In the past we’ve encountered a thief who targeted hostesses and their shoes, a violent lingerie bandit who literally tears his swag off the bodies of his victims, a bra theft addict, and even a 82-year-old panties thief.

Now comes another shocking tale of lingerie larceny…

The media has reported the indictment of a man in Sano, Tochigi Prefecture, for stealing more than 200 items of woman’s underwear.

Tsutomu Kashiwase (44) apparently stole 217 items across the three prefectures of Tochigi, Gunma and Saitama. The Japanese countryside would seem to be populated by roaming samurai intent on nabbing girls’ panties.

The unemployed Kashiwase is accused of having stolen underwear on 27 occasions between March 2011 and November 2013. He was finally caught in November when he got

“I wanted to collect them,” he has admitted. We wonder if in prison he will be assigned laundry duties?

With the girls ever younger and the pressure to appear wrinkle-free and with the softest of skin that can stand up to iPad zooms, how do once popular Gravure models maintain a career after they hit 30?

Mayumi Ono (小野真弓) was never a mega star in the idol world. Her D-cup and girl-next-door made her look like a sexy TV presenter. She had fans but not legions of them.

We liked her before and treated ourselves to a selection of images for an Idol of the Week a couple of years ago.

So now she’s 31, how can she give her thirteen-year career a second boost now that it has started to flag?

She’s used her slinky body and, in particular, her impressive bust to attract attention from netizens even after she has hit the dreaded three-oh.

Witness her transformation from cute to provocative in just a few years.

Are we alone in think she’s getting better with age?!

Now people are asking if a porn debut is only a short time away!

Getting a side job where you can watch uncensored porn sounds like a male paradise. But hang on. Uncensored porn? Oh, right, in Japan, due to bizarre adherence to a century-old regulation creation to try to make Japan similar to “moral” Christian western nations, porn has genitals blurred out.

Technically, if you are selling porn in Japan that isn’t pixellated, you are breaking the law. (And then it gets complicated if it’s just a photo with genitals that is more “artistic” than pornographic or if it’s a mainstream film with full-frontal nudity — all of which were also censored until recently.)

Hiroki Yokota (not real name) is a 41-year-old company employee and he’s been doing a side job for over ten years. His job is to pixellate the adult videos we all buy.

He earns a steady ¥100,000 (around $1,000) per month for his efforts and he recently revealed more about the mysterious side to Japanese porn in an interview with Nikkan Spa.

“You don’t need to get any special equipment or software yourself, you can just turn up at the porn maker’s offices, so it’s easy for a newbie to get started. There’s a pre-test before they take you on, but you can practice using the ‘mosaic’ while they train you so you don’t need to have particularly good computer knowledge. If it’s a main production company, you can get an hourly salary of ¥1,500 per hour. A regular businessman could do two or three hours per day on their way home from work and get between ¥50,000 and ¥60,000 per month.”

So, up to $15 an hour. Not bad, right?

The journalist tried out the “mosaic” (pixellation) duties and he felt it wasn’t an especially “easy” job. You get tired from having to always look at where you need to pixellate — and it also becomes strangely addictive, he felt.

“Yes, there are these kinds of problems. It’s not right for everyone,” admits Yokota. “After you’ve got some experience at a major company you can then start working for the subcontractors on a commission basis. The more you have to pixellate, the higher the salary. If it’s a gang bang or scat flick, then you have to deal with larger numbers and so the commission is higher.”

Yokota chuckles where he tells the reporter just how much work there is. “It’s not just for the DVDs sold by the major companies. There’s also pixellation for online streamed content plus the satellite porn, each with their criteria for ‘mosaic’. There is endless work for you, you’ll never be short of a job. You can also get free samples from the companies so I haven’t had to buy porn for the last ten years. Of course, I always watch them for homework!”

Tokyo Reporter has an intriguing little report from a tabloid.

In the January 31 issue of Shukan Asahi, Minori Kitahara expressed concern over the popularity of a male masturbation aid that attempts to simulate the feeling of sex with an underage girl.

Kitahara is a fortysomething female “sexpert” and bestselling author. She was apparently shocked — we weren’t — by the high sales ranks on Amazon.co.jp for such onahole masturbation sleeves as the Innocent Little Sister Onahole and Seven Teen Bordeaux Onahole, which replicate a sexual experience with a Japanese teenaged virgin.

