It's one of the industry's open secret that most Japanese music and gravure idols are poorly paid. While it's natural to assume that a struggling musician or an underground (chika) idol has a day ...

Last week, Japan was hit by Typhoon Lan. While Tokyo just suffered a bit of rain and wind, the west side of Honshu had more serious weather conditions, and public transport ground to a halt. And ...

Japanese rope bondage master Osada Steve has launched the World Kinbaku Federation, a new organization that "strives to protect and preserve authentic kinbaku as practiced in Japan." Osada notes the ...

VR Instant Box Girls stars Ichika Matsumoto and, as the name suggests, is intended for watching with a VR device like the Oculus. As far as we can tell, this is a new series of AV by SOD Create and ...

Firefighters in Japan have a reputation for being pretty macho and sexually active. This reputation is arguably not unearned, as past scandals have shown. Remember the hunky firefighters who ...

Professional female cosplayers are some of the sexiest women in Japan, yet they tend to be confined to conventions and such events. Likewise, gravure idols are fixtures on the pages of weekly ...

The popular South Korean musician DJ Soda has accused fans in Japan of groping her during a set at a music festival in Osaka on Sunday. DJ Soda, who is arguably as much a beauty icon as a music one, ...

As announced earlier in the year, the immensely popular Japanese porn star Yua Mikami is to retire in August and her final release has just come out from S1 No. 1 Style. The 147-minute release ...

At the risk of sounding like a broken record to readers, it's no secret that the real hot ladies in Japan are not the fashion models, the music idols, the gravure idols, or even the adult video ...

The actor Kyoko Fukada is now 40 years old but just as hot as ever, as her cover shoot for weekly magazine Friday amply demonstrates. Known for her curvy beach body that she was happy to show off ...