Sometimes, like a knight errant, you come across strange and exciting things in the wild. Like a Tenga masturbation toy washed up on a beach. Like porn magazines piled up with household newspapers on garbage collection day — or even dumped in a public park. Or panties that have blown away in a typhoon. But…

Splatoon streaming and virtual YouTubers are both big in Japan. What happens when they get together? A whole lot of craziness, it seems. Some streamers are facing a backlash from players worried that Nintendo might ban all Splatoon livestreams after VTuber Kikaze Kimiko and others modded their games to show an adult video while they…

OK, our headline is a bit deceptive, but the gist is essentially true. It’s been years in the offing and it might finally be happening: the law forbidding women from remarrying after a divorce is going to change. Currently, a woman in Japan is legally unable to remarry straight after a divorce. She has to…

At professional baseball games in Japan, like in the United States, it is common to invite a celebrity to make a ceremonial first pitch. We remember some minor controversy a few years ago when a very scantily clad Mitsu Dan was asked to do this duty. In Taiwan, though, they do things differently. At the…

Sometimes we see something that makes us feel a bit nostalgic — and a bit old! Rika Adachi (足立梨花) was one of our favorite gravure idols about a decade ago, mainly for her nice butt. She made it onto our now-legendary list of “Japanese babes with great asses.” To be honest, we haven’t followed all…

Managers at Universal Studios Japan are clutching their pearls at the risqué costumes that some patrons are wearing. The coronavirus pandemic was almost the nail in Japan’s Halloween street cosplay coffin: the pandemic years saw the numbers of people gathering for street parties in crazy costumes (often bearing no relation to Halloween) drop dramatically. Now…

Convenience stores are, well, convenient for a number of reasons: the food and drink available, paying your bills, using the copy machine, or popping to the bathroom. Some conbini have a rule that you are meant to inform the staff on duty that you wish to use the toilet. Many people don’t bother to ask…

How can you get the edge on competitors in the real estate market? What’s a sure-fire way to win male customers? Welcome to Girls Chintai (literally, “girls rental”). It sounds like an escort service or one of those Japanese rent-a-girlfriend services that the overseas media loves to write about, but it’s actually a service offered…

Three years on from graduating HKT48, Haruka Kodama (兒玉遥) has rewarded her long-term fans with a shoot that shows her butt and lots of side boob, under-boob, and cleavage. We suppose it’s a matter of debate whether this constitutes a nude or semi-nude shoot. Haruppi gets about as close as you can without showing her…

While train groper (chikan) stories are two a penny, a somewhat more sensational one grabbed the headlines recently: someone accused of groping a passenger and caught at Shinjuku Station fled across the tracks, causing delays to four major JR lines for 50 minutes, including the Yamanote Line. Far from escaping, though, the man seriously injured…