It’s official! Osaka prefecture has been declared the sexual assault capital of Japan according to statistics maintained by Japan’s National Police Agency.

According to the data, last year one in every 4,200 female residents of Osaka was raped or otherwise sexually assaulted. This compares to one in every 4,600 in Tokyo.

The Osaka rate is double that of Kanagawa Prefecture, which has a similar number of female residents, and nearly five times that of Yamagata Prefecture, which is the safest prefecture for women in Japan.

According to the police, many victims of rape or other sexual assault last year lived alone in apartments. Most of them were attacked from behind soon after opening the door of their apartment. Some offenders managed to enter buildings equipped with auto-lock systems by waiting for a resident to open the door, and then hid in stairwells until they found a target.

Many victims also were attacked on the street while talking on their cell phone, an activity police said can give people a false sense of security about their personal safety.

“People let their guard down when they are on their way home, or talking to people [who they feel close to]. It’s the most dangerous moment,” a police officer said.

So what steps has Osaka taken to deal with the situation? Well, the prefectural police force has assigned two full-time female police officers to a telephone consultation service called Woman Line.

Feel any safer?

Japanese authorities have executed Tsutomu Miyazaki, a killer who murdered four little girls in the late 1980’s, ate their remains, drank their blood, and sent parts of their remains to their parents.

Miyazaki’s death sentence was finalized in February 2006, when the Supreme Court upheld lower court decisions that ruled he was mentally competent to take responsibility for his crimes committed in 1988 and 1989 in Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture.

“He had killed four girls to satisfy his sexual desire,” the Supreme Court ruling said.
During his trial, Miyazaki repeatedly claimed that “a rat man” appeared before he killed the girls. He also said he ate the wrist of one of the girls.

His victims ranged in age from 4 to 7.

Miyazaki reportedly remained unrepentant of his crimes right until the end. In fact, he wrote a letter to Kyodo News shortly before Japan’s Supreme Court upheld his death sentence claiming that he had done “a good thing.” According to one of his defense attorneys, Miyazaki was quite happy to be on death row, because it allowed him to read comic books all day.

Details about Miyazaki’s crimes here.

Stories about misbehaving public officials are commonplace – they differ only in the details. But the details usually make interesting reading.

A Wakayama prefecture civil servant has made worldwide headlines with a feat of astonishing dedication.

Tax-payers in Kinokawa wish he could show similar dedication to his job. For it has been revealed in a 9-month period, the horny civil servant clocked up more than three quarters of a million hits on pornographic websites from his work computer.

His superiors were alerted to the problem only when his computer became infected with a virus.

The 57-year-old man, who has not been named, works for the city of Kinokawa in southern Japan.

That works out at almost 10,000 pages a day, or more than 20 each minute he was at his desk.

The BBC reports that his habit “reached its peak” last July with more than 177,000 page hits times during office hours.

The man has not been fired.

You can’t make this stuff up…Police in Saitama Prefecture arrested several people for filming a porn flick in McDonald’s!  Maybe they saw something Freudian in the golden arches which beckoned them?

One of the suspects was quoted by police as saying, “We didn’t think it would be a problem as long as nobody noticed what we were doing.”      

remember those blow up jumping castles that you had at your birthday party as a child? well leave it to japan to pervert those too.

boldly going where only ash (satochi) has gone before

in what is one of the more disturbing trends in contemporary japan, the maid cafes and other perverted male otaku hang outs have spawned a new branch of cafes for female otaku, ones based one gay comic book porn. that’s right, women who want to indulge their childhood fantasy of young effeminate men dressed in high school uniforms flirting with each other, engaging in oral sex, or brutally anal raping each other finally have an outlet for their fetish.

now if you’re anything like me, your fist reaction to this article might be, oh say, wtf? but apparently in japan’s never ending quest to cater to every possible kink, they have stumbled across a sizable subset of female otaku that just can’t get enough of yoai manga and doujinshi. as a consequence proprietors sensing an opportunity for profit have created bars and restaurants much like the one featured in this article. run by a woman by the name of emiko sakamaki, the place goes by the name of edlestein (named after a yoai comic set in a german high school) and features a staff of young cosmetically enhanced men. according to her and others the market is driven by the atmosphere of female indulgence that has been of which japan has, until this time, been bereft of, combined with the popularity of anime and manga, complicated by the desire for relationships which transcend traditional gender roles, all united by a sample population of young to middle aged single women who appreciate the unparalleled beauty of a fragile young teenager being raped by other men (preferably in groups).

Here is a little some for you to be thinking about the next time you are settling into a public lavatory in Japan.

A municipal employee in Chiba Prefecture has been arrested for hiding wireless cameras in various public toilets over the past two or three years.

Raiding the man’s home following his arrest, police found more than 100 videotapes and DVDs archiving the footage from the cameras.

The man admits to the charges against him, and he told police, “I did it because it’s my hobby.”

meat product manufacturer ito ham has applied for japanese trademark protection of the phrase 女子高生. it appears that they wish to create a line of meat products based on the brand of trendy female japanese youth. presumably they plan to create the perfect meal for the nostalgic salaryman who can sit down at lunch and imagine back when…

via pink tentacle

A 15-year old girl was assaulted recently while shopping in Saitama Prefecture by a knife-wielding man in his 20s or 30s,who grabbed her head from behind and tried to hack off her hair.

No doubt the guy expected her to scream helplessly as he had his way with her, except it seems that he picked the wrong girl to mess with. The “victim” has a 1st degree black belt in karate and so she knows more than a little about how and where to kick. . . and so she did.

The surprised stalker was last seen putting as much distance as posible between him and young lass, with more than his pride hurting.

The girl reported the attack at the nearest police box.

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.