Here’s another one to add to our long list of haafu (biracial) beauties. Around this time last year, we got excited about the comely Pamela Asahi. Who’s next? The latest model set for major fame is Naomi Trauden (トラウデン直美), a 21-year-old from Kyoto. With a German father who taught German literature at Kyoto University and…

Over the weekend, a large earthquake struck off the coast of Japan. Here in Tokyo, we felt some pretty bad jolts for some time on Saturday night, but it was far worse for the northeast of the country. Social media was soon awash with images of fallen bookshelves, smashed plants, collapsed and broken furniture. One…

Beauty and the eyes of the beholder. Come on, you know the score by now. But even so, this has got to be one of the stranger tales of talking in Japan that we’ve heard about. Earlier this month, a woman was arrested for walking into a restaurant in the city of Nara. She couldn’t…

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: it’s the older ladies who know how to sex things up. The tarento and actress Chiharu Niiyama (新山千春) has released her first gravure shoots in — yes, this is quite a gap — 20 years! Now aged 40, Niiyama last posed two decades ago. Last’s do…

Freelance photographer Misuzu Shibuya (渋谷美鈴) recently shared on Twitter highlights from an erotic photo shoot she did with three models: Maria Mitsu (Maria Temari), ai, and Rin. In a far, frankly welcome cry from the more obvious world of busts, butts, and bikinis in the gravure shoots of the weekly tabloids, Shibuya has created an…

Hikari, a city in the rural prefecture of Yamaguchi in the west of Japan, has a mascot. No surprise there, since almost every town, city, prefecture, company, political party, or anything in Japan has an official mascot of some kind. Japanese adult toy brands also have them: Toy’s Heart has Toys-kun, while Tama Toys has…

Japanese announcers are the ladies to follow if you want intelligence and grace. Forget the gravure idols and all their busty, curvy charms. Forget the porn stars with their sexual prowess. Forget the music idols and their cute girl-next-door looks. It’s the announcers that everyone really wants to marry. Case in point, the wildly popular…

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is not only the best-selling fighting game of all time. The Nintendo-Bandai crossover game famously includes playable characters from other franchises, and players have recently discovered that Pyra (Homura in Japan) and Mythra (Hikari in Japan) from Xenoblade Chronicles 2 offer some unexpected bonus visuals. Of an adult nature. Mythra and…

It’s a crowded market for minor celebrities and idols, especially if you come from the competitive ranks of AKB48 or its sister groups. While a few former members have gone on to have major careers — mostly the original generations of idols — hundreds of others have faded from view or pursued careers like porn…

A new video attracting attention in Japan is an “anti-stalker” voice clips collection for women who live at home. If they are scared about a visitor, the idea is, they can use these audio clips to pretend a man is at home. This will ostensibly scare off a potential intruder or stalker. Since it was…