Is the hair nude making a comeback? Well, the full-frontal nude shoot never went away per se, but it’s a rarer species these days. Have gradols become more risk-averse? Where are the mainstream actresses of the 1990s who had big hits with hair nude photo books (like Rie Miyazawa, Miho Kanno, Eri Ishida, or Saki…

It was a bit of a shock when Yuka Kuramochi, the top Japanese gravure idol and staple subject matter of this humble blog, announced her marriage to pro gamer Fuudo in later 2019 (after years of secret dating). She went quiet after that and is effectively retired from gravure, instead spending most of her time…

It is sometimes tempting to discard music idols as cookie-cutter enterprises whose ranks are filled with identical-looking young women. But at least they are flesh and blood. The models of the future may well not be. Digitally created models or even androids might be the faces of major commercial brands one day. After all, they…

Netflix is ramping up its Japanese-market content, not least successful drama series like The Naked Director (second season coming soon!) and movies like Ride or Die. It is also getting into producing original anime and has even opened an academy for training the next generation of talent. And now it’s created a virtual YouTuber as…

In late April, the internet went a bit crazy with this story of a 39-year-old Japanese man who was arrested and charged with defrauding 35 Japanese women in Osaka. The duped women all thought they were his girlfriend. The man, Takashi Miyagawa, had told them different dates for his birthday so he could get as…

Was this inevitable? Everything seems to be getting in on the non-fungible tokens boom, which has now reached the Japanese adult industry. The legendary shibari (kinbaku) rope bondage artist Hajime Kinoko is going sell an NFT of the latest entry in his “red” series of bondage images — his first NFTs release and his first…

Office romances can be great — but can also get messy. In days past, office ladies (OL) were almost expected, alongside their other duties, to hook up with their future hubbies among the desks of their company, marry, and then quit to start a family. Thankfully, those stereotypical expectations are, if not quite dead, on…

Kiko Mizuhara has rarely shied away from publicity and provocation. From her nude shoots to outspoken views, she is as much a social icon as a fashion one. Her private life has been complex, involving relationships with high-profile men like K-pop singer G-Dragon and the actor Shuhei Nomura. She recently added very, very explicit sex…

Is compensated dating with sugar daddies increasing among Japanese women due to remote working? Bunshun Online had an intriguing article suggesting something to that effect. It interviews a 24-year-old female office worker who has started doing “papakatsu,” a newly coined kind of compensated dating where younger women go on dates with older men. She started…

Famously, or maybe rather infamously, bukkake is a word with a more general meaning and another very particular, sexual meaning. The former refers to splashing and is often used to mean cold noddles with broth poured over them. The latter, as readers to this blog will no doubt already know, means ejaculating on a sexual…