It's election time for the AKB48 idols. But lurking under the surface right now are several unsavory rumors.
For a start, the alleged connections between AKB48 executives and the yakuza. These have emerged again even after AKB48 big wig Yasushi Kubota sued the Shukan Bunshun last year for such remarks.
Now there are also suggestions that Kubota and former AKB48 hottie Tomomi Kasai (21) -- and no stranger to her own sex-related scandals -- are conducting an affair.
Images have been published supposedly showing the pair returning late at night to a luxury condo.
Kasai is also ...
The culture of chikan and up-skirt photography is catching, it seems!
Police in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, have arrested a petty officer third class stationed at the nearby US naval base. The 22-year-old took a bus in the town but decided to take in the view not just from the window.
At around 8:20 in the morning he was caught trying to snap a shot with his smartphone up the skirt of a third-year high school girl.
A 39-year-old woman thought something was suspicious and grabbed the man, reporting him to police. The soldier then sealed his guilt by notably smashing up his phone prior to ...
There recently appeared online a Q&A with someone who claimed to work for a sex club (fuzoku), inviting Japan's netizens to throw out questions.
Here is a selection of the results...
What type of sex club is it?
"Wife" hotel delivery.
Have you ever hit a customer demanding to go the whole way with a girl?
I've made a copy of someone's driver's licence before.
Do you spend money on STDs?
We get checked [the girls] out.
Where do you recruit women?
Online.
If yours is a "wife"-style sex club, then I guess your customers are mostly young?
In the mornings there ...
Japanese porn star Sola Aoi (aka Sora Aoi) is immensely popular in China but her latest attempt to flog her titillating DVDs has backfired with the establishment.
She has now indulged in some calligraphy in the country, though it has been criticized as "unskilled" by traditionalists.
That hasn't stopped it from being auctioned for $95,000!
Sola wrote eight Kanji characters at a theme park in Ningbo, which were sold this month.
However, the media has tried to use the opportunity to criticize this "foreign" invader of the flesh.
"The style of calligraphy is childish, ...
Here's something we always suspected!
A Japanese tabloid has published rumors that the founders of AKB48 may not simply be sickening old men with a liking for teenaged girls -- but have close connections with the yakuza, the Japanese mafia.
Given that the Japanese government is using public funds for its risible "Cool Japan" schemes, which have Yasushi Akimoto as an advisor, essentially this means the government has been paying a mafia-related organization to promote the nation.
The weekly Shukan Shincho has published a picture and allegations that one of AKB48 founders Kotaro Shiba ...
When you've got something good, hold onto it, as the saying goes.
Well, some people have taken that literally when it comes to women.
In Cardboard Box Confinement Girl, a man keeps a girl in his house as a sex slave and literally makes her sleep in his closet in a cardboard box.
There are so-called freeter Japanese "in-between" workers and other working poor who are forced to live and sleep in box flats so tiny we would call them cages or closets. If they're lucky they can live in an internet cafe and get to sleep at one of the computer booths.
Well, I guess this girl is the ...
It's that time of year again.
With the AKB48 "elections" taking place to see who gets to sing in the next song, Twitter is awash with pictures of boxes of CDs and tickets purchased by passionate otaku fans.
One fan has shared images of towers of boxes, boasting that they spent 1,917,800 yen on them -- and paid for on delivery in cash to the mail man too! They now have thousands of CDs to play to their heart's content.
Another is meant to have shared images of 1,614,400 yen's worth of merchandise -- about half a year's salary for most people.
Or there are piles of ...
Think you like a bit of MILF? Think again. You've got nothing on this guy.
An unemployed man in his mid-forties has been arrested in Aichi, central Japan, for groping a pensioner.
The man professes to be mad about mature women -- so-called jukujo -- and couldn't resist the woman he saw in her seventies.
Hiroyuki Kojima apparently watched a "video" (i.e. porn) and that converted him into a MILF lover.
Actually, Japan is meant to be experiencing a "jukujo boom" right now, led by the likes of Dan Mitsu. However, it is very deceptive since Dan Mitsu et al are in their early ...
A 31-year-old man has been arrested for pretending to be a comedy duo's manager in early March and approaching gravure model Momoko Tani (28) in a department store.
There she tried on some clothes and he put on a show of being helpful.
"It's dangerous so I'll carry your bag for you," he told her, whereupon he then stole her bag and went off.
The comedy duo, Bananaman, is now very popular in Japan and no doubt the suspect believed that claiming to be their manager would be a ticket to all sorts of fun activities he normally could not do.
Ironically, Bananaman's actual manager is a woman ...
There is magic in Japan and it's called cosmetics.
It's well-known that Japanese women spend more time and care on their make-up than women in other countries. Shiseido and its peers are respected for being some of the most successful and effective cosmetic brands in the world.
Here we can see it in action.
S Cawaii fashion magazine organized this incredible demonstration of the power of make-up.
It took a bunch of girls who, without being mean, were fairly ordinary looking -- or perhaps even, if we are honest, below average.
But cosmetics was used to bring out their true ...
