Spicy instant noodles ads showcase sexy talents of gravure idols, dancers, Chiaki Takahashi
October 3, 2016
/ Tadashi Anahori
A new series of instant noodle ads use a gravure idol, music idol, go-go dancers, race queen, and well-known seiyuu. What more could you ask for?
Kara-Ou is apparently pretty spicy -- so hot, in fact, that they hired in-demand gravure idol Sayaka Tomaru and music idol Erina Kamiya as well as Karen and Kazue, go-go dancers from CYBERJAPAN DANCERS (yes, the troupe that's perhaps the sexiest thing in Japan right now), race queen Aya Hayase, and voice actress Chiaki Takahashi.
Watch these ladies get hot and sweaty as they gulp down the noodles.
Here is busty Sayaka Tomaru.
And ...
Breast groping charity event this year adds male porn stars’ chests
September 30, 2016
/ Tadashi Anahori
Every year the Oppai Bokin "boob aid" event attracts plenty of attention, including lots of foreign press and visitors who use it as another "wacky" stick to beat Japan with.
The truth of the matter is, those guys paying money to line up and touch porn stars' breasts are helping a good cause, because the event is for promoting safe sex and AIDS awareness. Launched first in 2003, the event raises millions of yen each time.
The storm of chatter has reached such a point now that earlier this year an online petition was launched to get the event stopped. "Stop exploiting women's bodies ...
A visit to a happening bar swinger club in Tokyo
September 27, 2016
/ Tadashi Anahori
Ever wanted to attend a swinger club in Japan? Tokyo has a vibrant underground scene of happening bars.
As regular readers probably know from experience, "happening bars" (or couple kissa) are clubs where you can go and switch partners with other couples, or if you are single just pick random strangers to have sex with. (Theoretically there is a distinction: a happening bar is for couples of singletons, while a couple kissa caters to couples and perhaps single women.)
Sometimes they are foreigner-friendly, too, but it's rare. It always helps to speak at least some ...
Kobe love hotel hopes for Guinness World Record with free parfait service
September 26, 2016
/ Tadashi Anahori
As discussed on this blog before, Japan's love hotels have increasingly become focused on amenities.
In spite of the western stereotype of love hotels as gawdy, crazy lairs of kinkiness, the actual number of themed chambers and unusual rooms is low -- and largely consigned to the countryside (notwithstanding the odd exception in Tokyo like this steampunk hotel).
Instead, the love hotels in the inner cities like Tokyo, Osaka and Kobe have to compete against each other in terms of value and facilities. And that comes down to more mundane yet important things like baths, food, wifi, ...
Japanese cosplayer poses with live octopus for Hokusai shunga cosplay
September 23, 2016
/ Tadashi Anahori
Now that's what we call tentacle sex.
Some people really go that extra mile for their cosplay. Here is one example that's going to be hard to beat for a while.
Cosplayer Namada spent half a day with photographer Kazan Yamamoto and the results are incredible, not least because Namada is beautiful and she was posing with a friend. That friend being a 18kg (nearly 40 lb) live octopus from Hokkaido.
Regular readers to this blog will immediately spot that this is a reference to Hokusai's The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife, perhaps the most famous example of shunga ...
Survey says half of young Japanese men and women are virgins
September 21, 2016
/ Tadashi Anahori
Yet another article is claiming Japan is a sexless wasteland of virgins and singletons.
In this case, the bold claim is that "almost half of young men and women are virgins".
These articles are perennials, loved by editors and journalists -- but treated with some disdain by old hands. The other common trope is that is a kinky wonderland, full of very fetish and craziness imaginable. Perhaps the two myths are not as incompatible as they sound.
Personally, we sit on the fence with this one.
A survey of Japanese people aged 18 to 34 found that almost 70% of unmarried men and ...
Otome romance games for women at Tokyo Game Show 2016
September 20, 2016
/ Tadashi Anahori
Virtual dating has long been a big part of the adult industry or quasi-adult industry in Japan.
What with all the reports of sexless Japan and "parasite singles" still living with their parents well into their thirties, you might almost be forgiven for thinking that "virtual boyfriends" apps and digital idols were responsible for the downfall of the nation.
There were more examples at Tokyo Game Show 2016 that will surely not do much for Japan's reputation in this regard.
The show featured an array of otome romance apps for ladies to find that Prince Charming in 2D form.
One ...
Tokyo Game Show 2016 virtual reality booth allows horny visitors to grope mannequin
September 20, 2016
/ Tadashi Anahori
We continue our reports about Tokyo Game Show 2016.
We are a little late on these reports but we were too busy to post.
TGS always walks that fine line between the exciting big releases of the gaming industry and veering off into creepy (but to us, intriguing) world of virtual dating and sex.
Here is certainly one example.
Virtual reality was the big theme at the show, as expected, though it wasn't all mainstream uses of the technology. As we know, the adult implications for VR are huge and a major thing in the industry in Japan, too.
The developers M2 Co. Ltd have created ...
Tokyo Game Show 2016 booth babes strip for our benefit
September 19, 2016
/ Tadashi Anahori
At Tokyo Game Show 2016, all the fuss was about virtual reality. Not being much of the gaming types, our interest in the latest consoles and systems was minimal -- unless it is virtual reality for adults.
As usual, our main attention was on the booth babes, known as "companions" in Japanese.
These ladies, one step away from race queens and ring girls, and two steps away from gravure idols, are anything but a virtual pleasure.
It's even better when they take their clothes off. And even, even better when it's the ladies themselves taking off each other's clothes.
And ...
Kasutori Shobo in Yoshiwara celebrates history of Tokyo’s most famous red-light district
September 16, 2016
/ Tadashi Anahori
The gentrification and renaissance of Yoshiwara, the former licensed red-light district (and today, an unlicensed red-light district), continues.
After a designer souvenir shop we saw earlier in the year now comes a new book shop, Kasutori Shobo. The store opened on September 3rd in the heart of Yoshiwara, selling books reprinting valuable resources and history about Yoshiwara and the adult side to the Showa era.
Alongside other publishers' titles, the shop also publishes its own books. The owner, Goh Watanabe, raised money via a crowdfunding service to do this, achieving his target in ...