Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will watch the watchmen? It’s a rare Tokyo Kinky article that begins with a Latin quotation, but sometimes the story justifies such a flourish. And this one is almost stranger than fiction. Superintendent Koji Tsujimoto has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting an underage girl. He was a leading…

Erika Minatogawa is riding the wave of scandal over her arrest on a drug charge earlier this year to launch a gravure career. The so-called 32-year-old “Minato girl” and former race queen (grid girl), whose real name is Miho Okumoto, appears in the September 2 issue of Flash and has also released a digital photo…

This is a cautionary tale with a simple moral: if you hook up with a woman 20 years younger than you via a dating app, the chances are that she’s not really into you (or at least, not solely into you because of, well, you). A high school teacher has been arrested for fraud by…

In Japan, porn is everywhere but thou shalt not see genitals. Due to the wonders of the internet and mobile devices, people in Japan enjoy instant access to hardcore pornography, just like most other places in the world today. But unless the producers want to incur the wrath of police and courts, domestically made porn…

Hikaru is one of Japan’s most popular YouTubers but the 34-year-old has hit a blip in his career after publicly declaring that he was in an open marriage in a video posted on September 14. Within 24 hours of posting the video, his channel had bled thousands of followers, dropping to below 5 million. In…

With the yen so cheap and inflation relatively low, the hordes of tourists flocking to Japan today enjoy a great time in the country. On the other hand, many people able to work abroad are doing so to earn more money than they can get in Japan. This includes sex workers, who have recently turned…