
Condemnation of school romance has led to some spirited support of the rights of children to experience romance and the inevitable sexual relations which are a natural part of this.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Oct 27, 2009 21:12 JST
- Tags: Crime, Dating, Fraud, Marriage, Murder, Otaku, Plamo, Ronery, Saitama, Suicide

Police have arrested a woman suspected of tricking an otaku into giving her some $50,000 to cover the couple’s imminent marriage, after which the man promptly committed suicide.
Further investigations revealed three other men connected with the woman had died under mysterious circumstances, in a case police are treating as murder.
Update: Now it appears no less than 6 men connected with the woman died or committed suicide, and we learn that the woman, a convicted fraudster, led a lavish lifestyle from which she swelled to just shy of 100kg…
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A survey reveals what Japanese men and women find the ten most shocking secrets their partner might harbour, with men evidently highly concerned about whether their partner is really a woman, and women concerned about the financial history of their partners…
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What makes a “herbivorous” man? A survey reveals just what it is Japanese people think is meant when the media complains of the effeteness of the modern Japanese male…
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A survey of Japanese men asking what sort of behaviour they find most cute in a girlfriend yields results which probably resonate with men the world over…
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A woman who sued her former partner after he agreed to cover the cost of their mutually agreed abortion has been awarded $12,500, with a judge saying he “must share equally in the burden.”
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When Japanese women were asked what it is they found inexplicable about male romantic behaviour, the results deviated surprising little from what the female version of the survey found…
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Thousands of Japanese men were quizzed on what they consider the most vexing mysteries of the female heart to be, and, not entirely surprisingly, the results may well be applicable to women anywhere…
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New data suggests 70% of unmarried Japaneses men in their twenties and thirties have no girlfriend, with an alarming jump of 20% in just three years for men in their twenties.
A similar figure holds true for women, with some 64% of women in the same age groups single.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: H, Japan, News
- Date: Oct 19, 2009 09:20 JST
- Tags: Dating, Fashion, Fetish, Image Gallery, Mizugi, Obesity, Rankings, Statistics

When some 5,000 Japanese men were asked what it is they most dread seeing their girlfriends doing at the beach or pool, the answers seem to provide evidence of some painfully common fashion faux pas amongst Japanese women…
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When 8,500 Japanese women were asked what it is they found inexplicable about male behaviour, they came up with a list which might well be universal…
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The recent boom in “konkatsu,” parties to help those seeking the ideal marriage partner meet, has run into trouble: reportedly, women always outnumber men by a large margin at these events.
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