One of the more unusual stories swirling around J-pop right now is the identify of the mystery singer with whom Elon Musk claims to have fathered a child.
Ashley St. Clair, a conservative influencer and mother of Musk's fourteenth known child, told the New York Times that Musk has "fathered children around the world, including one with a Japanese pop star."
Of course, this is a second-hand report and not from Musk directly, but people have taken it seriously.
Who could it be? Suspicions quickly centered on Ayumi Hamasaki, the veteran "Empress of Pop" who has two children (one born at the ...
A man from New Zealand has been arrested in Japan for attempted extortion after he sent messages to a girl in her teens.
The 56-year-old man, who says he is a chef but is unnamed in media reports, was arrested when he landed at Komatsu Airport in Ishikawa, a prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast.
He is suspected of sending messages to a teenaged girl in Ishikawa who he met on social media.
On April 18 at around 10 p.m., the man is accused of sending the girl a threatening message, warning her that if she ignores his messages he would go to her home. He told her to respond within two ...
When a foreign-born contestant won Miss Japan last month, it sparked much wringing of hands from certain sections of the commentariat and internet, and a roughly equal amount of earnest gushing about how much Japan was changing.
Karolina Shiino, who was born in Ukraine but has lived in Japan since the age of five and eventually naturalized as a Japanese citizen, was awarded the title of Miss Japan in a ceremony in January. The face of Japan was now officially a white woman. This was enough of a news story to make waves internationally.
Now, as they say, the plot thickens. The 26-year-old ...
Do Japanese girls want to date Western guys? It's a question that many of our readers probably want to find out.
Of course, the answer is: it depends on the girl.
But such obvious points aside, what do Japanese women, especially young Japanese women, think about dating non-Japanese man, particularly from Western countries?
Fortunately, instead of going out and doing a time-consuming survey ourselves, we found this nice video of street interviews from a few months ago.
The interviewer, Takashii, manages to score comments from some fine-looking and very eligible ladies. We're not sure how ...
With the ink on her 2012 divorce to an Austrian actor still fresh, singer Ayumi Hamasaki is rumored to have taken up with another "white" lover.
The pair were spotted at a luxury resort in Bali, where they apparently shared the same hotel suite.
Ayumi seems to have been around for an eternity, though she is only a mere 34 years old. Last year she had a relationship with a dancer, but it was over before it even really registered.
She had a notorious short-lived marriage to Austrian actor Manuel Schwarz, which ended in late 2011/early 2012, ostensibly due to Ayumi wanting to spend ...
In a quick private Las Vegas ceremony at A Little White Chapel on January 1st, Ayumi Hamasaki married a foreigner.
That is to say she married Manuel Schwartz, an Austrian actor who has been living in Los Angeles. Yahoo Daily News also reports that the two met during the filming of Hamasaki's new wedding anthem "Virgin Road".Ironically enough, he plays her husband in the video. Here's a short clip as AVEX has blocked the full video from appearing on Youtube.
This is quite big news in Japan as, generally speaking, Japanese celebrities almost never marry foreigners. We'll have to ...
