Proof if ever any was needed: the Japanese are all fetishists!
When we first heard about the "Panchira 2015" exhibition a few weeks ago, we didn't think much of it.
Sure, there are lots of panchira (panty shot) events and things everywhere and anywhere these days.
Magazines, films, porn, events, even calendars... It isn't hard to find ways to satisfy your fetish (legally) for viewing girls' panties from under their skirts. (Of course, some people do it illegally on the train and elsewhere -- and land themselves in prison!)
But this event at Photons Art Gallery in Asakusabashi ...
It's that time of year again. Every year we snigger gleefully at the return of the "flip-a-skirt" calendar.
The tribute to groping in paper form allows you to see the dates by literally lifting up the skirt of a cute girl!
And the best thing is that it is a high school girl's skirt too! She even has cute knee-high socks on.
And just to make the men feel better, note that the calendar is designed by a female designer (Kaori Kato) -- so it can't be sexist, right?
Available in blue or gray, the concept and look of the 2015 calendar is much the same as in previous years. After ...
Kyoto is an elegant city of history, culture and temples. But there are also plenty of inventive folk with cameras looking to snap a shot between the legs of an unsuspecting schoolgirl or two.
As The Japan Times reports:
Surreptitious filming or taking of pictures up the skirts of high school females has long made headlines throughout Japan. A whole subgenre of magazines exists for peeping Toms who earn their living by taking photos on the sly, while the Internet has created unprecedented opportunities for getting photos and video out to the peeping public.
In an attempt to crack down on ...
Caught in the act.
A smart lady has caught a man trying not too discreetly to snap a shot of her panties while sitting opposite her on the train.
She then put it on Twitter for the world to see.
If her tweets are to be believed, she would appear to be a high school student.
This kind of thing happens every day in Japan. There are lots of perverts on the trains, including so-called respected professionals.
It reminds us of this other incompetent snapper on a train, himself photographed being none too subtle about his under-the-skirt ...
After it got big media attention last year, designer Kaori Kato's novel if creepy "flip-a-skirt" calendar has returned with a new edition for 2014.
We weren't sure what to make of it when we blogged about the skirt-lifting calendar last year. Now we have been thoroughly won over by its charms.
Like in 2013 you can lift up the skirt to reveal the calendar below. This year's version comes in two colors! You get the pleasure of lifting up a skirt for every month.
Plus there are memo pad-like skirts where you can attach a note to a girl's ...
Some people to go to ANY lengths to catch a glimpse of the holy grail, it seems.
Hyogo police have arrested a twenty-six-year-old company employee from Kobe for hiding in a 30-by-45-inch grate in the side of the road in order to spy on girls' panties as they went by.
Yasuomi Hirai has admitted his guilt.
Around 10am on June 5th, he was spotted at a grate opening in Kobe after having entered the roadside drain via a space twenty meters away.
Nearby there is a girls' college and girls' high school, and many of the students would pass by. Hirai also lived nearby.
A ...
Saitama police have re-arrested a company employee, Kunio Kobayashi (25) for stealing women's underwear while the items were drying outside.
The same city of Hanyu has seen ten incidents of women's skirts or dresses being pulled up to reveal what is underneath, perpetrated by a horny villain who wears women's panties over his head while exposing his lower half au naturel since around November last year.
Kobayashi has hinted at his guilt for at least some of the crime.
"I was filled with lust and wanted to taste the thrill of doing it without getting caught."
He was previously ...
The culture of chikan and up-skirt photography is catching, it seems!
Police in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, have arrested a petty officer third class stationed at the nearby US naval base. The 22-year-old took a bus in the town but decided to take in the view not just from the window.
At around 8:20 in the morning he was caught trying to snap a shot with his smartphone up the skirt of a third-year high school girl.
A 39-year-old woman thought something was suspicious and grabbed the man, reporting him to police. The soldier then sealed his guilt by notably smashing up his phone prior to ...
Toshiki Hanai, a twenty-eight-year-old assistant district court judge in Osaka, has perhaps not surprisingly lost his job.
When you get caught filming up a girl's skirt (panchira) on a train, you might reasonably expect there to be repercussions if you are supposed to be an upholder of the law!
That's what Hanai was apparently caught doing in August 2012.
Another male passenger spotted the nimble judge squatting down on the crowded commuter train during the morning rush hour, trying to get a good view with his smartphone of the heavenly world up a girl's skirt.
The valiant ...
Have little cravings for lifting up a high school girl's skirts but don't want to risk a run-in with the police and/or an angry spouse? Here's a way for you to get your fix.
Designer Kaori Kato has come up this extraordinary 2013 calendar, the suitably named Skirt-Lifting Calendar.
The graceful tender legs of a young girl (almost certainly a schoolgirl) give way to a calendar underneath the skirt (no sexy underwear included in the illustration, which may disappoint).
Kaori Kato is, of course, a girl, not some pervert guy, though we think this calendar may have more than its ...
