What do you do when you graduate from the porn world? Become a singer like Yuma Asami? Perhaps. Become a mangaka like Nayuka Mine? Perhaps. Or you can become an artist!
Japanese porn star turned photographer Saki Otsuka showcases her lensing work in Mitsubai Room, a monthly photography magazine.
Otsuka has been gradually building a post-porn career in photography that is sensibly informed by her expertise. Her work is sexually explicit but dark and jagged, more Daido Moriyama than Kishin Shinoyama or Yasumasa Yonehara.
This is taken from her Hotel B series (she wants models, by ...
Like most places, older politicians in Japan are no strangers to sex scandals: from gay prostitutes to forcing young sportsmen to kiss them or even putting bondage club visits on the expense books.
And it's not just the politicos. The bureaucrats are at it too.
In 1998 seven senior civil servants in the Ministry of Finance were arrested and charged with corruption. They had received favors from figures in the finance world, such as trips to a "no-panties shabu shabu" establishment in Tokyo's Kabukicho.
Japan's anti-prostitution laws -- paying for penetration is officially illegal ...
Just when you thought it was safe to go back out on the streets of Shibuya, another gaijin "pick-up artist" comes along promising to enlighten the world on his nampa techniques.
Julien Blanc was scared off his tour of Japan but now David Bond has become the target of angry netizens in Japan (both Japanese-born and Japanese-residing) who object to his attitudes towards Asian women and his tactics (and probably his successful pick-up rate too).
Bond is the author of the A Complete Idiot's Guide To Getting Laid In Japan, which charges $67 for access to the secrets to unlocking your ...
All good things must come to an end. While we're not sure if this counts as a "good" thing, we are a little sad to report that one of the funnest stories of the year is reaching its conclusion.
Porn actor Shimiken (Ken Shimizu), who has bedded thousands of women over the course of his career, started a new enterprise earlier this year.
Nothing unusual in that -- except this one was a "poo curry" restaurant, serving fecal-like dishes in toilet-shaped bowls. Quite a concept!
Located in a residential district in Setagaya ward, Tokyo, Curry Shop Shimizu has plenty of unusual ...
Maro (Maroka Uchiyama) was one of Ayumi Hamasaki's dancers. He and Hamasaki started dating while she was on the rebound from divorcing her husband Manuel Schwarz in 2012.
However, the fling lasted only until 2013, since when Maro became famous for being famous -- and sometimes appeared on TV talk shows to spill the beans on the breakup.
Clearly his career is going in another direction now since Maro has just made his porn debut. Here are some highlights.
Japan is the world's biggest producer of porn, though it suffers from a ...
Japanese women take their bras and cup sizes so seriously they even wear bras designed to reduce their bust or special designer lingerie to bring out the best of their A-cup chest.
Smartphone app ChiChi helps you measure your bust when you leave your phone between your melons.
These are all vague claims at present: ChiChi is looking for "testers" ahead of a January release. So if you want to give it a try, apply on the app's official website.
Putting a phone between your breasts may sound like a new tech version of paizuri, but it's actually rumored to cause breast cancer, so ...
Here's some vintage coverage of United States servicemen enjoying nascent Japanese-style Turkish baths (toruko-buro, the old name for what became soapland).
"The Turkish Bath has come to Tokyo with a difference," it proclaims. "Real Hot Turkish Bath". Hmm, quite.
The source is apparently a June 1958 issue of adult magazine People Today. The original scans are viewable here.
The magazine article appears to cover the new modern steam baths appearing in Tokyo in the postwar period, possibly during the occupation years before prostitution was illegalized.
This is all very ...
The annual AIDS awareness charity event 24-Hour TV: Eroticism Saves the Earth was held over the weekend, complete with its televised antics and its now frankly traditional Shinjuku porn star breast groping event. All in a good cause, we'll have you know!
Leading up to the event there was even an online fund-raising campaign. Love is Patience challenged you not to look at hot Japanese girls while they did "sexy" stuff. The longer you held out, the more money raised for charity.
This year's event at the Shinjuku venue attracted 7,175 people -- the highest ever and around 1,000 more than ...
A kiss isn't always something most otaku have experienced yet. And they certainly haven't experienced it with their 2D idols (after all, who has?).
But that doesn't stop their fevered imaginations -- nor does it stop the people who want to make money out of otaku wet dreams.
The candy Kanro Ame has a new flavor: game idol kiss.
Girl Friend Beta, for those poor unenlightened souls out there, is a iOS and Android phone game, with a PlayStation Vita spin-off, manga versions and even an anime adaptation. Quite an industry already.
Essentially it's a dating simulator game with various ...
In Japan, there are often "stamp rallies" at train stations or other places. These marketing campaigns encourage people to come to the location and collect stamps from certain spots. This means you have to visit several places, increasing foot traffic at malls, stations, and so on.
Usually they are innocuous promos for kids. But not always.
A stamp rally for the anime series Valkyrie Drive Mermaid has adopted a novel approach: you "stamp" your picture of a female anime character with breasts.
Remember, the Valkyrie Drive franchise is so popular it even became a sex doll ...
