We consider it our mission on this blog to tell the world how amazing Japanese sexuality and sexual subcultures are, but it seems that our work is already done without us realizing it. The entire planet is apparently obsessed with Japanese porn — at least, if we judge things purely by search results (which is…

Following our recent interview with kinbaku rope master Steve Osada, we were interested to read this interview with a very different kind of rope artist, Hajime Kinoko, in Tokyo Weekender last month. Kinoko notes that he prefers shibari to kinbaku to describe his style of rope bondage, regarding the latter as about emotional exchange with…

The head of the city assembly of Maizuru, a city in the north of Kyoto Prefecture, was fined for possession of child pornography. The fine was issued in 2019 but has only just come to light. On January 6, Keiichi Tai announced his intention to resign as council speaker and assemblymember at a press conference…

In mid-January, Japan is gripped by a short, sharp season: it’s the time of the college entrance exam. Up and down the country, high school students sat down last weekend for the exam that will determine which university they will go to from the spring. But there’s another factor involved in the exam: chikan. This,…

Japanese capsule toys are a cornucopia of choice and variety. There seems to be no end to the objects that pop out from the thousands of vending machines found at stores, train stations, and tourist destinations. What’s still often surprising, though, are the eyebrow-raising subject matters of certain toys. Last year, for instance, we reported…

The Korean movie 10-Day Lover (2023) has attracted a fair amount of attention online because it features a nude sex scene with Song Min-kyung, a former member of 2000s K-pop group SeeYa (though not part of the original lineup, from what we can tell). Song, who plays the main role in the film, is shown…

We’ve trawled the Japanese interwebs for some of the best leaked pics of amateurs having sex in the doggy position. Doing it bakku, as doggy style is called here, is a popular past-time, as these photos attest. Doing it on a bed or the floor. Doing it up against a table. Doing it while she’s…

The actor Issei Ishida has claimed to dated a total of a thousand woman. He made the extraordinary, surely grossly exaggerated statement on a NTV show on January 29. Of that massive number, our middle-aged Japanese Casanova said that 60 were “celebrities.” Pressed further as to which of those are women that anyone on the…

There are peeping Toms and then there are peeping Toms. And these guys didn’t do things by half measures. Shizuoka police have arrested a gang of peeping Toms who have been active for 30 years — yes, three whole decades! The 13 voyeurs, including the 50-year-old leader, were apprehended in recent months, while a further…

A 54-year-old Japanese man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering an ex-music idol. Police in Fuchu arrested Akira Ishikawa on February 3 for killing a 24-year-old former idol called Sana Hirabayashi at a hotel in the city in the west of Tokyo by stabbing her neck. Security camera footage captured the two entering the…