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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Japanese man has been arrested for public indecency after exposing his lower body to a woman on the streets of Hongo, Tokyo, in January. The 29-year-old Masaya Yamada was arrested in April, though ...