Sometimes it seems that every TV show and every advertisement in Japan features a haafu (half-Japanese, half something else person). Well, yes, but a lot of these are fairly banal, plain people whose only real talent is having slightly larger eyes and more ambiguous skin. However, I want to introduce you to the haafu who put the "sex" back into "sexy". Drum roll please. We now present The Sexiest Haafu Ladies! Melody Yoko Reilly (b. 1988) Half Irish American. She seems to be a lingerie model among other things. Not sure about much else, but she looks damned ...

I've said it before but I'll say it again. Japan is too sexy for America. This even means that books are apparently too much too! Kids in New Jersey will have a tougher job finding the Murakami mega-seller in their local libraries now, since one school have banned it for too much sex. Sure, there's a bit of lesbianism, the odd one night stand... but isn't actually all the suicide more shocking? Apparently the book should still be around the state but one school removed it from a summer reading list for teenaged students, and this might surely just be the tip of the iceberg. Well, ...