Nyotaimori (女体盛り): the practice of eating sushi off a naked woman's body. Does it actually happen? Well, judging by our experiences, probably not -- but it still looks great!
The obscure and likely exaggerated "custom" looks great in porn and probably crops up more in western films set in Japan than in real Japan. Yeah, thanks Rising Sun, Map of the Sounds of Tokyo et al...
However, there have been cases of university students holding nyotaimori events but quite how tongue-in-cheek, we don't know.
This balanced 2009 article describes Nyotaimori as an underground ...
It sometimes seems that the kids who are good at sport get all the girls, right? Well, yes and no.
Masato Uchishiba (33) may have won two Olympic gold medals for Judo but it seems he is not champion of judgement when it comes to controlling primal urges.
He has been arrested for "sexual assault" of a teenaged girl at a Tokyo hotel (=love hotel?) while she was drunk (i.e. he got her drunk) in September. Apparently the girl is a fellow judo team member at the university where Uchishiba worked as coach.
Uchishiba claims the sex was by mutual consent, and we might have another case ...
To celebrate the Tokyo Motor Show currently running in the Tokyo Bay area, we wanted to introduce readers to a real Japanese tradition: the race Qqeen.
The local equivalent of "pit babes" and a cynical promotional tool that no one complains about, the race queen can be found posing next to a race car while it is being serviced between circuits. Motor shows and other trade events also often employ similarly hot ladies to pout by a booth but generally are more clothed than the archetypal race queen.
Soft on Demand has in the past supplied JAV porn stars for some events, and idols and ...
She's back. The stuck-up pouty lady. The sexy haafu. The one and only, Erika Sawajiri has returned to acting. After her singing career could have hardly have been called a success, Erika has decided to go back to something she was quite good at.
It's not quite her glory days of yore, when she was offered major acting roles but it's a (re)start. Her new drama will be shown on the mobile phone television channel, Bee TV, marking her first acting role in four years after her ignominious exit from the Japanese entertainment world.
The drama tells the story of two characters with ...
The joy of the internet is that it makes us all equal. Long live the online democracy: now anyone can be a star thanks to YouTube and Nico Nico Douga.
North America has Justin Bieber. Japan has... well, a more interesting case study. One local example has been the orbital rise of Eririka Katagiri, a young lady who utilized Japanese video live streaming site Nico Nico Douga to make herself famous in front of her webcam.
After the Japanese teenager made a series of enticing and alluring videos, last year the then-nineteen year old Eririka danced naked, earning a legion of geek ...
A man has been arrested for pimping out teenaged girls via a deai-kei internet website. So-called deai-kei sites ("encounter" websites) are portals for meeting up with young ladies, often platforms for enjo kosai (dates with cash rewards) or open prostitution.
This time one man was calling the shots and had several underage girls on the site working for him. Atsuo Yoshinari (27) was a former host living in Shinjuku who, along with his two fellow arrested chums, admits the charges of prostituting a 17-year old girl. The fatal incident came in a love hotel in north Tokyo in June where the ...
Take a beautiful Japanese female artist and it's always going to be a fun day out.
Then she starts to make a series of beguiling, sensual images of hot Japanese female models, actresses and celebrities for magazines, adverts and exhibitions, and you have a truly great combination, popular with men and women alike.
That's what Asami Kiyokawa does, working with the likes of AKB48's Atsuko Maeda and Yuko Oshima, and Yoko Maki, Masami Nagasawa and Asami Mizukawa.
A lot of CG work goes into the final images, transforming the beautiful women into peacocks, forest settings, or ...
It was just the other day that we blogged about sexy singer Takako Uehara getting her knickers in a twist about being accused of mafia links.
Is any sexy celebrity in Japan safe from the shadow of the mob? It seems not. Now it's the turn of Erika Sawajiri, long a troubled and tempestruous celebrity. Erika is still a mere sprig of a gal at 25 but has already retired from the entertainment industry and returned once. But now a magazine has dug up and published photos of an 18-year old Erika in a Roppongi club with an allegedly yakuza-connected guy.
Half French, half ...
We just spotted this interview with Shigeo Tokuda in the Guardian. Tokuda-san is 77 and has starred in over 350 JAV flicks, making even veterans like Maria Ozawa seem like newbies.
But he hasn't just been in so many because he is a long-timer. No, he only started when he was 60 and so in fact he has starred only in films made for Japan's rapidly aging population's tastes. That this has spawned such a vast library of titles shows the thirst the oldies have for watching someone their own age going at it.
Tokuda is a grandfather -- his name is a stage name but his daughter apparently ...
Following scandals with drugs -- including another one recently where she fled abroad for a while -- H-cup idol Minako Komukai (小向美奈子) shows no sign of giving up.
After losing her job through telling the truth about the industry (that idols have to have sex to progress into the mainstream entertainment world), previously she turned from idol to stripping, with a very enthusiastic reception.
Then she went the soft core root and appeared in some cheesy light BDSM-themed sex DVDs.
Now she has really thrown her towel in with the big girls. Soft on Demand (SOD) has ...
