Not really the sort of article that I would normally post, except for this one excerpt which seems to sum up the desperate search for identity – er I mean obsessive focus on fashion – of Japanese youth. If it’s true of course!

‘Another recent trend was wearing boots with twenty-centimeter platform heels. There have been at least five reported shoe-related fatalities, one involving a twenty-five-year-old who died after tumbling off her own footwear, and another who lost control of her car’s brake pedal and crashed into a pole, thereby killing her passenger.’

…and…er…speaking of which, just what exactly is THIS site all about then?