AKB48‘s Asuka Kuramochi has grown up. She will release her first solo photo book on September 11th called “Mimi-tabu”, which means “earlobe”. We’re not sure if this has some sort of coded meaning or whether the photos will showcase Asuka’s lovely ears. Saying that, Asuka is known as an “ear sommelier” and apparently has a…

Hardly the biggest surprise of the week but a worthy topic of news, Tokyo Reporter has highlighted an interesting report of the arrest of a Nigerian club owner arrested by police for drugging and stealing from his customers. Officers took Emanuel John, the 44-year-old manager of Little Cat, which is located in the in the…

They say lightning doesn’t strike twice but such rules don’t apply to Japanese pornography, which has always proved tempting to aging or waning Gravure idols and actresses. And former AKB48 girls who find themselves a defacto porn star during their time in the group — and upon “graduation” discover it’s a mere side step to…

It has just been announced that Tokyo will host the Summer Olympic Games in 2020. Will the city try to expunge all its unsavory elements ahead of the event? The last time the city hosted the Games there was a similar campaign to “clean up” the streets, and when the Winter Games were held in…

We’ve been seeing a lot of Japanese onahole toys that play on the word kupa or kupaa recently. What does it mean? Well, in our efforts to explain Japanese erotic esoterica to our readers, we decided to provide a basic definition. Kupa can be a fairly innocent onomatopoeia for cooking. But its meaning in the…

Candidates for the Miss Asia competition were recently unveiled in Shenzhen City in Guangdong Province. The annual beauty pageant is organized by Asia Television Limited from Hong Kong. China’s netizens, however, have been less than impressed by the quality of the ladies. Saying that, we think these four girls are wonderful, especially number 3! The…

Finally, a car we can have sex with. This is the vehicle we have been waiting for and as itasha go, this one might not be the most elaborate but it is rather ingenious — which merits how it is exploding on the Japanese internet at the moment. The owner took Madoka from Puella Magi…

Chikan. AKA groping. It’s a real Japanese tradition. But that doesn’t mean you have to be Japanese to do it. When in Rome, as they say. Now a foreigner has been caught copping a feel on a young Japanese woman on a JR train. Not only was this foreigner a British “gentleman” but he was…

Naoki Nakatani. An ordinary 30-year-old guy from Ibogawacho in Hyogo prefecture. Or is he? Our friend Naoki here has been been selling some clothes via online auctions. Nothing unusual in that. Except that he has been selling raincoats. A lot of them. And they have the names of girls’ high schools written on them, as…

The oldies are the goodies. Forget the ever-younger minions of AKB48. There’s a goldmine if you just look back a bit in time. Born in 1974, Chiharu Komatsu (小松千春) is one such nearly forgotten hottie that we wanted to rescue. The model and actress was popular in the early Nineties but as she got older,…