Raku-mo, a portal for Rakuten, Japan’s biggest online retailer, has a novel approach to picking out the “highlights” from all the various apparel and fashion sellers out there. It collates various lingerie and clothes items by the images of models advertising them and then allows you to rank and rate these girls. We like the…

We’ve long been an advocate that Haruna Kojima is one of the very few girls in the AKB48 millions who is genuinely attractive (along with the lovely Rie Kitahara!) So here’s some good news. Haruna has been chosen by sexy Japanese lingerie brand Peach John to be their new face (and body) modeling the spring…

Yasushi Akimoto, the dictator producer behind AKB48, has made some bizarre comments during a radio interview that seems to backtrack on everything he has created in his idol army. Following the recent outrage over Minimi Minegishi’s shaven head scandal after she dared to have sex, he seems to have adopted the age-old practice of any…

This may well be a prank but based on visuals alone, prepare to be stunned. This young lady has had a lot of sex and isn’t afraid to advertise that fact in an example of Japan’s strangest (or most sexually provocative) fashion choice yet. In the same way that native “savages” might wear the ears…

What is the solution to Japan’s declining birth rate? Banning abortions. That’s according to Seiko Noda, a spokeswoman for the governing Liberal Democrat Party. There are said to be two hundred thousand abortions per year in Japan Noda, who is divorced from another LDP politician and famously gave birth at the age of fifty after…

Black Tights Girl is a new photo book by photographer Masaki Okado focusing on yet another fetish, sexy black stockings worn by Japanese girls. We have recently seen a lot of these kinds of books, from twin tail ponytail girls to ones with panties on their faces. It seems the market is boundless. Yes, the…

Over on Tokyo Reporter there is a cracking tale lifted from a tabloid investigation about three people being arrested in February for using subsidized housing provided to Fukushima disaster evacuees for a sex business following the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011. Officers took sex-club manager Tsuguo Sakuma, 37, company employee Tatsuya Ishioka, 32, and…

Masami Nagasawa, the 25-year-old actress and model who first swept onto our screens while still a young teenager, has stumbled a bit in her career of late. Gone are the big ads and the constant magazine covers, surpassed by the foot soldiers of AKB48 and other younger models. And she has been hitting back, doing…

We’ve been “investigating” another fab genre of Japanese pornography a lot recently. Homeless porn. Back in 2011 we saw our first title, where a young J-girl is homeless in L.A. and has to sleep with tramps to get a place to stay. But there are many, many more. Some take the common “girl-in-peril” motif and…

2013 might already be into March already but some people are still making calendars for the forthcoming year. Buttah, a curry restaurant in central Osaka, has made this Bijin Curry Calendar, a series of alluring shots of “semi-nude” girls and, well, curry. Formerly a photo series that featured in a Kansai fashion magazine that finished…