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 ...
Photographer Yuji Susaki has got together with Akihabara idol unit Dempagumi.inc to create a photo book with 100 cosplay models.
The "Dempa Models x 100 Cosplay" collection goes on sale August 8th.
We only just blogged about another Susaki cosplay photography project and it seems he is very much in the news these days.
The Dempagumi.inc girls (who include Moga Mogami and Nemu Yumemi) are featured in student uniforms, nurse uniforms and more. The publishers hope to sell 5,000 copies in the first run.
While Dempagumi.inc may not have the profile of the ubiquitous AKB48, it has ...
Perfect for summer. If you own a pair of wheels, you know how driving it can build up a layer of dust and dirty, especially in a big city like Tokyo. Well, now you can get it clean and get your rocks off at the same time.
Take it to Akihabara, where hot girls in swimsuits are offering car-washing services from July 25th to August 30th.
The Sukuminsensha features a soapy spongig down, a high-pressure rinse, a tire wax and more, all done for you by lovely young ladies in swimsuits -- and for the modest price of 10,000 yen.
You are even allowed to stay in the car and catch the girls ...
We love Tsubomi.
The cute JAV star, recently pregnant, has won legions of fans in Japan and rightfully so.
A documentary on the new Vice Japan channel looks at Tsubomi. It's in Japanese only but turn on the closed captions for English subtitles.
A highlight is at the start when she says she thinks Japanese people are more secretive when it comes to sex.
It doesn't go into any context or explore anything properly, just following Tsubomi around Akihabara as she looks at costumes and meets a few fans. There are some short clips from movie shoots.
There is quite a funny ...
Next month if you are in Tokyo you should check out this awesome collection of cosplay images by photographer Yuji Susaki.
The sexy and sensual images showcase Susaki's fifteen years of work investigating the curious mixture of the erotic and the dress-up that is cosplay.
“COSPLAY made in Japan” is showing at Emon Photo Gallery August 24 to September 14, 2013.
And if you think you recognize some of the sexy ladies in the pictures, you're not imagining things. Susaki uses idols and models rather than "amateur" cosplayers, including Mizuho Hata, Ai Amano, Chiaki Kyan, ...
