It must be up there with the bad teeth, the supposedly flat chests, and the noises during sex... Japanese girls are pigeon-toed. It's certainly not all but a visible minority of certain younger girls walk in a strange bow-legged way.
But why?
It is perhaps something to do with always wearing high heels and having thin legs. As any girl knows, these will essentially warp your legs into all kinds of bad contortions.
Traditionally Japanese women also do not have much in the way of buttocks or thighs (after all, the kimono is a totally straight piece of clothing).
Western women, ...
Ichiro Ozawa, the man once certain to be Prime Minister before scandal forced him to resign, has been found innocent on fraud charges. No one seems convinced by the verdict, including us, which is why we couldn't resist posting this story currently running wild in the tabloids.
According to Shukan Bungei, Ozawa apparently had an affair with a television reporter he met in 1989 at a party. In summer 1990 she then gave birth to his love child!
The tabloid uses as its source an acquaintance of the mother, whom she supposedly confessed to about the paternity of her son.
We cannot ...
Maki Goto is proof that you can have a life after being part of a multi-member pop band. A former Morning Musume starlet, Maki is one of the few who has made that transition to soledom with some degree of success.
Around a year ago, though, sadly she basically retired from showbiz, but not before posing for some nice risque ...
As we all know, Japan -- or at least, Japanese pop culture -- has a serious liking for the yaeba snaggletooth. Some girls even get their teeth changed so that they have the protruding, pointy upper canine look.
Apparently there is so much demand for this brand of beauty from certain kinds of men that we now learn there is even going to be a pop band solely devoted to girls with the "cute" dentures. And not just any band -- it's a cosplay otaku one!
Apparently a world-first, TYB48 -- no prizes for guessing which band they are imitating in their nomenclature, then -- is launching out of ...
The just-opened Katamomiya is for girls to indulge in some kata-momi (shoulder massage). Guys can go too and get a massage, but the main target are the ladies, hence why the store is located opposite 109 in Shibuya!
Although it's not a sex shop (so don't expect any "extras"), there's a definite erotic element to the proceedings. The Katamomiya website also clearly lists the staff (guys and girls) and all their attributes, so you can choose the person you want to engage in kata-momi-communication. For the opening event a few days' ago they even had one of the SOD porn stars giving the ...
Former Miss Universe Japan runner-up, model, and actress Biwon has admitting having plastic surgery last year.
We found this amusing because many Japanese girls like to discard the amazing bijin quality in Korean women with the excuse that it's all just due to plastic surgery.
Certainly it is more common and latent on the peninsular. However, it's a dirty secret in Japan (along with how idols essentially have to sleep with their management at the start of their careers) that many idols and singers have used plastic surgery to enhance their "perfect" look. Unlike Korea, though, few will ...
Before there was SOD, JAV and all their bizarre hentai genre, Japanese porn was a different affair. Often not "hard core" in the true sense of the word and watched in special movie theaters, "pink" cinema was led by Nikkatsu and their "Roman Porno" genre during the Seventies.
Though watching them now they seem rather tame compared to the extreme antics of Japanese pornography today, they still merit value as nostalgia, genuine art and also a unique brand of retro kinkiness in their own right. They also launched the career of many now respected art house directors, such as Koji ...
Last week we saw really stormy weather in Japan, not just once but twice. Windows smashed. Trash was blowing everywhere.
One unlikely side effect of the weekday storm is that there were more guests than usual at Tokyo's love hotels. Yes, this kind of unusual weather is the perfect excuse for some hanky panky.
On April 3, many people were advised to leave work early but some took a different approach to seeking shelter from the forces of nature.
While most girls would have been worrying about the state of their hair and clothes due to the wet and blustery weather, the excuses the guys ...
We've talked before about Edo era Tokyo sex shops. Well, the locals also had their own sex dolls as well, called Azumagata Ningyo (吾妻形人形).
After purchasing your "dutch wife" from Yotsumeya, you took the Tenga of its day back home for some fun. It was a crude device, something like a picture school, covered with a bundle of clothing, but made from Tortoiseshell material and so could be heated up with hot water for the natural touch. The piece de resistance was surely the "onahole", in this case a leather pouch.
We should point out that there seems to be no serious historical ...
An otaku engineer has devised a system so that his lust for idols will not be hampered by the constraints of the 2D. Now he has created a poster that can respond to being "kissed", perfect for reenacting his fantasies of making out with his favorite fantasy girls.
We love how the young guy who developed the poster is so flagrant about his motivations:
I'm a big fan of pop idols, and I have posters of them in my room. It bugged me that the posters didn't move at all. We built this system because we thought, if a poster could move to match people's movements, that would be interactive ...
