The freelance newscaster Yuri Kawaguchi has lost her contract with her management agency.
The agency, Voice, announced on August 11 that Kawaguchi had been let go due to a post she made on social media complaining about male body odor.
The 29-year-old posted a now-notorious tweet on August 8.
"I'm sorry if you can't help it for some reason, but I just can't stand the smell of men in the summer and that very particular body odor of those with an unhealthy lifestyle. I always want to stay clean so I take several showers a day, wipe off sweat, and use antiperspirant all year round. I want ...
As the Paris Olympics wind down, it's time to reflect on the days we spent glued to our TVs and phones watching the sporting achievements. Or, let's be honest, admiring the shapely female bodies on display in high definition.
As always, the swimming, beach volleyball, and track and field did not disappoint when it came to viewing attractive, athletic female bodies in tight-fitting clothing.
Polish sprinter Ewa Swoboda made a big impressive with her muscular curves, sexy tattoos, and lively personality.
Another runner, Germany's Alica Schmidt, secured gold in the beauty competition for ...
We reported earlier this summer on the silly circus that was the Tokyo gubernatorial election, with a female candidate stripping off during her TV broadcast and another using pornographic posters that police ordered to be taken down.
One of the slightly more serious candidates, at least in terms of mainstream fame, was Toshio Tamogami, who finished fourth with 3.9% and around 270,000 votes.
The right-wing former Air Self-Defense Force general has stood for election several times, never winning public office but using the campaigns to maintain his profile and platform as a nationalist ...
According to a viral post by the prolific Gareso Takizawa on Twitter/X (with 8.4 million views and counting), a Japanese pro esports player has apologized for cheating because he was hoping to get his end away.
The unnamed male competitor played with a friend using a cheat program. He did this because two female acquaintances promised that if he could maintain his Apex ranking, they'd help him lose his virginity.
Though the man has come clean and shamefully admitted his cheating, it's not known if the women upheld her end of the bargain.
Takizawa's post was based on the player's own ...
In what seems to like the plot of a dodgy AV uploaded to FC2, an Osaka court has ordered a man to pay compensation to a woman he had unprotected sex with.
The sex was fully consensual but she wanted him to wear a condom. He refused and the woman sued him for ¥1.73 million.
Osaka District Court recognized that the man's actions constituted a violation of the woman's sexual self-determination and ordered him to pay compensation of ¥740,000. Japanese lawsuits typically involve quite small monetary amounts and the compensation awarded is often lower than what the plaintiff demands.
The man ...
It sounds like the plot of a modern-day Edogawa Rampo story.
Police have arrested a 39-year-old elementary school teacher for trespassing.
Masashi Mizuno teaches at a school in Edogawa, Tokyo, and snuck into the home of a high school student who used to be in his class at another school.
According to police, Mizuno secretly made a copy of her home key five years prior in anticipation of sneaking into her home in the future.
Mizuno apparently had a fetish for female school uniforms. "I wanted a school uniform and I remembered the student, and that she would be in high school by now," he ...
This story has been bubbling away for a few days and it's finally time to write it up here.
The former figure skater Miki Ando has been accused of having an inappropriate relationship with her 16-year-old male protégé after a tabloid snapped them out together on a date.
The 36-year-old Ando, a two-time former world champion, famously left the figure skating world in the early 2010s to raise her child as a single mom and, despite intense media speculation, never named the father. (It is rumored to be a foreign skater or coach.)
Bunshun published allegations on June 26 that Ando was ...
Election broadcasts are a bit of a circus in Japan. Legally, the public broadcaster NHK is obliged to show them and this is why so many fringe and wacky candidates ultimately pay to stand for election, because it means they're guaranteed several minutes of fame.
This year is particularly strange with the July election for Tokyo governor, since there are so many candidates (but only two or three serious ones). Already, the "poster hijacks" by the NHK Party, which has sold its candidates' slots to anyone willing to pay, have generated lots of attention, as have the nude images of a woman on ...
A Japanese pianist has been arrested for stealing the aprons of flight attendants to satisfy a fetish for their smell.
Thirty-four-year-old Kazuya Saito lives in Tokyo but travels widely for his work as a professional concert pianist.
In May, airline ANA reported the theft of several flight attendant aprons.
Saito is accused of stealing an apron (worth around ¥5,000) from an April 25 ANA flight from Ishigaki to Haneda while the plane was preparing for takeoff. His arrest was first reported on June 14 and further details have emerged in the last few days.
The pianist has apparently ...
A candidate for the upcoming Tokyo governor election is using a naked female model on his campaign posters.
Yusuke Kawai's schtick is cosplaying as the Joker and doing provocative stuff, though this might be the most extreme of all his stunts to date.
The model is Miu Sakurai, a gyaru model, music idol (with the group Devilsis), and race queen who has appeared in beauty contests and who appears to have Filipino roots. She describes herself as the "world's top will-do-anything gyaru" and has also been helping Kawai put up the posters of her naked body on boards around Tokyo.
Various ...
