Welcome swimsuit aficionado. The official start of summer is just around the corner in Japan and judging by her latest video it appears that gravure idol, Kamen Joshi member, and YouTuber Erina Kamiya is totally ready to spend some quality time at the beach. In one of her most recent videos, which was released Friday, Kamiya shows off three of …

What the hell was he doing in the shower? No… it’s best not to know. A male elementary school teacher in Kyoto with an alleged affinity for male underwear has been arrested in Kyoto after he was caught trespassing in the shower of a locker room at a university in Kyoto. According to Kyoto police, during the last week of …

Japan just can’t get enough of those cat ears. The Japanese retailer Village Vanguard is known for their vast assortment of attention-getting products and the latest of these appears to be a new line of cat-themed lingerie that comes complete with, you guessed it, cat ears. This line of two cat girl lingerie sets comes in a black and a …

It’s that time of the year again. Despite April Fools’ not being from Japan, Japanese companies have fully embraced it. Every April 1 brings with it a whole new batch of silly jokes. Some are hilarious, some are genuinely interesting, and some are a little lackluster. This year was no different and so here’s a quick roundup (in no particular …

Erina Kamiya sure loves pleasing her fans. Last October, the gravure idol and member of the pop idol group Kamen Joshi, Erina Kamiya started a YouTube channel and almost immediately she was met with the kind of success most YouTubers dream of. Her success wasn’t simply due to her status as a public figure either. Although yes, that certainly helped, …

This is the future of fashion. This past October 30, Fundoshibu (Fundoshi Club), an organization dedicated to promoting the use of fundoshi (traditional Japanese underwear), treated a group of more than 200 people in Tokyo’s trendy Shibuya district to something the world had never seen before, a fundoshi fashion show. The Fundoshibu Team: Dedicated to “changing the world via fundoshi” …

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 …

Bet no one was expecting a not sexy okonomiyaki making robot. On Monday (Oct 23) the Tokyo-based animation production company DLE released the fifth and potentially final installment in their bizarre anime web series Henkei Shoujo (Transformation Girls) and like the previous four videos this one stars a Japanese high school girl with the ability to transform into a machine. …

Panties aren’t even safe from cops in Japan. On Friday (Oct. 6) Tokyo Metropolitan Police revealed that they had both dismissed and filed charges of breaking-and-entering and theft against a police officer who is suspected of having stolen potentially over 100 pairs of women’s underwear over the span of three years. According to police, on August 26 at around 11:30 …

Within every fundoshi is the power to make the world a better place. Hosts, hostesses, groups of drunk salarymen, people dressed up for a fun night of club hopping, couples on their way to love hotels; these are the kinds of people you might expect to see on a typical visit to Japan’s largest entertainment and red-light district, Kabukicho. However, …

It’s ok to take someone’s panties as long as you give them back, right? A male elementary school teacher from the Nara city of Kashiba was arrested on September 21 under suspicion of theft for allegedly stealing a pair of women’s underwear, taking pictures and video of it and then returning the panties to the place where he found them, …

Get ready to say goodbye to your underwear, and hello to fundoshi. Until the end of World War II the preferred undergarment of Japanese men was neither boxers nor briefs, it was that traditional form of Japanese underwear that looks like a cross between a little apron and a thong, the fundoshi. Although it might be hard to imagine, pretty …