Underwear

Whilst not exactly a pastime as such, panty pilfering isn’t especially uncommon in Japan, with finds of unfeasibly large amounts of underwear regularly making the news. Yet whereas most perpetrators practice their art with the utmost care, Junichi Uchikura threw caution to the wind by entering a policeman’s property to bag some of his wife’s briefs.

A bold move in itself — especially as the officer was off duty and at home — but one made more audacious by Uchikura-san’s outfit, as when he was caught, the 24-year-old was sporting a Japanese schoolgirl sailor suit uniform. An item he apparently acquired during an earlier escapade.

Sadly no photograph has been released, but Uchikura may (or indeed may not) have looked something like this.

Minus the beard perhaps.

Elections may have been and gone in Japan, but Triumph International can perhaps be forgiven for not exactly being topical with its latest novelty underwear offering — the Voter Turnout Lift-Up Bra.

However, whilst the garment’s characters cleverly spell out ‘ballot box’, and the manufacturer insists its introduction will help spur erecti election fever, many fear it could ultimately result in a large number of spoiled ballots.

A Japanese construction worker was arrested on Tuesday for underwear theft, with police finding a humongous haul of 4,400 pieces of women’s undergarments in the 54-year-old’s Hiroshima apartment.

Panty pervert Shigeo Kodama’s capture came after being rumbled for stealing a measly six items of underclothing from two homes in February; however during questioning he inadvertently gave away his powers of panty pilfering by boasting — in reference to his work on tall buildings — that, “I’m very good at climbing to high places.”

How good Kodama-san is at climbing high prison walls on the other hand remains to be seen.