homely. We ...
Miho Kanno, the much-loved actress and model, has announced she is getting married to fellow actor Masato Sakai.
They have apparently only been dating for three months but I guess, with Miho at 35 and he at 39, they know it's now or never!
Miho became famous very young and was also a singer in her early days. She is probably best known in the west for her appearance in the Takeshi Kitano film Dolls and the Mika Ninagawa film Sakuran (in which she appears briefly nude). Her face is a common sight in advertising as well.
She was also, along with Rie Miyazawa, one of the first ...
Ah, when will our thing for Japanese school girls settle down? Not any time soon, that's for sure.
Fuji TV was filming a program at Tokyo Disneyland and a group of high school girls were posing innocently in front of one of the theme park's monuments.
No harm in that, right?
Except they decided to jump up to make a "special" shot for the photograph.
The result was a particularly lewd moment, all filmed for our benefit by the ...
Sounds like a dream job, right?
A young Japanese man, Kei Akatsu, initially used crowdsourcing to create his online project, Bijo Sekai Chizu (Beautiful Girl World Map), in which he travels the globe, approaching hot girls and asking to photograph and profile them.
We imagine that most of the girls the guy comes up to think he's just a creep and tell him to get lost.
The science student has an advantage, though, in that his website looks quite nice and genuine.
He's so far been to Canada and America, and dipped his toe in South America and Southeast Asia.
We would ...
