Back in May we reported on the incredible story -- actually one of the most intriguing things we have ever heard -- of a chikan incident on a Wakayama train in which a woman was groped by two men who believed that the woman had asked them to do it via an online forum.
In fact, she had done no such thing and they had been set up. Her protests were more realistic than the two men expected and one got off the train. When the other man also attempted to leave at the end of the line, he was grabbed by the victim and arrested.
The 26-year-old from Osaka protested his innocence and the police soon ...
Another day, another chikan story.
To grope one girl is risque. To grope two girls is rather cheeky. But to grope thirty, well, that's just getting carried away.
Or not, especially when it's a cop and he gets caught -- then it's just unprofessional in the literal sense of the word.
On a train in Kyoto a 38-year-old Osaka head patrol officer was recently grabbed with his hands where they shouldn't have been -- on the body of an office lady.
He offered the excuse for his serial train chikan groping that the ladies in question were simply too "unforgettably soft". He has been ...
Imagine you are out for a night of fun at a Tokyo strip club. Your eyes are naturally scanning the unbelievably hot girls on the stage.
Then you catch sight of two ladies in the audience who look familiar. Hey, aren't they famous models? When a friend or companion assures you they are, you can then hardly believe your eyes when the following happens. She climbs onto a stage and start to do a pole dance.
That's what happened one night an established strip club, where the models Kiko Mizuhara (22) and Eimi Kuroda (25) were in the audience. But things took a turn for the unexpected when ...
You gotta admire the guts of Miyabi Asai, the member of the Kawasaki City local idol group Kawasaki Junjo Komachi whose friend was groped on a train -- known as chikan -- but then grabbed the culprit and held onto him.
This has made her a bit of a star, thus doing more than even her idol group's activities ever did to raise Kawasaki's profile.
One night on the Odakyu Line at the end of June, her 17-year-old friend was groped by a man (38). With Asai's help they held onto the guy and gave him up to station staff at the next station.
The next day traffic to the idol group's website went ...
The discovery of one picture on the Internet has led to speculation that now Japanese schools are brimming with boys and girls who kiss each other for fun.
Well, that of course sounds like a perfectly ordinary school activity.
But the "school rule" is that you can only kiss members of the same sex.
The picture, which seems to be the sole source of the discussion, apparently summarizes the rules and the experiences of some kids with "kiss friends" -- but where it came from is anyone's guess. Is it from a magazine?
Personally we think this is total crap, and the surprised or ...
Life is short. Have an affair.
So says the slogan Ashley Madison, the infamous social media for adultery, which has 1.8 million unique users.
It started in Canada in 2001 and now has finally come to Japan.
It works by users purchasing credits, which they can use to send mails to potential partners, so in some ways on the surface is not dissimilar to regular dating sites. But this is totally up-front that the people using the site are cheating on their real partners.
Women can join for free (yay!) and there is a translation tool if you're interested in looking for a foreign ...
After making tentative moves at the end of last year, US gaijin tarento and Gravure model Leah Dizon has at last fully begun her comeback in Japan.
She appeared for the first time professionally in public in Tokyo at an event for a men's cosmetic brand since leaving the country three years ago.
“Long time no see, Japan!” she said in broken Japanese and confessed to being nervous. In the interim of being away, not surprisingly, her language skills have not improved and she needed an interpreter at the event.
Dizon is still only 26 but has been through a bit of a whirlwind. ...
We've looked at surveys before -- from men who never date to the best breasts, habits and the most-viewed Wikipedia pages.
Now Sagami, one of Japan's leading condom makers, has released the results of a big nationwide survey, Nippon no Sex, it did in January this year.
It surveyed 14,100 men and women online (plus 29,315 in a pre-survey), aged from their twenties to their sixties, and from all of Japan's forty-seven prefectures.
The results are a little alarming in places, such as that 40.6% of Japanese males are still virgins (as opposed to just 25.5% of women), and that the average ...
With the ink on her 2012 divorce to an Austrian actor still fresh, singer Ayumi Hamasaki is rumored to have taken up with another "white" lover.
The pair were spotted at a luxury resort in Bali, where they apparently shared the same hotel suite.
Ayumi seems to have been around for an eternity, though she is only a mere 34 years old. Last year she had a relationship with a dancer, but it was over before it even really registered.
She had a notorious short-lived marriage to Austrian actor Manuel Schwarz, which ended in late 2011/early 2012, ostensibly due to Ayumi wanting to spend ...
Want to canoodle with a former AKB48 idol? Just go to one of Erena Ono's "handshaking" events.
Such meet-and-greet sessions are controversial staples of the AKB48 itinerary, and since graduating from the idol supergroup in 2010, Erena has been using similar tactics to entice fans to buy more CDs.
After purchasing a copy of her new album (Erena's first solo release), you were allowed to meet Erena -- and it seems she is being very rewarding these days if you get the three editions of the CD. At an event over several days last week, such fans had their photos taken with a Cheki ...
