The comedian Jim Jefferies recently came to Japan for his weekly Comedy Central show and made a clickbaity segment called "Japanese Millennials Aren't Having Sex?" (or, uncensored, "Why Aren't Japanese Millennials Fucking?").
We'll let you be the judge of how much this is just a case of "laughing at strange Asians" or taking a genuine if comic look at a social phenomenon.
One of the interviewees included a maid, whose line of work was suggested as a reason that men don't want to have sex because the experience of a maid cafe and other fantasy-fulfillment services suppress actual desire. ...
The TV announcer Minami Tanaka (田中みな実) has rewarded her legions of fans with her first photo book. Moreover, it's not a tame one.
While the 32-year-old Tanaka stops short of actual nudity, the preview images show plenty of bust and butt. What a stunner.
Her debut photo book, as yet untitled, goes on sale from December 13th and apparently includes "suppin" shots where she is ostensibly wearing no makeup on her face. (There is something of a trend among celebrities right now to do suppin shoots and selfies.)
Tanaka was actually born in New York, though she moved to Japan ...
The Zozosuit is a tailor-made polka dot bodysuit. Less a genuinely interesting service/product than a publicity stunt by Japanese online fashion retailer Zozotown, it was, at least initially, a flop.
But one very confident Japanese woman with a preference for nude selfies (or a young lady with a very kinky boyfriend) has found a new use for the garb and it suddenly takes on a whole new value when she is showing the world how it looks when gradually unpeeled from her slender body.
After first stripping off her regular work clothes (very nice!), the apparent office lady wore no bra beneath ...
Running at the Sunshine Aquarium in Tokyo until November 27th, the "Lots of Sex Exhibition" (Sei Ippai-ten) is perhaps the most provocatively titled event in the city right now.
Before you get too excited, this night-time exhibition is a fun exploration of copulation of the marine kind.
So if you want to find out -- in a pretty hands-on way -- about how fish "do it," then this is the event for you.
Ever wondered how long a barnacle's cock is? How do seals breed? Learn all this and more.
The whole venue is lit up in pink and purple mood lighting, like it's some kind of expensive love ...
Picture the scene. You are a diehard AKB48 fan and you see that your favorite group is advertising tickets that let you go on date with the idol you love. So much better than just the handshaking sessions, right?
Unfortunately, it really was too good to be true.
The tickets for the upcoming AKB48 shows in Fukuoka this November that were officially advertised as "Date Ticket: Experience what it's like to be an AKB48 member's lover!?" have since been retracted.
Given that AKB48's members are banned from having boyfriends, it's thus little surprise that management won't actually let you ...
The latest gimmick in the ongoing campaign against chikan, or groping, on trains involves a stamp.
The idea here is that the chikan stamp, made by a Nagoya-based stationery company known for personal seals and stamps, can be used by the victim to mark the perpetrator.
When and after they are groped, victims -- who are often young and vulnerable -- may feel too shocked or scared to speak out, or physically unable to hold onto the perpetrator to prevent him (or her) from getting away. This stamp is a solution, since it lets the victim "brand" the criminal easily and clandestinely.
Known ...
When all is said and done, the human race is driven by some pretty basic urges: eat, sleep, and fuck. Everything else is ultimately just window dressing for what we have come to call civilization and society.
But of the three, which is the most important for people today in our nominally sophisticated age? Specifically, which do Japanese people value the most?
Japanese survey site Sirabee set out to find the answer to this question by asking 1,781 men and women in Japan, aged between their teens and sixties.
Which could you not live without? Food, sleep, or sex?
Almost 54% of those ...
Oh, we do like ourselves some love handles.
H-cup idol Sayaka Todo (藤堂さやか) possibly has some of the most impressive curves, not to mention boobs, we have seen in gravure in a while.
After putting some DVDs earlier in the year and last year, the 24-year-old releases her first photo book on August 23rd, taking her career hopefully to the next level.
Like Ami Inamura, she's a fan of baseball and likes to pose in gear. She can swing our bat any day she fancies.
Might queen-of-the-butt Yuka Kuramochi have some competition on her ...
As we know, Comiket is less about comics and more about cosplay. Specifically, female cosplayers.
Stars like Enako can attract huge crowds (and money).
But even lesser-known female cosplayers can pull in a strong audience, though, as one example from the recent Comiket 96 showed, this phenomenon can have unpleasant consequences if you are not prepared or don't have adequate minders.
In a video that has since gone viral (nearly 4 million views as of writing), a Chinese cosplayer found herself on August 11th surrounded by a mob of men with cameras who refused to make space for her. Instead ...
Tenga has produced some of Japan's, if not the world's, best sex toys. As a brand, it already has its own stores. And now Tenga finally has its own vending machines. (The Tenga Egg vending machine once spotted in Nakano Broadway, Tokyo, was apparently not an official vendor.)
Anyone now with an urge to buy a Tenga product 24 hours a day and get it right away can do so.
The only catch is that these vending machines are in Sapporo, Hokkaido -- in the far north of Japan.
For reasons known only to the sales team at Tenga, the Apple of the Adult Industry has opted for a regional city rather ...
