Check out this Reuters report on a Japanese guy who has totally given up on women and maintains a harem of 100 sex dolls.

Download these Win Amp skins at the risk of Hello Kitty O.D. at Be Cool Gal’s Hello Kitty World. . .

CAUTION! Not Safe For Kitty Haters (NSFKH)

Police have arrested a Tokyo man who is suspected of having made more than 10,000 calls for directory assistance because he was lonely and wanted to hear the sound of a womans voice.

Takahiro Fujinuma, who called into the services as many as 200 times a day, was arrested for making 2,600 of the calls from June to November of last year and charged with obstructing business.

“I wanted to talk to women as I felt lonely,” Fujinuma was quoted as telling police. “Although the Dial Q2 telephone service costs money, the 104 directory service is free as long as you don’t ask for a telephone number, so I made calls again and again,” he said.

Thanks to Mr. Pink

A former supervisor of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s Bureau of Transportation has been arrested for forging train passes in order to accumulate cash to by model railroad equipment.

“I needed money to buy a model railroad and repay loans to consumer finance groups,” he was quoted as telling police.

Police suspect that the man was able to steal as much as six million yen over an eight-month period, and only became suspicious when it was found that a number of train passes with his name on them had been turned in for cash.

Danwei is reporting that an “experienced American journalist” (experienced in what is not specified) is looking for white guys who date only Chinese women for an on-the-record chat about their affliction with yellow fever.

Apparently this information is going to be used for a serious article that will be aimed not at making the guys look bad, but rather at presenting a fair and balanced picture of the mixed race dating scene in China.

If you are interested in finding out more or in sharing your experiences, drop Danwei a line at: yellowfever@danwei.org.

An odd report in today’s Mainichi reveals that “a summary court judge resigned last year after being reprimanded for molesting an employee of a sex shop in Kobe”.

The incident occurred in October last year, and the resignation followed a month later. The “60-year-old judge” is said to have bitten a woman who worked in sex shop in Kobe.

The 60-year-old judge at the Hirakata Summary Court bit the lip of a Kobe sex shop employee in her 20s on Oct. 6, last year, injuring her, according to the district court. He is also accused of demanding excessive sexual services from her.

Excessive? I had no idea a sex shop worker was the same as a ’sex worker’. Surely any demand for sexual services was ‘excessive’? And how the lip-biting came about… the mind boggles.

Though he could’ve been charged with ‘indecent assault resulting in injury’, he paid the woman compensation to the tune of ¥1.7 million in an out-of-court settlement, so that, as far as the authorities were concerned, was that. So no messy paperwork to sort out. Everyone’s a winner.

Mainichi Wai Wai has a report with useful advice for men looking to troll the Lolita crowd for a little play for pay.

• Avoid the underaged.
• Watch out for those who use a lot of picture characters and smileys in their e-mail.
• Insist the girl tells her your age and get her to mail you a message stating that she’s over 18.
• Arrive at any meeting place well ahead of the scheduled time.
• Find a hiding spot and check out whether the girl is your type and what she’s doing.
• Get a feel for the area and work out an escape route, just in case.
• If the girl is a minor, she’ll often turn up nearby with a group of friends who’ll hang out close by and wait for her to finish.
• If the girl is on the con, there may be a guy in the vicinity.
• Con artists often hang out in groups in family restaurants or convenience stores, so check out these places to see if there’s anything suspicious.
• If you go into a hotel, make sure you enter separately and preferably leave by a different exit.
• If you get there by car, park some distance away so she can’t learn the license number and use it against you.

One refrain we often hear from the guys here on JAPUNDIT and elsewhere that Japanese girls are just too thin. If the lithe bony bodies of young Japanese women turn you off, the Peach Girls pub may be just the thing for you!

From the relatively petite 85-kilogram Sara. . .

To the full-package 115-kilogram Kanna. . .

The buxom beauties at Peach Girls are carefully sized up and specially selected to ensure that customers always get more for their money.

Via Tokyo Times

I don’t know what is grosser. . . The medium or the message. . .

Via Hello Kitty Hell

Mr. Pink writes in to tip us to a story about the All-Japan Bodybuilding Tournament held in Tokyo last year.

The following video is of Aki Nishimoto, a 41-year-old Tokyoite, who took the title of Miss Japan.

KEC Hire Hokuriku, a “maid taxi service for the disabled” that started in Kanzawa, Ishikawa Prefecture just three months ago, has been forced to close its doors due to the large number of otaku feigning physical problems in attempts to get close to the livery service’s staff.

Though the taxi service was specifically for the disabled and though it charged 5,700 yen per hour for its services, they were swamped with requests from otaku.

[The weekly magazine Nikkan Gendai] notes that maid-obsessed otaku came from all over the country to ride in the taxis, swathing themselves in bandages or pretending to have broken bones to circumvent the Road Traffic Law’s ban on the able-bodied using vehicles designed for the disabled.

KEC Hire Hokuriku’s President Keiji Endo, the father of a disabled child, was disappointed at the outcome.

“We wanted to be able to give the disabled a taxi service that they could use in a light-hearted manner, in much the same way as they’d ride around in a go-kart at an amusement park. With carers and those being cared for, there’s always a tendency for a relationship of dependency to build up. We wanted the disabled to be able to use the car without any fuss, so that’s why we got the maids in to do the job.”

