The disgraced actor Mei Nagano is to take her first real steps toward a comeback with the release of a 2026 calendar on December 21.
The 26-year-old Nagano's career suffered a catastrophic collapse when her alleged affair with 41-year-old married actor Kei Tanaka was reported by the tabloids in April.
At the time, she was also supposedly in a relationship with a Korean actor, Kim Moo-jun, with whom she costarred in a TV drama.
Both she and father-of-two Kei Tanaka denied an affair, though admitted they were close and that he had stayed over at her apartment. Various damning photos ...
The veteran gravure idol Miho Abe has said that she has twice turned down lucrative offers to appear in porn.
The model and actor shared on X on November 3 some information about the past offers in response to an impertinent fan (whose original post has been deleted).
I turned down offers of an adult contract for ¥100 million two years ago and ¥30 million 10 years ago, but I do what I do because I love it. Of course, it's a job that's for the money, but please don't be rude to adult actresses. It's a very difficult job, and it's completely different from what I do. Leave me alone.
When ...
According to an article in Weekly Women Prime, Japan is seeing a rapid rise in the number of establishments offering sexual services to women from male "therapists."
The claim is based on extensive research by a manga artist, Yachinatsu (pictured), who has published on the topic of sexual services for women. Her manga Do Women Need Sex Entertainment Prostitution? has sold over 300,000 in Japan and been translated into English.
While the industry has become accessible enough that married people and those even in their sixties and seventies are using the services she says various risks must ...
The tabloid Spa! recently ran an interview with a 33-year-old, heavily tattooed employee in the construction industry who goes by the online name Cyber Lisapi.
Lisapi did compensated dating from junior high school and has also worked at a brothel (fuzoku). Her colorful past also includes addiction to illegal drugs.
In the interview, she shares more about her turbulent life. We've shared some edited highlights below.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, her childhood was unsettled.
"My parents divorced when I was about six years old. My mother worked as a hostess at a club, so I don't think she had ...
Just yesterday we posted about the gang of eight thieves who allegedly beat and robbed a foreign man who had picked up a streetwalker. The issue of young streetwalkers, known as tachinbo in Japanese, in the Kabukicho area of Shinjuku, especially around Okubo Park, has become a huge social panic, with media reports and police crackdowns appearing almost weekly, along with the Toyoko kids delinquency problem.
To help explain the tachinbo issue, the manga artist Sugimura (also known as Sugiyan) created a short comic in English as part of the This Is Japan! series. It was published online on ...
A gang has been arrested for robbing and assaulting a foreign man as he exited a love hotel with a prostitute he had picked up in Shinjuku, Tokyo.
The eight people allegedly surrounded the man in his fifties, taunted him for his actions and threatened to tell others, and then beat and robbed him of the cash he was carrying -- ¥1.1 million -- in a rucksack. With that much cash on his person, he was either a bit naive or planning to have a lot of fun in Kabukicho.
The incident took place back in February this year and the victim required a month to recover from his injuries. Earlier in ...
Former AKB48 idol Rina Hirata has announced that she will no longer release image videos. Her latest DVD, My Girl's Weird Sense of Distance, which came out on September 23.
The DVD, her first in over a year, is an incredible 190 minutes and features Hirata barely clothed throughout. The tiny bikini she wears in the cover image is stretched to the max to cover her nipples and crotch.
The 27-year-old Hirata was a member of AKB48 from 2011 to 2016. Among the legions of young women who have passed through the ranks of AKB48 and its sister groups over the years, Hirata stands out for at least ...
An article by former porn star Aya Takanashi (pictured below) in Maidona News recently reported on the Japanese version of the tang ping or "lying flat" trend that originated in China for rejecting overwork and the pressure to achieve.
It is similar to the notion of "quiet quitting" or NEET, a sociological term for people not in full-time work or education/training that became popular as a label in Japan in the years after the bubble economy collapsed.
The article focuses on the nightlife version of this phenomenon, claiming that such "lying flat" people account for 30 or 40 percent of ...
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Saika Kawakita is one of the biggest porn stars in Japan and a probably familiar face to most readers of this blog. She has gained global fame more recently because a GIF from one of her porn productions inexplicably became a meme on social media in December 2024.
According to a scoop by the tabloid Weekly Bunshun published this week, the 26-year-old Kawakita is having an affair with volleyball player Ran Takahashi.
The 24-year-old Takahashi currently plays for the Suntory Sunbirds in Osaka, and has played on the Japanese national team.
He is supposed to be in a relationship with the ...
