Idol / Gravure Idol
Mitsu Dan’s First Full Nude Shoot Paid Her 330,000 Yen. She Was Fine With That.
Mitsu Dan, now 45, married, and mostly out of the spotlight, went on the YouTube channel ReHacQ on September 28 […]
Crime & Legal
A Dead Relative’s Line Account Started Flirting With Him. Then It Pitched an Investment.
A man in his 60s in Iwate almost walked into a romance scam that started from the worst possible place: […]
Crime & Legal
Cops Nicknamed Her “Sugar Baby Yoshiko.” She Allegedly Faked Her Dad’s Cancer for 13.5 Million Yen.
Tokyo police have arrested a 36-year-old woman they say drained an older man of 13.5 million yen, then spent it […]
Japan News / Japanese Society
Kagoshima Is Handing Out Free Shinkansen Tickets. Most Tourists Still Haven’t Heard.
Most international visitors treat Japan like a two-stop tour: Tokyo, Kyoto, maybe Osaka if they get ambitious. Kagoshima, down at […]
Crime & Legal
They Heard Japan Goes Easy on Thieves. Then They Broke Into a Tokyo House the Day After Landing.
Two Chilean “tourists” just admitted they picked Japan for a crime spree because they heard the punishments here are a […]
JAV (Japanese Porn)
Minamo Used to Hate Kissing. Then She Became One of Japan’s Biggest AV Stars.
Minamo is retiring from adult video in December. Before she goes, she’s been talking about what she was like before […]
Dating in Japan
Paying Someone to Dump Your Partner Is Now a Thing in Japan
Paying Someone to Dump Your Partner Is Now a Thing in Japan Breakups suck. Saying the words out loud sucks […]
Idol / Gravure Idol
Miku Kanemura’s New Photo Book Previews Have Fans Zooming In on One Detail
Hinatazaka46’s Miku Kanemura just dropped preview shots from her second photo book, and one image is doing most of the […]
Crime & Legal
Pro Basketball Player Arrested in Kumamoto After Bar Staff Says He Groped Her and Took Her Underwear
A 42-year-old pro basketball player has been arrested in Kumamoto City after a female bar employee accused him of sexually […]
Crime & Legal
Nagano Police Officer Arrested After Meeting Underage Girl Online
A 34-year-old police officer in Nagano has been arrested on suspicion of statutory rape involving a teenage girl he met […]
Food in Japan
Starbucks Japan’s New Pokémon Collab Has a Pikachu Latte and a Mountain of Merch
Starbucks Japan just announced a pretty massive Pokémon collaboration, and the headline item is exactly what you’d expect: a Pikachu […]
Food in Japan
Lawson’s New “Single-Minded” Bentos: Depressing Poverty Lunch or Genius Focus Mode?
Lawson just dropped a new bento line that’s so stripped-down it feels like a dare. They’re calling it Ittentoppasugi — […]
JAV (Japanese Porn)
Kaoru Oshima Went From Japan’s First “Male Porn Actress” to Writer — and He’s Not Sugarcoating Any of It
Kaoru Oshima made a lot of noise in 2014 when he debuted as the first big otokonoko star in mainstream […]
Crime & Legal
Vietnamese Man in Tochigi Grew 200+ Weed Plants at Home — Says He Had No Idea What They Were
Tochigi police have re-arrested a 33-year-old Vietnamese guy for allegedly running a pretty serious grow-op out of his house. Pham […]
Crime & Legal
Police Just Grabbed the “Collector” in That Brutal ¥53 Million Gold Street Heist
Tokyo police have locked up another name in that ugly gold robbery from earlier this year. Akira Nakao, 31, got […]
Crime & Legal
He Broke Into Her Place 100 Times, Swapped Her Underwear, and Installed a Spy Cam — Then Told the Court He Just Wanted to “Be of Use”
Tokyo just wrapped one of those cases that makes you want to check every window lock twice. A 33-year-old guy […]