The Osaka expo has proved controversial for a number of reasons, not least the huge budget overruns, the infestation of bugs, the unfinished pavilions, and the overpriced food.
But what about panchira (panties flash)? The latest issue involves a young Japanese woman who has posed for photos deliberately showing off her panties, and then posted those pics on social media for likes and views.
She certainly succeeded in getting a lot of attention.
The OL-themed cosplayer yuu_OLdays posed against the expo's famous wooden ring structure (the largest wooden structure in the world), wearing expo ...
Ahn So-hee is a former Korean singer who used to perform with the girl group Wonder Girls from 2007 to 2013. As an actress, her biggest credit to date is probably a role in the horror movie Train to Busan in 2016.
We discovered that Ahn So-hee may have also done nude sex scenes in low-budget erotic movies. Or did she?
This is complicated because the actress is credited under different names, which include Ahn So-hee and Hanna, and this may not be the same person as the singer. (But do they kind of look alike -- or is this just wishful thinking on our part?)
At any rate, this particular ...
Eros and Thanatos are closely intertwined, Freud taught. And Asuka Watanabe embodies that curious entanglement.
The 30-year-old works as an occasional nude model but also had a former career as an embalmer -- specifically, the type of embalmer called a yukanshi, who specializes in the ritual washing of a dead body, as made famous in the Oscar-winning movie Departures (2008).
In a recent interview with the tabloid magazine Spa!, Watanabe explained more about her two professions. Here are some highlights.
Watanabe Asuka: When I researched about makeup, which I was interested in doing as a ...
Some women age well. And then there's Kyoko Fukuda.
The eternally youthful (and single) Fukada has appeared on the cover of Weekly Playboy, making her one of the oldest idols to earn the honor.
Now aged 42 (and turning 43 in November) and as comely as ever, Fukada appears on the cover of the latest issue of the magazine, which came out on June 30, wearing a figure-hugging swimsuit. She is fine company: the same issue features such gradols as Erika and Marina Momose, and various other young ladies two decades or more her junior. We'd take Fukada over them any day of the week, ...
Three years on from the passing of the controversial porn law, the situation for the Japanese adult video industry remains complex.
Prompted by a desire to curb the issue of coercion in porn that had led to numerous scandals and arrests, as well as fears that the lowering of the age of adulthood to 18 needed safeguards to protect teenagers from exploitation, the porn law gave performers much stronger rights, including cooling-off periods after a contract is signed and a production is filmed.
It seemed to usher in a real shift in the discourse, to such an extent that some pushed to end ...
Crime doesn't pay, they say, but it seems that's not true if you're in the recruitment racket for prostitutes.
According to multiple media reports, a scouting group called Access introduced 78,000 women to sex work at around 1,800 establishments nationwide over a five-year period from 2019. Let those numbers sink in: 78,000 women and 1,800 brothels.
Access earned ¥6 billion in commission, police estimate.
The scout group had contracts with adult entertainment establishments nationwide, and recruited women via social media. They expanded their influence by sending women's profiles, such ...
Tokyo Metropolitan Police announced the arrest of seven men in their twenties on suspicion of violating the Tokyo Metropolitan Ordinance Concerning the Prevention of Disturbing the Peace.
The arrests were announced on June 25. The men are alleged to have been scouts luring women to work at hostess clubs and brothels in the Kabukicho area of Shinjuku, central Tokyo.
The men are thought to be members of the largest scouting group in Japan called Natural. Two of the men have admitted the charge, while the other five claim they are not scouts and did not recruit women.
The arrests are the ...
Now this is what we call moving on!
After quitting as an announcer at Fuji TV last summer, the future looked uncertain for Nagisa Watanabe.
When the Masahiro Nakai scandal broke, people were quick to deduce that she was probably the unnamed woman at the center of it. Though she's still not officially identified, it is generally assumed that she was the victim of the alleged sexual assault, which led to her taking a leave of absence from her job.
Nakai, one of the biggest names in Japanese entertainment, was forced to retire and Fuji TV suffered a mass exodus of advertisers.
The ...
Top Japanese adult video performer Momona Koibuchi recently gave an interview to Japanese tabloid Spa!, discussing her career and her unusual background as originally a civil servant in Yamagata, northeast Japan.
Here are some highlights from the interview with the 26-year-old porn princess.
Q. You went from being a civil servant to being a porn actress, but did you originally want to become a civil servant?
Momona Koibuchi: Not at all. Actually, I like clothes, so I wanted to work in the apparel industry, or as a fashion designer. I like talking to people, so I wanted to work in ...
While train gropers (chikan) are a well-known problem in Japan, people exposing themselves (particularly men to younger women) is another variant that combines the thrill of exhibitionism with the crueler fetish of enjoying the discomfort it induces on a vulnerable woman.
The classic choice of locations for such flashing is a public park, but it is also often done on a crowded train where the victim has no way to escape.
A train like the Shinkansen, which provides high-speed, long-distance rail services across Japan, might seem like an illogical choice. After exposing himself, the man has ...
