

The latest salaryman to trade one form of oblivion for another on the nation’s rails has horrified many with his spectacular plunge through the train’s window and straight into the arms of its doubtless even more horrified driver.
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A Japanese man has finally been arrested after impersonating a mysterious foreigner in order to rape his girlfriend’s two daughters.
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A woman who discovered a rotting goldfish in the Pepsi bottle she had just started to drink has shaken the confidence of Chinese cola drinkers.
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An upskirt voyeur has been caught lying in wait in a gutter for women to walk over him, after worming his way 20m through a 30cm wide crawlspace.
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The latest triumph of AKBnomics arrives in the form of an AKB otaku who proudly shows off the stack of 4,000 votes (at a cost of some 6.4 million yen) he is casting on young Anna Iriyama.
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AKB48 is now apparently Japan’s best selling female group ever, after Sayonara Crawl’s release took them to nearly 22 million singles sold.
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Grisly security camera footage of a woman being beheaded in a packed elevator has prompted yet more safety concerns about China’s rapidly rising cities.
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Aku no Hana’s capacity for controversy continues to increase – police are reporting the arrest of two schoolgirls for destroying their classroom in a copycat crime they say was modelled on a scene from the manga.
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A man has been arrested after admitting he punctured the tires of “about 1000″ women so that he could offer to help change them and thereby hopefully arrange casual sexual encounters.
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Hailstones “the size of chicken eggs” have fallen on southern China, killing 9 people and injuring a further 272 in unusually deadly weather even for China.
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AKB48 starlet Minami Takahashi is back in the news again – this time after her off-duty ensemble was outed on Twitter and swiftly became the butt of innumerable jokes.
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Shanghai has announced that thousands of diseased pig carcasses dumped in one of the city’s rivers will “have no impact” on water quality there – sadly an all too believable proclamation…
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