You can rely on the Japanese to celebrate what’s best about the world. In Komaki, Aichi prefecture in central Japan, there exists the Honen Matsuri, a fertility festival held at Tagata Shrine in mid-March. A festival that asks for a good harvest, the highlight is certainly the massive phallus that processes around the shrine. Unfortunately,…

An otaku engineer has devised a system so that his lust for idols will not be hampered by the constraints of the 2D. Now he has created a poster that can respond to being “kissed”, perfect for reenacting his fantasies of making out with his favorite fantasy girls. We love how the young guy who…

We’ve talked before about Edo era Tokyo sex shops. Well, the locals also had their own sex dolls as well, called Azumagata Ningyo (吾妻形人形). After purchasing your “dutch wife” from Yotsumeya, you took the Tenga of its day back home for some fun. It was a crude device, something like a picture school, covered with…

Last week we saw really stormy weather in Japan, not just once but twice. Windows smashed. Trash was blowing everywhere. One unlikely side effect of the weekday storm is that there were more guests than usual at Tokyo’s love hotels. Yes, this kind of unusual weather is the perfect excuse for some hanky panky. On…

Before there was SOD, JAV and all their bizarre hentai genre, Japanese porn was a different affair. Often not “hard core” in the true sense of the word and watched in special movie theaters, “pink” cinema was led by Nikkatsu and their “Roman Porno” genre during the Seventies. Though watching them now they seem rather…

Former Miss Universe Japan runner-up, model, and actress Biwon has admitting having plastic surgery last year. We found this amusing because many Japanese girls like to discard the amazing bijin quality in Korean women with the excuse that it’s all just due to plastic surgery. Certainly it is more common and latent on the peninsular….

As we all know, Japan — or at least, Japanese pop culture — has a serious liking for the yaeba snaggletooth. Some girls even get their teeth changed so that they have the protruding, pointy upper canine look. Apparently there is so much demand for this brand of beauty from certain kinds of men that…

Maki Goto is proof that you can have a life after being part of a multi-member pop band. A former Morning Musume starlet, Maki is one of the few who has made that transition to soledom with some degree of success. Around a year ago, though, sadly she basically retired from showbiz, but not before…

Ichiro Ozawa, the man once certain to be Prime Minister before scandal forced him to resign, has been found innocent on fraud charges. No one seems convinced by the verdict, including us, which is why we couldn’t resist posting this story currently running wild in the tabloids. According to Shukan Bungei, Ozawa apparently had an…

It must be up there with the bad teeth, the supposedly flat chests, and the noises during sex… Japanese girls are pigeon-toed. It’s certainly not all but a visible minority of certain younger girls walk in a strange bow-legged way. But why? It is perhaps something to do with always wearing high heels and having…