Every New Year in Japan much of the nation tunes into the five-hour singing show Kohaku Uta Gassen. This year featured the recently remarried (to yet another foreigner!) Ayumi Hamasaki as well as now regulars AKB48, who appeared as all 110 singers. But there was a surprise for AKB fans. Yuko Oshima made the shock…

A winter exhibition by publisher Dengeki Bunko started on December 28th and features over 50 examples of artwork from the publisher’s line-up of manga and light novels. One was a special section of an onsen hot spring scene with several Dengeki manga heroines. The ladies are understandably au naturel and visitors can pose for photos…

He is famed as the man with the midas touch, who can make a woman orgasm just by a few expert twists of his fingers. He is Taka Kato, the biggest man in Japanese porn. And he is throwing in the towel. After 8,000 women and 10,000 titles to his credit (talk about notches on…

We always get excited about new Tenga products. Japan’s most stylish adult sex toys brand, Tenga is more corporate than it was before. It is now owned by DMM and used Dentsu for its marketing. It is also working with overseas distributors more and more, and we just hope it doesn’t lose its cool willingness…

We all love the wacky kawaii-ness that is Kyary Pamyu Pamyu. She’s like Harajuku on LSD and we also know about her more risque past as a child idol! Now she has stepped over a certain line and we’re not sure what to make of it. While performing one of her songs on NHK’s New…

She is the woman of many names and many occupations. Elly Akira is a Japanese porn star who also went by the name of Yuka (Yuuka) Osawa. Now she stars in porn under the name Eri Arai. Following us so far? She’s half Japanese, half Syrian. If that wasn’t special enough, she is also an…

They say that Japanese girls have no ass but we think that’s time to set the record straight. This is a country FULL of great asses. You just have to know where to look. Have we convinced you yet?! Here are some of our favorites… Yuu Abiru Rika Adachi Hitomi Aizawa Megumi Fukushita Haruna Hana…

Saeko. The cute little minx was famous for being famous a while back. Then she was famous being a famous baseball player’s wife. Then she was famous for divorcing the famous baseball player. Then she was just famous. Kind of. Now she is reinventing herself. She has just released a “semi-nude” sexy photo book this…

“A hard day’s grind for porn’s professionals,” as the newspaper has it. The Japan Times has posted a nice, long article about shooting a Japanese porn film. As bloggers who have experienced some Japanese porn shoots ourselves, we were particularly interested in the article. It starts with a factoid we have long boasted of… Japan…

Remember how we blogged about Soineya in Akihabara in 2012? It’s the “bed-sharing” facility where you can get to snuggle up with a cute girl for some shut-eye… charged by the hour. About this time last year Soineya opened its second store in Shinjuku’s Kabukicho and caused a stir with its new service: Oshiri-makura, ass…