That’s the question that Time Out Tokyo asked its readers online back in August. Unfortunately we have no idea how many people answered and what proportion were looking at its Japanese website or English one — so this could in fact just be a handful of people’s preferences. Still, beggars can’t be choosers and in…

We already know that there’s a strong subculture in Japan for cross-dressing — and one which doesn’t fit easily into any western ideas of gay culture — but here’s something new. Metrosexual Japanese men worried about their nipples showing through t-shirts may be turning to these nipple stickers to cover up. There are several products…

We saw an interesting story first shared on Tokyo Reporter, which appeals to our sense of the fetishistic. Tokyo cops have busted a special parlor in Takadonobaba, near Shinjuku, where male customers could go to smell Japanese schoolgirls in private rooms. The manager, one Takanori Izuchi, was a mere 33 years old but he was…

The Japan Society of Sexual Science has completed a large survey of sexual habits among middle-aged and elderly couples, investigating Japan’s chronic issue of “sexlessness”. Surveying sexual activity among 1,162 middle-aged and older men and women, the results show intriguing trends for the reality of Japanese relationships. The survey was conducted between January 2011 and…

What a waste?! I hope they lock this guy up! Sadly, police say they are unlikely to charge Hideaki Adachi, who was discovered dumping waste in a public park in Osaka City. This in itself is an offense but it’s what he was dumping that has made the headlines: porn. Lots and lots of porn….

Mere days after Yuko Obuchi, the hottest woman in the Japanese Cabinet (okay, the only senior politico in Japan even remotely attractive, tended her resignation from the post of METI head, now comes another scandal perhaps with the potential to sink another powerful minister in the government. Obuchi’s replacement, Yoichi Miyazawa, spent some of his…

Guys in Japan love the so-called zettai ryouiki, the “absolute zone” that describes the sexy part of the bare skin on the upper leg of a girl, particularly accentuated when she is wearing a pair of knee-high socks and a short skirt. Now Japan’s netizens, not a tribe with too little time on their hands,…

If you’re going to be a train groper and run the risk of getting arrested, go the whole hog. That’s the lesson from this story, it seems. Choose a young, hot victim and don’t give up without a fight! Monday is never a fun day. The weekend is over and people are not in the…

As in many countries, Japan has a small but significant female professional wrestler scene. These women are regarded as sex symbols by many, so much so that these strong ladies are invited to pose naked for Gravure or hair nude shoots. Some of these are delightfully lesbian in tone! Two muscular ladies in each other’s…

And the award for best Halloween costume goes to… this guy dressed up as a Tenga onacup. He was spotted among the thousands of other Halloween cosplayers out and about on the streets of Shibuya on October 31st. In the Tokyo Kinky scheme of things, this is the best kind of Halloween costume imaginable. There…