And what’s better than some of the beautiful Japanese maids that walk around in Tokyo? If you still doesn’t know in Akihabara neighborhood in Tokyo you get into maid cafes, where the waitresses are dressed as maids. Don’t think that the girls are disadvantaged. There are also male cafes, where you can see men dressed as maids. You also have mom cafes where they dressed as moms – but that’s for a different visit to Tokyo.

They are dressed like this because of the Otaku – Japanese geeks – who love to see the girls in this outfit as part of their love to anima, the Japanese animation.

So take a look, and don’t hesitate to call to you travel agent and get on the next plane to this wonderful city. If you’ll click on the pictures you’ll get into the Flickr page of the photographer. Enjoy!

No. 2 – Mystery maid:

No. 3 – Young ones:

No. 4 – Promotional maid:

No 5. – Another promotional maid:

Tell us in the comments what you think and maybe there will be another part of pictures.

The ministry of tourism in Japan hopes that due to the popularity of this too-cute feline, tourists from neighboring countries will flock to Japan and spent some cash. As well informed readers of Japanite! already know the country offer tourist attractions like maid cafes and robot wars.

The mega cat is apparently 34 years old, and was invented by Sanrio, a toy company. since then, the kitty has appeared on 50,000 products in 60 countries.

This isn’t the first time that Japanese expect their drawn figures to bring them tourists. Just a month ago the Japanese foreign minister appointed Doraemon, the anime cat, as an “anime ambassador”.

We wish good luck to the cute cat, but still thinks that Nahoko Shimada, the McDonalds porn start might have been a better in attracting the sophisticated tourists.

More: [DailyNews]

2.5% of fifth graders in Japan play console games that include sexual and erotic themes. That’s according to a survey done by the National Congress Parents and Teachers Associations of Japan. What’s more amazing is that 34.9% of the children reported that they have email friends that their parents don’t know about. Not surprisingly they send 51 emails every day to each other.

In a recent survey in Japan about video games, it was discovered that the children doesn’t go to arcade halls, and just stay at home to play their consoles. The children were very convincing for why they prefer the home consoles.

Arcades are expensive, noisy and filled with cigarette smoke,” said 15-year-old Gene Sato, adding that he would rather save his money to go to a theme park. “Besides, I can stay home and play NBA Live on PlayStation 3.”

Or maybe it’s just because they can’t watch their favorite erotic games in the arcade?

Source: [Mainichi] Game: [J-List]

If maid cafes are new to you (and even if they don’t) you might be surprised to know that the Japanese have taken it a step ahead. The new trend is drag maid cafes where men are dressed as maids.

They are dressed as women and greet customers as women, but they are not. The cafes can be found in the Akihabara districts in Tokyo – which the technology district. The neighborhood attracts the Japanese otaku, the young people that are admiring anime, manga and video games. And it seems that are willing to pay more for this service.

Watch the full video for more:

And if you want mom to serve you coffee – Then Tokyo also got a place for you.

The annual Meiwa Electronics annual Stupid Robot Contest, is held every year and the competitors must obey the following rules: the robot must be mechanical, It must be completely useless and it must make people laugh. Loyal readers of Japanite knows already that this can be applied to a lot of Japanese inventions throughout the year, without even a contest.

One of the robots, Papa Robopucho (picture above) is playing flags game with himself and sometime just cries for help. another example is this one, that I hope is inventor knows what it’s doing:

Last year you could see maid robots inspired from maid cafes in Akihabara (inventors probably haven’t heard about the new mom cafes trend), and a child robot that did push-ups.

This is also from last year:

So, What robot will you suggest to the competition? Share with us in the comments.

More info and videos (japanese): [Robot Watch] and [Bacarobo]

and more on the contests in [Meiwa]

Strange Maid cafes are out, mom serving you cake – in. It appears that geeks in Japan are bored with the Anima and Manga cafes all around them, and quick entrepreneurs cashing on this desire.

The new Mother cafe in Osaka is offering it’s customers “mom-like” experience from the waitresses. The are greeted in friendly tones, can feed you, listen to your troubles. Even though that some of the “mom’s” are 19 years old only, the owner of the place promises that they “look older than their age” and capable of “understating people worries”.

We will not be surprised if will see the adult version of this soon. Where Otaku (Japanese geeks) will get spanked if they will not finish their meal.

More on [Mainichi]

and if you feel you can be a good mother and want to apply (Japanese) [Mandarake]