“I don’t think it is wrong to have that kind of desire,” she says. “However, as a woman now, and previously a girl, I feel strange living in a society where the lolicon fetish represents the majority.”

“Lolicon” is of course a fetish for younger-looking, innocent girls (importantly, not necessarily being young per se).

Kitahara doesn’t seem to highlight teenager idols, such as young Gravure idols and music idol groups — in which girls below the age of consent frequently pose in alluring, though “innocent” bikini photo shoots — but feels the onaholes are more of a worrying trend.

Should we be worried? Is this a healthy new and undefinable sexual trend? Or does it represent a problem with society and individuals? Could it even be a cause of Japan’s declining birthrate?!

Kitahara goes further: “Is this now not a sickness?”

About two years ago we blogged about the brilliant Vagina Panties, a “belt” you could wear to give yourself the female genitalia you otherwise lack.

Now the ever busy Japanese sex toys store KanojoToys have released the Vicky Panties, a similar but, in our opinion, even better looking version.

The Japanese adult industry is experiencing a real boom right now in mainstream cross-dressing accessories. Part of this is down to the popularity of otoko no ko, a type of cross-dressing as cosplay, though in general transgender is more tolerated. It even inspires photo books.

Major sex toys maker Tama Toys have created a pair of great manicure and make-up sets for novice otoko no ko, plus there is also the awesome Wishroom series of clothes for men who want to wear bras and “female” lingerie.

The Vicky Panties belt has some great details.

Check out the holes — both a pussy and a butt hole. Plus the pussy itself comes with flapping lips and the color is realistic to say the least.

And to add to the verisimilitude, there are pert buttocks too!

A 55-year-old man interested only in money and exploiting scantily-clad teenagers in his quest to empty the wallets of naive otaku and corporations with tastes bad enough to agree to advertising campaigns featuring his minions — Yasushi Akimoto, the producer behind AKB48 and all its spinoffs.

This is a man whose only goal is to make his company’s bank account richer, no matter what depths he plumbs.

This is a man who still claims to be making “music” despite his constant pandering to the lowest denominator in the AKB48 music videos and ad campaigns (nothing wrong with porn, of course, just call it what it is!).

This is a man who controls his female employees illegally by forbidding them to have sexual relationships (except with executives of his company, natch).

This is a man more than likely connected to the Yakuza.

And this same Yasushi Akimoto is about to be announced as a member of the executive board of the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Get ready for even more public money being added to the coffers of the AKB48 slush fund.

Even more serious are the rumors that Akimoto will be involved with planning the Opening Ceremony for the 2020 games.

Is our worst case scenario about to come true? Billions around the globe watching mass games with AKB48 Team A girls representing the nation and making the whole world think that this is all Japan has to offer in terms of music (and sex).

Nothing wrong with skimpily clad idols, of course. We just don’t want them at the Olympics, which should be about sports, not sexploitation. And we certainly don’t want our tax money being used to prop up Akimoto et al’s luxuriant lifestyles!

Kanazawa is a genteel small city near the western coast of Japan, sandwiched between the central mountains and the Sea of Japan. It is home to samurai houses, art museums, a famous garden, and an old geisha district. In other words, it is like an alternate Kyoto.

But don’t be fooled. Underneath this exterior of tranquility and grace there is a hotbed of fetishism.

Local police arrested a 21-year-old fourth-year college student from Takaoka City in neighboring Toyama City on suspicion on sneaking into an elementary school in order to steal girls’ indoor shoes.

“I wanted to smell the indoor shoes,” said suspect Kyosuke Minamitani.

He was found at around 4pm on March 14th by a member of the school staff and detained.

There have been around 30 cases of girls’ shoes being stolen at elementary schools in Ishikawa and Toyama prefectures since mid-February. Since December to March, 11 elementary schools in Kanazawa City alone had 24 shoes left in the entrance stolen from the premises.

“I did slip into other schools. I used my car to do this,” confessed Minamitani. It seems he just could not control his addiction to the smell left by young girls’ feet in the shoes.

A moment we look forward to every year… A new sex doll released by the maestros of Orient Industry!

