We really, really tried to resist the temptation to post something facile and silly about the recent demise of Kim Jong-il. As you can see, after much inner wrangling... we failed ...

We had a little internal vote -- I promise you, nothing like as rigged as recent Russian elections! -- and have decided that our favorite idol for this year is Yukie Kawamura. Not a newbie ...

Any newbie visitor to Japan quickly realizes that phone cameras here must carry a rather loud "shutter" noise for the moment when you take your grainy snap. The reason? Needless to say, with mobile ...

Only the other day we were blogging about the orbital rise of amateur vlogger-turned-idol Eririka Katagiri. Now she has joined the echelons of the top JAV pornography stars like Maria Ozawa and Nao ...

It sometimes seems that the kids who are good at sport get all the girls, right? Well, yes and no. Masato Uchishiba (33) may have won two Olympic gold medals for Judo but it seems he is not ...

To celebrate the Tokyo Motor Show currently running in the Tokyo Bay area, we wanted to introduce readers to a real Japanese tradition: the race Qqeen. The local equivalent of "pit babes" and a ...

As if releasing the reversible Tenga 3D a few months ago wasn't enough for one calendar year, Tenga has gone back to its mega hit, the Flip Hole, to produce two ALL NEW versions! Gentlemen, your ...

Sometimes it seems that every TV show and every advertisement in Japan features a haafu (half-Japanese, half something else person). Well, yes, but a lot of these are fairly banal, plain people ...

The joy of the internet is that it makes us all equal. Long live the online democracy: now anyone can be a star thanks to YouTube and Nico Nico Douga. North America has Justin Bieber. Japan has... ...

A man has been arrested for pimping out teenaged girls via a deai-kei internet website. So-called deai-kei sites ("encounter" websites) are portals for meeting up with young ladies, often platforms ...