AKB48’s Haruna Kojima has shown us what she looks like when she wakes up in bed, in the bath, and gets dressed in the morning. For her latest ad for Japanese lingerie brand Peach John, the Akihabara idol is shown stripping down and taking alluring selfies. Kojiharu is the main marketing model for lingerie line…

Rokudenashiko (or Rokudenashi-ko), the “vagina artist” arrested in the summer for distributing 3D data of her pussy, has been taken into police custody again, promising to reignite what became an international sensation about female rights and censorship. This time her “crime”, says Tokyo Reporter, was another vagina selfie artwork, though sculptural this time rather than…

Porn star Ai Uehara has many talents but did you know they also include rap? In “REAL remix” Uehara has now lent her vocal skills to a song following her victory at the AV Open 2014 awards, which are voted for by the public. The track is by INCUBUS, who is the male rapper in…

This story is super old now but we wanted to blog it anyway because it’s important. With its low use of condom usage, Japan is a bit of an HIV time bomb — something the gay community is more proactive about. Complimentary condoms are frequently available at bars and clubs, and HIV awareness posters are…

You see! It’s not just Japanese guys! Other Asian men also have a thing for dakimakura. Artist Lee Kan Kyo originally hails from Taiwan, though he came to Japan in 2007 to study. Now he is holding his first solo exhibition in Japan at Guardian Garden gallery in Ginza. And the theme? Pop art-style dakimakura…

We love a scandal and we love a woman who knows what she wants. Megumi Okina married the CEO of Cyber Agent in 2004 but divorced him the following year. She went through a dry period in her career and then got hitched again in 2009 to a businessman in a shotgun married. She had…

A new survey by Recruit Marketing Partners has some shocking results. 41.6% of men in their twenties say they have never had a girlfriend. Only 26.% of unmarried people in their twenties, thirties or forties say they have a lover. On the other hand, before we write off the Japanese male as a “sexless beast”…

We suppose it was inevitable that Japan’s most famous cross-dressing elderly gent would get his own mobile phone game app at some point, and so it has proved the case with Sailor Fuku Ojisan (Sailor Uniform Uncle). Also known as Hideaki Kobayashi, this gentile cross-dresser has been a regular spot all over Tokyo the past…

Artist Rokudenashiko (or Rokudenashi-ko), popularly known as the “vagina artist”, has been charged following her arrest earlier this month. While writer Minori Watanabe was recently released for displaying the model of female genitalia in her adult shop in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, Rokudenashiko (Megumi Igarashi), who was arrested at the same time, has now been indicted…

Happy Christmas to all our readers and visitors! Christmas in Japan is a time for three things: strawberry shortcake, KFC chicken, and sex. Especially Christmas Eve is seen as the most romantic time of the year, the night when you are meant to take a special someone out on an expensive date. Not everyone has…