Long-running rural strip club in Japan turns to crowdfunding to stay in business during coronavirus crisis We have been chronicling how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting the adult industry in Japan, from shutting down hostess clubs to inspiring sex workers. Like hostess clubs and the like, strip clubs were also quick to shut their doors…

Starring the beautiful model and actress Ayaka Miyoshi, the musical comedy Dance with Me was released domestically last August and was recently broadcast on the Wowow channel. This Japanese movie with a decidedly La La Land shtick about a prancing office lady is perhaps most notable for giving Miyoshi her first big starring role. Far…

The Japanese government’s uninspired response to the coronavirus — announcing, belatedly, a state of emergency, but carrying out few tests — may well prove the end of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s long term. One of the most maligned and mocked initiatives has been Abe’s offer to send each household in the country two face masks….

In the latest of our reports on how the coronavirus is affecting the adult industry in Japan, we highlight love hotels, the temporary accommodation that exist for couples to have sex. Love hotels are enjoying a supposed boom due to the pandemic and semi-lockdown measures imposed by the government. An article we saw recently claims…

Its name might be a bit of a mouthful, but the Maga Kore Z-Ton Maji Hada Mesu Dachi Real Body Hole’s design more than lives up to the promises of the embellished title. Part of the ongoing Maga Kore manga-inspired collection by KM Produce in collaboration with various partners, this luxury masturbator is based on…

May the Shinto gods bless Japan’s generous sharers of nude selfies. If you like Japanese girls with a bit of meat on their bones, this amateur is for you. Her thighs and waist have some fine love handles, while her ample bust is certainly above average for a Japanese woman of her age (mid-twenties, by…

We were excited to blog in April about the then-upcoming release of a nude photo book by Asuka Fukuda, an ex-Morning Musume idol, that was the first such hair nude (full frontal) nudity by a member, current or former, of the famous group. Now in her mid-thirties, Fukuda has matured into an alluring older woman…

Have you ever seen (or stayed at) a love hotel like this? Though the cyberpunk (is that the right descriptor?) style is like something out of a Neo Tokyo landscape or cut from the same cloth as the Robot Restaurant in Kabukicho, it is actually a room in an Okayama hotel with a retro fairground…

After they were blamed for helping to spread the coronavirus in Japan, hostess clubs are once again in the media limelight for causing a second wave of COVID-19 cases in Tokyo. Nightlife spots are resulting in fresh clusters of cases following the lifting of the state of emergency in Tokyo. Hostess clubs closed during the…

As the city reopens following its soft lockdown, one establishment has made headlines for changing its operating style to fit the new normal that is post-COVID-19 Tokyo — and also opening itself up to a broader demographic ahead of its closure. The host club Ai Honten (literally, Love Head Office) will open only on Saturdays…