Now this is a woman! When those idol group girls graduate and put a few more years on them, this is what they become. Behold, Machiko Tezuka!
The 27-year-old hottie was a former SKE48 idol group member who then joined SDN48 for a while.
She has had a rather peripatetic career, as these minor idols often do, including joining Seifuku Koji Iinkai for a time in 2002.
In 2004 she changed her professional name to Ourei Harada to become a Gravure idol. She then promptly retired in 2007.
And then in 2009 she changed it to Eiko Maeda for when she joined in SKE48.
And then she ...
If you're a AKB48 fan, you are probably a vulnerable individual with money to burn and an appetite for over-priced merchandise.
And if you know someone like that or come into contact with them -- be warned. They may just steal your money.
As we know, otaku fans idol groups are famously willing to put themselves into serious debt in order to purchase thousands of CDs.
But this is taking things to almost mafia levels.
Kyoto police are now set to prosecute six men, all aged 20, who stole information from other people's credit cards so that they could buy nearly 500 CDs by the group ...
When we think of Japan, we don't tend to think of condoms.
Far from it, this is the land of thousands of unwanted pregnancies, where most celebrities tend to get married shotgun-style and STDs are rampant.
But one company is fighting this. Sagami is not only doing its utmost to product incredible contraceptive products but is also trying to promote sex in general.
It is part condom maker, part sociology lab. It has set out to investigate the truth about sex in Japan and is responsible for some of the best research done into mainstream sex habits in Japan.
It also produces the ...
Japanese girls are world experts in make-up. Almost no girl leaves the house without at least a dab of blush or foundation, and women quite advanced in years can still look superb. Skin quality is praised above sexiness.
Recently there has been a trend for celebrities posting pictures of themselves as suppin (no make-up) on blogs and so on.
Nozomi Sasaki, the popular angelic actress, has found herself caught up in the "trend" when she took part in a promo for a cosmetic product in which she appeared without make-up.
Here you can see a before-and-after.
She did it to show ...
Another day, another fetish-related crime.
We only just recently blogged about the man who stole everything from satchels to curtains from an elementary school, and now comes this news -- first shared on Tokyo Reporter -- of a thief whose interests was exclusively the shoes of hostesses.
Well, anything related to hostesses we can understand; these ladies inspire a thousand fetishes.
On Monday Tokyo Metropolitan Police announced that they had arrested a man for stealing shoes from hostesses.
Sho Sato (28) took high-heeled shoes from clubs in Tokyo, Kanagawa and Saitama.
The ...
Japanese and Chinese netizens are currently going crazy about a series of very risque selfies posted by Korean customers in online shopping reviews.
They seem very satisfied not only with the swimwear and lingerie purchases they made but how they look with them all. We are certainly impressed by the results as well.
We love how the selfies are focussed very intently on certain aspects of how the girls look -- the butt, the cleavage and so on.
While Japanese online merchants don't feature such exciting online reviews, there is a ...
A 53-year-old unemployed man has been arrested and charged with sneaking into an elementary school in Takaoka City in Toyama Prefecture, and stealing a large quantity of school satchels and other examples of school property.
He was first arrested and charged with stealing the satchel of a 7-year-old student on December 7th, but after that the police raided his home and found some 140 other items, such as musical instruments and bicycles.
The police chief said that the man had been using the same method to sneak into the school since 11 years ago and had been stealing kids' things, and ...
Kigurumi suits are costumes where you dress up as an animal or anime character.
They come in all shapes and sizes, but we were excited by Anime Kigurumi Suit released by our friends KanojoToys since it represents perhaps the PERFECT chance to act out those anime roleplay fantasies.
With this Anime Kigurumi Suit set you literally become a big-eyed anime cartoon girl. We've seen a fair few of these costumes at conventions and events, but this is one of the most compelling and high-quality we've ever seen available on the wide market.
Here's what you look like if you want to ...
The animal.
The technician.
The flashy guy.
It's time to save women from these guys.
So say Ravijour, the Japanese maker of some very sexy bras.
As part of the lingerie brand's tenth anniversary, Ravijour has created a bra that "automatically unhooks" when the right man is on the scene.
It knows "how women truly feel."
It cannot be unhooked without true love.
Ravijour has even recruited a "human sexuality specialist," a physician, and the design lab Rhizomatics to create this concept bra.
They say that a built-in sensor reads the wearer's heart beat. This then interacts with an ...
We often talk about chikan on Tokyo Kinky. There is a strange subculture in Japan where certain men think it's okay to grope women on trains. In fact, there are even certain "clubs" that organize these kinds of mass groping sessions on public transport.
But if you get found out it can bring your fantasies crashing down.
That's what happened to one 39-year-old man on the Odakyu Odawara line when it was passing through Kawasaki, just outside Tokyo on Thursday night.
Around 9 pm a woman on the train caught his hands wandering and exposed him. The humiliated man, whether to try to ...
