We already wrote about this story back in September but now the mainstream foreign media is starting to pick up the survey by the Japanese Association for Sex Education, which examines the rate of sex and other forms of intimacy among junior and senior high school students.
Perhaps prompted by the publication of the full version of the survey and new reports about it in the Japanese media, liberal bastion the Guardian recently ran an article bemoaning the falling numbers of male Japanese school students who had never kissed.
As noted in September, the survey results indicate that only one ...
A survey has found that the number of high school students who have never kissed someone had increased.
The numbers of high schoolers with experience of kissing or sex is now around half of what it was in the early 2000s.
The Japanese Association for Sex Education's survey, which it carries out diligently every six years, investigates frequency of physical intimacy among high school students. The data sample was 12,562 students, including 4,321 high schoolers and 3,614 university students.
Only 22.8% of male high school students (roughly one in five) said they had kissed someone, which is ...
Gotta catch them all!
Well, there are so many Pokémon that that aspiration is surely impossible. But it seems you can catch the important ones.
Satoshi not only caught Pikachu, but was spotted giving Pikachu a good kiss.
Namely, a guy dressed as Satoshi (Ash Ketchum in the West) was recently seen kissing a lady friend dressed as Pikachu in a backstreet of Shibuya.
The young couple, presumably at the end of a successful date, were surreptitiously filmed in an alleyway exploring each other's faces. The four-second video subsequently uploaded to Twitter on October 24 has gone viral. The ...
Following our post on what age Japanese women have their first kiss, we found a related survey that tries to find out if Japanese women kiss guys on the first date or if they wait it out.
The results of the survey, which had 6,510 responses, suggest that Japanese man and women are slightly modest but that a very healthy number (27%) are willing to smooch on the first date.
Here's the breakdown.
1. On the third date (2,127 people)
2. On the first date (1,753 people)
3. On the second date (1,146 people)
4. On or after the fifth date (910 people)
5. Upon marriage (184 ...
A survey set out to discover at what age Japanese women have their first kiss.
The results, taken from 2,350 women polled online, show disparity between different ages and prefectures.
The oldest average ages were in Nara and Aichi, where women were 19.1 years old when they had their debut smooches. This was closely followed by Ishikawa with 18.7 years old. Aichi is the strange one here, since it is the prefecture with Nagoya, Japan's fourth largest city (after Tokyo, Yokohama, and Kyoto).
The youngest age for women to start kissing was in Tokyo, where women experienced their first ...
Recently it was "Kiss Day" in Japan. Given how little you see kissing in public here, perhaps it's pointless to have a designated day like that.
That being said, apparently Japanese girls like kissing.
In fact, 79.5% of respondents to a (somewhat bizarre) survey said they did, so it's safe to presume your date would like a smooch. It's just all about when and where.
51.8% of women said they had kissed someone they weren't dating (yet), proving it pays at least some of the time to lunge at a club or bar. (Curiously, the number was lower for guys: 58% of them said they had never ...
Imagine an app that could translate what you say accurately so you can communicate with hot girls from other countries?
Well, there are actually plenty of translation apps out there, not least Siri.
But wearable technology company LogBar claim their device ili is unique because it doesn't require an online connection, yet can still translate between English, Chinese and Japanese just by speaking into it.
They boast:
ili is the world's first wearable translator for travelers. Say goodbye to all language barriers.
And they marketed it by showing it in action with a gaijin ...
Joining the recent silliness of Condom Day in the (ever-increasing) list of odd anniversaries in Japan, "Kiss Day" is celebrated on May 23rd because it is the day that the film Hatachi no seishun (20-Year-Old Youth) was released in 1946.
In case you're not a film buff, that's the movie that featured the first ever kiss scene, though the stars may have had gauze between them.
To celebrate, Edition Aoyama, a club in Akasaka, Tokyo, is holding an event on Saturday where couples (not necessarily male-female, it seems) are invited to kiss each other through an acrylic plastic ...
Japanese TV show Mr Sunday did something strange. It took an interest in the current trend for young people to film themselves kissing... and then decided to "punish" the teenagers involved.
Using an app called Mix Channel that allows you to film and upload 10-second videos, this exhibitionism has been popular for some time.
Here you can see a clip of one of the ...
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 ...
