If you love watching Japanese porn you will notice straightaway one very strange thing: pixelation. There's not a private part in sight -- they're all fuzzed and blurred out by the censors.
Why the need for mosaics? Is it some strange kinky thing that men like? Well, maybe it is NOW, since a whole generation of Japanese men have grown up obsessed with porn and sex featuring pixels rather than penises.
The real reason for it, though, is a 1907 obscenity law that remains unchanged to this day. (Taro and Tadashi, however, hate mosaic and always get under-the-counter porn that is ...
Anyway even remotely interested in Japanese geinoujin or models can't have failed to see the big news this week: Erika Sawajiri has told her much-older husband that she wants a divorce. By email.
Yes, apparently Tsuyoshi Takashiro is completely stumped as to why his beautiful wife has suddenly had a change of heart. He heard it first by email and since then has been getting updates through her website announcements and the press.
We blogged here about Erika's comeback a few weeks ago. Half-French Erika had legions of fans until her pride got the better of her, most infamously at ...
Any self-respecting otaku or anime-lover will have heard of Konami's Love Plus.
It's a virtual dating sim game for the DS. Players can choose one of three girls (Aika Takamine, Rinko Kobayakawa and Nene Anegasaki) and pursue a full relationship with them. You can speak to them through the DS's microphone and even the touch-pad allows for some interaction.
It is even possible to sit down and communicate with other nearby DS players using the game through the wireless connection function.
Well, now there's a iPhone and iPod app version.
This is even better than the DS version ...
All right, I might be a J-Girl but I happen to like international guys. I've dated my fair share of boys white and black, and so of course I read the manga My Darling is a Foreigner (ダーリン は 外国人).
More than your usual manga this is like a column -- there's no story, just anecdotes about how the strange-ness of Tony, the partner of the author. It first came out in 2002 and since then has spawned a fair few sequels, TV ad tie-ins and so on.
The real couple, Tony Lazlo and Saori Ogura, now have a baby too -- so this is one kokusai kekkon ("international marriage") that ...
We've got another abridged translation of a confession from Jitsuwa Dokumento...
Tetsuko Okada (26) [not real name]
I'm a 26 year old housewife. I was born and brought up in Yokosuka, along with my husband. Of course, Yokosuka is famous for being an American Army base and I actually worked part-time there. I have to confess to a single instance of adultery -- not even my husband knows.
A co-worker at the base, Mark [not real name], was an employee of the Army. Mark was 30, a real gentleman. He had a big smile and was full of energy. But last summer he was told by his superior that he ...
Wow, it seems that recently everyone's talking about used underwear in Japan!
Back in 2006, Japan Probe pointed out a shop in Akiba selling used panties. In 2007, Danny Choo was on the case of a shelf of school girl underwear up for the taking.
Yawn, not exactly new, right? We all know the Japanese penchant for possessing -- and doing things with -- underwear that's been worn by school girls or sexy models.
Well, you may have read Tokyo Reporter's blog about JAV stars' panties up for sale online. The site, SEXUS, runs auctions for the used underwear of top models like Saori Hara and ...
Bad news for all those who enjoy a nice grope in the morning rush hour.
JR East has installed CCTV cameras on all 32 trains on the Saikyo line, which runs from Osaki station in Tokyo to Omiya in Saitama. The line is the most notorious for groping, with 173 incidents last year, a monthly average of 14.4.
JR started putting in cameras on a trial basis last December. After setting up just six cameras on two 10-car trains reported groping incidents dropped to "just" 15 in January and February -- less than half the monthly average in camera-less days! Clearly it was working as a ...
Could a video promo for a male sex toy look any cooler? Tenga Eggs will be on MTV before we know ...
Spring in Japan is marked by cherry blossom, the start of the school year -- and legions of new office works beginning their corporate careers. The following is an abridged translation from a story appearing in the May 2009 issue of Document Eye...
Yuri Ishida (false name) (26): man-eating office lady
When spring arrives there are always lots of newbies at the place where I work part-time. Surely there's someone for me, I always think! I've been at this place for four years and work for the new employee training program -- no one comes more into contact with the newbies than me. This is ...
One of our favorite idols, the young and, oh, so cute Maki Horikita, is in a new movie.
It's called Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac in English but the original title is "Someone kissed me" (誰かが私にキッスした) . . . and we are very, very keen to be that "someone"!
The movie also seems to have some white guy (Anton Yelchin) in it and we hope this exposure to foreign flesh makes Maki inclined to investigate international kissing!
Thanks to the good folks at f.hatena.ne.jp for the ...
