A 22-year-old self-proclaimed "talent" has been arrested for shoplifting, in the process of which she claimed to be popular actress Emi Takei.
Misaki Hashikawa went to a specialist shop in Ikebukuro and tried on some 40 leotards, shoplifting 22 of them. She then sold the leotards in online auctions, rather foolishly using her own name.
But if you are going to the trouble of subterfuge, at least steal something with value, right?
Well, actually leotards can fetch a reasonable price. Apparently Hashikawa stole the equivalent of ¥1.1 million (over $10,000) of clothing!
Hashikawa has ...
Kanazawa is a genteel small city near the western coast of Japan, sandwiched between the central mountains and the Sea of Japan. It is home to samurai houses, art museums, a famous garden, and an old geisha district. In other words, it is like an alternate Kyoto.
But don't be fooled. Underneath this exterior of tranquility and grace there is a hotbed of fetishism.
Local police arrested a 21-year-old fourth-year college student from Takaoka City in neighboring Toyama City on suspicion on sneaking into an elementary school in order to steal girls' indoor shoes.
"I wanted to smell the ...
In the past we've encountered a thief who targeted hostesses and their shoes, a violent lingerie bandit who literally tears his swag off the bodies of his victims, a bra theft addict, and even a 82-year-old panties thief.
Now comes another shocking tale of lingerie larceny...
The media has reported the indictment of a man in Sano, Tochigi Prefecture, for stealing more than 200 items of woman's underwear.
Tsutomu Kashiwase (44) apparently stole 217 items across the three prefectures of Tochigi, Gunma and Saitama. The Japanese countryside would seem to be populated by roaming ...
A police officer from Kagawa Prefecture has been arrested for using his smartphone to photograph up the skirt of a female, disguising the camera underneath a legging that he was wearing so as not to contaminate a crime scene.
Mitsuru Higashiyama (35) was arrested in January and on February 28th it was announced that he was suspended for three months. He has also voluntarily resigned from his post.
Higashiyama had apparently used the same contraption at four places between February 2013 and January this year on five separate women.
"It was to satisfy my sexual appetites," he has ...
A 29-year-old public servant in Tokyo's Adachi ward was arrested on February 17th for attempting to kidnap a young girl.
Kentaro Makino previously went into the grounds of an Edogawa ward condo in July last year. He waited there for kids coming home from school. Soon enough a 10-year-old elementary school student arrived, who he threatened with a knife and told her he'd bring her home again as long as she kept quiet. He then put handcuffs on her and put her into a large boston bag.
However, the girl put up a fight and screamed her lungs out, so a frightened Makino dropped his spare ...
Here's a cautionary tale just after Valentine's Day to remind us how wrong things can go.
A 48-year-old life insurance employee was arrested on February 13th by police in Shakujii in Nerima in Tokyo. Yokohama resident Keisuke Munakata is accused of sending threatening notes to a girl he met at a wedding party in 2013.
Munakata and the 27-year-old girl from Nerima dated last year. But when things went wrong, Munakata sent her a note saying "Keep your eyes out. Something might happen to you." This intimidation apparently continued from from last December to January.
The pair met at a ...
A trip to the dentist can often be a nerve-wracking thing, especially if your pearlies need some painful work done.
But this pervy dentist in Ichinomiya City in Mie Prefecture did little to allay his patient's fears. Rather, apparently he was just intent on having a good time for himself.
The 53-year-old took a charm to the twentysomething woman who came to his hospital to get her teeth fixed.
He told a dubious story that "massaging your chest will help the alignment of your jaw" and promptly took her to side-room in his clinic. Whether she was naive or just scared, we don't ...
If you're a AKB48 fan, you are probably a vulnerable individual with money to burn and an appetite for over-priced merchandise.
And if you know someone like that or come into contact with them -- be warned. They may just steal your money.
As we know, otaku fans idol groups are famously willing to put themselves into serious debt in order to purchase thousands of CDs.
But this is taking things to almost mafia levels.
Kyoto police are now set to prosecute six men, all aged 20, who stole information from other people's credit cards so that they could buy nearly 500 CDs by the group ...
Another day, another fetish-related crime.
We only just recently blogged about the man who stole everything from satchels to curtains from an elementary school, and now comes this news -- first shared on Tokyo Reporter -- of a thief whose interests was exclusively the shoes of hostesses.
Well, anything related to hostesses we can understand; these ladies inspire a thousand fetishes.
On Monday Tokyo Metropolitan Police announced that they had arrested a man for stealing shoes from hostesses.
Sho Sato (28) took high-heeled shoes from clubs in Tokyo, Kanagawa and Saitama.
The ...
A 53-year-old unemployed man has been arrested and charged with sneaking into an elementary school in Takaoka City in Toyama Prefecture, and stealing a large quantity of school satchels and other examples of school property.
He was first arrested and charged with stealing the satchel of a 7-year-old student on December 7th, but after that the police raided his home and found some 140 other items, such as musical instruments and bicycles.
The police chief said that the man had been using the same method to sneak into the school since 11 years ago and had been stealing kids' things, and ...
