One of the year's biggest stories continues to get bigger. Exploitation and coercion in the Japanese AV industry has been condemned for trafficking. It has sparked a public debate about labor ...

Always on the look-out for Korean actress nudity, we saw this bizarre story over on BattyforNudity. A Korean film director has been charged by policed for releasing a cut of a movie featuring nude ...

Former actor Noboru Takachi has been arrested for possession of a stimulant drug and cannabis. Best known overseas for appearing in films like Yamato, the 51-year-old was a big star in the 1990s. ...

As we now know, what was touted as Japan's first adult virtual reality was so popular (and disorganized) earlier this month that it had to be closed down. We were one of the many unlucky souls ...

Staged Seduction: Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club is a new book by Akiko Takeyama, published by Stanford University Press. It is an ethnographic study of the men and women who produce and consume ...

Tenga is back -- and we mean they are BACK. Because it's return of the Flip Hole, Tenga's biggest hit of all. After the Black, White, Silver and Red versions, followed by the more compact Flip ...

Yoshiwara was the main red-light district (yukaku) in Edo, the old name for Tokyo. Its legacy continues to resonate today: the area remains full of soaplands and prostitutes, and other parts of the ...

Remember Yasumasa Yonehara? Super big a few years ago, he's the instantly recognisable bald Japanese photographer with that habit of taking slutty pictures of slutty girls in hotel rooms. What a ...

A woman who fell asleep on a train woke up to find herself abducted and trapped in the home of a man she did not know. The 28-year-old company employee from Adachi ward in east Tokyo was allegedly ...

Ahead of the release in July of her new photo book, a preview image of Minami Minegishi has come out showing the slinky idol doing the classic semi-nude "hand bra" (tebura) pose. While pretty tame ...