We've been holding back on this story to see how it developed. No fireworks yet, but it's still juicy.
Does women's used panties fetish go right to the heart of government in Japan?
A Cabinet minister stands accused by a tabloid magazine of stealing female panties.
The newly appointed Tsuyoshi Takagi is minister in charge of Tohoku reconstruction but weekly tabloid Shukan Shincho says he is a suspect in a very different kind of role: as the theive of a young woman's underwear.
According to Shukan Shincho, Takagi snuck into a house some 30 years ago win Tsuruga, Fukui ...
Let this be a warning to all aspiring adult entrepreneurs out there.
The manager of an Osaka restaurant has been arrested for making and selling pornographic DVDs from an apartment.
Shoji Matsumoto (46) sold 46 DVDs to a Saitama man in his forties for ¥7,000 ($58) in July. Matsumoto started a website to sell his DVDs, as well as renting a nearby apartment, where he stored around 70,000 types of adult videos!
When he got an order, he would press the video into DVD format and send it to the customer.
Matsumoto sold each DVD for ¥200, offering two free films if you spent over ...
We've long been talking about the apparent imminent demise of fake deai-kei ("encounter") websites, which promise liaisons with members of the opposite sex but seem mostly just to take your money.
There seem to be new cases of fake sites appearing in the news every few weeks. Surely, with such bad publicity, people will just stop signing up to the services soon?
Another example of the dangers has been revealed in the case of the Chiba company managing a members-only deai-kei site with men pretending to be women.
The site had 2.7 million members nationwide, of whom only one was ...
In the latest development in Japan's attempts to deal with the phenomenon of revenge porn, things have taken an unusual turn. We readily associate revenge porn with men -- but female partners can also be vengeful.
Japanese police have arrested a 25-year-old woman who attempted to exhort money from an ex-lover. She cut his clothes with scissors and took a nude picture of the man, demanding ¥2 million (about $17,000) in cash in exchange for not putting the images online.
Maki Oji, a company employee from Shinjuku, cut up the clothes and took the nude photos of the man from September 30th ...
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In a seeming two-fingers-up to those stereotypes of herbivore "sexless" young Japanese guys, one graduate student has proved not only is he passionate about his lover, he's willing to go to jail for it!
According to an AFP news wire story doing the rounds, a Japanese man has attacked the older lover of his wife by cutting off his penis in revenge for their adultery!
Japanese police have arrested a man accused of bursting into a lawyer’s office and cutting off his penis with garden shears before flushing the organ down a toilet.
Local media reports said Thursday ...
The life of a female idol isn't all it's cracked up to be.
You don't get wealth or riches unless your agency deems you worth a higher salary.
You don't get drugs -- they're strictly taboo in the Japanese entertainment industry, at least on paper.
And you don't even get sex, since your agency tries to control who you sleep with.
You also have to deal with crazy fans.
Remember the saw attack on two members of AKB48?
One idol even had her social media account hacked so that it started spewing out dirty content.
Well, there are also stalkers, as mother-of-dragons Mitsu ...
An elementary school teacher working at a municipal school in Kobe City has been arrested under the child prostitution and child pornography law. Kazuho Sano (23) is accused of filming children at his school with his smartphone in order to "make child porn."
Sano was a temporary teacher at Kobe City Minato Elementary School. He was hired in April. He is accused of making videos with his phone camera featuring the naked bodies of children in a classroom at the Kobe school on June 25.
He is reported to admit the offense.
He allegedly filmed kids playing after school and made several ...
"Gender, Genitor, Genitalia - Rokudenashiko Tribute" is an exhibition planned for Hong Kong as a tribute to the struggle of "vagina artist" Rokudenashiko (Megumi Igarashi).
Megumi Igarashi, who goes by the artist name of Rokudenashiko, calls her art "deko-man" (vagina decoration). She has been arrested for obscenity. Her crime was such projects as making a boat based on a mold of her genitalia. (Remember, this is all happening in Japan, where mythology says the gods created the islands through sex and fertility festivals continue to happen.)
The exhibitors are currently running ...
We've long blogged about the fake profiles on deai-kei (encounter) sites. The police have been cracking down on them in recent years, as we reported before.
We heard about this story about a pretty shocking and egregious recent example.
Chiba police have arrested eight people of a deai-kei site company on suspicion of hiring male employees to pose as women on the site and extort male users of their money.
The scam sites apparently had a total of 2.7 million members — and all but one of them were men! The sites employed male part-time workers to chat with the members, who ...
A 38-year-old municipal employee of Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture, has been arrested for indecent exposure.
Local cops took the Yoshihiro Sekiguchi into custody on May 19th on suspicion of exposing his lower half to a 19-year-old female part-time worker at a Maebashi drug store.
The incident allegedly happened on April 2nd at around 9:30 at night when the man was at the cash register buying something. He then showed his penis to the young lady serving him.
The store manager reported the incident to police on April 6th and it was confirmed on the shop's CCTV. Japanese police ...
