We're on a bit of a cross-dressing roll at the moment. After blogging about a major new josou club and bar in Osaka we now want to introduce a new photography exhibition at Ginza's Vanilla Gallery.
It features portraits Tachibana has made over six years of newhalf (shemales) and josou cross-dressers.
The exhibition is called "Traces of josou and the Theory of Happiness". Tachibana runs a studio that specializes in portrait photography for cross-dressers and shemales, as well as hair and make-up services. She has worked with top idols to old-timers in their seventies -- more than ...
A man in his late thirties living in Tokyo earlier this year sued AKS, the company that manages AKB48, as well as King Records (AKB's record label), and Google Japan for "nonfulfillment of financial obligations" after he had been denied the chance to shake hands with his favorite idol, Karen Iwata.
The verdict on the case was heard in a court in Tokyo on November 20th.
The court threw out the Hidenobu Onishi's suit, since it ruled the complainant had the choice to purchase or not purchase the band's CDs with the handshaking event tickets.
The fan had previously sent AKB member ...
Our favorite fashion designer of the moment, Gomi Hayakawa (of feast, the lingerie for flat-chested girls, fame), has come up with a great combination of two great things: Tenga and coffee.
She has come up with a "tumbler" in the Tenga onacup color -- tongue in cheek, of course, and without official endorsement from either Tenga or Starbucks as far as we know.
Hayakawa shared her design idea via Twitter as an example of "Tenga merchandise for girls".
Hayakawa, something of an intelligent-looking cutie herself, hasn't yet made a prototype, it seems, though this is one tumbler ...
Onna no ko Kurabu (Girls' Club) is where the action's at if you want an easy way to sample Japanese cross-dressing subculture.
Man or woman, you can go to the club -- currently one in Tokyo, with a new club in Osaka's down-and-dirty Dotonbori district from December 1st -- to try on girls' clothing. The club keeps a wardrobe of rental clothes and wigs for joso (or josou) cosplay, dressing up as a girl.
As we know, otoko no ko cross-dressing cosplay is big in Japan, though it is a hard-to-define point somewhere between "transvestite" and "cosplayer". Joso is the more conventional ...
They were clever and went to some sneaky ways to satisfy their fetish. But they were caught and now they have been punished.
Four men, including Yuki Suzuki (41), have been arresting for illegally entering a warehouse in Koto ward in east Tokyo to photograph girls from behind while they peed.
The woman who got them got was visitor at a barbecue park who had snuck off to pee by the warehouse. All these kinds of events -- firework displays, music festivals -- always have massive lines for the bathroom. After a lot of beer, people start to get desperate and just can't wait.
The girl ...
... is the implication we can draw from data recently released by Hakuhodo as part of its Seikatsu Teiten project, an overview of survey data collected biennially on households on a range of questions.
The results show some trends and changes in the national psyche, though interestingly this one, responding to the statement "I don't mind having sex on the first date if our feelings match", has hardly changed.
It is now a solid 23.4%, up only 0.9% since the data started being collected in 1994. I guess attitudes towards sex on a first date are pretty established now.
The highest ...
Yumi Adachi both fulfilled many men's fantasies and then shattered them. All in one year.
The 33-year-old actress and model has been a quiet cutie favorite of many local guys. And so they were delighted when she took her clothes off.
After previously almost going nude for a photo book, she finally went the whole hog with a so-called nureba (literally, wet scene) in the adult period drama Hanayoi Dochu (A Courtesan with Flowered Skin) this summer.
In it she plays the titular courtesan to great erotic effect. There are two nude sex scenes.
However, it was ...
What really goes on inside those koban police boxes? Now we know.
Four male and female police officers have been punished for sexually harassing a female officer, with the quartet resigning as of the end of the month.
The goings-on took place in Adachi Ward in east Tokyo. A male police sergeant would take advantage of a certain female police officer when she visited his koban, kissing her while on duty. And another sergeant from the same precinct would even have the same woman stay over at his koban while he was supposed to be protecting the good people of Adachi from crime.
Of ...
Korean cinema is SO much better than Japanese because many mainstream actresses don't mind stripping off for hot sex scenes.
As we saw with Oh In-hye's highly revealing role in Red Vacance Black Wedding in 2011, this can launch an entire career.
Another Korean film has been causing a stir for its explicit sex scenes.
Scarlet Innocence (aka Madam Ppang-Deok) stars Esom (Lee So-young) as a small-town girl who has an affair with a college professor 20 years her senior, played by Jung Woo Sung. Their couplings are depicted in graphic detail in the film.
The film also features ...
This song became quite a talking point earlier in the year. A user called Toy Ron uploaded it to YouTube at the end of the year.
If you didn't see the title of the video you might be forgiven for thinking it is just an unusual drum and bass track. But this is a blog about sex and the erotic in Japan, so there's more to than meets the ear.
Listen carefully. That sound should recall the slurping sound of a fast-paced blow job.
The oral sex is all samples of actual fellatio performed by JAV porn Rio (aka Tina Yuzuki) in her vast catalog of adult titles.
Here Toy Ron ...
