We've been holding back on this story to see how it developed. No fireworks yet, but it's still juicy.
Does women's used panties fetish go right to the heart of government in Japan?
A Cabinet minister stands accused by a tabloid magazine of stealing female panties.
The newly appointed Tsuyoshi Takagi is minister in charge of Tohoku reconstruction but weekly tabloid Shukan Shincho says he is a suspect in a very different kind of role: as the theive of a young woman's underwear.
According to Shukan Shincho, Takagi snuck into a house some 30 years ago win Tsuruga, Fukui ...
When will these old geezers learn? If you wanna get kinky, go to a professional. Don't take the matter into your own hand. There are lots of services offering used panties, dirty or clean, from vending machines to mainstream stores.
No, this man wanted to do things his way. On March 9th Chiba police announced they had taken Hiromi Nagasaka into custody, suspected of attempting to steal underwear from the balcony of a girl's apartment in Chiba City early at around 1:30 in the morning of March 7th.
While filching panties he was spotted by a teenaged girl who resides in the apartment ...
You've heard of revenge porn, right? Where someone (usually a guy) puts video or images online showing a former partner engaged in sexual acts in order to punish them for breaking up with them?
Well, this is different... but much more enterprising.
When we first read on TokyoReporter about a Sendai man who had been arrested by police for selling "obscene photographs of his wife" we immediately assumed this was revenge porn.
But then things got a bit weirder.
Officers from the Omori Police Station charged metal worker Yuji Chiba, 35, and his wife Chihiro, 30, with the distribution of ...
In the past we've encountered a thief who targeted hostesses and their shoes, a violent lingerie bandit who literally tears his swag off the bodies of his victims, a bra theft addict, and even a 82-year-old panties thief.
Now comes another shocking tale of lingerie larceny...
The media has reported the indictment of a man in Sano, Tochigi Prefecture, for stealing more than 200 items of woman's underwear.
Tsutomu Kashiwase (44) apparently stole 217 items across the three prefectures of Tochigi, Gunma and Saitama. The Japanese countryside would seem to be populated by roaming ...
Japanese police have bagged the latest major criminal in the land. An 82-year-old panties thief will meet justice at last after cops in Hyogo Prefecture arrested Tsuyoshi Matsusue on Sunday.
The octogenarian had been sighted stealing a 59-year-old woman's pair of underwear from her garden, says Tokyo Reporter. The sprightly pensioner made off with his prize on Sunday morning but the victim's husband gave chase for 200 meters.
Unfortunately, his physique was not as strong as his erotic energies, and the 62-year-old husband managed to catch up with the panties thief.
When questioned by ...
Could this have something to do with "cleaning up" Japan ahead of the upcoming Olympics in 2020?
We haven't heard much about a crackdown on enjo kosai for a little while now, after the media panicked about it a few years ago. But the police have launched a big internet hunt for schoolgirls prostituting themselves through euphemisms.
This will officially begin on October 21st, aimed at schoolgirls selling used panties or otherwise offering their bodies for willing men.
This year, as part of a trial period of the cyber investigation in ten prefectures, they have nabbed 97 minors. ...
The movie of the bizarre manga Hentai Kamen, about a hero who wears panties on his face, has released a suitably odd trailer.
Apparently Hentai Kamen's groin has the potential to block phone signals, obstruct camera lens and even blaze light to punish the selfish members of the audience.
It is actually a parody of the much-mocked "No More!" video that is featured before showings of movies in Japanese cinemas, warning people not to make illegal recordings of films.
Hentai Kamen is released in Japan on April ...
Sometimes we think that Japanese photographers cannot get any kinkier or, to put it more positively, any more original.
But they can.
Take Kaopan., a new photography book.
It features a series of Japanese schoolgirls looking cute as they always do while wearing... um, panties on their faces?
The title basically sums it up -- "face panty".
It went on sale officially from today and can be bought in certain bookstores, such as K-Books in Akihabara.
A kind of play on the manga Hentai Kamen, which features a hero whose superpowers derive from wearing panties on ...
Good ol' Osaka, ever the dirtier, less noble metropolis compared to Tokyo.
Remember this is the city that gave Japan the cup of instant noodles AND no-panties cafes!
Take the case of a certain Mr. Yamaoka, a simple 37-year old guy who just happens to have an addictive fetish for stealing women's panties.
Yes, what could be wrong with that? Well, a lot actually, especially when you are going around literally ripping the underwear off girls.
He would go after anyone, even people just walking along the street on their way home.
He was eventually arrested in November for ...
The end of the year might still be months away but the merchandising machine knows no time limits for AKB48, whose new official 2013 calendar promises to include "god panties".
Needless to say, these are not real Japanese used panties but some sort of strange underwear advertised as both "eco" and "erotic". They are even made of paper!
The lucky purchasers of the Akiba ladies' newest product will also be rewarded with a clear plastic file, a poster and some "live" photos of random members.
Reservations to get a copy start on October 31st.
Needless to say, this is being ...
