Take a beautiful Japanese female artist and it’s always going to be a fun day out. Then she starts to make a series of beguiling, sensual images of hot Japanese female models, actresses and celebrities for magazines, adverts and exhibitions, and you have a truly great combination, popular with men and women alike. That’s what…

A man has been arrested for pimping out teenaged girls via a deai-kei internet website. So-called deai-kei sites (“encounter” websites) are portals for meeting up with young ladies, often platforms for enjo kosai (dates with cash rewards) or open prostitution. This time one man was calling the shots and had several underage girls on the…

The joy of the internet is that it makes us all equal. Long live the online democracy: now anyone can be a star thanks to YouTube and Nico Nico Douga. North America has Justin Bieber. Japan has… well, a more interesting case study. One local example has been the orbital rise of Eririka Katagiri, a…

She’s back. The stuck-up pouty lady. The sexy haafu. The one and only, Erika Sawajiri has returned to acting. After her singing career could have hardly have been called a success, Erika has decided to go back to something she was quite good at. It’s not quite her glory days of yore, when she was…

To celebrate the Tokyo Motor Show currently running in the Tokyo Bay area, we wanted to introduce readers to a real Japanese tradition: the race Qqeen. The local equivalent of “pit babes” and a cynical promotional tool that no one complains about, the race queen can be found posing next to a race car while…

It sometimes seems that the kids who are good at sport get all the girls, right? Well, yes and no. Masato Uchishiba (33) may have won two Olympic gold medals for Judo but it seems he is not champion of judgement when it comes to controlling primal urges. He has been arrested for “sexual assault”…

Nyotaimori (女体盛り): the practice of eating sushi off a naked woman’s body. Does it actually happen? Well, judging by our experiences, probably not — but it still looks great! The obscure and likely exaggerated “custom” looks great in porn and probably crops up more in western films set in Japan than in real Japan. Yeah,…

Any newbie visitor to Japan quickly realizes that phone cameras here must carry a rather loud “shutter” noise for the moment when you take your grainy snap. The reason? Needless to say, with mobile innovation Japanese pervs were very fast to use it as a new tool for photographing up girls’ skirts. But as the…

2011 ends and 2012 starts with a bang as two marital-related events came to a head. Sweet actress Aoi Miyazaki (26) has long been the apple of many a man’s eye. Her cad of a hubby, pop singer and actor Sousuke Takaoka (29), though, knows full well that he is regarded as a “ikemen” hunk….

All right, guys, here are our top tips (a partial list) for getting yourself a Japanese girlfriend or just a one-off session with a Japanese girl at a conveniently located love hotel… 1. Go shopping together. Good way to bond and pass time. Buy ice cream and other sweet things. Other date trips can be…