It's election time for the AKB48 idols. But lurking under the surface right now are several unsavory rumors. For a start, the alleged connections between AKB48 executives and the yakuza. These ...

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 ...

There recently appeared online a Q&A with someone who claimed to work for a sex club (fuzoku), inviting Japan's netizens to throw out questions. Here is a selection of the results... What type ...

Japanese porn star Sola Aoi (aka Sora Aoi) is immensely popular in China but her latest attempt to flog her titillating DVDs has backfired with the establishment. She has now indulged in some ...

Here's something we always suspected! A Japanese tabloid has published rumors that the founders of AKB48 may not simply be sickening old men with a liking for teenaged girls -- but have close ...

When you've got something good, hold onto it, as the saying goes. Well, some people have taken that literally when it comes to women. In Cardboard Box Confinement Girl, a man keeps a girl in ...

It's that time of year again. With the AKB48 "elections" taking place to see who gets to sing in the next song, Twitter is awash with pictures of boxes of CDs and tickets purchased by passionate ...

Think you like a bit of MILF? Think again. You've got nothing on this guy. An unemployed man in his mid-forties has been arrested in Aichi, central Japan, for groping a pensioner. The man ...

A 31-year-old man has been arrested for pretending to be a comedy duo's manager in early March and approaching gravure model Momoko Tani (28) in a department store. There she tried on some clothes ...

There is magic in Japan and it's called cosmetics. It's well-known that Japanese women spend more time and care on their make-up than women in other countries. Shiseido and its peers are respected ...