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…

The feminist activist Yumi Ishikawa made headlines worldwide in 2019 with her #KuToo campaign against wearing high heels in workplaces. The actor and model also simultaneously made a lot of enemies, especially among male trolls, and is frequently attacked online. Some call her a hypocrite, since when she was younger, she posed for full-frontal nude…

The 25-year-old gravure idol Minami Haruna (春名美波) has just got a career boost with her first photo book release at the end of last month, plus she has made a splash in the weeklies by going nude for it. The former race queen looks ravishing in these shoots, which range from a hotel room to…

‘Tis the season for giving, they say, but perhaps this 31-year-old Japanese man took that custom a little far — and very much in the wrong direction. Kyosuke Katsu, a company employee in Gamagori, Aichi, was arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage after he poured urine on the clothing of a fellow passenger on…

We consider it our mission on this blog to tell the world how amazing Japanese sexuality and sexual subcultures are, but it seems that our work is already done without us realizing it. The entire planet is apparently obsessed with Japanese porn — at least, if we judge things purely by search results (which is…

Following our recent interview with kinbaku rope master Steve Osada, we were interested to read this interview with a very different kind of rope artist, Hajime Kinoko, in Tokyo Weekender last month. Kinoko notes that he prefers shibari to kinbaku to describe his style of rope bondage, regarding the latter as about emotional exchange with…

The head of the city assembly of Maizuru, a city in the north of Kyoto Prefecture, was fined for possession of child pornography. The fine was issued in 2019 but has only just come to light. On January 6, Keiichi Tai announced his intention to resign as council speaker and assemblymember at a press conference…