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 ...
The first rule of working in the illegal porn industry is: Never send your work to the police. It's an unwritten rule because it's so obvious.
But someone needs to let the underground JAV trade in Osaka know because that's exactly what six pornographers did!
Since the catalogs they sent included a host of illegal porn DVDs (i.e. uncensored), you are surely only asking for trouble!
How did they commit such an elementary blunder? Well, Toshiharu Hidaka (27) and his gang of five other men didn't actually post the catalogs to a police station. However, in their efforts to market their ...
Naoki Nakatani. An ordinary 30-year-old guy from Ibogawacho in Hyogo prefecture. Or is he?
Our friend Naoki here has been been selling some clothes via online auctions. Nothing unusual in that.
Except that he has been selling raincoats. A lot of them. And they have the names of girls' high schools written on them, as one person who bought a raincoat from Nakatani found out.
Correctly assuming it was stolen, the customer contacted police, who then began to investigate.
Over the last six years, he had apparently visited local supermarket bicycle parking areas dozens of times and ...
Chikan. AKA groping. It's a real Japanese tradition. But that doesn't mean you have to be Japanese to do it. When in Rome, as they say.
Now a foreigner has been caught copping a feel on a young Japanese woman on a JR train. Not only was this foreigner a British "gentleman" but he was also... a preacher!
Apparently this man of the cloth is 48 but was doing most unholy things to the legs and breasts of the 22-year-old female office worker sitting next to him one day on a train in Shiga on September 14th.
This wasn't just a little fondle. This was a 25-minute afternoon groping ...
Hardly the biggest surprise of the week but a worthy topic of news, Tokyo Reporter has highlighted an interesting report of the arrest of a Nigerian club owner arrested by police for drugging and stealing from his customers.
Officers took Emanuel John, the 44-year-old manager of Little Cat, which is located in the in the red-light district of Kabukicho, and three hostesses into custody on theft charges.
On April 20, a hostess allegedly spiked a vodka drink served to a 43-year-old male customer with a sleeping powder. His cash card was then stolen from his wallet and taken to a nearby ...
Four men have been arrested in Tokyo for theft by Kanagawa police after they blackmailed a man they met through a smartphone deai-kei app.
Deai-kei refers to the portals online and off where men go to meet girls for sex. It is somewhere between adultery and prostitution, but the variables are huge. You might be talking to a few men posing as teenagers or you might be arranging to meet a genuine girl who wants some cash for a new handbag.
The four men were in their teens and twenties. They apparently scouted a thirty-year-old man from Fujisawa City via the app and invited him to the mean ...
Just imagine you like AKB48. Now imagine you like AKB48 so much you will commit a crime.
That's what four teenagers did.
They mugged a man in order to have cash to buy special clothes to "look good" for a meet-and-greet hand-shaking event with the idol group.
Aged between 15 and 17, the kids came up to a 27-year-old grad student as he was leaving a convenience store earlier in August in Kamiya, central Tokyo. Confronting him in their best macho voices, they managed to get away with his phone, his money and even the can of beer he had just purchased. The victim apparently ...
We love documenting the intriguing fetishes that exist out there -- and be sure, we don't do out of any sense of judging! Quite the opposite, we are kind of celebrating difference.
Anyway, another example has just come to light.
A man was arrested in Kanagawa prefecture over the weekend for stealing. Nothing new in that, except that he stole bicycle seats. A lot of them. 200 of them.
Police first came to see Joji Kondo to investigate the theft of three seats from an apartment block at around 4:45 AM on August 22nd. In Kondo's lair of pungent desire, they found 200 bicycle ...
Japanese cops have guns and in theory can shoot someone if necessary.
Well, some shoot other things.
Kozo Shirakawa, a 46-year-old sergeant in Kagawa, was nothing if not ingenious. He attached a special spy camera to his shoe so he could film up women's skirts. The camera was on the inside and could shoot from a small hole in the leather.
One August Sunday afternoon he took his invention to a department store in Takamatsu, where he was trying it out by filming up the skirt of a 23-year-old woman.
Surely this guy should be given bonus points for innovation and brazenness. The ...
It was just after three on the afternoon of August 16th, a scorching hot day in Hirano, east Osaka. Hirano is notorious for bag-snatching and other crime, so when police got a call from a twenty-six-year-old girl that her purse had been grabbed while cycling home, no doubt they weren't surprised.
Until she gave her description of the criminal. "This is a first," said the police.
According to the girl, the man was aged between 30 and 35, with a crew cut and muscular build.
But he had chosen to steal her handbag with its 9,000 yen inside wearing the most unusual of crime world ...
