This story is super old now but we wanted to blog it anyway because it’s important. With its low use of condom usage, Japan is a bit of an HIV time bomb — something the gay community is more proactive about. Complimentary condoms are frequently available at bars and clubs, and HIV awareness posters are…

You see! It’s not just Japanese guys! Other Asian men also have a thing for dakimakura. Artist Lee Kan Kyo originally hails from Taiwan, though he came to Japan in 2007 to study. Now he is holding his first solo exhibition in Japan at Guardian Garden gallery in Ginza. And the theme? Pop art-style dakimakura…

We love a scandal and we love a woman who knows what she wants. Megumi Okina married the CEO of Cyber Agent in 2004 but divorced him the following year. She went through a dry period in her career and then got hitched again in 2009 to a businessman in a shotgun married. She had…

A new survey by Recruit Marketing Partners has some shocking results. 41.6% of men in their twenties say they have never had a girlfriend. Only 26.% of unmarried people in their twenties, thirties or forties say they have a lover. On the other hand, before we write off the Japanese male as a “sexless beast”…

We suppose it was inevitable that Japan’s most famous cross-dressing elderly gent would get his own mobile phone game app at some point, and so it has proved the case with Sailor Fuku Ojisan (Sailor Uniform Uncle). Also known as Hideaki Kobayashi, this gentile cross-dresser has been a regular spot all over Tokyo the past…

Artist Rokudenashiko (or Rokudenashi-ko), popularly known as the “vagina artist”, has been charged following her arrest earlier this month. While writer Minori Watanabe was recently released for displaying the model of female genitalia in her adult shop in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, Rokudenashiko (Megumi Igarashi), who was arrested at the same time, has now been indicted…

Happy Christmas to all our readers and visitors! Christmas in Japan is a time for three things: strawberry shortcake, KFC chicken, and sex. Especially Christmas Eve is seen as the most romantic time of the year, the night when you are meant to take a special someone out on an expensive date. Not everyone has…

Ignition, a newish English-language online magazine about Japan, has published an article on “Japan: The Sexless Nation”. The article is actually a translation of a piece that appeared in a Japanese newspaper, by Kaku Sechiyama, a professor at University of Tokyo. It is provocative, to say the least: Japan has the lowest sexual frequency in…

They say that otaku are weak. They say they wouldn’t last long in a fight. But not this otaku. He wears otaku armor! @umigame2D designed and made this unique suit of Love Live! anime character merchandise, adding more and more layers until you see the results before you. The “armor”, as some are calling it,…

Comiket 87 kicked off over the weekend at Odaiba. Once again Tokyo Big Sight comes alive for three days from December 28th for Japan’s biggest cosplay and comics event. Unfortunately we couldn’t be there in person but plenty of others were. Here are some pictures from the reliable folk at KAI-YOU, featuring lots of cute…