Japanese TV show Mr Sunday did something strange. It took an interest in the current trend for young people to film themselves kissing… and then decided to “punish” the teenagers involved. Using an app called Mix Channel that allows you to film and upload 10-second videos, this exhibitionism has been popular for some time. Here…

Police are cracking down on “obscene” video sites. Asiajin reports that at the end of April, Kyoto and other police forces arrested the president of Home Page System, which is meant to be a PR company acting for Japanese web service FC2. FC2 is the fourth most popular Japanese web service, after Yahoo! Japan, Google…

A survey with 3,000 Japanese women about one-night stands reveals some nice findings, though we always knew that Japanese girls are far from innocent. Asking women with an average age of 42 (experience!), this is a pretty balanced poll by News Post Seven. On average, 39% of women admitted to one-night stands. And the “sluttiest”…

These days every fetish has a name. Kemonomimi (“animal ears”) is a type of moe anthropomorphism where girl and boy characters in manga and anime have animal-like accessories. Catgirls are probably the most famous but there are lots of others, since almost anything or anyone can become any kind of “animal” — from dogs to…

A 38-year-old municipal employee of Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture, has been arrested for indecent exposure. Local cops took the Yoshihiro Sekiguchi into custody on May 19th on suspicion of exposing his lower half to a 19-year-old female part-time worker at a Maebashi drug store. The incident allegedly happened on April 2nd at around 9:30 at…

A new branch of Hooters Tokyo, the politically incorrect eaterie, has opened in Shinjuku. The first Japan branch in Akasaka has been a big success with horny salarymen, it seems. This Shinjuku outlet is the fifth for the chain in Japan. It’s located in a former underground theatre space. 120 people lined up to get…

Idol Sako Makita is a 21-year-old member of Passpo, an idol group with a flight attendant theme. However, the group’s agency had to apologize and suspend Makita’s Twitter account on May 14th after it was allegedly “hacked”. Makita, or at least her Twitter account, told the world that all idols are ill-educated and that they…

Joining the recent silliness of Condom Day in the (ever-increasing) list of odd anniversaries in Japan, “Kiss Day” is celebrated on May 23rd because it is the day that the film Hatachi no seishun (20-Year-Old Youth) was released in 1946. In case you’re not a film buff, that’s the movie that featured the first ever…

Yes, finally! Japan is getting its first ever shunga exhibition, opening in Tokyo this September. While legally you can’t show genitalia in films, porn or even art (as Megumi Igarashi has found out to her misfortune), Japan has an immensely rich history of sexually explicit art and erotica. The important thing to remember about shunga…

On a recent trip to Kyodo, a station in Setagaya, Tokyo, we were amused to see the Colonel Sanders outside the local KFC had been decorated in a black and red costume. Naturally our first thoughts were: that’s a Tenga theme. It suspiciously matches the color design for the Tenga SD Deep Throat Hard Cup…