Durex, the condom brand, have an interest in things sexual. This doesn’t just mean marketing their prophylactic, it also means studying global sex habits. From Durex’s Sexual Wellbeing Survey (2007/2008) and Face of Global Sex (2012), they gained some insights into international bedroom tendencies among heterosexual couples. The Japan results intrigued us… The main conclusion…

Photographer Hal is, as the name suggests, a photographer in Japan. While that may not sound unusual, one glance at his output and you’ll see this is not the stuff you tend to encounter on Flickr. Photographer Hal creates amazing vacuum-packed photography in which naked couples embrace each other in a plastic bag. “Photographer Hal…

Wow, this is big. We have been worried about police crackdowns for a while, especially with the upcoming Olympics likely to become an excuse for exerting state power. Could this be the tip of the iceberg? Police have raided one of Tokyo’s top BDSM clubs, KUNKUN. The Ueno club is pretty big (we’ve been there)…

Have you ever watched Japanese pornography? Have you ever had sex with a Japanese girl or listened to someone else having sex with one? It’s not all girls but a large number will make noises the likes of which you never imagined could come from a partner. Is it crying? Is it high-pitched moaning? Is…

Who says old people can’t think about sexy stuff? Not in Osaka, that’s for sure. Japan’s traditionally roguish second city’s residents came up with a great way to revitalize Fuminosato Shotengai, an old shopping street. They created a series of ironic and eye-catching posters about the local businesses. What we loved the most were the…

We all have fantasies about the sexy nurse who knows how to tuck you in. Well, at least one nurse in Osaka really did have the know-how, cultivated through experienced at her second job. Tokyo Reporter has picked up a nice story from the media about the Osaka Medical Center and Research Institute for Maternal…

We all know that college students have a lot of sex (if they’re lucky) and that it’s an age when you explore things. After a few drinks you might even try some kinky stuff with your new partner. Well, that’s all going to stop at one Japanese university. Kinki Daigaku used to call itself “Kinki…

It’s election time and we don’t mean for a new prime minister. It’s AKB48 “General Election” time. But with the biggest stars (no more Mariko Shinoda, Yuko Oshima or Atsuko Maeda) already out of the world’s most populous music group, AKB48’s star is beginning to wane and recent album sales have been lower. In the…

As we know, AKB4 hottie Haruna Kojima is a face (and body) of Japanese lingerie brand Peach John. The latest exploitative ad campaign features Haruna — officially, according to the AKB rules, a virgin — getting frigid in the ice. She freezes a foreign guy trying to make advances on her. In the end, Haruna…

This time it’s not fake. After blogging a few days ago about the obviously fake “fan” who claimed to have spent $310,000 on AKB48 CDs, the internet has responded. Now the real stuff is here, a deluge of cringing photos of boxes and piles of actual AKB48 CDs. The fans buy bulk loads of CDs…