Police are now apparently investigating Kodansha and the producers of the controversial (or just ridiculous) Tomomi Kasai pseudo-child porn photo where a foreign kid stands behind her, peeking over her naked body while holding her breasts. Well, nothing’s sacred for long — and certainly not when Japan’s Netizens get their clutches on something. Tomomi Kasai’s…

Currently showing at Tokyo’s most reliable venue for erotica, Vanilla Gallery, until February 2nd, Yoshifumi Hayashi’s work is just plain awesome and the whole planet needs to know about it. From defecating ladies to octopus vaginas, Hayashi’s visionary world is both strange and beautiful. He was born in 1948 and went to Paris in 1976,…

Put your hand up of you’ve ever watched some Japanese porn — okay, we’re raising every part of our bodies! Well, then you will have probably at least one time seen this star. But unlike Maria Ozawa et al, she doesn’t have a name nor even the fame she deserves. But her role in driving…

Anan magazine, the ladies’ fashion monthly with a liking for nude or sexy shots of famous girls, has gone after another AKB48 member for its latest publicity-seeking cover feature. After rather lovely revealing shoots with Haruna Kojima and Yuko Oshima, it has now chosen Yuki Kashiwagi, the 21-year old AKB48 singer and model who has…

A long-established strip club in Shinjuku’s Kabukicho has been raided by police for letting Japanese porn stars perform and expose their vaginas. Police have arrested ten for public indecency, including the manager of the Kabukicho T S Music club and several strippers aged 24-39 years old. The club had been allowing patrons to see the…

Oh, god. Just when you think AKB48 couldn’t get any lower. Then this happens. Following rumors that she had — shock! — been on dates and slept at someone’s place, minor AKB48 idol Minami Minegishi (20) has been demoted from active member to a kenkyusei (research student) position — one short of being sacked. But…

The scandal resulting from Minami Minegishi’s outrageous decision to have a relationship with dancer Alan Shirahama has brought immense publicity to AKB48 and turned what was a tabloid scoop into an ad giving the name power of the group’s “brand” a major push overseas. All publicity is good publicity, after all. But doubt over the…

Famed fashion photographer Leslie Kee (41) has been arrested by Tokyo police for the sale of “obscene” imagery at a Roppongi Gallery. Kee, Singaporean by birth but based in Tokyo, is one of three arrested for selling photo books with pictures of male genitalia. The trio are suspected of selling seven books to two customers….

Apologies for the excess in AKB48-related posts recently. There’s just been so much to write about. The latest member of the idol “music” group to hit the tabloid rumor lane is Yuki Kashiwagi. She apparently went on a gokon, the group date very common among young people in Japan. Yuki’s late-night gokon might have been…

Who says the industry doesn’t look after its own? The Japanese porn world can get a bad rap, with lots of memoirs recently by former actresses recounting their woes and troubles after fucking and sucking their way through hundreds of men. But the porn documentary The Other Side of Sex, currently playing at the leading…