The 2016 Tokyo Rainbow Pride (TRP) march was held on May 8th and with other events all weekend long celebrating sexual minorities. On the Sunday some 5,000 LGBT people and supporters walked between Harajuku and Shibuya, accompanied by 18 floats — the most ever in the history of TRP. The event was centered on Yoyogi…

Imagine being so desperate for a boyfriend that you turn to crowd funding to hunt for one? Yes, you open up yourself to the perils of the internet to provide that special one and even fund your date. Tomoko Takebe is one such person. This lonely single Japanese lady is 178cm tall, which apparently makes…

Japan’s best-known adult brand, Tenga, has once again inspired some nice cosplay. There’s something about the vibrant colors and naughtiness of the Tenga onacup that seems to capture people’s imaginatinon, from porn star Mana Sakura to ordinary costumers on the streets during Halloween. This time it’s Minami Iida (aka Gohan-chan) who has transformed herself into…

How to solve a problem like a hotel shortage? Simple. Convert love hotels. After all, if media reports are to be believed, Japan is sexless and the love hotels are not being used by couples, but rather ordinary businessmen. Tokyo is currently experiencing a massive tourist boom and it has led to numerous new hotels…

Anyone interested in Japanese sex dolls, love hotels and sex museums (hihokan) should check out this upcoming exhibition by photographer Kyoichi Tsuzuki. Kyoichi Tsuzuki is famous for his photo-books that examine the seedier elements of Japan, such as Tokyo Right Half, Love Hotel: Satellite of Love, and Hihokan. His most popular book is perhaps Tokyo…

Former AKB48 idol Minami Takahashi may well be 25 years old and no longer tied to the group’s (fake and probably illegal) rules against dating. But that hasn’t stopped the outrage when she was spotted out on a date with an employee of an IT company, who is 15 years her senior. She graduated AKB48…

Do you like them older? They don’t get much older and sultrier than Seiko Matsuda. The singer and Japan’s greatest jukujo (MILF) has been married three times and continues to raise eyebrows even as her flower gets riper and riper. She has been showing off her glamorous bust for the lingerie maker Triumph in a…

This cute Japanese office lady decided to prank her colleague… or otherwise satisfy her own kinky desires. She made an ordinary Japanese onigiri (rice roll) with her hands. But that was just the first one. No, she wanted to give her onigiri something extra for her second attempt. She decided to mold it with her…

AKB48’s latest dubious attempt to exploit money from otaku fans is really scraping the bottom of the ludicrous barrel. Now there is going to be an online claw crane game called Kami no Te (Hand of God) from June 18th that allows you to win cans of air. Yes, you read that right. The prize…

The stalker who stabbed music idol Mayu Tomita may have appeared anonymously in Japanese porn as an uncredited, amateur performer. The 27-year-old Tomohiro Iwazaki stabbed the underground idol in around 20 places with a 8.2cm knife after taking the bullet train from Kyoto to Tokyo to wait at a station near where she was holding…