Their latest offering in the long line-up of sexy silicone ladies is the Real Love Doll Yasuragi.

The craftsmen are Orient Industry have designed and rendered Yasuragi using 3D technology and the doll has a special Titan Frame for superb strength and durability, which is also great for posing and relaxing with your girl.

There are four stunning faces, plus options to add bush (trimmed or bushy) and even the color of the breasts. The attention to detail is, as always, impressive, with extras like movable eyes and flexible fingers available as well.

Orient Industry sex dolls are more the just dolls; they are companions for life. Don’t take our word for it. Even Lady Gaga thinks they are amazing too.

You can buy the Real Love Doll Yasuragi exclusively for international order and delivery via KanojoToys.

The winner of the coveted “Miss Universe Japan 2014″ has been announced as Keiko Tsuji, a twenty-year-old student from Okinawa and representing Nagasaki Prefecture. She will next represent Japan at the Miss Universe beauty contest.

Tsuji was chosen from a shortlist of around 40 after roughly 5,000 candidates applied from all over Japan.

These being enlightened times, there was also a male version, with Tohru Higa, another Okinawan, announced as the winner.

Such beauty contests have been marred in Japan by scandal of late. Ikumi Yoshimatsu, the 2012 winner of Miss International, went public with the stalking and harassment she received from the movers and shakers of Japan’s entertainment agencies to work strictly within their defined commercial system.

Let’s hope Ms. Tsuji isn’t subjected to similar treatment and can begin her modeling career in a positive way.

On March 18th, pop singer Hikaru Utada has activated her Twitter account for the first time in 1.5 months. And one of her surprisingly rare tweets involved her confessing that “I have never been to a love hotel.”

Utada of course has been famous since a young age, making her debut at 15. Even wandering the street is impossible, let alone a secret tryst at a love hotel. She would have been carefully managed by her agency and label, plus she was married to filmmaker Kazuaki Kiriya from 2002 to 2007.

Since then she has maintained a lower profile, living partly in London, where she met an Italian barman. They are set to marry this May.

All this means that Utada would have had little need for a trip to a love hotel, since she had money for her own apartment and would have needed to be more discreet than ordinary couples.

Netizens have responded with interest in Utada’s admission:

Don’t lie! You went with me!

Yes, celebrities would use city hotel suites.

Love hotels are for poor people. Sexless couples buy condos.

There have been enough celebrity affairs where the tabloids have exposed their extra-marital activities through images of sneaky trips to love hotel lobbies. No doubt if Utada wanted some private time with her Italian stallion or another partner, she knew better than risked being lensed by a paparazzi.

In the latest Olympic “clean-up” operation, now Chiyoda Ward — a large district in central Tokyo — is following the efforts of police in Akihabara to crack down on “walking dates” passing new local legislation to ban them from April 1st.

In so-called “JK osanpo” men meet with girls they believe are high school students (the “JK” stands for joshi kosei) and go on a “walk” with them, often culminating at a love hotel. These may be services that are prostitution in disguise or they may be more covertly arranged through individuals over websites. Some people don’t just want sex, though. Patrons might want to purchase the girls’ clothes or other items to satisfy their fetishes.

This man is Akira Shibetani (30), who was arrested last October for paying ¥18,000 (about $175) for the underwear of a high school student during one Akiba walking excursion. She was 17 and he had met her through an internet bulletin board, where she offered to sell her underwear to people who reserved her services at a “JK Osanpo cafe”. Shibetani and the girl’s promenade ended at a karaoke place in Chiyoda Ward, where she took off her panties for him and also let him touch her genitals.

Shibetani confessed that he liked girls who hadn’t reached maturity yet and got excited by the smell of sweat.

No penalty for the Chiyoda ban has yet been announced, though there will be people patrolling the streets to hunt for high school girls walking with older men.

What’s next? High school girls banned from chatting to members of the opposite sex?

Our luscious lady this week is the young Mariya Nagao (永尾まりや). Born in 1994 in Kanagawa Prefecture, the twenty-year-old idol is a member of AKB48′s K Team. I know, we are breaking our own rule of “no AKB idols are truly hot” but, hey, you live and learn.

Given her lowly rank in the AKB universe, Mariya isn’t going to be hitting the big time for a while, but that doesn’t stop her cute charms from working magic on our hearts… and other areas of the body.

