American reputations in Japan are not the best, it has to be said, especially if you happen to be a member of the military forces stationed at various points around the country. But we wonder if this latest development will have a positive or negative effect on relations… A navy petty officer has ben arrested…

Another one bites the dust. Yuko Sugamoto from HKT48, the Fukuoka spin-off of AKB48, has announced she is quitting. It is an open secret that this is due to her management finding out about a “relationship” she had, including possibly drinking and smoking with a fan. However, the official line is that all she did…

After police predicted an unprecedented amount of fans would gather, the last chance to “meet” Atsuko Maeda while she is still a member of terrible pop “music” band AKB48 has been cancelled at the last moment. On August 20th some five hundred thousand people were in Ginza to watch the victory parade of Japan’s returning…

This has been floating around for a little while now but we wanted to spread the word about this “Japanese porn cultural exchange” campaign, a fundraiser looking for backers to help them make a porn film with a JAV star from Japan… in America. We think the success of this depends on if they make…

Just when you think Yasushi Akimoto and his minions cannot go any further… they do. AKB48‘s latest sell-out, a TV commercial for Puccho, sees them dancing to the sounds of their own “music” as they eat the product being advertised. But, this being AKB, nothing is simple and everything is queasy. The heads of the…

Orient Industry, Japan’s biggest maker of high-grade silicone sex dolls, is celebrating its thirty-five years of business with a photo contest for customers to send in their shots of their precious love doll companions in all sorts o unusual poses and places. People have been sending in photos of sexy sex dolls in over the…

We are prone to the charms of an intelligent woman and so we wanted to showcase some of the lovely artisans of the pen that occupy these shores. Gravure models are all well and sexy, but sometimes a penetrating mind can be much more enchanting on the eye than its bookish stereotype would have you…

We’ve just come across this hilarious tumblr blog called Where is Tenga? As you might guess from the name, it’s a photo blog featuring Tenga onacups and other designer Tenga adult toys in unusual places, often posed in cute and surprising ways. If you thought Tenga were just there for your private enjoyment, think again!…

If you like a girl with intelligence — and we know there are plenty of hot, smart girls in Japan — then don’t be put off by science students! Sure, they have a kind of geeky image but there is a whole legion of lovely ladies manning (no pun intended) the labs, their beautiful faces…

Talk about having “something to declare” in your luggage… A university student has tried to kidnap a young girl by forcing her into a travel bag and then take her in a taxi to make good his flight. The twenty-year old Tomohiro Kodama brandished a knife at a twelve-year old girl near Hiroshima Station earlier…