May the Shinto gods bless Japan’s generous sharers of nude selfies. If you like Japanese girls with a bit of meat on their bones, this amateur is for you. Her thighs and waist have some fine love handles, while her ample bust is certainly above average for a Japanese woman of her age (mid-twenties, by…

We were excited to blog in April about the then-upcoming release of a nude photo book by Asuka Fukuda, an ex-Morning Musume idol, that was the first such hair nude (full frontal) nudity by a member, current or former, of the famous group. Now in her mid-thirties, Fukuda has matured into an alluring older woman…

Have you ever seen (or stayed at) a love hotel like this? Though the cyberpunk (is that the right descriptor?) style is like something out of a Neo Tokyo landscape or cut from the same cloth as the Robot Restaurant in Kabukicho, it is actually a room in an Okayama hotel with a retro fairground…

After they were blamed for helping to spread the coronavirus in Japan, hostess clubs are once again in the media limelight for causing a second wave of COVID-19 cases in Tokyo. Nightlife spots are resulting in fresh clusters of cases following the lifting of the state of emergency in Tokyo. Hostess clubs closed during the…

As the city reopens following its soft lockdown, one establishment has made headlines for changing its operating style to fit the new normal that is post-COVID-19 Tokyo — and also opening itself up to a broader demographic ahead of its closure. The host club Ai Honten (literally, Love Head Office) will open only on Saturdays…

Japanese netizens: savvy, beady-eyed, industrious, curious, or just too much free time? Pick your descriptor, but they all apply to some extent in the end. The latest example of this was exposed, if you will pardon the expression, by a bikini photo shoot by NGT48’s Ayuka Nakamura. In the Australian shoot, the up-and-coming idol in…

Rainy season has officially begun in Tokyo. Last year’s season was protracted and desultory, stretching on until July. We hope that won’t be the case this year, though the measures against the coronavirus will mean that many places are anyway closed and typical summer events won’t happen. When the rains started last week, they brought…

Okamoto, creator of the “Zero” range of ultra-thin condoms, has made an online anime series to promote safe sex. Condom Battler Goro is packed with nods to past animes like Dragon Ball, Pokemon, Fist of the North Star, and Yu-Gi-Oh. As first reported by Kotaku and SoraNews, the 56-episode series stars a 24-year-old Condom Battler…

In these coronavirus times, Zoom has become an essential tool for life and work. But it has also led to some amusement, like when actor Yosuke Kubozuka recently got drunk during a live Zoom session with fans and fell asleep. People like to opt for virtual backgrounds to hide anything embarrassing that may appear on…

We love a comeback, hence our interest in the apparently nude photo book by Angelica Michibata scheduled for release in August. We also love a jukujo, hence our interest in the comebacks by single mom Hiroko Sato and former Morning Musume Asuka Fukuda. So now there’s Asami Kumakiri, whose summer-themed photo book “Bare Self” more…