Younger sister (imouto) and older sister (ane) fantasies abound in manga, anime, eroge, and so on, so it's hardly a surprise that the tropes creep into Japanese adult toys too. Amid the array of ...

People have arrested the CEO of famous Japanese secondhand book store chain Mandarake as well as four employees in connection with the sale of obscene material. Best known for manga but also ...

Despite her now-established mainstream popularity, the Japanese actress Fumi Nikaido has shown herself gamely willing to strip off for the right role. After some previous nudity in the film River's ...

There's a reason that a lot of love hotel rooms have mirrors installed. Who doesn't want to watch themselves having sex? Following on from our popular post last year about leaked sex selfies by ...

The graduation of various leading members and the restrictions placed on live, in-person events by the pandemic have greatly reduced the presence of AKB48 and its sister groups in popular culture. ...

Here's a selection of seven of the best newly released Japanese masturbators and adult toys available internationally from our friends at Kanojo Toys. Let's start off with a biggie. The ...

As widely covered on this blog, the lowering of the age of adulthood in Japan from 20 to 18 has sparked a scramble to create a new exemption for 18- and 19-year-olds in regard to contracts for adult ...

A few years ago, various shops began to appear in places like Akihabara offering services like hugs, ear-cleaning, "snuggling," massages, and "reflexology." However, like how massage parlors may ...

Given the wide-ranging discussions now taking place about introducing a new law with major implications for the porn industry in Japan, we wanted to share a related reform proposal from a few years ...

Rikako Inoue (井上理香子), a former member of the now-defunct idol group Fairies, is to make her porn debut as Yotsuha Kominato (小湊よつ葉). Fairies disbanded in 2020, after which Inoue ...