Enjoy!

A 22-year-old self-proclaimed “talent” has been arrested for shoplifting, in the process of which she claimed to be popular actress Emi Takei.

Misaki Hashikawa went to a specialist shop in Ikebukuro and tried on some 40 leotards, shoplifting 22 of them. She then sold the leotards in online auctions, rather foolishly using her own name.

But if you are going to the trouble of subterfuge, at least steal something with value, right?

Well, actually leotards can fetch a reasonable price. Apparently Hashikawa stole the equivalent of ¥1.1 million (over $10,000) of clothing!

Hashikawa has also confessed to previously shoplifting from the same shop. At that time she said her name was Emi Takei when speaking to the store staff. Amazingly, they didn’t seem to realize that the two were not the same person. Hashikawa said she was going to make a film where she plays a gymnast and so would like to try on some leotards. She then stole two. Apparently she was wearing a face mask at that time (common in Japan when suffering from a cold or hay fever, and frequently worn by celebrities in public) and the shop staff asked to see her full face, but she refused to show them as she “wasn’t wearing any makeup”. Her eyes were enough to convince them to let down their guard.

Emi Takei is the model and tarento currently everywhere right now. Her youthful looks and “pure” face have made her darling of many a man (I once went drinking with a thirty-something Japanese salaryman who said he wanted to marry her as she was “the perfect woman”).

Before she starting mainstream acting and TV ad-fronting, though, she was set to go the way of the Gravure idol. While these days she appears in innocent and respectful attire, you can still find and enjoy swimwear shots from her early career.

While Hashikawa was only a semi-professional model, it seems, her fame has now shot through the roof and she has fans among netizens who think she’s a real beauty.

He’s at it again. TV personality and comedian Sanma Ashiya (58) is known as a ladies’ man but isn’t this going too far? Late last year it was reported that the TV veteran was sleeping with Makoto Yuuki, then a mere 23 to Sanma’s nearly 60.

We were steaming with envy at the idea of Sanma’s wrinkly body entwined with Makoto’s. Here comes the new development that Sanma has also been sleeping with Eririka Katagiri (22), as revealed by Eririka during a live web broadcast.

Eririka Katagiri is actually a former amateur who made herself a star through dancing in a sexy Nico Nico Douga videos. This led to a full porn debut in 2011 and the requisite onahole masturbator cloned on her pussy.

But Sanma doesn’t need this. He gets to enjoy the real thing.

Sanma apparently has a sexual appetite and stamina that belies his age. Makoto Yuuki in particular told a tabloid that foreplay sessions with Sanma go on for ages. This, coupled with his wealth and his comedic talents, makes him a hit with the ladies, even when they are younger than his daughter. However, apparently his penis is “s-size”… proving that it’s not about size. It’s what you do with it that counts.

Police in Nishi-Biwajima in Aichi Prefecture have arrested three people for public indecency.

The leader was company employee Hiroki Muramatsu (51) from Saitama, who was shooting two models in the buff. They were Eri Nishiyama (22) from Nakano in Tokyo, and an unnamed 19-year-old minor.

Muramatsu had apparently been doing a shoot at a studio in Kita-Nagoya City around noon on Marh 23rd, which including getting both the ladies completely naked. Muramatsu is a veteran — apparently he does such naked shoots every weekend in Nagoya and Tokyo.

He recruits models online. Nishiyama belongs to his own company and the minor was recruited from another modeling agency.

This time, though, something went wrong. For some reason the police came knocking and arrested the three. Why? Surely major studios and photographers do nude shoots all the time. We think the police got a tip-off and are trying to crack down on individuals going about doing what they are passionate about!

Is this really public indecency? Or is this a form of art that should be protected?

Our lovely girl this week is the star of the moment, Gravure model Miwako Kakei (筧美和子).

Miwako has a huge pair of breasts (the only issue here is what they look like when she gets older) and these have helped her burst into the limelight.

Born in 1994, she released her first photo book last year and, having only just turned 20, looks set to continue to ride the Gravure idol career wagon for many years to come!

Be careful if something seems too good to be true. It usually is.

If you are on the street and are enticed by a woman, remember — only fools rush in.

But perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised. The “woman” in question certainly didn’t look like this.

No, instead Kyoto police have arrested self-employed Naohiro Nagaoka (72) after he dressed up as a woman and repeatedly called out to men passing on the street.

Is cross-dressing now a crime? Is Kyoto becoming Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward?

No, Naohiro Nagaoka wasn’t just indulging in his drag queen proclivities. He was trying to rob men while they had their guard down. Apparently seeing a 72-year-old in drag will either get them horny and vulnerable, or might shock them so much they are susceptible to theft.

In the past fifty years (yes, this guy has been doing this for FIFTY years) has been arrested nine times for the same act.

This time he was nabbed after on March 25th around 11pm he promised a passing 48-year-old man the chance to “have sex for 20,000 yen”. Well, that was an offer he couldn’t refuse!

Japanese pornography cannot exist with bukkake.

The cum shot — almost always on the girl’s face — is a controversial but necessary finale to almost all porn, so much so that Japanese men tend to think that this is how you should have sex in real life. Many a foreigner in Japan has been freaked out by his lady friend lying there with her mouth open and ready for him to finish on her — when all he wants to do is just enjoy more “mainstream” pleasures (at least for the first time anyway!).

If you like sperm — giving it, that is — and like to watch it being enjoyed by others, then you need to take a look at these fetish JAV porn films by Hakudakudou.

As Al Jolson almost once said, “You ain’t seen nothing yet”!

From Santa cosplay girls slurping up the spunk together to nurses, Office Ladies and more, these films feature a host of amateur and pro girls, on the receiving end of a very unique fetish: Making these girls drink as much spunk as possible, either by collecting the cum they create by giving blow jobs and handjobs in a cup — or simply by letting a whole parade of men bukkake onto their faces.

There are also other films exploring the same fetish, such as these with top star Akari Hoshino.

Whether you are a regular practitioner of bukkake or not, watching these films will still broaden your horizons about what can be done with the white stuff.

That girl may be older than you think. Often the girls who look super young in the photo shoots or in the porno flicks are not as young as the creators want you to think!

But the opposite is true too. That girl may be so young you shouldn’t even look at her, let alone think about doing stuff to her!

Girls’ bars are no strangers to employing underage labor, both for their allure and also no doubt their cheapness. While you might expect to find a teenager behind the counter, we have never heard of one this young before!

An elementary school six grader aged just twelve has been caught working at a girls’ bar in Kawagoe City, Saitama.

The manager of the Nightlounge Next, Yusuke Nakao (28), has been arrested. He recruited the girl on Line and she is apparently tall for her age. In his defense he has said that he didn’t think she was that young. We can’t imagine she has much of a bust, though!

Girls’ bars are like cheap versions of hostess bars, where there is a cover charge and drinks might be a bit more than usual — and where the staff are all girls and patrons are typically all guys.

You’ve heard of revenge porn, right? Where someone (usually a guy) puts video or images online showing a former partner engaged in sexual acts in order to punish them for breaking up with them?

Well, this is different… but much more enterprising.

When we first read on TokyoReporter about a Sendai man who had been arrested by police for selling “obscene photographs of his wife” we immediately assumed this was revenge porn.

But then things got a bit weirder.

Officers from the Omori Police Station charged metal worker Yuji Chiba, 35, and his wife Chihiro, 30, with the distribution of obscene digital media for selling photographs showing genitalia and previously worn women’s underwear via auction sites.

Since October of last year, the pair, which promoted their items as “A Housewife’s Life Exposed,” collected two million yen in revenue from the business. In October, a man in Chiba Prefecture purchased two photographs of Chihiro for 1,000 yen.

So it seems his wife was party to the scheme.

They began to sell bundles of photos and used panties via online auction sites. Presumably the money was good since they kept doing it. Chihiro even attached left customers a lipstick mark and a message of thanks — now that’s customer service.

Of course, these kinds of used panties — genuine or fake — are everywhere. Why have these two harmless individuals been arrested? We imagine this couple has been made an example of to warn amateurs from getting into business. After all, when mafia-related businesses are threatened even by just a few yen, you can bet the police get a tip pretty quickly…

Apparently officers are now examining the contents of various DVDs seized from the household. You bet they are!