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Upskirt urges

A High School teacher in Ibaraki Prefecture is currently in trouble with his local Board of Education for secretly filming up the skirt of one of his students.

The degenerate yet deviceful teacher (whose name has been withheld) managed to get his desired shots by attaching a digital camera to his sandal. Then allegedly ‘filming’ when his unknowing victim was doing a spot of cleaning.

It turns out though that this wasn’t the teacher’s only attempt at amateur movie making, as he confessed to doing the same thing during a class earlier this month. Putting his misdemeanors down to the fact that he gave in to his “desires after watching secretly filmed videos on an internet site.”

Also disclosed was that the camera-attached-to-a-sandal technique is not an ideal method for producing sharp images, as the teacher said (presumably in a desperate attempt to reduce his punishment) he had already deleted the images of the students as they weren’t clear.

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Santa sleigh slayed?

Whilst Christmas isn’t really a part of the traditional calendar here, that hasn’t stopped many people (and practically all retailers) embracing the festive spirit with as much enthusiasm as they can muster. Unfortunately rumour has it that at times this eagerness has been a little misdirected.

Now sadly this story has to remain classed as an urban myth, as it seems no photographic evidence is available. And I’ve checked extensively. Well, on Google images. What more do you want?

Anyway, back to the story/myth. The year varies depending upon which version you hear. Some have it as far back as just after the Second World War, others some time in the 1960’s. Whereas a few younger believers place the sighting as recent as the 1990’s. The location too is equally troublesome. Sometimes it’s as vague as Tokyo, Osaka, or even simply Japan. Ginza gets mentioned more than most though, so perhaps that’s the safest bet.

Yet despite these discrepancies, what was allegedly seen is always the same. Perhaps designed to be the Christmas decoration to top all all Christmas decorations, was lovable old Santa nailed to a cross. Yes, a crucified Kriss Kringle!

Sadly, as fuzzy as the various accounts are, none of them point to the Santa in question being this particular bearded man.

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A pity.

Categorized: Odd

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Ballot begging #2

After posting a desperate plea request for votes last week in the hope of avoiding a last place finish in the Asia Blog Awards, I was pleasantly surprised to not only see Tokyo Times move from the bottom of the heap, but straight in to first position. Sadly (and perhaps inevitably) I’ve since slipped down to third place, but my appetite for success has been well and truly whet.

So if you feel that this site is worthy of your vote, please go here and help fight the cause. And if you are a really keen supporter, you can vote once a day until the polls close at the end of the year.

In a further bid to garner votes, I’ve taken the decidedly drastic step of kidnapping Prime Minister Koizumi and burying him up to his neck in sand. Hot sand too for a bit of added drama.

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If the votes come flooding in I promise to immediately release the wavy haired leader. And if they don’t? Well, I suppose I’ll just have to keep feeding him and attending to his constant hair related demands until they do. Which to be honest is driving me crazy, as keeping those greying curls in place is a full-time job in itself. So please save me from this hairstyling hell and cast your votes now.

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Sexy Santa #2

Christmas day itself is pretty much a non-event in Japan, and generally it’s just another day at work for most people. Especially as the 23rd is a national holiday to mark the Emperor’s birthday.

Fortunately things are a little better this year with the big day falling on a Saturday, and even better news is that the Tokyu Hands department store is selling some festive outfits that will lift the spirits of even the biggest Christmas humbug.

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The shop’s Christmas wreath hat/mask however is not quite as appealing.

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Dutch wife for hire

Back in April I mentioned the advancements in Japanese blow up doll technology, and that rather amusingly such devices go by the name of dutch wives.

But such lifelike silicone beauty comes at a cost, as a top of the range dutch wife will set you back a staggering 600,000 yen (3,000 pound). Now seeing as for most people this is an awful lot of money to spend on a recreational ‘toy’, the entrepreneurial Doll no Mori company has stepped in and started offering such manufactured mates on a rental basis.

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As well as numerous satisfied customers, Doll no Mori’s owner, Hajime Kimura, is also more than happy with his new ’employees’. He says that currently he has four dolls and the company gets “at least one job a day, even on weekdays, so we made back our initial investment in the first month. [And] unlike employing people, everything we make becomes a profit and we never have to worry about the girls not turning up for work.”

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The current charge for a 70-minute session is 13,000 yen (65 pound), although Kimura-san says that the two-hour option is the most popular. But with such high rental costs he does admit that customers would be financially better off just buying a doll, especially as the company has a large number of repeat customers and a growing membership of over 200.

To give things a more personal touch, the four dolls available for service are called Alice, Ai, Mayu, and Tina. And as the picture below shows, they can be dressed up in a variety of, erm, alluring outfits.

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Now if all this wasn’t disturbing enough, the most popular doll by far is the large-eyed and mangaesque Alice, who/which most closely resembles a young girl.

And then of course there’s the hygiene aspect…