Something that shocks some visitors to Japan is the volume of porn, soft-core porn or other adult magazines lining the shelves of convenience stores. It is placed in a certain section marked as “adult” but not on a top shelf like in other countries. And the covers make it very clear what is inside, awaiting…

Apparently the Japanese love used panties so much that not only can you buy them and even get a magazine about them, but there’s now an online game about the fetish. Panty Collection (or PanKore) is a free DMM online game that is scheduled to become available from late April. Inspired by the online manga…

Talk about being hoist by your own petard. A man in Japan apparently rang up police to ask them if it was against the law to date a 15-year-old girl? This led to police investigating him and finding he had naked photos of a third-grader in his home. The unemployed Hisao Okazaki (45) was arrested…

Remember Ryutaro Nonomura? He was the Hyogo Prefecture politician accused of exploiting his position to enjoy a luxury life, all financed as expenses paid for by local voters. He held a press conference to explain his actions but which descended into an insane scene of him bawling and wailing. The unique media incident has already…

Tsuneo Akaeda, a Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker, has provoked some controversy by suggesting at an April 12th meeting on child poverty that girls who take correspondence courses end up becoming hostesses. The bizarre leap in logic — as if LDP politicians have the right to look down on hostesses anyway, given how they are frequent…

Rio Uchida is a gravure idol with a cult following for her foxy body and cute ass. She has also become known to non-readers of the gravure weekly magazines for her role in the Kamen Rider Drive series. The 24-year-old minx (and college graduate) has recently done a spread in Taiwan for Young Jump magazine….

Ever wanted to have sex with a pregnant love doll? One of the few luxury silicone sex dolls that Orient Industry don’t make is a pregnant fetish doll. But that’s okay, because an artist has stepped into fill the gap in the market. We know that pregnant Japanese women are hot — from porn stars…

“Vagina artist” Megumi Igarashi (aka Rokudenashiko) has announced she will marry British rock musician Mike Scott of the Waterboys. Igarashi (44) will marry Scott (57), who is popular in Japan and also composed a song, “ROK ROK ROKUDENASHIKO,” for Igarashi in 2015. We actually saw Igarashi once at an event and she was attending it…

What are the dark secrets of the entertainment industry in Japan? Here is our subjective list. 1: Sex Despite the control exerted by talent agencies over idols’ private lives (who they can and cannot date, or in the case of some groups, not letting them date or have sex at all), the truth is that…

So-called “vagina artist” Rokudenashiko has been found guilty and convicted of a charge of obscenity, and ordered to pay a fee of ¥400,000 (around $3,700). Rokudenashiko (“good-for-nothing girl”), whose real name is Megumi Igarashi and whose first manga book has just been released in English, was first arrested in July 2014 for distributing data that…