In December 2023, the Japanese media went briefly crazy about a real-life harem manga scenario where a man claimed to have four wives.
Though only married to one of his partners legally, Ryuta Watanabe was living comfortably as a househusband in Sapporo while the women worked to support the household. With his common-law and legal spouses all in their twenties and together under one roof (except for the fourth "wife," who lived separately), 35-year-old Watanabe had three young children.
So what happened to Watanabe after all that media attention? Fortunately, Weekly Friday has chased the ...
A Malaysian national has been arrested by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department in Shibuya, Tokyo, on suspicion of stealing cash from a Japanese man after luring him to a hotel and serving him alcohol spiked with sleeping pills, rendering him unconscious.
"I thought the whole time that [he] was a woman," the victim said.
He accompanied the suspect to a hotel. But the woman was actually a long-haired man, who was filmed emerging from the police station with his head bowed. The police have named the suspect as 29-year-old Malaysian national Muhammad Shafiq bin Baharen.
The incident took ...
Akita Prefecture officials have issued an apology after it came to light that an public servant conducted a video conference call about luring AI data centers, from a love hotel -- in a bathrobe while smoking!
Now that's what we call multitasking.
And if this is the AI revolution, count us in!
The manager, Takahiro Ono, claimed he was in his home, but was rumbled when footage from the public conference call leaked online. Those pesky internet sleuths with too much time on their hands were able to track down the exact room of the love hotel that Ono was staying in due to the particular ...
On August 3, Japan's National Police Agency announced that police nationwide during the first half of this year handled 123 cases of sexual deepfakes involving the manipulation of images of children under 18 using generative AI.
According to Jiji Press, this figure is double the 60 cases recorded during the same period last year, and exceeds the total of 114 cases for the entire previous year.
According to the National Police Agency, junior high school students accounted for the largest number of victims, with 79 cases. High school students accounted for 38 cases, elementary school students ...
Now that Japanese actress and model Haruna Kawaguchi has just announced her marriage and pregnancy with a soccer star, the crown for most eligible women in Japan passes arguably to Kasumi Mori, the 31-year-old former announcer who is now working mainly as a model, and who clearly wants to be the new Minami Tanaka.
In 2024, she released her first photo book and has cemented her fame with some major contracts, perhaps most prominently as the current main model for leading lingerie brand Peach John (very consciously following in the footsteps of Minami Tanaka).
The brand has just ...
These are stunning erotic images from Peep Document, a classic voyeuristic photography magazine published in Japan in the 1980s.
Like with our previous showcase of 1980s Japanese voyeurism fetish photography, the images were originally shared by fintan (pinakotheca), taken from his incredible collection of Japanese subculture and erotica, which he scans and puts online, and typically offers the original publication for sale.
The 1980s was a decade of supreme confidence in Japan, with the bubble economy giving corporations huge bargaining power abroad and workers enjoying wild parties and ...
There's a new type of relationship emerging that's neither lover nor friend and spreading among younger generations.
These relationships include sofure (soine furendo, or sleeping-together friends), who do nothing but sleep side by side, reports AERA.
Other similar "-fure" relationships are hafure (hagu furendo, hugging friends), kisufure (kissing friends), and ofufure (ofuro furendo, bathing friends). These terms and relationships are allegedly gaining traction on social media and online platforms among Gen Z in Japan.
Can two people simply sleep together without any romantic feelings or ...
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has conducted its first coordinated series of inspections on men's concept cafes in Tokyo's Kabukicho district. The inspections revealed illegal practices at 60% of establishments.
Between July 22 and July 23, police carried out simultaneous inspections at 20 men's concept cafes in Shinjuku's Kabukicho, central Tokyo, checking for valid business licenses.
Also known as concafes, concept cafes provide an experience based on a specific theme through costumes and decor. The staff are generally either all men or women. In the same way that a girls' bar ...
Whether you're a tits guy or an ass guy, there's no denying the importance of breasts and their dominance in the erotic mindset of our society. But there are breasts and there are breasts. What kind of breasts do you like?
It's an age-old question that has been posed before. This time, it was asked to 100 Japanese men and the results were analyzed in a 104-page book that visually examines the data to explore males tastes about female breasts.
The book was released in August last year by the publishing arm of the porn production company Prestige, which surely knows a thing or two about male ...
It's summer in Tokyo, which means temperatures in the high thirties and insane levels of humidity.
For decades, the government has encouraged corporations to allow their employees to dress down for the hotter weeks of the year, leading to the "Cool Biz" campaign that inspired a buzzword. Cool Biz usually means a loose shirt and no tie or jacket.
But as the summers grow hotter and longer, people are finally starting to wear shorts to work. A very sensible thing, most would agree, but it has apparently led to something called "leg hair harassment."
We say apparently, because the whole thing ...
