
A former porn star has been arrested for defrauding a doctor of some ¥26,000,000 through a dating club scam; washed up porn star (or at least, AV “actress”) 香野みか/Mika Kouno, at 36 now too old to be performing (except perhaps in certain niche roles), instead over the last few years teamed up with another ne’er-do-well to orchestrate a scheme of fraud and prostitution which would leave one particularly dense doctor ruing the day he joined their club.
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Regrettable news for fans of delicious cake; Yomiuri reports a price rise has been announced. Just what impact this will have on Lolita sales is unclear, but it seems likely that those with a sweet tooth will be hit in the pocket.
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According to a Yomiuri survey, 72% of Japanese profess no belief in religion of any sort. Of course, as you might expect from these kinds of statistics, things are a little more nuanced than at first they seem, though the general ambivalence of the Japanese to religion does not appear to be in doubt.
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A former high school principal (56) who tried to blackmail a former pupil (now in her 20s), with whom he enjoyed sexual relations with, has had his day in court, after arrest for his crimes. He was apparently enraged when the lady refused to restart their carnal relations, and so began a campaign of threats to force her into submission, to which she, to her credit, remained resolute against.
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A homeless old lady (58) snuck into a man’s house, and made a secret nest at the top of his closet, all whilst not being detected, even going so far as to somehow sneak a mattress into her nest, and she is suspected of having lived thus for some months, police report. The woman, whose name is given as Tatsuko Horikawa, has been arrested for trespass.
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Two Japanese men have delivered an apparently record breaking self stimulatory performance in San Francisco, in a carefully orchestrated piece of marketing for Tenga. Emblazoned proudly with the Tenga maxim “New Adult Concept”, on red jumpsuits, the intrepid duo of Norihiro Taneichi and Masanobu Sato displayed considerable endurance; Taneichi managed to perform for 8h 40m, although we are not told just how many times they achieved completion (a suspicious omission if ever there was one).
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The “grey zone” into which dojinshi fall may soon disappear, which full legal recognition of the right to fair use, if a new government initiative to reform copyright law reaches fruition. The reform is still under formation, but could very well see the light of day.
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The filming of an adult video, on top of a truck in broad daylight, in the middle of Tokyo, led to arrests on suspicion of public obscenity; police say AV production company “Hot Entertainment” staged a lewd performance on the back of a large dump truck driven through central Shibuya, and have conducted raids on the company’s four Tokyo offices in response.
Though apparently passersby could not see the performance occurring on the bed of the truck, those in overlooking buildings were treated to quite the spectacle, which prompted the vigourous police response.
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Newscaster 川田亜子/Ako Kawada (29), has committed suicide for reasons which still remain unclear, but whatever her thinking the lamentable act is causing something of a stir. She opted for the classic method of burning charcoal briquettes in her car, and apparently also left a will. A variety of potentially salacious details threaten to emerge.
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“I was excited by the lady’s recorded voice”. So excited, that over a year the 38 year old plumber made more than 500 calls to a local food company’s order line, racking up 3,100 hours at a cost to the company of ¥3,800,000. His less than prompt arrest was for the charge of interfering with company duties; he is also suspected of having made nuisance calls to other companies, so the extent of his activities may be even greater.
His arrest seems to raise more questions about the behaviour of the company and of police than about his own warped tastes. Perhaps they might have considered caller ID blocking or changing the recording to that of a man’s voice? Via Asahi.

7% of Japanese admit to eating dog food, according to a recent survey, we are told, though anyone doubting their culinary sensibilities will be relieved to hear it is a brand of dog food by Royal Appointment.
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A high school teacher helped herself to ¥4,400,000, earmarked for the school student council, and then treated herself with some shopping. The teacher, in her 40s, fiddled the books over a yearlong period, using the pilfered cash to pay down her debts and rack up even more debts with shopping and high life.
She was sacked for her creative accounting, though we do not hear of any criminal charges, perhaps since she paid back the “borrowed” funds; the headmaster also made amends by forgoing a month’s salary for not bothering to do any auditing, and for stamping all her receipts. A subtle connection there, perhaps? Via Sankei.