Former AKB48 idol Rina Hirata has announced that she will no longer release image videos. Her latest DVD, My Girl’s Weird Sense of Distance, which came out on September 23. The DVD, her first in over a year, is an incredible 190 minutes and features Hirata barely clothed throughout. The tiny bikini she wears in…

Here’s something we did not expect to be on our radar. The actress Megumi Kagurazaka has made a surprise return to gravure. Now aged 44, the married mother is to release her first photo book in 14 years. The as-yet-untitled book will come out in Japan on December 18. She has kicked off her return…

The Japanese interweb is raving over Ai Tano (田野和彩), a 21-year-old employee at a girls bar in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. Netizens are beside themselves at how in the images of her doing the perp walk for the media, she looks just like a model or celebrity (we think there’s something of Mei Nagano about her). Talk…

Chisato Morishita’s trajectory from gravure favorite of the late 2000s to mainstream politics is now complete. After the former model won her first election last October, the 44-year-old with the winning smile has now been appointed to new prime minister Sanae Takaichi’s Cabinet as Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Environment. It’s a junior role, of course, under…

Saika Kawakita is one of the biggest porn stars in Japan and a probably familiar face to most readers of this blog. She has gained global fame more recently because a GIF from one of her porn productions inexplicably became a meme on social media in December 2024. According to a scoop by the tabloid…

Nanase Nishino has delighted and stunned fans by appearing in sex scenes the movie The Boy and the Dog, released in March this year in Japan. It’s a post-earthquake Sendai-set drama but the scenes reveal the pedigree of the director, Takahisa Zeze, originally a veteran of the pink movie softcore porn genre. No doubt determined…

Maebashi is a small city in Gunma, a short distance north from Tokyo and rarely in the news. That all changed this week, however, with the intense media response to reports that the female mayor has been allegedly conducting an affair with a male staffer. Society seems to respond more strongly to adultery claims when…

On September 29, Tokyo Metropolitan Police referred a 19-year-old male first-year university student from Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, to the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office on suspicion of distributing obscene images and gambling, among other charges. He allegedly sold posters featuring obscene images created using an image-generating AI, and then used the proceeds to gamble at…

We all know about Japan’s penchant for used panties. They’re not just an urban legend. They’re real and for sale. But what about used panties as a fashion accessory? Well, Shibuya-based JennyFax essentially offers this. Not exactly used panties, but it does treat underwear as something that’s not at all “under.” It’s very much “over.”…

Legal website Bengo4 recently considered a question sent in by a reader: Are there legal repercussions for not having sex on a trip with the person who paid? This isn’t just a question of guys left horny, lonely, and disappointed, forced to jerk off in an expensive hotel room they booked in the expectation of…