A kiss isn’t always something most otaku have experienced yet. And they certainly haven’t experienced it with their 2D idols (after all, who has?). But that doesn’t stop their fevered imaginations — nor does it stop the people who want to make money out of otaku wet dreams. The candy Kanro Ame has a new…

The annual AIDS awareness charity event 24-Hour TV: Eroticism Saves the Earth was held over the weekend, complete with its televised antics and its now frankly traditional Shinjuku porn star breast groping event. All in a good cause, we’ll have you know! Leading up to the event there was even an online fund-raising campaign. Love…

Here’s some vintage coverage of United States servicemen enjoying nascent Japanese-style Turkish baths (toruko-buro, the old name for what became soapland). “The Turkish Bath has come to Tokyo with a difference,” it proclaims. “Real Hot Turkish Bath”. Hmm, quite. The source is apparently a June 1958 issue of adult magazine People Today. The original scans…

Japanese women take their bras and cup sizes so seriously they even wear bras designed to reduce their bust or special designer lingerie to bring out the best of their A-cup chest. Smartphone app ChiChi helps you measure your bust when you leave your phone between your melons. These are all vague claims at present:…

Maro (Maroka Uchiyama) was one of Ayumi Hamasaki’s dancers. He and Hamasaki started dating while she was on the rebound from divorcing her husband Manuel Schwarz in 2012. However, the fling lasted only until 2013, since when Maro became famous for being famous — and sometimes appeared on TV talk shows to spill the beans…

All good things must come to an end. While we’re not sure if this counts as a “good” thing, we are a little sad to report that one of the funnest stories of the year is reaching its conclusion. Porn actor Shimiken (Ken Shimizu), who has bedded thousands of women over the course of his…

Just when you thought it was safe to go back out on the streets of Shibuya, another gaijin “pick-up artist” comes along promising to enlighten the world on his nampa techniques. Julien Blanc was scared off his tour of Japan but now David Bond has become the target of angry netizens in Japan (both Japanese-born…

Like most places, older politicians in Japan are no strangers to sex scandals: from gay prostitutes to forcing young sportsmen to kiss them or even putting bondage club visits on the expense books. And it’s not just the politicos. The bureaucrats are at it too. In 1998 seven senior civil servants in the Ministry of…

What do you do when you graduate from the porn world? Become a singer like Yuma Asami? Perhaps. Become a mangaka like Nayuka Mine? Perhaps. Or you can become an artist! Japanese porn star turned photographer Saki Otsuka showcases her lensing work in Mitsubai Room, a monthly photography magazine. Otsuka has been gradually building a…

The Japan Times has published an interesting article about Pilcon, a safe sex organization started by a young Japanese woman. “Asuka Someya discovered she was pregnant at the age of 20 when she was a university student.” This proved the fuel for her later founding of Pilcon in 2013. Now every two months it holds…