Onna no ko Kurabu (Girls’ Club) is where the action’s at if you want an easy way to sample Japanese cross-dressing subculture. Man or woman, you can go to the club — currently one in Tokyo, with a new club in Osaka’s down-and-dirty Dotonbori district from December 1st — to try on girls’ clothing. The…

Our favorite fashion designer of the moment, Gomi Hayakawa (of feast, the lingerie for flat-chested girls, fame), has come up with a great combination of two great things: Tenga and coffee. She has come up with a “tumbler” in the Tenga onacup color — tongue in cheek, of course, and without official endorsement from either…

A man in his late thirties living in Tokyo earlier this year sued AKS, the company that manages AKB48, as well as King Records (AKB’s record label), and Google Japan for “nonfulfillment of financial obligations” after he had been denied the chance to shake hands with his favorite idol, Karen Iwata. The verdict on the…

We’re on a bit of a cross-dressing roll at the moment. After blogging about a major new josou club and bar in Osaka we now want to introduce a new photography exhibition at Ginza’s Vanilla Gallery. It features portraits Tachibana has made over six years of newhalf (shemales) and josou cross-dressers. The exhibition is called…

AKB48’s Haruna Kojima has shown us what she looks like when she wakes up in bed, in the bath, and gets dressed in the morning. For her latest ad for Japanese lingerie brand Peach John, the Akihabara idol is shown stripping down and taking alluring selfies. Kojiharu is the main marketing model for lingerie line…

Rokudenashiko (or Rokudenashi-ko), the “vagina artist” arrested in the summer for distributing 3D data of her pussy, has been taken into police custody again, promising to reignite what became an international sensation about female rights and censorship. This time her “crime”, says Tokyo Reporter, was another vagina selfie artwork, though sculptural this time rather than…

Porn star Ai Uehara has many talents but did you know they also include rap? In “REAL remix” Uehara has now lent her vocal skills to a song following her victory at the AV Open 2014 awards, which are voted for by the public. The track is by INCUBUS, who is the male rapper in…

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…