When we first heard the story a few days ago, we thought it had to be a joke. But then we saw the pictures and our proverbial jaw hit the table.
While it is now sadly common to see news reports about people trying to smuggle in drugs and other contraband into Japan, the method employed by one Chinese executive to smuggle in gold takes the cake: the 46-year-old resident of Chiba was arrested for attempting to smuggle in 49 kilograms of gold in 38 bars on a cargo flight from Shenzhen to Narita Airport, hidden inside three sex dolls.
The executive and five others have been arrested this ...
The gravure industry has welcomed another newbie to the fold this week -- and someone with an unusual background.
For a start, she's not super-young. Eriko Kimura is 29 (and turns 30 in September) and has a regular job, working at a major IT company. She is currently affiliated with a big entertainment agency, Oscar Promotion, but basically does modeling only on the side.
Kimura just did her first gravure shoot for Weekly Playboy, appearing in the issue released on June 15. She made her official gravure debut last July and released a digital photo book. She got her big break in 2024, where ...
The trial of a self-professed spirit medium who practiced "Dynamic Wave Divine Technique," and was arrested for engaging in sexual acts with women he brainwashed, has ended with a guilty verdict.
Katsuhiko Ohno was 65 at the time, while his victim (unnamed in media reports) was just 28. Her work in the entertainment industry had dried up due to the COVID-19 pandemic and was feeling anxious about her future, when she met Ohno at a cryptocurrency study group. A friend's husband introduced her, saying, "There's an amazing teacher who practices divine rituals. His power has turned my life ...
A few weeks ago, controversy erupted over a Japanese man's posts on social media boasting about paying for sex from underage sex workers in Indonesia.
In posts going back to at least 2024, he brazenly wrote about how he was looking forward to having sex with these "living onaholes" aged 16 or 17, and was going to "creampie" them.
It inevitably led to outrage online last month. Angry Indonesians found further examples of other Japanese men boasting about their supposed exploits. Warnings were issued by the Japanese embassy and government that child prostitution is illegal. Police in ...
A pink companion is an old-fashioned term for a cross between a hostess, stripper, and sex worker at a hot spring resort.
Hot spring (onsen) resorts are now places for wellness and luxury, but traditionally were closely associated with erotic pleasures, either for newly married couples or guys looking for a good time with geisha, hostesses, and sex workers. It's also why sex museums were often at such resorts.
Pink companions (sometimes called super companions) will officially stop short of providing actual sex to guests, but they wear provocative clothing or nothing but underwear while ...
What happens to those sexy, leggy race queens (grid girls) when their careers dry up? Well, in the case of Chisato Morishita, they might go into politics. A lucky few switch to grave. Others run bars.
And possibly get arrested for doing so.
Last week, people went crazy about the beautiful, chatty bar manager who was among five arrested in a police crackdown in Kabukicho, Akihabara, and Ikebukuro, and now some details and rumors about her background have emerged.
Tomoko Nagata is accused of operating Wisteria as an unlicensed girls bar in Kabukicho because her female staff were not just ...
That cutie on social media may have a dark side.
It's one of the most sensational crimes in recent days, made even more sensational by the woman allegedly behind it.
The 28-year-old Kaito Takemae and his 25-year-old wife, Miyu (sometimes Miyuu), are suspected of hiring four high school students to break into a house in Tochigi, where they stabbed and killed the 69-year-old resident. All four students were quickly apprehended by police. Kaito and Miyu are accused of directing the students during the crime.
Kaito was arrested at Haneda Airport while trying to flee the country. Miyu was ...
The content creator platform Fantia has announced sweeping changes that will greatly impact its use by adult content creators by forcing them to censor their uploads.
Fantia is popular with models as well as adult illustrators and doujinshi creators, but that may be set to change with the announcement on May 19 that all content on Fantia needs blurring, pixellation (mosaic), or covering by a solid color to full hide images of genitalia and penetration. This also applies to past uploads, so creators will need to fix past content or remove it.
It relates to Article 175 of the Japanese Penal ...
This is your perennial reminder that Japan's Minister of State for Special Missions (Child Policy, Youth Empowerment, Declining Birth Rate, Gender Equality) looked like this.
Alright, she did when she was much younger. Today, she's 61 years old and has a penchant for the pants suit.
She became a politician in 2010. Despite having no children of her own (though she's had some practice -- she's on her third husband, who is 24 years her junior, since 2016), she was tasked with reversing Japan's chronically declining birth rate.
Mihara started off her career as a singer. When she was an ...
The tabloid weekly Friday has published a story about a pregnant woman in Japan who did papakatsu sugar dating, earning around ¥8 million in 10 months.
Eriko (a pseudonym) explained to the magazine that she and her older husband dated for 10 years and have been married now for seven. Now at age 36, she is finally pregnant with their first child.
"I work as an office lady, but I've actually been doing sugar dating [compensated dating with a sugar daddy] since before I got pregnant. The regular allowances I received were the main source of my income. So, while I was happy to be pregnant, I ...
