For around ¥4,000 an hour you can have a girlfriend or boyfriend. Well, you can have what's nice about having a partner without the physical stuff, at any rate. Rental friends have been around ...

It must be the season. Just as Tokyo is getting pounded by typhoons on a weekly basis, so is the foreign media taking an interest in reporting about "nerdy" Japan. First we had the respected ...

Our lovely lady this week is the cute Rio Uchida (内田理央). Born in 1991, Rio Uchida is an up-and-coming Gravure idol. She made her debut in 2010 and her popularity is on the rise thanks ...

There's been a lot of media attention about stalking recently, not least due to the sad case of 18-year-old Saaya Suzuki, murdered by a stalker earlier this month. Now comes another odd twist on the ...

A long article in the Guardian has been published that purports to be sociological and serious, but is actually perpetuating the usual myths we read about our great country -- everyone is unhappy, ...

What were we saying yesterday about the police? Well, now they've turned their attention to someone who has been delighting Tokyo in recent months. Twitter has been abuzz with images snapped of ...

Mobile phone games can be addictive. One cop found this out to his cost. The 44-year-old Takahiro Ueyama from Hyogo has just got an 18-month sentence for using his position to keep up with his ...

They say that Korean women are strong but how about getting to grips with these feisty fighting females? If you like a girl with abs, check out the entries to the first NABBA/WFF Korea ...

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 ...

Our image of the pimp is typically a young wannabe gangster, flashy clothes with sunshades and a toothpick in his teeth. Beware an old man in a hurry, as the saying has it. The elderly chap in ...