We are suckers for people being famous for no reason -- especially if they are hot girls and make the most out of it.
Born in 1991, Miwa Higashimori achieved minor online notoriety in 2014 during what is called a hoso-jiko or "broadcast accident."
NHK was doing a live broadcast of Omotesando in the heart of Tokyo in May 2014 after Tokyo was hit by an earthquake.
She happened to be caught on camera, walking around drunk in the afternoon and sharing a smoke with some admiring men on the street at the main intersection.
Higashimori was actually a model and C-list tarento, but she then ...
Saeko has been slowly but surely transforming herself from a model and tarento famous for being famous (a status mostly created by marrying and divorcing the baseball pitcher Yu Darvish, just after he signed a $60 million deal with the Texas Rangers in 2012).
Part of this was stripping off (in part, at least) and then also inheriting Haruna Kojima's role as the main brand model for Peach John, one of Japan's great lingerie lines.
In the latest catalogue, Saeko is supposed to be a ballerina, showing off her perfectly formed, slinky body (remember, she's had TWO kids with Yu Darvish) to ...
The tale of the 28-year-old serial drain voyeur keeps on getting better.
It was amazing enough that the man, arrested in June 2013 for the same crime, would again risk hiding in a drain for hours in order to look up the skirts of passing women (a fetish known as panchira in Japan).
Yasuomi Hirai was arrested on November 9 after he was caught in August using his phone to film up the skirt of a woman walking over the drain grill. He had been in the drain for five hours.
A tabloid reporter spoke to his mother.
"My son has liked to hide in small places like drains since he was a boy. He ...
When Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, the UN’s special rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, told the media that Japan should "ban sexually abusive images of children in manga" at the end of her visit in October, you might think the manga industry would be the ones to get all hot under the collar.
Actually, the strongest reaction seems to have come from the Japanese government itself.
It was another comment Maud de Boer-Buquicchio made that has stoked up trouble.
She drew on unknown statistics to claim that "Some 13% of schoolgirls in Japan are ...
Some people don't learn their lesson.
Well, Yasuomi Hirai is nothing if not consistent.
We first reported on his unique "talents" back in June 2013, when he was arrested for hiding in a drain in order to look up the skirts of girls passing by over him.
Two years on, and Hirai is at it again.
Once again Hyogo police have arrested the panchira fetishist for hiding in a storm drain, all so he could take photos of pedestrians in Kobe.
This time he was caught on August 16th after he was spotted using his phone to film up the skirt of a woman as she walked past the drain he was ...
The opening of Japan's first major public exhibition of shunga erotic prints is quite a landmark event. We finally got to go recently.
We went on a Saturday and the line to get in stretched out of the venue. They were there in their hordes: men, women, couples, foreign tourists (European, American and Asian).
Lining up, some were excited, some seemed curious -- while others appeared intellectual and austere. Inside, however, everything changed. All the faces displayed the same awe and amazement; couples exchanged looks and words ("Wow, so big"). Couples gripped each other just that little ...
Get your boys' love fix with the new PC and phone battle card game Out Division.
As with any such game, you collect character cards and build up a strong team.
The difference is that all the characters are male and what men they are...
What has been called "the most unexpected element" of the game is the "Stroke of Lust" section.
This is a memory game where you have to match pairs of images. Needless to say, the images are rather on the saucy side. Can you match up the right male ...
We all know that Japanese girls have small busts. While, some say local breasts are getting larger, But for many guys that doesn't matter -- they prefer flat chests (hinnyu). (There are even bras that REDUCE bust so you can get that kawaii bust look.)
Japan's cute-but-hardly-there chests have previously inspired one female fashion designer to create a series of bras effective at making the most of a flat chest.
Well, what if you have that special date and want to make a good impression? Or just want to try out a large cup size?
Tokyo Isea Clinic offers Cinderella Breast ...
Shibuya was an insane spectacle last night, with tens of thousands of revellers out for Halloween -- many of them wearing all variety of costume.
As expected, Halloween in Tokyo has less to do with Hallows' Eve than with cosplay for its own sake. And so you get almost every type of costume imaginable. Many are very sexy -- you can see A LOT of legs and some butts on display -- and others are very funny and satirical.
While we had expected to see full Tenga Onacup suits around, our prize for best adult toy-themed costume is the Tenga helmet that these guys were wearing in Center ...
While this is a creepy, you've got to hand it to the man for dedication.
A 51-year-old man has been arrested for indecent assault on a female neighbor, who he attacked by digging a hole down into her apartment from his home above.
The man was obsessed with the woman, aged 39, was injured in the attack, which happened at 12:30 a.m. on October 27th.
Masahito Sato had moved in order to be near the woman. He cut a hole large enough to pass through and then dropped down into her bathroom, armed with a stun gun and handcuffs.
The trespasser knew the woman from a local restaurant ...
