A Hokkaido Shimbun reporter who was arrested for molesting a female hotel employee admitted the allegations, saying, “I was drunk and don’t clearly remember what I did, but I’m sure I committed the crime.”
A Kyoto court ordered a 26-year-old man to pay ¥670,000 in damages to a woman he punched in the face after she repeatedly told him to remove his bag from an unoccupied bus seat so an elderly passenger could sit down.
A Nagano-to-Tokyo shinkansen was delayed for 37 minutes after an 80-year-old passenger traveling in the Green Car without a ticket punched a conductor in the jaw.
It’s the perfect crime if your a complete idiot.
Not to worry. There is no evil intent on the part of the chicken or the Ramen. Go out and buy some.
Your tax dollars at work
The Aichi Prefectural Government has ordered a doctor in the town of Fuso to stop prescribing oral contraceptives to women he has been consulting with only via email.
A 37-year-old DPJ member of the Tokyo metropolitan assembly resigned his post after “drinking three or four glasses of a distilled spirit” and crashing his car on a road in Itabashi-ku.
A section chief at the TMG’s Bureau of Sewerage was arrested for jabbing the head of another man with an umbrella at JR Minami-Koshigaya station while drunk.
Its not a book and George Bush is not involved
Fearless flashers bag bonus points for landmark exhibitionism
Last month’s arrests of a couple of women who posed nude outside the Miyazaki Prefectural Government building has given Japan’s exhibitionists greater, er, exposure than ever before, highlighting the growing number of the country’s flashing buffs, according to Spa! (2/26).“Thanks to the growth of the Internet and more people with digital cameras, there’s no doubt exhibitionism is increasing in popularity and we’re receiving more submissions from readers than ever before,” Akira Natsuoka, editor of Japan’s foremost exhibitionism magazine Nyan Nyan Club, tells Spa!
“Exhibitionism overwhelmingly starts with guys doing the initiating, but there are definitely more women becoming actively involved in the practice. About 70 percent of our submissions come from couples, with the husband taking nude photos of his wife. Some people even send in CD-ROMs filled with hundreds and hundreds of photos or movies with people in the nude. A lot of these images are taken in public places or areas where it’s easy to understand where the shot has been taken, so we can hardly use any of these.”
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very interesting stories today!
I love these, and read them whenever I run across them.
I’m fascinated by the views and differences of other countries and cultures, and always appreciate your links and perspectives here and over at the Orange place…
Wish you’d write more! Or at least, wish I could be awake and around when you do!
🙂