When does a debate over gravure photography become a debate over public space, civil rights, freedom of speech, and other lofty notions? When it involves parks in Saitama. A surprisingly big controversy last year involved the withdrawal of permission to use public parks in Saitama for gravure swimwear events, where models would pose for fans…

It is widely perceived that adultery is common in Japan, but what’s the reality? Sure, there are lots of dating apps out there, including ones specifically for people already with partners. There’s also a bustling cottage industry of private detectives whose entire raison d’être is to find out whether your spouse is cheating or not….

While we are well inured to the knowledge that Japanese politicians spend their large salaries and generous expense accounts in hostess clubs (and sometimes get caught doing research on their next visit when they should be working), even this latest scandal raised some eyebrows, perhaps because it was so brazen. An event organized by the…

After tantalizing us with a short yet sexy nude scene in the very first episode, Yuka Kouri is back with more nudity in the Disney and FX series Shogun. In episode four, we get treated to a proper sex scene. She sits naked in her lover’s lap, who promptly lies down on top of her…

Every two or so months, we seem to stumble upon yet another news story about sexlessness in Japan. And with perfect timing, here’s the latest, following the claim that two in three marriages in Japan are sexless that we wrote about in January. As always, these assertions are based on surveys with dubiously small samples….

Where do fantasies about schoolgirls go too far? One example could be when you’re upskirting schoolgirls at events. School events are meant to be for kids, parents, and teachers. But it seems that some people — perhaps sex-starved male parents! — are more focused on the skimpy clothing that cheerleaders wear during school sporting tournaments,…

A man with Pakistani nationality has been charged on suspicion of indecent acts with variously aged women on the streets of Hanyu, following several other recent incidents in the Saitama city. The unanmed 25-year-old man, who lives in Fujiishimogumi, Hanyu, has been additionally charged with the gropings and sent to the prosecutors. Local police say…

It sounds like an April’s Fool but it’s not: a group in a city in Gifu, central Japan, was preparing to give a sex education talk at an elementary school, when it was instructed by the school not to mention intercourse. How can you do sex education without mentioning, well, sex? The group, Kokoiku, is…

We have all experienced times when we are horny. Often, the only solution is to sneak off somewhere and bust a nut to get rid of that pesky boner that just won’t die down otherwise. Some guys, though, take a different approach to dealing with their untamable sexual desires. According to multiple reports in the…

As we’ve written before, plastic surgery is an open secret in Japanese entertainment. Almost no one talks about it but everyone knows that some celebrities get it done. Only a small minority come forward and admit to having submitted to the surgeon’s knife, and sometimes face mockery for it. One such is Minami Fukuoka, the…