A 22-year-old Japanese woman has been arrested for allegedly swindling over ¥400,000 from a man in his seventies.
The pair met on a dating app. Kanon Hiroshige is suspected of fostering romantic feelings in the man to induce him to send money, and even staging a ruse to make it appear as though she had died from an illness. The company employee from Yokohama has been arrested on suspicion of fraud.
Between last year, when she was a university student, and this year, she allegedly made false claims to a man in his seventies who was smitten with her. She told the man she needed ¥420,000 for ...
When we first heard the story a few days ago, we thought it had to be a joke. But then we saw the pictures and our proverbial jaw hit the table.
While it is now sadly common to see news reports about people trying to smuggle in drugs and other contraband into Japan, the method employed by one Chinese executive to smuggle in gold takes the cake: the 46-year-old resident of Chiba was arrested for attempting to smuggle in 49 kilograms of gold in 38 bars on a cargo flight from Shenzhen to Narita Airport, hidden inside three sex dolls.
The executive and five others have been arrested this ...
This week, one of the biggest crime stories related to the sex industry has been the arrest of five people at a high-end brothel in Yoshiwara on suspicion of violating the Anti-Prostitution Act.
The 55-year-old operator, who was among the arrested on June 22 and June 23, is suspected of earning ¥5.5 billion in revenue over approximately eight and a half years. Investigators think Louvre had as many as 36 woman on its books. It has been in business since 1983 and would serve around 20 customers a day, who paid ¥80,000 for a two-hour session. Customers would pay about the official fee of ...
A primary school teacher in Kakamigahara City, Gifu Prefecture, has been dismissed for attempting to secretly film a female employee at a sex establishment.
The male teacher worked at Naka Daiichi Elementary School in Kakamigahara, but was dismissed by the Gifu Prefectural Board of Education on June 19, according to multiple news reports.
In mid-December last year, the teacher attempted to record video footage of a prostitute at a sex establishment in Saitama Prefecture using a smartphone. The woman noticed what he was doing and the police were called. The Saitama Prefectural Police then ...
The trial of a self-professed spirit medium who practiced "Dynamic Wave Divine Technique," and was arrested for engaging in sexual acts with women he brainwashed, has ended with a guilty verdict.
Katsuhiko Ohno was 65 at the time, while his victim (unnamed in media reports) was just 28. Her work in the entertainment industry had dried up due to the COVID-19 pandemic and was feeling anxious about her future, when she met Ohno at a cryptocurrency study group. A friend's husband introduced her, saying, "There's an amazing teacher who practices divine rituals. His power has turned my life ...
What happens to those sexy, leggy race queens (grid girls) when their careers dry up? Well, in the case of Chisato Morishita, they might go into politics. A lucky few switch to grave. Others run bars.
And possibly get arrested for doing so.
Last week, people went crazy about the beautiful, chatty bar manager who was among five arrested in a police crackdown in Kabukicho, Akihabara, and Ikebukuro, and now some details and rumors about her background have emerged.
Tomoko Nagata is accused of operating Wisteria as an unlicensed girls bar in Kabukicho because her female staff were not just ...
That cutie on social media may have a dark side.
It's one of the most sensational crimes in recent days, made even more sensational by the woman allegedly behind it.
The 28-year-old Kaito Takemae and his 25-year-old wife, Miyu (sometimes Miyuu), are suspected of hiring four high school students to break into a house in Tochigi, where they stabbed and killed the 69-year-old resident. All four students were quickly apprehended by police. Kaito and Miyu are accused of directing the students during the crime.
Kaito was arrested at Haneda Airport while trying to flee the country. Miyu was ...
Nude photos of a female student at a Shiga Prefectural High School were shared with multiple friends by her ex-boyfriend, a male student at another prefectural high school. According to a report in the Kyoto Shimbun, the prefectural board of education has determined that this constitutes a crime and revenge porn, and is currently working with the school and police to address the issue.
Shiga Prefectural Board of Education said that the perpetrator shared several nude photos of the victim to friends in the 2025 academic year. He sent the images to friends by phone, making it possible for the ...
Who watches the watchers?
While the regular cop in his koban substation on your local street corner seems like a friendly and useful member of the community (and for the most part, is), police officers are human beings, and so subject to temptation like the rest of us.
According to a report in the Yomiuri Shimbun, the National Police Agency announced on February 5 that the number of police officers and staff members nationwide who received disciplinary action last year rose to 337, an increase of 98 from the previous year, and the highest number in the past 10 years.
Of the 337 officers, ...
An unemployed 31-year-old man has been arrested by Sapporo police for using a free generative AI tool to make obscene images of celebrities.
Tatsuro Chiba allegedly trained the AI on images of actual women and then produced the pornographic content. He targeted some 300 celebrities, mainly female idols.
Police seized a stash of 500,000 images from his computers, an undisclosed number of which were obscene.
While we probably all have stuff on our computers meant for our private consumption, Chiba was actively pursuing ways to monetize his exploitation of the technology. In two years, he ...
