If you're a white male in Tokyo, you can do what you want. I'm just romping through the streets, just grabbing girls' heads, just like, head, pfft on the dick, head on the dick, yelling, 'Pikachu,' with a Pikachu shirt (on). — Julien Blanc, dating expert at Real Social Dynamics

One of the most reviled misogynist "pick-up artists" is coming to Japan this month. He may find he is not very welcome. It's one thing to teach dubious techniques to socially inadequate men on how to bed women; it's another thing to grab Japanese women and force their face into your crotch.

In Japan, that's not "aggressive dating" — that's forcible indecency (kyōsei waisetsu), a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison. I wonder if our visiting dating adviser is aware of this. He certainly wasn't the last time he was in Japan.