We don’t talk about boys’ love or male-on-male themes enough on this blog, so we were pleased to stumble upon this development. The boys’ love illustrator Ebimo has created a new 112-page gay drawing manual, the “BL Poses Stretch Book”. It’s a bit like a working version of the “48 Ways” (shijuuhatte), which is the…

Photographer and love doll super fan Yoshitaka Hyodo has converted his private house into a personal hihokan-style sex museum. Located in Yashio City on the border between Saitama and Tokyo, Hyodo has even opened up his house to the public for Golden Week. If you want to visit, it is open from April 30th to…

Yesterday we wrote about a Japanese photographer who has turned his private house into a sex doll museum — and opened it up to the public. Now here are three developments related to Japan’s top sex doll brand, Orient Industry. Orient Industry has released a 40th-anniversary book looking at the history of their sex dolls…

Do you want a cute girlfriend but don’t have the looks, social skills, money, time, or language ability to get one? Fear not. As we know, there are lots of virtual dating and 2D character options in Japan, from Lovely x Cation to VR Kanojo and a virtual version of the gravure idol Ai Shinozaki….

A survey by Japan Pres Research Institute asked 1,000 people across various countries for their views on Japan. Part of this included naming living or dead Japanese people that they knew. The results were, to say the least, intriguing… By default the survey became a resource for seeing which Japanese people are famous abroad. In…

In desperate need for a place to stay in Japan? All the hotels are full and you don’t fancy your chances with an Airbnb? Another option is a love hotel, which is often not much more expensive than a regular hotel and sometimes even cheaper. However, many hotels cannot always be booked in advance and…

As we know, the popular meet-and-greet events that idols organize is one of the main reasons they attract such strong fan bases: you can actually meet and shake your idol’s hand! But they can go wrong, badly wrong. Fans say horrible things. They are, quite literally, dirty. And they may even attack the idols, as…

The visitor to Japan quickly notes the large number of vending machines everywhere. They are typically just for drinks but there are more unusual ones around. And this now includes gachapon capsule-style vending machines that offer sealed love letters from schoolgirls. Shocked? You shouldn’t be. After all, in Japan you can get refrigerated used panties…

Here’s a nice tip from a very cute girl, which could well come in handy when you are with your next prize. G-cup idol Erina Kamiya from the group Kamen Joshi (Masked Girls) has unveiled a stunning technique: how to strip off a t-shirt in a flash. This is quite impressive, given that her massive…

Overseas there has recently been a lot of talk about making things like public toilets “genderless” so as not to show bias towards people who do not identity by binary genders. Japan has not embraced this kind of debate in the same way, not least because the LGBT community is largely reduced to being a…