The ever-reliable and diligent fintan (pinakotheca) has done it again.
He assiduously seeks out old erotic art and photography books, buys them, scans them, resells the books, and then shares select highlights online. Whether due to personal preference or the quality of the material, he frequently features Japanese publications.
After our previous showcase of some of these last month, we cannot resist another set of images from obscure 1980s Japanese voyeur photography books and magazines.
If you're into voyeur fetish stuff or even a practicing Peeping Tom, this is surely pure catnip. ...
Our friends at Kanojo Toys are currently running a campaign for Father's Day, offering a discount of 20% off all Japanese toys (and an even bigger discount for newsletter subscribers).
Father's Day falls on Sunday, June 15, but the campaign continues a little longer, until June 17, so you have a few days to take advantage of the offer. The discount is available throughout the campaign for as many times as you want to order.
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The Tokyo-based Kanojo Toys is the ...
Mariya Nagao is one of the few former AKB48 idols to maintain a successful career in modeling and gravure for the many years since her departure from the group.
Unlike the likes of Haruna Kojima (now also an entrepreneur) or Atsuko Maeda (a serious actor), however, she hasn't diversified per se, instead relying largely on photo books and shoots to earn a living (though she also does some acting and produces an idol group).
It helps that she has a slinky body and has regularly teased nude glimpses of it in her photo books over the years.
So far, she's limited the nudity to her butt and side ...
If you're dating a sex worker half your age, chances are things are going to get complicated.
And so it proved for a man in his fifties in the west of Shizuoka Prefecture, who was involved with a 22-year-old sex worker in the nearby city of Shimada.
According to a report by SBS on June 9, the unnamed woman was arrested on June 8 for sending a message in which she threatened to kill the man and his family.
"I'll kill you and your whole family," she allegedly wrote in a message to the man sent on the app LINE.
The woman works at a local brothel. It is not known how she and the man began ...
There has been much in the news recently about concept cafes in Japan. Concept cafes, also known as concafes, provide an experience based on a specific theme.
In the same way that a girls' bar is a "lite" version of a hostess bar, a women's concafe is like a host club without the eye-watering prices or nighttime reputation. Though there are plenty of female-staffed concafes that operate like a maid cafe with another character instead of maids, the establishers that have attracted media and police attention so far have been concafes run by men and aimed at women.
Common cosplay themes ...
The former porn star Emiri Okazaki has announced she is pregnant.
Now 36, Okazaki made her adult video debut via Muteki in 2011. She also worked under the name EMIRI and was a member of the JAV idol music group Pinkey, which was produced by the late Kishin Shinoyama, famed for his nude photography, and active from 2012 to 2015.
Prior to her porn career, she was gyaru-style model. Since her retirement in 2016, she has been a YouTuber and entrepreneur with a business selling supplements.
Okazaki's announcement was accompanied by some maternity photos (weirdly also featuring her dog, ...
One of Tokyo Kinky's all-time favs, Kyoko Fukada, is to release her first photo book in five years.
Aging like a fine wine or whisky, Fukakyon has overcome some recent mental health issues and a brief career hiatus, and the as-yet-untitled photo book is sure to restore her status as Japan's most desirable unmarried woman.
Now aged 42, her beach body remains svelte and exuberant, and those breasts look as ripe and succulent as ever.
As an actor, her career has mainly focused on TV roles but she also appears in occasional films.
The photo book is shot by veteran ND Chow comes out on ...
One of the more unusual stories swirling around J-pop right now is the identify of the mystery singer with whom Elon Musk claims to have fathered a child.
Ashley St. Clair, a conservative influencer and mother of Musk's fourteenth known child, told the New York Times that Musk has "fathered children around the world, including one with a Japanese pop star."
Of course, this is a second-hand report and not from Musk directly, but people have taken it seriously.
Who could it be? Suspicions quickly centered on Ayumi Hamasaki, the veteran "Empress of Pop" who has two children (one born at the ...
University teachers are generally seen as figures of respect in Japan, like elsewhere, but they sometimes do things that seriously endanger that status.
Who can forget the Taisho University educator who was found wandering the campus in the buff, having been ordered to strip off by his student lover?
But the case of a 49-year-old associate professor at the University of Toyama's Information Technology Center trumps that.
Toyama police re-arrested Hiroshi Takitani, a natural disaster and computational scientist, on June 2 on suspicion of fraud and extortion, having already been charged with ...
The 40-year-old gravure idol Miri Hanai held a launch event for her latest photo book, the aptly titled Legendary, in Tokyo yesterday.
Released by major publisher Kodansha, Legendary is her first print photo book in about two decades, though she has continued to release digital books.
In 2023, we wrote about Hanai and her incredible 20-year career in gravure. We don't know what magic or dark arts she uses, but she still looks at busty and svelte as ever.
Fans will certainly be pleased with Legendary, which showcases the jukujo's charms and assets in swimsuits, lingerie, and nude. ...
