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 ...
Tokyo Reporter has an intriguing little report from a tabloid.
In the January 31 issue of Shukan Asahi, Minori Kitahara expressed concern over the popularity of a male masturbation aid that attempts to simulate the feeling of sex with an underage girl.
Kitahara is a fortysomething female "sexpert" and bestselling author. She was apparently shocked -- we weren't -- by the high sales ranks on Amazon.co.jp for such onahole masturbation sleeves as the Innocent Little Sister Onahole and Seven Teen Bordeaux Onahole, which replicate a sexual experience with a Japanese teenaged virgin.
“I don’t ...
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 ...
One of the most slippery and ambiguous of terms in Japanese sexuality, otoko no ko sounds like the word for "boy" but is written with in hiragana and with a final character that usually means "daughter" or "girl". In the simplest of definitions, it's a type of cross-dressing where boys dress up as girls.
This doesn't mean you are a shemale or a transexual in the western way of thinking, but it does bend the usual lines between gender, sexuality and appearance.
There are lots of clothes for cross-dressing cosplay, including stockings, bras and dresses, negligees and even wigs. ...
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 ...
Noriko Yabu is a 33-year-old artist who takes selfies.
Nothing special in that.
Except her surreal selfies are underwater, and she's naked.
Her series of images are called Suisou, which could be read as "aquarium" or "cistern" but the characters she uses mean "water funeral".
So is this a dead body in the water? Are we turning into necrophiliacs?
We find these immensely subtle and erotic, or are we revealing something about ourselves? Does no one else share this fetish?
There is a long tradition of water and sexuality in Japan. Nude scenes ...
We all have images we like to look at when we, you know, service ourselves.
Purikura are the "photo club" booths popular with young Japanese, who pose and then customize and decorate the images with their friends.
This guy seems to have a serious thing for not only female high school students -- who can blame him?! -- but also the pictures of the girls taken in the Purikura booths.
This picture was originally posted by the man himself on Twitter before it exploded online and earned the scorn of 2ch.
Fortunately he is wearing a (scary) mask but his lair, decorated floor to ...
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 ...
Hug pillows (dakimakura) are nothing new in Japan. There is a wealth of pillows out there with cases featuring idols or in the actual body shapes of young girls.
Here's a new twist and its all a marketing stunt.
How do you make cockroaches appealing? That's the dilemma facing Gokiburi Kujo Meister, an extermination company.
It came up with a novel way to promote its services -- moe. It seems when in doubt, you can always turn to the forces of cuteness and kinkiness combined to make a new marketing campaign that at the very least will gain a response.
Gokiburi Kujo Meister has ...
