A journalist working on a BBC Three documentary about child sexual exploitation was held in police custody. The 29-year-old Stacey Dooley was held by police in Tokyo for two hours during the making of her documentary, Young Sex For Sale In Japan. “It [the doc] focuses on the fact they only made it illegal to…

Japan’s first strip show opened in January 1947 and we found some fantastic vintage advertising for it. Seventy years ago, the pioneering strip club event took place in Shinjuku at the Teitoza theater and was rather tame, not surprising given the attitude toward women at the time. It was a “gakubuchi show”, where woman would…

This story has been doing the rounds of the foreign press and we have our doubts about its authenticity, given the overseas media’s penchant for “wacky Japan” stories. But if it’s even just a bit true, it’s pretty incredible. After all, we all have to go some day. What better way than Death by Porn?…

To, er, celebrate International Women’s Day, Al Jazeera ran this long and detailed story about sexual assault in Japan, claiming “every girl was a victim” but now more schoolgirls are speaking out about groping on public transportation. Tamaka Ogawa was about 10 years old when she was sexually assaulted for the first time. It was…

Lots of women marched around the world to mark International Women’s Day on March 8th, including at least one group in Tokyo. But here is another protest by a different kind of feminist: sex workers. A group of sex workers (male and female) marched while wearing masks and carrying red umbrellas. This was part of…

It’s from late December 2013 but we just stumbled upon this stimulating article on The Tokyo Files about Yoshiwara. As regular readers will know, Yoshiwara was the licensed pleasure quarter in historical Tokyo (Edo). Today it doesn’t correspond to an official address (funny that!) but you can find it at Senzoku 4-chome in Taito-ku, which…

The world media has once again taken an interest in Japanese pornography — in particular, porn made for and starring seniors. We previously noted the press attention lavished on silver porn star Yasue Tomita and veteran male performer Shigeo Tokuda. Doing the rounds of various overseas media outlets this time is an Associated Foreign Press…

If you want to perv over scantily clad girls posing for anyone to take their picture, then head to Akihabara at the weekends where the main strip, Chuo-dori, is pedestrianized. You should find plenty of cosplayers happy for you to snap away. This has led to some issues in the past, though, when police and…

Dokujo, an online magazine in Japan for single women, recently introduced the results of a survey of its female Japanese readers about dating foreign men. It asked readers around Japan about their experiences of dating foreigners. It collected the results of 404 readers and published the results. What do they reveal? 209 women (51%) said…

The latest goddess of Twitter in Japan is a 19-year-old with a G-cup bakunyu chest to die for, not to mention pale white skin that looks as pure and innocent as they come. But don’t be fooled. Her penchant for sharing nude selfies of herself reveals very explicitly that this young lady is certainly not…