German man arrested for trying to steal male students’ underwear from dorm
October 19, 2023
/ Tadashi Anahori
We frequently report on cases of men sneaking into schools and other places to steal underwear or watch women. The most recent was the man who ended up seriously injuring himself after he attempted to climb down from a rope to spy on residents of an apartment building.
But what's rarer, or seems to get reported more rarely, are men who do these things to spy on other guys.
Well, here's a recent case that might somewhat redress the balance.
A German engineer, Ulrich Distelhorst (if we are transliterating the katakana correctly), was arrested by police for sneaking into the changing room of ...
When someone is hurt, you should always help them out, right? It's a universal human law.
But not everyone who is hurt is 100% a victim, as this cautionary tale reveals.
A man fell down onto an apartment balcony, seriously injuring himself. His bloody body was found on the ground by a resident. He had fallen several floors while trying to lower himself from the roof with a rope.
Though it happened back in May, the incident was only reported in the Japanese media last week. This is because he has now been referred to the prosecutors following his physical recovery.
Wearing tabi shoes, ...
Kobe drain pervert is back, caught filming up schoolgirl skirts
September 19, 2023
/ Tadashi Anahori
Just when you thought it was safe to walk by a drain in a skirt, the drain pervert is back!
If you live in Kobe, be sure to check the drains before walking over them.
Police in the West Japan city have arrested the 36-year-old Yasuomi Hirai for setting up a phone in a roadside drain in order to take videos of schoolgirls.
He was caught when the camera was filming an 18-year-old school student at around 3 o'clock in the afternoon on September 8. And he was found out because the girl was a Good Samaritan. She noticed the phone in the drain and took it to a police substation, believing it was ...
Japan raises national age of consent to 16, criminalizes voyeurism
June 19, 2023
/ Tadashi Anahori
It has long been common to see claims that Japan's age of consent was just 13, which would lead to lazy generalizations that this was why there was so much loli porn.
Of course, in practice, this was never true: local ordinances against lewd actors with minors meant the actual age of consent was typically 18 and on par with (if not higher than) most other countries in the Global North.
It was true, though, that the national age of consent was 13, unchanged since 1907. (For context, age of consent is 14 in Germany, Italy, and China, and 15 in France.)
This has now changed after lawmakers ...
70% of Japanese flight attendants report experience of illicit photographing
March 13, 2023
/ Tadashi Anahori
The flight attendant is, of course, a much-fetishized occupation. They rank highly among male fantasies, whether that's joining the mile high club mid-flight while receiving some extra service, or having a liaison at an airport hotel during a stop between flights. Themed costumes are one way to sate your appetite for flight attendant sex role plays (and if you're alone, how about a flight attendant pocket pussy?).
Other guys adopt a different approach, it seems.
According to a report from the Kyodo news agency, around 70% of Japanese flight attendants say people have taken photos of them ...
Gang of peeping Toms arrested after 30 years of voyeurism
February 3, 2023
/ Tadashi Anahori
There are peeping Toms and then there are peeping Toms. And these guys didn't do things by half measures.
Shizuoka police have arrested a gang of peeping Toms who have been active for 30 years -- yes, three whole decades! The 13 voyeurs, including the 50-year-old leader, were apprehended in recent months, while a further three others connecting to the filming (including a doctor) have now been referred to the prosecutors.
Active since he was 20, the leader alone claims to have filmed over 10,000 people without consent at locations all around Japan (with the exception, for some reason, of ...
The grim reality of Comiket for female cosplayers
January 3, 2020
/ Tadashi Anahori
This is the grim reality for Comiket if you are a cosplayer. Sure, if you're a popular cosplayer like Enako, no doubt you get your own team of staff to help manage the crowds, but for the amateurs and the small fry out there -- of which they are many -- you are nothing more than a toy or meat to be haggled over, parsed, and lensed by the snapping cameras of hordes of male visitors. And all at ultra-close proximity.
These two pictures widely shared online have once again revealed this situation, this time at Comiket 97 held at the end of December at 2019.
As is clearly visible, the men are ...
Luxury brand-loving Tokyo schoolgirls caught on camera by panchira upskirting fetishist in Shinjuku Station
October 25, 2018
/ Tadashi Anahori
Tosasatu "secret filming" is a constant threat for women in Japan (and in South Korea, especially toilets). Every practitioner wants that holy panchira up-skirt shot! Escalators and stairs are popular places to try this, presuming you have prepared your equipment right (cameras hidden in bags are a typical example of the more elaborate set-up). This is why you may see some young women holding bags against the backs of their legs as they ascend floors in order to flatten their skirts and hide their underwear from voyeurs.
Inevitably, schoolgirls are a target for upskirting. After all, not ...
Former AKB48 manager Takashi Nodera arrested, imprisoned for filming illicit naked videos of idols
March 26, 2015
/ Tadashi Anahori
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 ...
Cosplayer idol Kazari demonstrates how to avoid panchira
March 16, 2015
/ Tadashi Anahori
Panchira research sounds like a lot of fun.
Starring popular cosplayer Kazari, Mosou Kagaku Kenkyujo (Fantasy Science Research Lab) has released a new video analyzing their research into panchira.
Panchira is a fetish for the panty shot. It's huge in Japan, especially with cosplayer idols or with schoolgirls.
The video is the first in the series in around nine months and shows the results of their "research" into ways for schoolgirls to do things so that their panties don't show, not always successfully.
This time Kazari demonstrates how to pick a book off a shelf ...