In an example of brilliantly timed PR, as the much-trumpeted AKB48 “general election” is having — with Atsuko Maeda for the last time — the women’s fashion magazine Anan features a very sexy, semi-nude shoot with Yuko Oshima on its front cover this issue. This got us thinking. Forget the gravure idol magazines and weekly…

It was the last time that Atsuko Maeda would be appearing — though she wasn’t actually “running” — and inevitable the latest AKB48 “general election” has been an insane blitz of publicity, with massive ads on TV (in collaboration with Google+) and on major websites. It was shown live on TV for several hours and…

JAV porn star Saki Otsuka has turned photographer to make her own photography book, called, temptingly, “Mitsubai nude”, to be released this month by ERECT magazine. The magazine is an annual journal focussing on underground manga and subcultural figures, and this photography book is a kind of spin-off. The magazine itself is not pornographic but…

It might be summer but it’s still the season for April Fool’s, especially when it involves two things the Japanese really love: technology and porn! An enterprising CEO of aptly named design firm “Life is Good” decided to play a joke on his employees, where he rigged their computers to play JAV porn from a…

It’s not often we like to use the term “only in Japan” but sometimes it’s just about right. Though it’s defunct, at the height of the love doll boom in 2004-2005 (at least, boom in its recognition in popular culture), when TV shows were finally taking an interest in the amazingly ultra-realistic silicone brides of…

We’ve just discovered this incredible series of “public toilet” Japanese porn titles, where Mika Osawa and others gets locked up in medieval stocks, to be subjected to bukkake, penetration and whatever else the visitors to the toilet desire. Not for the faint-hearted, this is BDSM JAV at its best! The latest entry is Public Sperm…

Mieko Tanaka, the sexy young politician in the ruling DNP party, has been caught with her lover visiting a hotel. Not such a big deal — after all, even politicians have needs — except that her man, a senior civil servant, is married, according to the Shukan Shinshio, published on June 14th. Adultery in Japan…

In the same week that the AKB48 moneymen claimed victory in the amount of hype and advertising cash their well-greased PR machine could turn their “election” campaign into — comes a scandal that proves just how controlled and fake they are. A minor member of the band, Rino Sashihara (b.1992), has sort-of admitted to the…

Sorry, boys. Japan’s sexiest seiyuu Rie Tanaka (33) has got hitched! Her lucky husband is fellow voice actor Koichi Yamadera, who’s fifty-one years old! Clearly Rie’s in need of a father figure if she’s chosen a man eighteen years her senior! It was announced in a very romantic way — on Twitter — and there’s…

They say that China will one day be the most powerful country in the world. And perhaps it’s no surprise when even their natural resources can manufacture onahole masturbators! Yes, in a well in a suburb of Xi’an a very special mushroom has been “discovered” which local news got very excited. It’s an extremely rare…