One of the hotter members of AKB48 (a group full, with the notable exceptions of Rie Kitahara and Haruna Kojima, of essentially banal looking girls stuffed down us unfortunate Japanese's throats daily with frequently sickening consequences), Yuka Masuda, has been forced to quit her "illustrious" career after it was revealed she was sleeping another minor celebrity, ISSA.
The couple met while working together in a musical earlier in the autumn.
Her agency continues to deny her relationship with ISSA but she has as good as admitted her abhorrent sin of having sex by announcing her sudden ...
That's according to the bijin-JAPAN Grand Prix, which judged 51 girls appearing in the Bijin Tokei website from 18 areas around Japan.
The winner was Mayumin from Kyoto.
Over 50,000 girls were included in the initial round, all ladies who have been featured in the Bijin Tokei website, where cute girls hold up signs telling you the time.
A simple idea but a winning one, there are widgets you can get for your desktop and blog, as well as apps. It has also spawned numerous spin-offs.
Here are the runners-up.
Yuka from Saitama came in at number 2.
While Makotan from ...
Sometimes you think you've seen them all. But you haven't.
How about a balloon fetish, anyone?
Do you like the rub of blown-up leather producing that sound as it makes contact with skin? And it's female skin, young nubile Japanese girls -- or larger ladies with plenty of flesh to wrap around the balloons.
It seems there are enough looners in Japan to merit an online group called the JBFC, or Japan Balloon Fetish Club.
From what we can make out a very cursory glance, the fetish scene here seems to be more passive -- watching girls with balloons as opposed to being in the ...
Love hotels. Sites for naughty sex between adulterous couples, couples who still live at home, and of course plenty of liaisons with prostitutes too.
A little known fact is that one in four occupants of a love hotel is now said to be over 65, and the love hotels are adapting to these seniors.
With the Baby Boomer generation hitting retirement, seniors mean big business for everyone.
Seniors, though, naturally like to take things easily, so many hotels are offering longer versions of the so-called two or three-hour "rest" periods, so seniors can get the daytime cheap rate at their own ...
That friendly face you see on NHK is not as friendly as you might thing.
Takeshige Morimoto, a well-known TV anchor for the national broadcaster, was arrested on Wednesday after he allegedly groped a young university student on a crowded train in Tokyo.
The feisty 23-year-old girl was on the Tokyu Denentoshi line, which serves Shibuya and the nicer suburbs of Tokyo, when she felt some fumbling hands on her breasts.
She held onto her groper -- which is known as chikan in Japan, perhaps the only nation on earth that even has signs on trains reminding passengers that it is a crime ...
Japan may well have recently officially entered recession again but that does not seem to impact Nipponbashi, Osaka's run-down area known for its electronics stores and sex industry (imagine Akihabara combined with Kabukicho).
Osakans have always had very good heads for business and it seems, despite the nation's economic woes, that Nipponbashi establishments are defying the overall turn towards offering cheaper goods and services a la UNIQLO et al.
Rather, they are cunningly ripping people off in the maid cafes and sex shops.
As reported over on Tokyo Reporter, one maid cafe in ...
Have little cravings for lifting up a high school girl's skirts but don't want to risk a run-in with the police and/or an angry spouse? Here's a way for you to get your fix.
Designer Kaori Kato has come up this extraordinary 2013 calendar, the suitably named Skirt-Lifting Calendar.
The graceful tender legs of a young girl (almost certainly a schoolgirl) give way to a calendar underneath the skirt (no sexy underwear included in the illustration, which may disappoint).
Kaori Kato is, of course, a girl, not some pervert guy, though we think this calendar may have more than its ...
Morning Musume, the long-running ever-cheerful girl group whose changing line-up over the years has frequently encountered scandals.
Maki Goto is likely the most famous former member, though she recently "retired" from her career in the entertainment world.
But now the rumor is that she's back -- though in a very different capacity. Japanese porn!
Shukan Jitsuwa, a Japanese weekly tabloid, has published a story claiming she has signed for two porn titles.
Apparently landing a salary of 80 million yen ($1 million) for her performances, needless to say, if the story is true -- and we ...
Japan Fetish Ball, presented by the Tokyo Kink Society (no relation to this blog!), will be unveiling its unique display of alternative sexuality this Saturday at the Christon Cafe Tokyo in Shinjuku.
The big fetish party of the year for Tokyoites (maybe even the whole of Asia), this is the fifth anniversary event.
There are separate dance and music areas, plus of course a BDSM play corner.
It was first set up by a foreigner actually and is the largest "mainstream" (i.e. widely publicized) fetish event of its kind in the city.
It costs ¥3,500 to get in and there is ...
An incredibly indiscreet pervert taking photos (or video) of a girl's underwear on a busy train was himself photographed in the act.
The image of him being incredibly unsubtle in his crime soon enough went viral on Twitter.
The photo was taken by someone at 17:04 before arriving at Kawaguchi Station on the Keihin-Tohoku Line, running between the suburbs of Tokyo.
The man seems to have a technique, given the way he leans forward with this seemingly blank and innocent facial expression, his phone just apparently stretched out like that. Perhaps, though, he should first have glanced around ...
