In a recent poll of 2032 people aged from their teens to their sixties were asked what Japanese celebrity was the most beautiful both inside and out. The winner was actress Norika Fujiwara who recently divorced comedian Tomonori Jinnai. Number two was Becky, an extremely well-liked tv personality who boasts one of the largest portfolio…
I thought my next update about this case would be some months down the line, however even at this early date the case has been settled. The victim has agreed to an undisclosed financial settlement with the six men sh accused of rape. The settlement seems to imply that the six Kyoto University of Education…
I didn’t know this news would be so popular when I first wrote about Billy Blanks getting married and deciding to settle in Osaka, but it seems to be a story people are really interested in. I also put up pictures of the happy baby of Billy and Tomoko Blanks (the photos were on the…
In a previous post I wrote about six Kyoto University of Education students who raped a girl at a party in February. The university never reported the incident to police until June. There were some pretty outrageous moral violations by the school, such things as refusing to report the incident to authorities, and the fact…
By now, I assume that the big gang rape incident at prestigious Kyoto University (link goes to news story in Japanese) is international news, and I would not like to go into the details of the incident. However, of interest to students of the media and society in Japan are the reasons that Kyoto University…
It seems that people are really interested in Billy Blanks and his move to Japan so I thought I’d follow up on my previous story about Billy and Tomoko Blanks. Billy Blanks and Tomoko Blanks had a baby daughter born at Iwasa Ladies Clinic in November of 2008. A photo of the baby, named Angelica,…
It seems that Hitoshi Matsumoto was not as forthcoming as he could have been in his press conference yesterday when he described his new bride as “an everyday person”. She is actually a 26 year old (19 years his junior) former tv announcer and television personality named Rin Ihara pictured below. Their baby is due…
OK, I don’t usually write about Japanese idols or gravure or anything like that, but I think I’ve found one worth writing about. Right not she seems like she wants to do the DVDs and everything, but she is also a talented comedian. I watch most of the comedy shows on tv here in Japan,…
I really am looking for positive news to write about but this kind of randomly violent crime just keeps jumping out at me. If you’ve been to Osaka, you probably know the big Hep Five mall (with the big Ferris Wheel on top). At the North entrance to Hep Five, two guys approached a girl…
This list to us comes courtesy of an article on Livedoor News. Japanese women were asked to list the “effeminate” things that men do. Please keep in mind that these answers came from Japanese women about Japanese men. We here at newzjapan aren’t saying this ourselves (although I’ve seen all of this behavior myself so…
The reason I put “still” in the title of this post is because lately there’s been a sort of politically correct type of trend here. People don’t like people to talk about people being elite. They say that people should not talk about education and things like that… but the reality is this – Reuters…
OguShio (Kumiko Ogura and Reiko Shiota), the Japanese women’s badminton team, famous for their play and looks recently had a press conference to announce that they would be breaking up, but continuing to play with other partners. There are some cynical ways to view this news. I don’t which, if any, of the following are…