The scandal resulting from Minami Minegishi’s outrageous decision to have a relationship with dancer Alan Shirahama has brought immense publicity to AKB48 and turned what was a tabloid scoop into an ad giving the name power of the group’s “brand” a major push overseas. All publicity is good publicity, after all. But doubt over the…

Famed fashion photographer Leslie Kee (41) has been arrested by Tokyo police for the sale of “obscene” imagery at a Roppongi Gallery. Kee, Singaporean by birth but based in Tokyo, is one of three arrested for selling photo books with pictures of male genitalia. The trio are suspected of selling seven books to two customers….

As we blogged back in December 2011, Masato Uchishiba (34), the judo champion who won two gold medals for Japan at Athens and Beijing Olympics, saw the final nail hammered into the coffin of his career recently when he was jailed for five years for rape. He was charged with sexually assaulting a teenager, a…

Apologies for the excess in AKB48-related posts recently. There’s just been so much to write about. The latest member of the idol “music” group to hit the tabloid rumor lane is Yuki Kashiwagi. She apparently went on a gokon, the group date very common among young people in Japan. Yuki’s late-night gokon might have been…

Who says the industry doesn’t look after its own? The Japanese porn world can get a bad rap, with lots of memoirs recently by former actresses recounting their woes and troubles after fucking and sucking their way through hundreds of men. But the porn documentary The Other Side of Sex, currently playing at the leading…

We’ve been enjoying a new Japanese adult film here at the Tokyo Kinky writing studio. It’s called Fifty Cocks Erection Tunnel and is produced by the ever-reliable Soft on Demand. It’s one of our favorite kinds of Japanese porn films, so-called kikaku “project” movies, which always involve some sort of unusual situation or challenge. In…

Imagine you are out in Shinjuku for some shopping and food. You need the ladies’ room so you head to the nearest facility. And then up ahead of you in the small cubicle, a floor-to-ceiling-sized giant head called “Ten Chi” starts to move towards you! Yes, this is ordinarily the stuff of nightmares — only…

Trust an otaku imagination to come up with this. Previewed at Wonder Festival and spotted by Akiba Blog, this butt pencil sharpener (お尻鉛筆削り) — a picture of a naked girl’s derrière with a sharpener covered in putty. Crude engineering for a crude design. Yes, some people never grow out of schoolboy humor. The results are…

We all know Hooters, the ever-so-slightly sexist and tacky restaurant chain with busty girls doing what they do best — revealing their busts in tight tops while serving your drinks. Now you can choose which of Hooters Japan’s ladies should be selected as the best piece of totty in the restaurant in this Miss Hooters…

Sometimes we think that Japanese photographers cannot get any kinkier or, to put it more positively, any more original. But they can. Take Kaopan., a new photography book. It features a series of Japanese schoolgirls looking cute as they always do while wearing… um, panties on their faces? The title basically sums it up —…