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 ...

Following the high-profile cancellation of the latest "Futomomo" thighs fetish exhibition, another exhibition has run afoul of Ikebukuro Marui department store this month. Mixing photography and illustration, the annual Girls' Love (yuri) (as opposed to Boys' Love) fetish exhibition was set to run from March 17th to March 25th at the Ikebukuro branch of Marui. The "Yuri Exhibition" event has now been cancelled for reasons that are not yet fully clear. The organizers (who include subculture store Village Vanguard) claim that it has now become "difficult" for the exhibitors to display and ...