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…

Tenga is not only one of the top adult brands in Japan, it is also one of the most savvy in terms of its marketing strategies. It is known for adopting headline-grabbing, viral publicity tactics, not least launching a rocket into space. But sometimes these are more sincere. Tenga has provided a gamer called Jeni…

Private detectives are something of a cottage industry in Japan: they derive much of their clientele from men or women (but especially women) who suspect their spouses of adultery. Catching them in the act or at least gathering concrete evidence of adultery will lead to a better payout in a divorce. Many such services specialize…

A month’s gone by and we wanted to update readers about Sayaka Nitori’s photo book, Ribbon. Her debut print release (advertised as semi-nude) puts her amazing G-cup bust at the front and center of proceedings, though her slinky body and ass are not neglected either. Though not classified formally as a nude photo book, her…

One of the biggest news stories last week, at least in our adult-flavored orbit, was the arrest of several people on allegations of organizing orgies in Tokyo. Five men and women are accused of holding swinger parties where members of the public would pay to have sex with each other. The charges related to breaches…

Everyone wants to be famous and everyone seems to think they can do it on YouTube. And so you get armies of wannabe YouTubers appearing daily, all vying for attention. What to click? What to search? But then you get some content which is truly worthy of your time. As always, the simpler the concept,…

Back in May, we reported on the arrests of the head of Japanese secondhand book store chain Mandarake and four of its employees over the sale of sexually explicit old photo books, which the chain apparently sold online and at two of its stores. Though “hair nude” photo books with full-frontal nudity have been produced…

The mayor of Nagoya, Takashi Kawamura, has been accused of making an inappropriate hand gesture when posing for a photo with young music idols. The head of Japan’s fourth largest city, and a major industrial center, the 74-year-old mayor stood for a jocular pic with several attendees at a Korean cultural festival in Nagoya held…

In a sign that times are a-changing and probably a first for the industry, the Japanese adult brand Magic Eyes has teamed up with Onanist Take (pronounced like the Japanese surname, “Ta-key”), a popular amateur content creator on Pornhub, for two collaboration toys. “Hentais all over the world!” as the man says on his Pornhub…

As we were in a bookstore recently perusing the crowded lineup of idol photo books released in the autumn to catch the end-of-year season, we found ourselves returning again and again to the stunning new offering from Yuka Someya. As regular readers will know, Someya has featured multiple times on this blog. She has recently…