Last week we got a bit overly excited over the prospects of model Angelica Michibata (sister of Jessica) making a comeback (after a nasty scandal involving her husband) with a nude photo book. Sure, she had done semi-nude shoots before but this promised to be a full nude: nipples, breasts, and maybe even bush.
The proof lies in the pudding, and so far the indications are good. We have found some more preview images from Michibata's photo book, Angelica, that comes out in early August from Futabasha. The photographer is Hajime Sawatari, a veteran of such nude shoots.
The 35-year-old biracial ...
It's election season, which always brings out the weirdos all competing to be the next governor of Tokyo. On the same day, there are also by-elections in two of Tokyo's special wards and two other districts to select Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly representatives to make up for assembly members who are standing down for some reason.
So far we have seen one candidate dressed in anime cosplay to promote his campaign. The same candidate, Teruki Goto, once had a poster that featured his half-naked body.
The much-maligned Abenomasks -- Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's personally launched initiative that ...
As previously discussed on this blog before, hostesses and hosts have received much of the blame for the spread of the coronavirus in Japan, especially in Tokyo.
The nightlife scene, particularly the seedier side in areas like Kabukicho, has found itself demonized by the authorities and media as the most obvious source of infection clusters.
While we don't doubt that intimate encounters with prostitutes or long sessions in small hostess club booths does increase the risk of infection, we are very suspicious of the narrative that the media is pushing.
Indeed, this week Tokyo announced 55 ...
We love a comeback, hence our interest in the apparently nude photo book by Angelica Michibata scheduled for release in August. We also love a jukujo, hence our interest in the comebacks by single mom Hiroko Sato and former Morning Musume Asuka Fukuda.
So now there's Asami Kumakiri, whose summer-themed photo book "Bare Self" more or less lives up to the name.
It's the first time in 16 years that the 40-year-old idol, a former member of the group Checkicco and (we understand) still unmarried, has released a photo book.
It's not nude, and barely qualifies as semi-nude, but Asami does give us ...
In these coronavirus times, Zoom has become an essential tool for life and work.
But it has also led to some amusement, like when actor Yosuke Kubozuka recently got drunk during a live Zoom session with fans and fell asleep.
People like to opt for virtual backgrounds to hide anything embarrassing that may appear on camera behind them, but what about something in front? And between their legs?
NMB48's Chihiro Kawakami suffered this manner of misfortune when she gave fans much more than they were expecting during a Zoom session.
Her skirt had hitched itself up so high while she sitting that ...
Okamoto, creator of the "Zero" range of ultra-thin condoms, has made an online anime series to promote safe sex.
Condom Battler Goro is packed with nods to past animes like Dragon Ball, Pokemon, Fist of the North Star, and Yu-Gi-Oh.
As first reported by Kotaku and SoraNews, the 56-episode series stars a 24-year-old Condom Battler named Goro. Naturally, prophylactics are his arsenal and his particular rubber of choice is the Zero One 0.01mm condom. He gains condom armor when he opens up the Zero One condom foil packet. Goro has an ally, the 24-year-old Hayato, and a girlfriend, 24-year-old ...
Rainy season has officially begun in Tokyo. Last year's season was protracted and desultory, stretching on until July. We hope that won't be the case this year, though the measures against the coronavirus will mean that many places are anyway closed and typical summer events won't happen.
When the rains started last week, they brought with them winds.
All this spelled trouble for commuters, struggling to get to work against the elements. And for schoolgirls, it was especially difficult conditions to walk around in.
Even more so in if you have a voyeur on your trail. Schoolgirls must deal ...
You might think that being married to the beautiful model and actress Nozomi Sasaki would be enough to satisfy a man. You'd be wrong.
A scandal has broken out in the Japanese entertainment world after a tabloid scooped an interview with a mistress of popular comedian Ken Watabe.
Apparently they met numerous times even after his marriage to have sex in public toilets. The 47-year-old Watabe would drive around in his car, according to the woman, scouting out a suitably quiet toilet in the basement of the Roppongi Hills complex in Tokyo, and then message his office lady lover to come. He ...
Japanese netizens: savvy, beady-eyed, industrious, curious, or just too much free time?
Pick your descriptor, but they all apply to some extent in the end.
The latest example of this was exposed, if you will pardon the expression, by a bikini photo shoot by NGT48's Ayuka Nakamura.
In the Australian shoot, the up-and-coming idol in the Niigata-based group is sitting down and turning to the camera. She is wearing an orange and white swimwear set that shows off her very slim body -- rather too slim for our liking, in case you wondered -- and graceful legs in profile.
But she forgot ...
As the city reopens following its soft lockdown, one establishment has made headlines for changing its operating style to fit the new normal that is post-COVID-19 Tokyo -- and also opening itself up to a broader demographic ahead of its closure.
The host club Ai Honten (literally, Love Head Office) will open only on Saturdays and Sundays as a cafe. For once, male customers will also be admitted. So this is also a kind of education project, helping people experience what a host club is like without having to pay the usual costs entailed.
First opened in 1971 and one of the most renowned ...
