Designer Jo Nagasaka (Schemata Architects) has made the kind of seats that we definitely want to have in the Tokyo Kinky office. “Shibari” is a series of black and white foam seats inspired by the classic art of Japanese rope bondage. Nagasaka is showing his creations at this year’s Milano Salone. Note the rope keeping…

We all dream of sleeping with or dating a porn star. Some people get to do it for real. V6 is a Japanese male idol group whose primary job these days is to have sex with Japan’s top female celebrities. Hard work if you can get it. Go Morita (35) has been snapped with his…

Another Vice Japan short film here, this time following Kanae Murakami, a 20-year-old hostess plying her trade in Ginza’s district of high-class clubs. For all those who have sympathetic views of hostesses as girls who have to put up with drinking a lot with ugly men in smoky bars and who are only a fine…

This is a question we often ask ourselves about Japanese pornography. With tens of thousands of actresses working in the industry, said to be the biggest in the world, which star has appeared in the most titles? Apparently we weren’t alone in wondering this, since some Japanese netizens have done the maths. Naturally the results…

Sometimes models and actresses get a little bit of help to look better and further their career. But this is an extreme case. Japanese porn star Rina Nanase/Rumi Kanda has been having a series of plastic surgery operations to her eyes, nose and chin because she believes having a very spade-like look makes her look…

At just under 18 years old. At least, the national average is 17.7 years old for when women in Japan get their first kiss, according to a new survey by LC Love Cosmetic. In April this year the researchers asked 2,350 women from all over Japan and compiled the results into a handy map. The…

There are fetishes and then there are fetishes. This is one of those extreme ones. An Osaka taxi driver has been arrested for drugging a female passenger. We are familiar with unpleasant tales of taxi drivers and female passengers, but this is something new. Toshihiko Nishi (41) was arrested on May 7th on suspicion of…

Durex, the condom brand, have an interest in things sexual. This doesn’t just mean marketing their prophylactic, it also means studying global sex habits. From Durex’s Sexual Wellbeing Survey (2007/2008) and Face of Global Sex (2012), they gained some insights into international bedroom tendencies among heterosexual couples. The Japan results intrigued us… The main conclusion…

Photographer Hal is, as the name suggests, a photographer in Japan. While that may not sound unusual, one glance at his output and you’ll see this is not the stuff you tend to encounter on Flickr. Photographer Hal creates amazing vacuum-packed photography in which naked couples embrace each other in a plastic bag. “Photographer Hal…

Wow, this is big. We have been worried about police crackdowns for a while, especially with the upcoming Olympics likely to become an excuse for exerting state power. Could this be the tip of the iceberg? Police have raided one of Tokyo’s top BDSM clubs, KUNKUN. The Ueno club is pretty big (we’ve been there)…