Found while surfing the Web. . . Totally off topic, but. . .

More here.

I don’t know if this product is for cat lovers or cat haters. . . A Hello Kitty outfit for your puss.

Price: 18,000 yen

Via Rinkya

Check out this miniskirt mouse pad that is sure to put a leer on the face of otaku everywhere.

The following post, which deals with pedophilia, may not be safe for work. Click the link to view it.

Police in Osaka, Japan have arrested an 18-year-old boy on suspicion of forcibly ejaculating on women in public.

The boy is accused of grabbing a 62-year-old woman by the hair and anointing her with his precious bodily fluids in a park last August. He is also suspected of felonious wanking in more than 10 other similar incidents in the same general area.

According to investigators, the boy was addicted to pornographic websites and is known as “Quick Draw McGraw” among his friends because of his amazingly quick trigger. Apparently, the mere glance of a woman was all that was needed to set old Quick Draw off to the races.

Heavens to Murgatroyd!

Via Mulboyne

So. . . White men have an incurable case of Yellow Fever (hots for Asian women), right?

Well. . . Not really if you believe the result of a study titled An Economist Goes to a Bar reported by Ray Fisman at Slate online that reports on a “speed-dating experiment” that he counducted with two psychologists, Sheena Iyengar and Itamar Simonson, and fellow economist Emir Kamenica at a bar just off the Columbia campus.

One of the interesting findings of the study had to do with race.

Women of all the races we studied revealed a strong preference for men of their own race: White women were more likely to choose white men; black women preferred black men; East Asian women preferred East Asian men; Hispanic women preferred Hispanic men. But men don’t seem to discriminate based on race when it comes to dating. A woman’s race had no effect on the men’s choices.

Two wrinkles on this: We found no evidence of the stereotype of a white male preference for East Asian women. However, we also found that East Asian women did not discriminate against white men (only against black and Hispanic men). As a result, the white man-Asian woman pairing was the most common form of interracial dating—but because of the women’s neutrality, not the men’s pronounced preference.

Via Danwei

Japanese are apparently addicted to the sound and downright pleasure of puchipuchi — bursting plastic bubble wrap — reports Yoko Hani in The Japan Times. “It’s a phenomenon that’s easy to deride for its utter simplicity, but that is precisely its appeal,” says Ayaka Sugiyama of bubble-wrap manufacturer Kawakami Sangyo.

“I have learned that there is a psychological factor involved in bursting bubble-wrap,” she says. Kawakami Sangyo registered the brand name “putiputi” in 1994 for bubble wrap, which the company formerly called just “air bags.” Established in 1968, the company now has a 43 percent share of the market in Japan.

“Putiputi is a functional item, but I thought there must be completely different ways of using it,” says Sugiyama, who now is proud to hold the title of Head of the Putiputi Culture Research Institute at Kawakami Sangyo. “I wanted to make unique Putiputi products.”

One of these is Pucchin Sukatto, a 10 x 10 cm bubble-wrap sheet developed purely for popping purposes, costing ¥198 for ten sheets. Pucchin is the description in Japanese of the sound made when you pop bubble wrap, and sukatto means to feel refreshed.

Toy maker Bandai put a key chain called Mugen Putiputi (meaning Unlimited Putiputi) on the market in late September, after codeveloping the product with Kawakami Sangyo. Dangling off the key chain are eight bubbles made with a special plastic material that users can pop as many times as they wish — after being popped, they inflate, ready to go again.

Within 10 days of Mugen Putiputi hitting the market, 300,000 units of the ¥819 product were sold, causing Bandai to change its six-month sales target to 2 million pieces from the initial 1 million.

Since bubble wrap is a good insulator, sleeping bags are another obvious use — handy when sleeping in the office and during earthquakes: “Putiputi sleeping bags are very convenient when you have to stay in the office at night,” Sugiyma explains.

“Also, these sleeping bags can be emergency items, such as when we have earthquakes. In fact, we sent 300 bubble-wrap sleeping bags to Niigata Prefecture in 2003 when the area was struck by a big earthquake.”

Sugiyama has collected such interesting facts and anecdotes in her Putiputi Official Book, covering burning questions such as “Which side is the surface of bubble-wrap?” and “It reveals the truth behind the sometimes heard rumor that you can find heart-shaped bubbles on regular Putiputi sheets. Kawakami Sangyo put one heart-shaped bubble in about every 1,000 bubbles on a regular sheet so that users can enjoy petit luck when they find one.”

“The victims were capable of escaping at any time and were not in confinement.”

Yasuyoshi Kobayashi during his trial in which he was sentenced to 14 years for confining four women, aged 17 to 23, by making them wear dog collars and telling them, “If you flee, I’ll kill your parents and siblings.”

Here is a bit of the latest news from the “crush fetish” that we reported on here the other day.

Check out this cover from a 43-minute video that let’s you enjoy watching scenes shot from strategically located video recording devices of a seductively clad young woman as she crushes. . . The U.S. Capitol Building.

The perfect combination of crush fetish, political porn, and American complex release.

And if you think crush fetish is sick, check out the the link below.

BUT!!! Before you do, be forwarned that the video at the other end of the link is not safe for work and is pretty sick. Do not click the link if you do not want to see violent SM behavior. Proceed at your own risk.

Click here to view the video at your own risk.

Via Bizarre Japan