All right, I might be a J-Girl but I happen to like international guys. I've dated my fair share of boys white and black, and so of course I read the manga My Darling is a Foreigner (ダーリン は 外国人). More than your usual manga this is like a column -- there's no story, just anecdotes about how the strange-ness of Tony, the partner of the author. It first came out in 2002 and since then has spawned a fair few sequels, TV ad tie-ins and so on. The real couple, Tony Lazlo and Saori Ogura, now have a baby too -- so this is one kokusai kekkon ("international marriage") that ...

One of our favorite idols, the young and, oh, so cute Maki Horikita, is in a new movie. It's called Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac in English but the original title is "Someone kissed me" (誰かが私にキッスした) . . . and we are very, very keen to be that "someone"! The movie also seems to have some white guy (Anton Yelchin) in it and we hope this exposure to foreign flesh makes Maki inclined to investigate international kissing! Thanks to the good folks at f.hatena.ne.jp for the ...

Note from Taro: I've met RedpoleQ and other crew members of PickupAsia before, and can attest to their skills. We spent an afternoon in Shibuya testing out the "day game" techniques with very surprising results. I never would have thought that J-girls would respond like that, but they did... and I was happy Ever see a guy walk into a Seoul nightclub or a Shibuya bar, and make out with a stunning girl ten minutes later? If he doesn't look like Tom Cruise, there's a good chance that he's studied with PickUp Asia, the masters of the Asian pick-up scene. Nampa. Speed seduction. ...