At least she asked? Police in Osaka are on the lookout for a very polite woman who apparently has an uncontrollable desire to touch strangers’ rear ends. According to Osaka Prefectural Police, on March 27 at about 6 p.m., a male junior high school student was walking along a street in the Osaka city of Toyonaka when a woman grabbed …

Looks like this social studies teacher needs a refresher on basic laws. A teacher at a public junior high school in Osaka who was arrested after allegedly trying to shoot illicit video of his female students in a school restroom with his smartphone is offering up a less than believable excuse for his actions. According to a report by Nikkan …

Porn-filled crane games. Fule that under: only in Japan. Crane games, a.k.a. UFO catchers, are extremely popular in Japan. Go to any arcade and alongside all the video games you’ll find rows and rows of these things. Although fun, unfortunately, these machines can quickly leave you broke. But what if you really want that prize that is stuck behind the …

It’s always best to write down what you want to say before making a phone call… or you could just keep calling and hanging up until you get it right. An unemployed man in Miyagi Prefecture was arrested on Friday (Feb. 22) for allegedly calling the office of a government employment agency 159 times and hanging up without saying anything. …

Even the robbers are polite in Japan. In Japan the type of language you’re expected to use can change drastically depending on the situation you find yourself in. When you talk to your friends, you typically use very casual and direct speech. When you’re at work and you’re talking to a customer, you’re supposed to use very exhaling speech. And, …

“Heavy build” means man boobs… right? On Wednesday (Jan. 10) police in Hokkaido arrested a man who allegedly disguised himself as a woman and entered a woman’s public bathhouse in Sapporo. According to information released by both police and the facility where the incident took place, the suspect, a 50-year-old part time worker, entered the Sapporo bathhouse at around 9 …

Next time you see an air compressor, remember this story. On Sunday (Dec. 17) police in Saitama Prefecture arrested two men under suspicion of manslaughter after they allegedly caused the death of a male coworker by shooting compressed air up his backside. According to police, at around noon on December 16 at an industrial waste treatment plant in the Saitama …

Must be quite a lady. On Friday (Nov. 3), the Nara Prefectural Board of Education revealed that they had dismissed a 48-year-old elementary school teacher who had been arrested after he allegedly got so “curious” about a 60-year-old woman’s bra that he was unable to stop himself from stealing it. According to the announcement, on September 20 at about 11 …

There’s nothing like watching a guy without a pinky make cotton candy for you. Up until relatively recently Halloween wasn’t all that big a deal in Japan. However, over the course of the past decade or so this seems to have dramatically changed. And perhaps there is no better evidence of this than a Halloween-themed event held this week by …

The most samurai convenience store clerk ever. It’s not all that uncommon in the United States to hear stories about someone trying to rob a convenience store only to find themselves in serious trouble when the cashier pulls a gun on them. In Japan though, with it being almost impossible to own a gun, this sort of thing doesn’t happen. …

Sometimes all you want is someone to just notice you. Police in Tokyo are on the lookout for an attention seeking bicyclist who likes taking night time rides with his junk hanging out. According to reports, at around 7:10 p.m. on October 10, a resident of Tokyo’s Adachi Ward was walking along a sidewalk near Umejima Station on the Tobu …

At least it wasn’t the bunhole… Unlike some other kinds of bread, hot dog buns are good for pretty much only one thing, putting hot dogs in. However, one Hiroshima college student doesn’t seem to have gotten this memo because according to police she tried to use one of these weiner covers as a way to smuggle marijuana into Japan. …