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 ...
