In desperate need for a place to stay in Japan? All the hotels are full and you don’t fancy your chances with an Airbnb? Another option is a love hotel, which is often not much more expensive than a regular hotel and sometimes even cheaper. However, many hotels cannot always be booked in advance and…

As we know, the popular meet-and-greet events that idols organize is one of the main reasons they attract such strong fan bases: you can actually meet and shake your idol’s hand! But they can go wrong, badly wrong. Fans say horrible things. They are, quite literally, dirty. And they may even attack the idols, as…

The visitor to Japan quickly notes the large number of vending machines everywhere. They are typically just for drinks but there are more unusual ones around. And this now includes gachapon capsule-style vending machines that offer sealed love letters from schoolgirls. Shocked? You shouldn’t be. After all, in Japan you can get refrigerated used panties…

Here’s a nice tip from a very cute girl, which could well come in handy when you are with your next prize. G-cup idol Erina Kamiya from the group Kamen Joshi (Masked Girls) has unveiled a stunning technique: how to strip off a t-shirt in a flash. This is quite impressive, given that her massive…

Overseas there has recently been a lot of talk about making things like public toilets “genderless” so as not to show bias towards people who do not identity by binary genders. Japan has not embraced this kind of debate in the same way, not least because the LGBT community is largely reduced to being a…

We wonder how many articles we are going to see like this as we get closer towards the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The Washington Post is the latest media outlet to step into the controversy over osanpo (walking dates) and JK business (high school girl dating) with an article somewhat provocatively headlined “For vulnerable high school…

Ayumi Hamasaki is the gift that keeps on giving. From her bizarre marriages and divorces to foreigners, to her ex-boyfriend’s porn debut, and her ever-more desperate attempts to revive her career, there’s always something new to say about her. But she hasn’t been on our radar for a while. Where has she been? Courting more…

It’s a crowded music industry, so what can you do to stand out from the rest? Well, the answer in Japan would seem to be: use female pubic hair to produce new sounds. No, this not appear to be a spoof and it’s far too late for April Fools’ Day. Taku Takahashi is a musician…

Back in 2015 we reported about M.S.M. — Men Who Have Sex With Men, an upcoming documentary by Ian Thomas Ash and Adrian Storey/Uchujin. Despite the announcement, nothing seemed to happen with it and the official website went dead. We assumed the project had somehow fizzled out. So we were very pleased to see that…

This 19-year-old college student may well have the best pair of breasts you are going to see this week, certainly on this side of the Pacific Ocean. Sure, there are plenty of AV idols out there with chests that are almost illegally impressive — but you can’t beat an amateur for sheer realism. After all,…