It’s snowing in Tokyo right now, making for a very chilly Valentine’s Day. Unlike the west, February 14th in Japan is the day for the ladies to give chocolate or gifts to the guys, who then reciprocate on March 14th (“White Day”). Either way, it’s a day when the love hotels are always fully booked…

While much of the economy is struggling to find any positive effects from PM Abe’s fiscal policies, and consumers are dreading April and the impending raising of consumption tax, there is at least one industry that seems unaffected by the financial doldrums. Love hotels are doing big business. As we know, sex always sells. It…

Here’s a cautionary tale just after Valentine’s Day to remind us how wrong things can go. A 48-year-old life insurance employee was arrested on February 13th by police in Shakujii in Nerima in Tokyo. Yokohama resident Keisuke Munakata is accused of sending threatening notes to a girl he met at a wedding party in 2013….

A 29-year-old public servant in Tokyo’s Adachi ward was arrested on February 17th for attempting to kidnap a young girl. Kentaro Makino previously went into the grounds of an Edogawa ward condo in July last year. He waited there for kids coming home from school. Soon enough a 10-year-old elementary school student arrived, who he…

This is a request to make a dream-come-true happen again. In 2013 gravure model Yukie Kawamura starred in the TV adaptation of manga “Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches”. Kawamura, despite being 27, played Rika Saionji, the seventh “witch” and a high school student. But not just any high school student. Rika Saionji is a “no-pan”…

After sizzling in previous titillating striptease TV commercial and titillating us with her luxurious body in the lingerie photo shoots, AKB48’s only genuinely hot member Haruna Kojima is back with another sexy Peach John TV ad. This time the scene is — like a plot from a bizarre outdoor Japanese porn film — a horse…

It seems the foreign media has just discovered what a love hotel is. Only the other day we blogged about an article that held the love hotel industry up as a shining light in Japan’s economic doldrums. Now AFP have followed up with this recent video report to accompany the same article in which an…

The pizza delivery man is a staple motif of porn. But what about cute Japanese pizza delivery girls? Or even pizza delivered by two-dimensional idols? Love Live!, a collaboration between Dengeki G’s Magazine and a record label, is an anime, manga, video game and series of music releases, set at the fictional Otonokizaka Academy, where…

We first heard about this cosplay dream at the end of last year. Bandai had worked with Peach John — who know a thing or two about lingerie — to create these fantastic Sailor Moon-themed underwear sets. And then they sold out in days. They promised a return and more stock. They re-launched last week…

Noriko Yabu is a 33-year-old artist who takes selfies. Nothing special in that. Except her surreal selfies are underwater, and she’s naked. Her series of images are called Suisou, which could be read as “aquarium” or “cistern” but the characters she uses mean “water funeral”. So is this a dead body in the water? Are…