As discussed on this blog before, Japan’s love hotels have increasingly become focused on amenities. In spite of the western stereotype of love hotels as gawdy, crazy lairs of kinkiness, the actual number of themed chambers and unusual rooms is low — and largely consigned to the countryside (notwithstanding the odd exception in Tokyo like…

Every year the Oppai Bokin “boob aid” event attracts plenty of attention, including lots of foreign press and visitors who use it as another “wacky” stick to beat Japan with. The truth of the matter is, those guys paying money to line up and touch porn stars’ breasts are helping a good cause, because the…

A new series of instant noodle ads use a gravure idol, music idol, go-go dancers, race queen, and well-known seiyuu. What more could you ask for? Kara-Ou is apparently pretty spicy — so hot, in fact, that they hired in-demand gravure idol Sayaka Tomaru and music idol Erina Kamiya as well as Karen and Kazue,…

Japan’s latest Twitter goddess is a 21-year-old college student with a penchant for foreign penetration — and we don’t mean interracial sex. No, this lady likes to penetrate herself with all manner of household item. And she was apparently more than happy to show the rest of the world online her unusual habits. She has…

If you think something is too good to be true, you’re probably right. That’s our advice, which should have been followed by the thousands of men who thought they had the chance to go on a date with Atsuko Maeda. A 38-year-old man was arrested earlier this month for operating a deai-kei dating website that…

Host culture in Japan is so big now that apparently even pre-teens aspire to look like the hirsute Kabukicho drinkers-for-hire. Ryuchalo is the son of a beauty blogger called Chiimelo (yes, the names are pretty wacky), and apparently he wanted to celebrate his 8th birthday as a host. In fact, he even celebrated his birthday…

Half of Japanese married couples sleep separately, according to a survey by VenusTrap. The online magazine asked 400 married men if they slept in the same room as their wives. 50.2% of men said they haven’t slept in the same room as their wives since getting married. The top reason for this was that the…

A YouTuber with far too much time on his hands has taken the next step in technological innovation. And it involves his penis. We don’t know what was going through the mind of KaoringMachine when he came up with the idea for the Ochinchin Drum (literally, “penis drum”), but the results are impressive. The Electric…

Who has the most beautiful breasts in Japan? Well, we can think of a fair few contenders (step forward, Shoko Takahashi/Takasaki), but apparently you’re not allowed to include porn stars or gravure idols. At least, that is, when it comes to the Bioppai 2016, or Beauty Breasts Award 2016. After entries were accepted from the…

When the PlayStation VR was previewed in 2014, it immediately generated controversy for its “creepy” schoolgirl demo content and ended up being cancelled from that year’s Tokyo Game Show. Now that the console is released this month, perhaps we can assume Sony has firmly put that unfortunate episode behind it? Not necessarily, since the demo…