With the much trumpeted Tokyo Skytree finally opening this week (on a rainy, miserable day, no less), we thought we'd look over some of Japan's bizarre mascots characters for landmarks and tourist sites.
On the other side of the capital and at that other famous tower, namely Tokyo Tower, there is a pair of dungaree-wearing characters called the Noppon Brothers and they are, well, nothing less than the most phallic "innocent" mascots we've ever seen.
This got us thinking: Where did all this phallic mascot malarkey come from?
We reckon it can be traced back to good old Tengu, ...
Tattoos in Japan, for various complicated reasons, tend to be associated with the Yakuza. To be fair, lots of gangsters have them but that of course doesn't mean that any girl or guy with a bit of ink on their body is in the mafia.
Well, following a case where a childcare worker apparently displayed his or her tattoo to scare children, the municipal government of Osaka launched an all-out investigation, determining who on the city payroll has tattoos.
Not unsurprisingly the witch hunt found a minority of people in the waste management, construction and transportation departments who ...
We've all done our fair share of English language school teaching, and all the fun with colleagues and students that that entails... Not to mention all the sex!
So we were very keen to get our hands on this latest JAV porn epic, the Black English Conversation School Teacher Gyaru Orgy, in which a tall black Eikaiwa teacher finds himself giving VERY practical English tips to a group of gyaru ladies.
Group sex, interracial Japanese-on-black sex... Are we having fun or what?!
We also love the neat touch about the school's name, "MOVA", no relation to any other major English ...
Everyone knows that I am a big ass man so naturally I got excited when I heard about the Shiri.
Its makers say it is a "buttocks humanoid that represents emotions with visual and tactual [sic] transformation of the muscles".
We say it's the best sex machine that never was!
Yes, now the genius of Japanese engineering has been directed not to saving the country from its energy crisis, food shortage or any of the litany of other issues. Instead, there is Shiri, a realistic ass robot with "organic, artificial muscles".
Made using a urethane skeleton, there is a Gluteus Maximus Actuator -- ...
The Japanese like public baths (onsen) and they also like technology and otaku culture. Imagine mixing the three in the same way some hot springs allow mixed gender bathing!
Just released for Android phones, the Moe-yu app takes two concepts (moe and bathing) and lets users enjoy sensual bathing with special bishojo character Momori. Naturally Momori also talks to you (voiced by Asumi Kana) so you can, well, think you are having a conversation with a real girlfriend.
You can change backgrounds, and use the camera and augmented reality technology so that it even seems that the girl ...
Mimi-kaki is the Japanese custom of ear-cleaning, but not just swirling a cotton bud around your lobes like any old perfunctory hygiene task -- but the act of having your ears lovingly tendered to by a maternal young lass, your head traditionally resting in her lap while she soothes your worries away.
It is very common for husbands to be "serviced" in this way and it can often become a form of bonding, or even foreplay, for couples. Psychologists of course will read all sorts of mother fantasies into this relationship.
Even the tool used is different, a kind of bamboo hook with ...
As we know, there are plenty of people in Japan with oedipal fetishes enough to make lactating milk a major subculture in the porn and sex industry.
Well, this otaku took it a step further.
He wanted to squeeze breasts and pump out milk so bad that he designed a computer software system that lets him do that to 2D images on a screen!
Using a camera and a PC to pinpoint the spot of "milk discharge", he crafted a program whereby he can touch the breast on the screen and then it produces an instantaneous fountain of milk!
Here's the video... Keep watching for the really creepy ...
Japanese people like to use cushions when they feel lonely, even in historical times.
If you have some imagination and a bit of money, you can invest in one of the massive range of dolls around -- from blow-up air dolls to lap cushions, "love cushions" to full-out silicone love dolls from Orient Industry.
Otaku in particular have always liked to have cushions of their loved ones as pillows-cum-partners. This is probably more out of companionship than anything physical (i.e. they don't actually fuck the pillows... maybe).
Now some boffins have developed Hugvie, a huggable ...
Is Tenga the most interesting adult company in the world or what?
From photography exhibitions to design projects, they dabble their hand in just about anything, whether it has a direct correlation with sales or the adult industry, or not. They seem just to care about working with interesting people, rather than always pursuing only the bottom line all the time. Our kinda company!
Tengu A Night (a play on their name -- Tengu is the name of the naughty long-nosed mythical creature) is a special music event happening at Tokyo's top night club, Womb, in Shibuya. (One of the famous ...
She might well have recently announced her departure from Japan's biggest girl band, but you can still keep a bit of Atsuko Maeda in your life.
In fact, you can get even more of the former AKB48 star than usual with this Acchan Kojiri masturbator, a realistic tight onahole which, very unofficially, models itself on Atsuko's (aka Acchan) cute small butt (kojiri).
Not only is this an onahole masturbator with a hole to pleasure yourself, there is also a pair of Acchan's sexy panties AND even lotion based on her own love juices.
This is of course not designated official ...
