Japan Fetish Ball, presented by the Tokyo Kink Society (no relation to this blog!), will be unveiling its unique display of alternative sexuality this Saturday at the Christon Cafe Tokyo in Shinjuku. The big fetish party of the year for Tokyoites (maybe even the whole of Asia), this is the fifth anniversary event. There are…

Morning Musume, the long-running ever-cheerful girl group whose changing line-up over the years has frequently encountered scandals. Maki Goto is likely the most famous former member, though she recently “retired” from her career in the entertainment world. But now the rumor is that she’s back — though in a very different capacity. Japanese porn! Shukan…

Have little cravings for lifting up a high school girl’s skirts but don’t want to risk a run-in with the police and/or an angry spouse? Here’s a way for you to get your fix. Designer Kaori Kato has come up this extraordinary 2013 calendar, the suitably named Skirt-Lifting Calendar. The graceful tender legs of a…

Japan may well have recently officially entered recession again but that does not seem to impact Nipponbashi, Osaka’s run-down area known for its electronics stores and sex industry (imagine Akihabara combined with Kabukicho). Osakans have always had very good heads for business and it seems, despite the nation’s economic woes, that Nipponbashi establishments are defying…

That friendly face you see on NHK is not as friendly as you might thing. Takeshige Morimoto, a well-known TV anchor for the national broadcaster, was arrested on Wednesday after he allegedly groped a young university student on a crowded train in Tokyo. The feisty 23-year-old girl was on the Tokyu Denentoshi line, which serves…

Love hotels. Sites for naughty sex between adulterous couples, couples who still live at home, and of course plenty of liaisons with prostitutes too. A little known fact is that one in four occupants of a love hotel is now said to be over 65, and the love hotels are adapting to these seniors. With…

Sometimes you think you’ve seen them all. But you haven’t. How about a balloon fetish, anyone? Do you like the rub of blown-up leather producing that sound as it makes contact with skin? And it’s female skin, young nubile Japanese girls — or larger ladies with plenty of flesh to wrap around the balloons. It…

That’s according to the bijin-JAPAN Grand Prix, which judged 51 girls appearing in the Bijin Tokei website from 18 areas around Japan. The winner was Mayumin from Kyoto. Over 50,000 girls were included in the initial round, all ladies who have been featured in the Bijin Tokei website, where cute girls hold up signs telling…

One of the hotter members of AKB48 (a group full, with the notable exceptions of Rie Kitahara and Haruna Kojima, of essentially banal looking girls stuffed down us unfortunate Japanese’s throats daily with frequently sickening consequences), Yuka Masuda, has been forced to quit her “illustrious” career after it was revealed she was sleeping another minor…

Following the revelation that singer and actor ISSA had been having an affair with AKB48’s Yuka Masuda, his finance, actress and model Sachiko “Judy” Fukumoto (30) has announced via Twitter. This is what ISSA will no longer be getting up close and personal with. Fukumoto was born in America and brought up in Okinawa, hence…