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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Japanese police have bagged the latest major criminal in the land. An 82-year-old panties thief will meet justice at last after cops in Hyogo Prefecture arrested Tsuyoshi Matsusue on Sunday.
The octogenarian had been sighted stealing a 59-year-old woman's pair of underwear from her garden, says Tokyo Reporter. The sprightly pensioner made off with his prize on Sunday morning but the victim's husband gave chase for 200 meters.
Unfortunately, his physique was not as strong as his erotic energies, and the 62-year-old husband managed to catch up with the panties thief.
When questioned by ...
Teachers are of course charged with looking after the future generation. But all teachers are human. Perhaps some a little too human.
Previously a model employee, one 29-year-old maths teacher in Toyama Prefecture got himself into some trouble recently when he was particularly imprudent with his choice of lady on a deaikei ("encounters"!) dating site. Masato Terao groomed a girl that he thought was a junior high schooler into having a liaison with him in a hotel for the princely sum of ¥30,000.
They then met in a hotel in Toyama City to conduct the business transaction.
It turned ...
Ryoma Sakamoto was a famous figure the era when Japan shifted from a feudal nation to a modern one. He is one of the most popular samurais in Japanese history.
But it's also the name of a 30-year-old unemployed guy in Ome City, north Tokyo.
This Ryoma Sakamoto was informed by his girlfriend that she wanted to break up with him and the "samurai" was mighty pissed off. So pissed off he set about a plan of action, as any hero would.
His plan was revenge. And it involved home-made porn. Yes, it was, as it is known, "revenge porn."
He began to threaten his thirtysomething girlfriend who he ...
There's been a lot of media attention about stalking recently, not least due to the sad case of 18-year-old Saaya Suzuki, murdered by a stalker earlier this month.
Now comes another odd twist on the situation.
The National Police Agency (NPA) has reported a 3.8 increase on incidents of stalking by citizens over 60 over the last decade.
So much for the golden years.
Apparently stalking is on the increase in general, though the rise is much more notable for pensioners.
Stalkers in their sixties jumped from 383 in 2003 to 1,329 in 2012, plus there was an increase from 90 to 505 of guys in ...
Mobile phone games can be addictive. One cop found this out to his cost.
The 44-year-old Takahiro Ueyama from Hyogo has just got an 18-month sentence for using his position to keep up with his mobile phone game debt, which had apparently reached as high as ¥500,000 ($5,000). That is some addiction!
What was the game? An ero game? No, much more mainstream: Rage of Bahamut (Shingeki No Bahamuto). But it seems Ueyama couldn't stop playing.
When he got a particularly large phone bill he drove over to the home of a woman he had stopped the previous month for "suspicious behavior" in her car. ...
Our image of the pimp is typically a young wannabe gangster, flashy clothes with sunshades and a toothpick in his teeth.
Beware an old man in a hurry, as the saying has it. The elderly chap in spectacles might just be rushing around arranging sexual encounters for his fellow older acquaintances.
Such was the case in Tokyo where the 70-year-old Kiyohide Kuroda was arrested for organizing meet-ups between older men and women in coffee shops, which would then lead onto some more vigorous encounters.
Kuroda's arrest stems specifically from a meeting he arranged between a male 67-year-old ...
If you're a young girl in school in Japan, take a close look around you.
Are those boys in your class really boys? One of them might just be a much older guy in disguise!
That is, if the recent case in Kumamoto is anything to go by. A 33-year-old man in Kumamoto City on the southern island of Kyushu had a fetish for schoolgirls' uniforms and just had to get his hands on some. His target was a private high school in the city.
Contract employee Akira Katayama was arrested on Sunday for theft, though you've got to admire his stealth and bravado. He put on a male uniform for the school ...
