All over the news right now is the story of a “massage parlor” in Yokohama that not employed high school girls, but employed them to place the clients in wrestling holds for the kinky high it gave the men. The manager Masayuki Kyoya (36) was arrested for violating the labor laws. The girls would go…

We love it when an interesting fetish gets some mainstream attention. Sure, sometimes this can be sensationalist and tread a fine line between mockery and awe, but anything that opens up the conversation about alternative sexuality is got to be a good thing in our book. Especially if it involves Japan. Zentai (short for zentai…

We love Japanese sex dolls. They are brilliantly made, always inventive, and have spawned all sorts of interesting social phenomena such as sex doll magazines, sex doll rental services, and more. But this might be going a bit far. Can a sex doll be a music idol? Well, they can’t sing — not even lip-synch…

We spend a lot of time indulging in images of hot girls and the like here on Tokyo Kinky. What about the guys? Well, if you’ve ever wondered about the life of the male host and his world of wining and dining female clients, now is your chance to find out more. Vice Japan have…

Designer Jo Nagasaka (Schemata Architects) has made the kind of seats that we definitely want to have in the Tokyo Kinky office. “Shibari” is a series of black and white foam seats inspired by the classic art of Japanese rope bondage. Nagasaka is showing his creations at this year’s Milano Salone. Note the rope keeping…

We all dream of sleeping with or dating a porn star. Some people get to do it for real. V6 is a Japanese male idol group whose primary job these days is to have sex with Japan’s top female celebrities. Hard work if you can get it. Go Morita (35) has been snapped with his…

Another Vice Japan short film here, this time following Kanae Murakami, a 20-year-old hostess plying her trade in Ginza’s district of high-class clubs. For all those who have sympathetic views of hostesses as girls who have to put up with drinking a lot with ugly men in smoky bars and who are only a fine…

This is a question we often ask ourselves about Japanese pornography. With tens of thousands of actresses working in the industry, said to be the biggest in the world, which star has appeared in the most titles? Apparently we weren’t alone in wondering this, since some Japanese netizens have done the maths. Naturally the results…

Sometimes models and actresses get a little bit of help to look better and further their career. But this is an extreme case. Japanese porn star Rina Nanase/Rumi Kanda has been having a series of plastic surgery operations to her eyes, nose and chin because she believes having a very spade-like look makes her look…

At just under 18 years old. At least, the national average is 17.7 years old for when women in Japan get their first kiss, according to a new survey by LC Love Cosmetic. In April this year the researchers asked 2,350 women from all over Japan and compiled the results into a handy map. The…