Police are cracking down on "obscene" video sites.
Asiajin reports that at the end of April, Kyoto and other police forces arrested the president of Home Page System, which is meant to be a PR company acting for Japanese web service FC2.
FC2 is the fourth most popular Japanese web service, after Yahoo! Japan, Google Japan and Amazon Japan.
FC2 is well known by claiming to be an American company based in Las Vegas, therefore the contents are not restricted by Japanese law. The Las Vegas address is a rental address and it has been suspected years that the Home Page System is the ...
Three members of a Nippon Kempo martial arts club at Osaka University of Commerce have been arrested for inflicting violence and threats on other students.
College clubs and sports groups can be tough places, with lots of drinking and entrance rituals. But this club went too far, it seems.
Osaka University of Commerce, located in Higashi-Osaka City, is not a college with a particularly high academic reputation but its Nippon Kempo club is one of the best in the country. Clearly this success comes at a price.
A male student aged 19, now a sophomore but then a freshman, had his face ...
Art imitates life, as the aphorism goes, but life also imitates art.
Visitors to Japan are sometimes disappointed that the country doesn't live up to the stereotypes: Where are the geisha? Where are the robots? Where are the hordes of anime girls?
Where are all the molesters on the trains? Wait, what? Yes, some people are actually expecting to see this.
Japan may be paying the price for being the empire of porn.
Its overseas reputation is not quite as "cool" as the government might like. Instead, foreigners are seemingly coming to Japan expecting the nation to be like they have ...
We all like to compare numbers, especially when it comes to the number of people you've slept with.
But we accept defeat when it comes to Yuhei Takashima, who has apparently admitted to sex with over 12,000 women.
That's not a typo: more than twelve thousand!
The former Yokohama school principal was not just into the sex itself. He also catalogued his incredible feat.
Over 27 years he allegedly archived almost 150,000 photographs of his sexual exploits with prostitutes in 400 neatly filed red albums.
Takashima is aged 64 but his "career" goes back to 1988 when he went to work at a ...
Japan is a country where the Kanamara penis festival (held yesterday) is fine but the depiction of the female genitalia is not.
The two arrests of Rokudenashiko (Megumi Igarashi) have caused a furore around the world -- to be accurate, mostly around the world, not in Japan. The overseas press is much more interested in the tale of Igarashi and her arrests for distributing "obscene" materials.
Igarashi calls herself a "vagina artist". Her artist name means “Good-For-Nothing Girl” and she has proved up to the image, not least in the eyes of the vice squad.
Her "art of the ...
Former office48 (part of the AKS group) executive Takashi Nodera has been arrested and imprisoned for filming illicit naked videos of the young idols under his charge.
There has been total silence on this so far in the mainstream media, as well as, needless to say, from the powers that be at AKS, the company that runs the juggernaut that is AKB48.
But the tabloids have fortunately broken the story.
Takashi Nodera hid secret cameras in bathrooms, dressing rooms and hotel rooms between 2009 and 2010 to film the girls, possibly under age, while they relaxed without clothes ...
Sometimes you just can't resist that hottie on the train.
And combine cute girls on public transport in Japan with fiery Italian blood -- and you have a recipe for trouble.
On March 4th, Wakayama police arrested an unemployed 40-year-old Italian man for kissing a 21-year-old Japanese girl sitting on a train in the prefecture.
There is no indication that the two knew each other.
The Italian stallion admits the kiss but claims there was no malice. "The kiss was intended as a greeting. I didn't think it would break Japanese laws," pleaded the European.
It's true that in Europe ...
Roshutsu (exhibitionism) fetish is alive and well in Japan, especially among the middle-aged.
Kobe police arrested a couple for disturbing the peace on February 25th.
The local Kobe pair, a 44-year-old female company employee and unemployed 52-year-man, were in a family restaurant when they decided to order something not on the menu. The woman stripped off until she was "almost entirely naked" and her companion was filming her with his phone.
It was around 3:25 in the early hours of the morning -- family restaurants are usually opened 24 hours a day -- when the woman called over ...
Saitama police arrested Kumagayaken tax office civil servant Sadayuki Iida on February 13th.
The 51-year-old official snuck into a women's changing room at a public bath spa at 8:30 pm, though to be fair to him -- he did it in style. To be precise, he did it in drag.
Iida is denying any wrongdoing, saying he was just trying to use the toilet.
Iida is about 175cm and a large guy. However, he seemed to think a black coat, long wig and black skirt would be enough to transform him into a woman. He was also apparently wearing make-up.
He wandered around the changing room, where ...
We all like to "play doctor" sometimes. Needless to say, there are all sorts of cosplay adult toys for doing this (including this awesome new "syringe play" toy).
But when you are deceiving women in this fantasy, that's a different matter.
A man has been arrested by Japanese police for "allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting more than 100 women who believed they were taking part in a medical study," according to media reports.
Detectives say scores of women responded to adverts seeking volunteers for “clinical research measuring blood pressure during sleep” over two years ...
