‘Tis the season for celebration, after all, and Tenga has reached a major milestone. And a very profitable one at that: 100 million sales of its Tenga Cup series. The Tenga Cup 100 Million Sales Commemoration Set is a special release to celebrate this phenomenal achievement. As regular readers know, we love writing about Tenga…

The Taimanin is one of the most successful recent eroge franchises. The series by LiLiTH has spawned various spin-offs about the sexy exploits of near-future female ninjas (kunoichi) Asagi Igawa, Sakura Igawa, Yukikaze Mizuki, and more. This includes many adult toys like masturbators and lubricants, made by PPP. It has also been adapted by adult…

We already know that young people and sexuality claims that they are becoming less interested in sex. A new book, though, attempts to get behind the sensational headlines and probe the real reasons and implications of this. Drawing on data from the six-yearly surveys conducted by the Japanese Association for Sex Education since 1974 —…

We love Tsubomi. The cute JAV star, recently pregnant, has won legions of fans in Japan and rightfully so. A documentary on the new Vice Japan channel looks at Tsubomi. It’s in Japanese only but turn on the closed captions for English subtitles. A highlight is at the start when she says she thinks Japanese…

University classrooms can be dull places and most of the time, our college teacher friends tell us, the students are fast asleep during lectures. But not so at Doshisha University in Kyoto. At least, not at Room 402 in the Ryoshinkan Hall. Because that’s where some students observed a female hottie having sex with a…

Asian men don’t get a good deal in Hollywood. When was the last time that you saw an Asian leading man in a Western movie treated as a sex symbol in the same way as a white actor? Leela Rose set out to challenge this. We sympathise. Many foreign female residents in Japan face problems:…

Once again we have an alarming announcement from Japan’s health ministry that the number of syphilis patients in Japan has gone up. This has become a regular news item of late, prompting the ministry to launch a special team to investigate ways to combat the spread of sexually transmitted infections and diseases. Hospital data from…

A man from New Zealand has been arrested in Japan for attempted extortion after he sent messages to a girl in her teens. The 56-year-old man, who says he is a chef but is unnamed in media reports, was arrested when he landed at Komatsu Airport in Ishikawa, a prefecture on the Sea of Japan…

Nagisa Watanabe is to release her first photo book, published in Japan on June 25. Though still officially unnamed, it is very widely assumed that the former TV announcer is the woman at the center of the Masahiro Nakai sex scandal, which has ended his career and brought one of Japan’s biggest broadcasters into disrepute….

The special menu they offer you at that bar in Shibuya or Shinjuku may well be too good to be true — and it might well land the proprietor in trouble. A bar in Shibuya offered a “VIP course” to customers who wanted to eat and drink while watching scantily clad female bar staff take…