The trial of former KAT-TUN member Koki Tanaka over possession of drugs has now begun in Nagoya. The 36-year-old musician and actor, who was a member of the boy band until 2013 and then a solo ...

Remember the awesome dinosaur-themed love hotel in Machida, Tokyo, we wrote about last autumn? It looks like it was seriously damaged by fire recently. On the evening of June 9, flames were seen ...

Magic Eyes (or Magic eyes as the brand stylizes itself) is one of the best names in Japanese adult toys for the quality of both its toys and box art. Other than a few vibrators and lubricants, the ...

Papakatsu, the buzzword that refers to compensated dating for sugar daddies, is in the news again. Takeru Yoshikawa, a politician with the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, has been accused of ...

Here's that rare thing: a happy ending. Anri Sakaguchi was initially famous for, well, being famous. She was the daughter of an actress, and gained some celebrity at an early age, joining the ...

Maki Makie (マキエマキ) has been working since the early 1990s as a freelance commercial photographer. Now aged 56, she gained a whole new following when she began taking self-portraits in 2015 ...

Our post yesterday featuring the confessions of a foreign female about compensated dating in Tokyo led us to this case study (from early 2021) on legal website Bengo4, which sets out to answer a ...

We stumbled upon this confessional post on Amina du Jean's Substack, billed as "a digital temple for positive femininity." The title, "Crazy Sexy Tokyo," is provocative and sounds like another "wacky ...

The former Japanese adult video star Kaho Shibuya recently sat down for a candid and insightful interview with Tokyo Weekender, where she talked about her porn career and subsequent work. Kaho ...

Readers got understandably excited when we reported in May on the upcoming adult video debut of former Fairies music idol Rikako Inoue. Now active as a gravure idol and singer under the name Yotsuha ...