Imagine you are riding the train home. You feel a little sleepy. Perhaps you drop off. This is common in Japan. Public transport is full of dozing passengers, young and old. You feel safe.
But what you don't expect is for an old man next to you to unzip himself, reach into his groin, pluck or otherwise extract a pubic hair or two, and then casually flick his "gift" onto your head.
It sounds too disgusting to be true, but sadly this is what happened.
After performing his deed on the unsuspecting junior high school girl beside him, the man tried to pretend he was merely adjusting ...
"Teenage girls luring men into dens of sleaze warned by police."
It sounds like a headline on a parody news website. The men are lured into dens of sleaze by teenage girls. Oh, so the men are the victims?
But it's not. It's an article in the Asahi Shimbun and just the latest entry in a media frenzy about the JK business ("high-school girl business") as the police continue their crackdown on what is often a thin cover for underage prostitution.
Twenty teenage girls suspected of working in the sleazy "JK business" were given a slap on the wrist by police in a series of street ...
To, er, celebrate International Women's Day, Al Jazeera ran this long and detailed story about sexual assault in Japan, claiming "every girl was a victim" but now more schoolgirls are speaking out about groping on public transportation.
Tamaka Ogawa was about 10 years old when she was sexually assaulted for the first time. It was a public holiday and she was on the subway. A man standing behind her pulled down the band of her culottes and underwear, touched her bare bottom, then pressed himself against her. She recalls feeling shocked and physically sickened. When she reached home, she ...
A journalist working on a BBC Three documentary about child sexual exploitation was held in police custody.
The 29-year-old Stacey Dooley was held by police in Tokyo for two hours during the making of her documentary, Young Sex For Sale In Japan.
"It [the doc] focuses on the fact they only made it illegal to possess child pornography in 2014," said Dooley. "We set out to try and understand why it took a privileged country, like Japan, so long to come to this conclusion. Also to see if the change in their law had made any real difference on the ground."
Dooley and her team were ...
A new exhibition in Tokyo focuses on the controversial issue of underage enjo kosai, or compensated dating.
The "We Were Bought" exhibition runs from August 11th to August 21st, featuring the photography, text and diaries of junior high or high school students (JK, joshi kousei) who have engaged in enjo kosai, a euphemism for prostitution
The exhibition is organized by 24 students and Colabo, a support group for female high school students. The students and other girls are aged between 14 and 26, and live all over Japan from Hokkaido to Kyushu.
There are around 100 exhibits on ...
This nymphomaniac Twitter user (account sadly unknown) has cute lips and a sweet bust -- a tendency to post nude selfies for the world's enjoyment.
Apparently she's an 18-year-old high school student. We have no way of verifying this, but who cares when the results are this good?
Given how she fingers herself, she seems to need a man's ...
The yearly contest to find the cutest (i.e., hottest) school girl in the Kanto area (the district with Tokyo and Yokohama and other neighboring prefectures) has announced its 2014 results.
In all there were over 22,000 votes and 8,000 comments, as well as nearly 40,000 retweets.
This is the girl crowned Miss High School 2014. Like all the candidates Maaya was a first grader and received the highest number of votes from members of the public.
The most page views was for Yuuki.
And the most comments was for Seri-chan.
The prize for the most retweets was ...
...if these pictures are to believed, showing a group of high school students engaged in some very well-orchestrated recreations of Dragon Ball powers.
And it's not just the girls...
So, if you are thinking of trying to seduce a Japanese high school girl, be ...
A 25 yr old college student and a 16 yr old schoolgirl used an internet dating site to sap a man's bank account.
According to Zakzak, the accomplices met on the dating site, got along well and came up with a plan to use the same site to make some extra cash. The high school student was in contact with several different men and targeted in on a 26 year old business man. They met and quickly decided to go to a love hotel. Once inside, the college student entered, forced the businessman down and hand cuffed him. The two accomplices got about ￥20,000 ($220) and then took his ATM card ...
