Happousai is the name of a character from the crazy Anime series Ranma 1/2. Happousai is a little old perverted man who is always trying to steal girls underpants.

Well, I was watching the Japanese news and the police resently arrested some guy for just that crime. He had something like 1200 panties he had stolen from various women. I did not hear how he did it. Whether he snatched them off cloth lines or out of laundry mats or through some other means.