Idols are wonderful. We love them -- their bodies, their cute looks, their habit of posing in small bikinis... But some people go too far. The Japanese internet has been delighted to ...

Forget Tokyo. Sometimes for the real cuties you need to look elsewhere. In particular, go south to Kyushu and the biggest city, Fukuoka. There you will find Kanna Hashimoto (橋本環奈), the ...

Japanese porn shoots are very professional things. We have personal experience (not of appearing in them, we might add!) and can tell you that the major production companies run very slick ...

Our lovely lady this week is Mai Sasaki (佐々木麻衣). The curvy, sultry girl was born in 1988 and though she doesn't enjoy the front-page fame of her colleagues in the Gravure world, she has ...

Japanese TV is disgraceful at times. Here is the shocking image from a TV show broadcast on state channel NHK. It shows quite clearly a young child fondling a certain member. What a ...

After it got big media attention last year, designer Kaori Kato's novel if creepy "flip-a-skirt" calendar has returned with a new edition for 2014. We weren't sure what to make of it when we ...

For around ¥4,000 an hour you can have a girlfriend or boyfriend. Well, you can have what's nice about having a partner without the physical stuff, at any rate. Rental friends have been around ...

It must be the season. Just as Tokyo is getting pounded by typhoons on a weekly basis, so is the foreign media taking an interest in reporting about "nerdy" Japan. First we had the respected ...

Our lovely lady this week is the cute Rio Uchida (内田理央). Born in 1991, Rio Uchida is an up-and-coming Gravure idol. She made her debut in 2010 and her popularity is on the rise thanks ...

There's been a lot of media attention about stalking recently, not least due to the sad case of 18-year-old Saaya Suzuki, murdered by a stalker earlier this month. Now comes another odd twist on the ...