Japan Subculture Research Center

An Osaka male attempted to sue Yahoo! arguing that the display of his arrest record constitutes defamation. The courts don't agree.

We are really just hoping that the thief will return the stolen goods," Masuzo Furukawa, the president of the company, told the JSRC via email. "Our basic principle is 'condemn…

So we reimagined Charisma Man, after way too many years in Japan---without every learning the language or blending into the culture. Meet "Abysmal Man"--an anti-hero for a new era. Dripping…

And the hostess is practicing pouring green tea As the businessmen get drunk real slow Yes they're sharing a drink they call loneliness But it's better than drinking Jinro

This year's Hiroshima bombing commemoration speech bears a uncanny resemblance to last year's.

The IAEA considers 8kg is enough to make a nuclear weapon. In other words, if the 1% not accounted for (at Rokkasho Spent Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Plant) was actually stolen,…

However, if the Tokyo Prosecutorial Board again rules that prosecution of the TEPCO executives is warranted then a team of lawyers will be chosen to play the role of the…

A 15 year old girl was arrested Sunday by the Nagasaki Police on suspicion of killing her high school friend. The 15-year-old girl, who can't be named under Japanese because…

The National Police Agency of Japan is at long last (and after much public pressure) considering revising Japan's archaic adult entertainment laws to allow dancing past midnight! Yes, Japan may…

Rokudenashiko is a slightly eccentric artist—this is certainly true. She has written an entire comic book about her obsession with her genitalia with wild surrealistic drawings. In the book, she…