Japan is famous for its low crime, but it depends on what kind of crime and how you measure things. And it doesn't mean that crime is not on the rise in certain areas.
According to recent media reports, child abuse cases continue to climb, with police recording 2,181 in 2022 (up from 2,174 the previous year) -- a new record.
Stalking cases are also at a record high, the National Police Agency said on March 2, as were domestic violence consultations, though there was a slight fall in the number of DV cases in which the police took action or made an arrest. (It should be noted that the ...
Maki Makie (マキエマキ) has been working since the early 1990s as a freelance commercial photographer.
Now aged 56, she gained a whole new following when she began taking self-portraits in 2015 and repositioning herself as a "selfie jukujo" (自撮り熟女) model.
This fame has had some unexpected consequences, as she revealed in a long interview with Bunshun.
Her self-portraits revel in a Showa-era atmosphere. Often shot in sketchy or remote locations (like old, rundown resorts or empty shopping streets), they mix humor with the erotic. She is currently exhibiting her work in ...
Here's a peculiar case.
As reported in Bengo4, a woman is suing her employer in Japan for enabling sexual harassment.
Her company failed to act after it was alleged the woman's section chief sent her around 150 pornographic images. They were sent to her at the company address over three occasions between January and April 2020, with the third batch alone containing 100 photos and an adult toy. The woman in her thirties is seeking ¥4.4 million in damages in the lawsuit that began at Tokyo District Court on March 30.
The man in his fifties sent them to her by private post anonymously. She ...
The Japanese porn performer Eimi Fukada has announced on her YouTube channel that she is moving homes after her address was identified.
The 23-year-old, whose adult toys are also immensely popular, was rumbled by college students near where she lives in Shinjuku and by others when she was spotted at a local convenience store.
While they are not as accepted in the mainstream entertainment world as regular models and celebrities -- and always euphemistically called "sexy actresses" by the media -- top AV stars have thousands of fans, almost all men -- and willing to go to great lengths to ...
A new video attracting attention in Japan is an "anti-stalker" voice clips collection for women who live at home.
If they are scared about a visitor, the idea is, they can use these audio clips to pretend a man is at home. This will ostensibly scare off a potential intruder or stalker.
Since it was uploaded to YouTube about a week ago, the video has garnered in excess of 1.1 million views. Hopefully most -- if not all -- of those views were not because the content was actually needed to ward off a stalker.
The video is divided into various male voice audio clips for different scenarios ...
Beauty and the eyes of the beholder. Come on, you know the score by now.
But even so, this has got to be one of the stranger tales of talking in Japan that we've heard about.
Earlier this month, a woman was arrested for walking into a restaurant in the city of Nara. She couldn't legally enter that restaurant because of the Stalker Control Act, which she was violating. Why? Because she had worked there for about a year until February 2020 and had in the process become infatuated with another woman who worked there.
OK, lesbian stalking? Got it. No, not only that. The arrested woman is 21 ...
The stalker who stabbed music idol Mayu Tomita may have appeared anonymously in Japanese porn as an uncredited, amateur performer.
The 27-year-old Tomohiro Iwazaki stabbed the underground idol in around 20 places with a 8.2cm knife after taking the bullet train from Kyoto to Tokyo to wait at a station near where she was holding a concert.
Tomita reminds in critical condition while Iwazaki is in police custody. The case has generated a storm of negative press about the police response and Japan's problem with stalking. After the horrific murder in 2013 of high-school student Saaya ...
While this is a creepy, you've got to hand it to the man for dedication.
A 51-year-old man has been arrested for indecent assault on a female neighbor, who he attacked by digging a hole down into her apartment from his home above.
The man was obsessed with the woman, aged 39, was injured in the attack, which happened at 12:30 a.m. on October 27th.
Masahito Sato had moved in order to be near the woman. He cut a hole large enough to pass through and then dropped down into her bathroom, armed with a stun gun and handcuffs.
The trespasser knew the woman from a local restaurant ...
The life of a female idol isn't all it's cracked up to be.
You don't get wealth or riches unless your agency deems you worth a higher salary.
You don't get drugs -- they're strictly taboo in the Japanese entertainment industry, at least on paper.
And you don't even get sex, since your agency tries to control who you sleep with.
You also have to deal with crazy fans.
Remember the saw attack on two members of AKB48?
One idol even had her social media account hacked so that it started spewing out dirty content.
Well, there are also stalkers, as mother-of-dragons Mitsu ...
A civilian group has been formed for dealing with the problem of stalking among sex workers.
Following several high-profile murders, the issue of stalking by men in Japan has been big news recently.
The creation of SWASH in Osaka would be important in that respect alone but it's actually aimed at helping protect the working environments of sex workers, which is very rare. Although prostitution per se is not illegal in Japan -- only profiting from prostitution -- it is nonetheless almost unheard of for sex workers to be acknowledged in this way.
However, prostitutes working in ...
