We love Tsubomi. The cute JAV star, recently pregnant, has won legions of fans in Japan and rightfully so. A documentary on the new Vice Japan channel looks at Tsubomi. It’s in Japanese only but turn on the closed captions for English subtitles. A highlight is at the start when she says she thinks Japanese…

University classrooms can be dull places and most of the time, our college teacher friends tell us, the students are fast asleep during lectures. But not so at Doshisha University in Kyoto. At least, not at Room 402 in the Ryoshinkan Hall. Because that’s where some students observed a female hottie having sex with a…

Asian men don’t get a good deal in Hollywood. When was the last time that you saw an Asian leading man in a Western movie treated as a sex symbol in the same way as a white actor? Leela Rose set out to challenge this. We sympathise. Many foreign female residents in Japan face problems:…

Once again we have an alarming announcement from Japan’s health ministry that the number of syphilis patients in Japan has gone up. This has become a regular news item of late, prompting the ministry to launch a special team to investigate ways to combat the spread of sexually transmitted infections and diseases. Hospital data from…

A man from New Zealand has been arrested in Japan for attempted extortion after he sent messages to a girl in her teens. The 56-year-old man, who says he is a chef but is unnamed in media reports, was arrested when he landed at Komatsu Airport in Ishikawa, a prefecture on the Sea of Japan…

Nagisa Watanabe is to release her first photo book, published in Japan on June 25. Though still officially unnamed, it is very widely assumed that the former TV announcer is the woman at the center of the Masahiro Nakai sex scandal, which has ended his career and brought one of Japan’s biggest broadcasters into disrepute….

The special menu they offer you at that bar in Shibuya or Shinjuku may well be too good to be true — and it might well land the proprietor in trouble. A bar in Shibuya offered a “VIP course” to customers who wanted to eat and drink while watching scantily clad female bar staff take…

With a few notable and noble exceptions, politicians are mostly on the fiddle or on the pull, their hands in the expenses till or around some girl’s body. It’s a story as old as the hills and pretty much the same in any country, including Japan. You might think that any politician from the Democratic…

Yes, I know. Us Japanese are a strange bunch. There are plenty of folks who like used panties of course. And there are even people who like refrigerated panties! A hot day? You want an ice cream? A cool drink? No, let’s get some nicely chilled panties! Yes, for 980 yen (about $11.60) you can…

Hug pillows (dakimakura) are nothing new in Japan. There is a wealth of pillows out there with cases featuring idols or in the actual body shapes of young girls. Here’s a new twist and its all a marketing stunt. How do you make cockroaches appealing? That’s the dilemma facing Gokiburi Kujo Meister, an extermination company….