When the 27-year-old Mari Takahashi agreed to stand as a candidate for the Democratic Party for the People, the senior members of the party must have been pleased. Japanese politics is a staid world ...

There is one way to tell that a social phenomenon in Japan has become significant: when it has inspired either its own parody porn production or an adult toy. As noted many times here, Japanese ...

While we are used to police raids on small or even clandestine bars and clubs for breaching rules on public indecency or licensing, it was a shock when the failure to obtain the proper license led to ...

What's the solution to Japan's dating problem? Namely, large numbers of young people just don't seem all that interested in dating. Well, reports Nikkei Asia, it could be combining dating with ...

The actress and mature gravure idol Mami Yamasaki is to release her tenth and final photo book. The photo book, Camellia, will come out in Japan on April 15 from Shogakukan. As announced on February ...

The tabloids are full of reports that the gravure idol Risa Yukihira has been dating the pop singer Kei Inoo of Hey! Say! JUMP for perhaps as long as two years. The story was first broken by daily ...

The new Korean TV drama A Killer Paradox (Sarinja-ng-Nangam) features a nude sex scene with Choi Mi-geum in the cowgirl position. The scene only lasts a few seconds, but Choi Mi-geum makes quite an ...

The Korean musician and model DJ Soda is set to cement her fandom in Japan by releasing her first photo book. The as-yet untitled book will come out from Shueisha, a major publisher that produces a ...

In mid-January, we wrote about the pleasant surprise that was actress and model Haruka Ayase's return to gravure. Well, this seems to be a bit of a trend right now: actresses and models who were ...

The insanely popular Japanese porn star Eimi Fukada was spotted on a date at a ramen restaurant in late 2023 with Junnosuke Taguchi, who has also been spotted by reporters coming in and out of her ...