Revenge porn cases hit a record high in 2023, according to a report by the National Police Agency released on April 8. The agency said that it received 1,812 consultations from people during the 2023 about nude images leaked by a partner or ex-partner. It's up 4.9% from 2022 and marks the seventh year in a row in which cases have risen. It is a worrying trend but, with the complete proliferation of phones and online culture, likely only to get worse. In part, the increase is also due to greater recognition of revenge porn as a phenomenon and a legal category, and criminalization of it ...

It seems in the TikTok and Instagram age, the usual route to stardom is not (just) through working as a fashion model, music idol, gravure idol, or something similar. You can first build up your own following as an influencer on your own platform and then opt to move into lingerie modeling with a photo book. The influencer Amichi (あみち) is proving that approach can work: with her 190,000 followers on Instagram and a million on TikTok, she is now set to release her first photo book after already spending much of her teens and high school years online. The previews from the debut ...

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 ...

A video has leaked online allegedly showing the popular actress and model Elaiza Ikeda having sex with a male partner. In the video, a woman who looks like Ikeda is shown riding an unknown man in the cowgirl position while panting audibly. Her face and hair are certainly similar in appearance to Ikeda and she also has large breasts (Ikeda is famously busty). However, some have pointed out that the woman does not have the same mole on her left shoulder that Ikeda has. The footage is shot hamedori-style by the man as he enjoys the bareback action. Lasting just over a minute, it ends with the ...

In the latest development in Japan's attempts to deal with the phenomenon of revenge porn, things have taken an unusual turn. We readily associate revenge porn with men -- but female partners can also be vengeful. Japanese police have arrested a 25-year-old woman who attempted to exhort money from an ex-lover. She cut his clothes with scissors and took a nude picture of the man, demanding ¥2 million (about $17,000) in cash in exchange for not putting the images online. Maki Oji, a company employee from Shinjuku, cut up the clothes and took the nude photos of the man from September 30th ...

Police are cracking down on "obscene" video sites. Asiajin reports that at the end of April, Kyoto and other police forces arrested the president of Home Page System, which is meant to be a PR company acting for Japanese web service FC2. FC2 is the fourth most popular Japanese web service, after Yahoo! Japan, Google Japan and Amazon Japan. FC2 is well known by claiming to be an American company based in Las Vegas, therefore the contents are not restricted by Japanese law. The Las Vegas address is a rental address and it has been suspected years that the Home Page System is the ...

Ryoma Sakamoto was a famous figure the era when Japan shifted from a feudal nation to a modern one. He is one of the most popular samurais in Japanese history. But it's also the name of a 30-year-old unemployed guy in Ome City, north Tokyo. This Ryoma Sakamoto was informed by his girlfriend that she wanted to break up with him and the "samurai" was mighty pissed off. So pissed off he set about a plan of action, as any hero would. His plan was revenge. And it involved home-made porn. Yes, it was, as it is known, "revenge porn." He began to threaten his thirtysomething girlfriend who he ...