People in Japan sometimes look over the water at South Korea, where plastic surgery among women is relatively common, and tut in disapproval. But the truth is, plastic surgery also happens in Japan ...

If you're big into labia, have we got a treat for you. With onaholes and other pocket pussy toys, the emphasis falls inevitably on the vaginal canal itself, but many pride themselves on their skin ...

The recent edition of Feti Fes in Tokyo was a packed event with the usual wide array of fetishes and subcultures. The festival on September 17 had around 100 booths of both individual exhibitors and ...

You might remember Chika Yuki (or Yuuki) (結城ちか) from back in the late 2010s. The formidably busty gravure idol made her debut in 2014 (when she still at school) and enjoyed some initial ...

Do androids dream of electric sheep? Do otaku date non-2D women? These are the eternal questions of our times. In the case of the latter, it seems that are some otaku who are keen to branch out into ...

The syphilis epidemic in Japan is something that has featured on this blog countless times. Just last year, we wrote about its alarming further growth. We wish we had something more positive to ...

Japan's much-publicized, controversial new porn law that passed last year was ostensibly conceived to introduce safeguards against performer coercion. Is it actually doing its job? It's perhaps too ...

We have grown used to Japanese porn stars' prior careers as music idols, gravure models, and so on. What's often so exciting about their entry into adult video is that those worlds generally don't ...

Former NMB48 idol Miyuki Watanabe has released a new photo book, Dappi, marking what seems to be a somewhat maturer look and more sensual development in her career as she enters a new stage in ...

Aya Takanashi, the former porn star turned columnist on all things JAV, is back with another article about the porn industry. This time, she's spilled the beans on why some performers have rules ...