In December 2023, the Japanese media went briefly crazy about a real-life harem manga scenario where a man claimed to have four wives.
Though only married to one of his partners legally, Ryuta Watanabe was living comfortably as a househusband in Sapporo while the women worked to support the household. With his common-law and legal spouses all in their twenties and together under one roof (except for the fourth "wife," who lived separately), 35-year-old Watanabe had three young children.
So what happened to Watanabe after all that media attention? Fortunately, Weekly Friday has chased the ...
Whether you're a tits guy or an ass guy, there's no denying the importance of breasts and their dominance in the erotic mindset of our society. But there are breasts and there are breasts. What kind of breasts do you like?
It's an age-old question that has been posed before. This time, it was asked to 100 Japanese men and the results were analyzed in a 104-page book that visually examines the data to explore males tastes about female breasts.
The book was released in August last year by the publishing arm of the porn production company Prestige, which surely knows a thing or two about male ...
A few years ago, what seemed to be a sexual assault openly taking place on the streets of Shibuya during the Halloween cosplay party turned out to be an adult video production being film guerrilla-style among the actual crowds of bystanders.
Ah, those were the glory days before the pandemic and a crackdown destroyed Halloween in Shibuya, and before new porn legislation imposed stricter rules that have greatly increased production schedules.
Nonetheless, some bold types working in JAV still try their luck with seat-of-the-pants productions and edgy stunts, but the consequences are sometimes ...
We are in June, which means we are in Pride month, which means we should expect to see a lot more stories like this rolling through the media.
A new survey has found that 10.6% of people in Japan identify as LGBTQ+. The poll asked 46,658 individuals aged 20 to 59.
The survey was run by advertising giant Dentsu, whose interest in the subject perhaps shows how important and potentially lucrative the LGBTQ+ yen is to corporate brands.
Dentsu has previously carried out similar surveys, the last one of which was in 2023, which found that 9.7% self-identify as LGBTQ+. Presumably, greater ...
The tabloid weekly Friday has published a story about a pregnant woman in Japan who did papakatsu sugar dating, earning around ¥8 million in 10 months.
Eriko (a pseudonym) explained to the magazine that she and her older husband dated for 10 years and have been married now for seven. Now at age 36, she is finally pregnant with their first child.
"I work as an office lady, but I've actually been doing sugar dating [compensated dating with a sugar daddy] since before I got pregnant. The regular allowances I received were the main source of my income. So, while I was happy to be pregnant, I ...
If a certain President of the United States once boasted of having binders of women, then Hideto Sakai has -- naked pyramids of them?
One of the viral trends on Japanese social media since the start of May has been a video and images of a "human champagne tower" that Sakai supposedly ordered. The Minato ward businessman asked the female staff at an exclusive bar in Roppongi to strip naked and form a tower, onto which he poured champagne.
It is a kind of twisted version of the super-expensive drink you can order at a host or hostess club. In the video, six naked young women -- wearing masks ...
Long before we started Tokyo Kinky, we used to live in a different kind of kinky -- or rather, Kinki, as Kansai is also known (to amusing effect, unless you are a university bearing that name).
And it's tales like this that make us pine for our former stomping ground in Osaka.
We've been trying to find out more about a notorious site in woodland near the Yodogawa, the river running from Osaka to Kyoto, that is a homeless encampment. While that is not atypical for large rivers (Tokyo's Sumida River used to be similar, for instance,), this location is different because it has become what is ...
Meiji Yasuda Research Institute's Survey on Romance and Marriage has found that 76.3%, or more than three in four unmarried people, say they are not in a relationship, up from the previous survey in 2023.
Interest in romance and relationships is also declining, with fewer people expressing a desire to get married. Women cited "not feeling the need to get married," while men cited "less disposable income."
The survey was conducted online from December 12-21, 2025, targeting 8,872 men and women aged 18-54 nationwide (3,909 married and 4,963 unmarried).
While we often take issue with the ...
In November, Bunshun published a two-part report about an elderly female prostitute, based on a book by Mizuho Takagi about street prostitution in the Kabukicho district of Shinjuku, Tokyo. The same book included an interview with a teen prostitute in Kabukicho, previously introduced in October.
One morning in Kabukicho, Takagi called out to an elderly woman crouching on the asphalt and got to know her. Kumi (not her real name) was standing on the street, working as an elderly streetwalker for ¥3,000 a session. She looked to be over 60 years old. He gradually came to learn her story.
Born ...
Please introduce yourself.
I'm Tony. I'm a 42-year-old African-American living in Osaka for about 11 years. I got married to a school principle three years ago and we have been happily married. Although adapting to married life and Japanese work culture has been a bit stressful, the years have been positive overall and I enjoy living here. In 2020, during a very honest conversation with my wife, she confessed that she had no sexual desire and felt that my cock was "too big." (Side note: The myth and legend of the BBC has haunted me for most of my sexual maturity. In America, a 18 centimeter ...
