The debate over surnames in Japan has become a surprisingly big sticking point: polls tend to show that the majority of the public want the law to change, but the conservative government is committed to retaining the current situation, where Japanese citizens must change their surnames when they marry so that both members of a married couple have the same name. In practice, this almost always means the woman changes her name to her husband's. (One loophole around this is to marry someone who isn't a Japanese citizen, though we doubt the government will actively encourage that!)
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Gendai Business recently published a two-part in-depth interview with three Japanese adult video stars: Riho Shishido, Rena Momozono, and Uta Miyoshi.
We have translated and edited some highlights from the interview.
The article focuses on these three porn stars as examples of young women who went to prestigious universities (of which there are quite a few) but chose to embark upon a different career path to their paths. Instead of a bank or trading company, they elected to enter the competitive and grueling AV industry.
Shishido (24) and Momozono (29) are already veterans, but Miyoshi ...
We wanted to revisit the nude sex scenes featured in the 1987 Japanese movie Bedtime Eyes, about a Japanese jazz singer and a black American GI, and based on a novel by Amy Yamada.
The film stars Kanako Higuchi, who does several sex scenes with her foreign lover, plus one with a Japanese man.
Besides one sex scene while standing up against a pillar, they mostly keep things conventional with missionary sex on beds. There is lots of passionate kissing and some nice breast-sucking.
It's a relatively obscure film today, with little availability on streaming or home ...
The Japanese porn star Rina Kago (雅子りな) has stoked controversy by going off on an online rant about her dislike of Taiwanese people.
The 24-year-old adult video performer released a bizarre flurry of tweets on March 9 with a series of stark pronouncements that all Taiwanese people are trash, and that she doesn't want them to watch her AV releases.
"Taiwanese men make my skin crawl," she declared on X, apropos of nothing. She described Taiwanese food as smelling like piss and their language as unpleasant, and that she would "kill the dirty Taiwanese trying to enter Japan."
She ...
Nude photos of a female student at a Shiga Prefectural High School were shared with multiple friends by her ex-boyfriend, a male student at another prefectural high school. According to a report in the Kyoto Shimbun, the prefectural board of education has determined that this constitutes a crime and revenge porn, and is currently working with the school and police to address the issue.
Shiga Prefectural Board of Education said that the perpetrator shared several nude photos of the victim to friends in the 2025 academic year. He sent the images to friends by phone, making it possible for the ...
The Japanese actor, fashion model, and gravure idol Akari Yoshida has made a comeback under a new name.
Now known as Akari Koda, she has done her first gravure shoot in about three years. The shoot appears in the current issue of Weekly Playboy.
"I had always wanted to do gravure modeling, but I was waiting for the right timing," Koda told the magazine. "I changed agencies and had decided to change my name, so I thought it would be great if more people could get to know a different side of me."
The shoot by veteran gravure photographer Chikashi Kasai puts lots of emphasis on her thighs ...
Controversy has erupted online over a Japanese porn film about a female volunteer in a disaster zone, with many expressing outrage at the premise.
The 138-minute adult video (START-460) by SODstar and SOD Create stars Haru Shibasaki and is directed by Chinpo Dazai.
Sexual Relief: A Disaster Rescue Worker with a Strong Sense of Justice Staying in an Evacuation Shelter Accepts Group Creampies as Part of the Month-Long Relief Effort was first released on December 2, 2025, followed by a January release for physical formats. The premise is, like the best AVs, summed up in the long ...
While we're based in Japan, we love Korean movies, which can always be relied on to deliver the goods in terms of sex scenes.
Dead Again (2025) is a South Korean sex comedy.
The official synopsis on IMDB reads: "After his brother's suicide, Min Ki travels to Thailand to confront Jae Hee, his brother's boyfriend, leading to unexpected emotions."
Those unexpected emotions lead to passionate sex.
It features an incredible nude sex scene with Seo Ri-na in which she rides her lucky costar in cowgirl and is then shown receiving powerful backshots in the doggy position, arching her spine in ...
Approximately 40% of women working in broadcasting in Japan said that they have received "sexual advances," according to a new survey.
A research team including the University of Tokyo Graduate School surveyed men and women who have worked in the broadcasting industry via email and other means, and found that around a significant number of women had received "sexual advances," and some had even been forced into sexual relations.
The open survey was conducted between May 2025 and January 2026, targeting people with experience working at a broadcasting station, regardless of employment status ...
Lady Gaga sang of bad romance. Was she singing about Japan?
For the fourth consecutive year, Japan's "romantic satisfaction" rate has ranked among lowest in an international poll.
According to a survey by the Paris-based Ipsos, 51% of people in Japan are satisfied with "feeling loved," significantly lower than the 29-country average of 77%.
Only 33% of Japanese respondents were satisfied with their romantic and sex lives, a 6-point decrease from 2025 -- and the lowest satisfaction rate among the 29 countries (the 29-country average was 60%). Only 6% of respondents in Japan said they were ...
