Chikan is a chronic problem on public transport in Japan that doesn't seem to be getting better any time soon. Despite the introduction of women-only carriages during rush hour and the display of posters and "shame stickers" warning offenders that groping is a crime, the number of men who do it never seems to decrease. If #MeToo was just about chikan, the number of tweets would likely break Twitter's servers.
Kumi Sasaki says she was groped "nearly daily" on her commute to and from school in Japan. She was aged between 12 and 18.
Her first experience of chikan was on the crowded JR ...
AKB48 is said to be phasing out swimsuit and lingerie photo shoots for its young members, perhaps out of fear of foreign accusations of peddling lolicon and child pornography as Tokyo prepares to for the 2020 Olympics.
There is speculation that the Akihabara-inspired supergroup, which builds followings for its female idols through swimsuit and underwear shoots as well as scantily clad music videos, is taming down its tactics.
Now members of high school age will apparently not be asked to reveal their flesh during photo shoots, it is reported.
A large proportion of AKB48's members ...
Prospective college students are now sitting down in halls around Japan for the various exams that will allow them to enter universities. It's a stressful time, but fortunately there's plenty of strangeness to keep everyone amused.
Some otaku like to wear their favorite characters on their clothes for good luck. Some people cannot resist bringing their onahole to the exams to help relieve them of the stress, though we've never seen a masturbator toy used to store pencils before.
And at least one girl attended her tests in full Lolita fashion cosplay.
As shared by Nakanojorounin, we ...
Being born at the tail end of the Showa era, we've always had a sense of nostalgia for those pre-digital days.
In addition to a soft spot for old pink films, we also love to browse retro erotica and vintage porn. In past posts we've looked at 1960s nude shoots and love hotels.
About a year ago, we posted something about a vintage sex guide from the 1960s.
Here's something similar: How to Sex, an old sex guide based on the shijuuhatte -- the "48 Ways" of having sex as developed from centuries-old sumo wrestling moves.
The 64-page, all-color magazine guide is undated but seems to be ...
Some guys are not afraid to get their hands dirty -- or, we should say, their face, lips, and tongue. And this includes Japanese guys: they don't mind giving head.
At least, the rapper KOHH doesn't mind going down on his girlfriend, though perhaps that's not surprising, given that he's dating the Japanese fashion model Ayana Miyamoto.
We know this because a sex tape has leaked showing KOHH licking the pussy of the 26-year-old Miyamoto as she films the action she's getting with a phone.
Unfortunately for the couple, the short sex tape was accidentally uploaded to the model's ...
Omotenashi indeed. Japan is still losing the fight against sexually transmitted diseases and infections, it seems, judging from the last syphilis figures that were announced at the start of the year.
In an uncanny, somewhat depressing repetition of a similar report from January last year, the syphilis epidemic shows no signs of slowing. In fact, it's getting worse.
The number of syphilis patients reported in 2017 topped 5,000 -- the first time it had hit such a level since records began.
The National Institute of Infectious Diseases has revealed that 2017 featured the worst data ...
Enako is one of the most popular (and diminutive) cosplayers in Japan. Her legions of male fans will do a lot and pay a lot to take her photographs, buy her merchandise, and admire her latest poses.
And now they can get a little bit closer to their goddess. Or at least, they could.
At the December edition of Comiket (Comic Market) in Tokyo, Enako's own (almost life-sized) dakimakura hug pillow was on sale at the Animate Group Booth.
The dakimakura was priced at the reasonable ¥12,000 before tax, available on on a first-come, first-served basis. The pillow measures a 160cm ...
Being of that kind of mind, the Japan Suspicious Person Information Centre (JASPIC) conducted a seven-month study on "perverts" based on reports from police and municipalities. The Japanese term here is fushinsha, a "suspicious person." This, though, does not refer to spies or would-be thieves, but voyeurs, flashers and chikan (gropers).
JASPIC reports that 11,607 incidents were officially recorded from March to October this year, and of these 4,487 -- around 40% -- were in the vicinity of train stations.
Naturally, there are a lot of stations in Japan and most of the 4,487 are spread ...
If you're anything like us, you like nude selfies. Not necessarily your own or even your partner's, but perusing those of others posted generously online.
We've covered some great examples of these over the years and they never cease to get us in the right mood.
But if you happen to like the ones posted by high schoolers or even younger, you may not be able to enjoy them that much longer if the powers that be have their way.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly is proposing to change the Healthy Youth Development Ordinance, which covers the use of media and minors to make it harder to ask ...
Here's a blast from the past. We've been looking over some of our favorite Japanese movie sex scenes and remembered this one.
Miwako Ichikawa was nude in Konsento (Consent). The sex scenes are fairly tame but you get to see her lounging around totally naked, showing off her butt and breasts. She has a sex scenes with an older man who gets to suck on her nipples in his office.
The 2001 film was directed by Shun Nakahara, based on a bestselling novel.
She was also nude in Another Heaven (2000), as per the first image below.
It's not the ...
