Hot Powers is best known as a retailer but it also produces its own toys to great acclaim and success. One example is the high-quality Favorite Things Hole, which take the best elements of a ...

How many idols find true happiness? Of course, the majority who do tend to retire and live the rest of their lives in quiet obscurity. The ones who remain in the news often do so because their ...

The revelation that the head of Japan's third largest opposition party, Yuichiro Tamaki, has been having an affair with a former gravure model, Miyuki Koizumi, sparked a media frenzy at the start of ...

Continuing a time-honored tradition of using up-and-coming celebrities for its models, the leading Japanese lingerie brand Peach John's new choice of model is announcer Kasumi Mori. Mori has ...

Over the years, we have seen a wide range of inspirations for masturbator toys, from numerous parodies of franchises to things like a hand grenade, heart, human brain, milk carton, or sea ...

The Japanese female TV announcers who present the news and other shows do pretty well, but some of them branch off to pursue even more successful careers in other fields: as a general celebrity ...

We are used to Japanese politicians, both male and female, having affairs with hostesses, party workers, foreign musicians, and even other lawmakers. But what about gravure idols? In a case that ...

The founder of Japanese video hosting site FC2, Riyo Takahashi, once ran unsuccessfully for election in Japan's upper house. His campaign platform was to "crush mosaic censorship," referring to the ...

The photographer Beniko has launched a crowdfunding campaign for a follow-up photo book to her 2023 publication about Japan's disappearing old red-light districts (yukaku, akasen). Beniko is ...

In a recent interview with Spa!, Japanese porn star Marina Shiraishi (白石茉莉奈) discussed some of the background to her highly successful career. Shiraishi made her debut back in 2013 and is ...