Former sweet and innocent Gravure idol Risa (aka Lisa) Goto has graduated to the big time at last. After a career that began with drink commercials when still a teenager, Risa has since then had an ...

Never, never let it be said that pornography isn't cultural. Far from it. JAV is high art! We've known this for years and now there can be no denying it with the Naked Sex Art Museum, which we ...

On April 7th the Kanamara Matsuri was held in Kawasaki, near to Tokyo, and one of the most popular of Japan's phallic fertility festivals. The highlight of the festival is the parade of the ...

Toshiki Hanai, a twenty-eight-year-old assistant district court judge in Osaka, has perhaps not surprisingly lost his job. When you get caught filming up a girl's skirt (panchira) on a train, you ...

Sad news, folks. Tarento Jun Natsukawa (32), who has been gracing our screens and fantasies for years, has announced she is five months pregnant. Jun married a man one year younger than her on ...

A nineteen-year old university student was in the college library when he got a message from his mother. "Super Sonico hug pillow has just arrived" it read. The student was obviously very ...

Parks are not just for strolling around in. Unlike other cities, Tokyo's parks are open all night. Photographer Kohei Yoshiyuki used to visit Chuo Park in the early Seventies and search for ...

You may have heard a lot about instant messaging app LINE over the last two years. It is meant to be the most rapidly rising and exciting social service in Japan and other parts of Asia. Well, ...

That's what the results of a survey would have us believe. It surveyed 3,616 men and women aged 20 to 49 around Japan on the theme of marriage and children online in early February. 30% of ...

The car in front is a Toyota. Really? Yes, Toyota has proved that otaku are valuable members of its customer base by creating an itasha decorated vehicle especially for the Anime Contents Expo ...