The former AKB48 idol Satomi Kaneko officially retired last year and we thought it was the last we would see of her.
How wrong we are. Today comes the happy news that Satomi Kaneko is to make her porn debut with the Muteki label -- which specializes in such industry crossover debuts -- and under the name Kiho Kanematsu (金松季歩).
It is common, often for contractual reasons, for idols to change their professional name when transition into porn, or even just when switching management agencies. Kaneko/Kanematsu announced her new professional name about a week ago, along with a new shoot ...
When does a debate over gravure photography become a debate over public space, civil rights, freedom of speech, and other lofty notions? When it involves parks in Saitama.
A surprisingly big controversy last year involved the withdrawal of permission to use public parks in Saitama for gravure swimwear events, where models would pose for fans to take photos. Such events are particularly popular for fans to take photos of idols up-close and for freelance models who don't get the lucrative cover shoots in the weeklies to make some much-needed yen.
But the events were planned for pools located ...
The book is out. Now to see whether the hype was worth it (and whether the media attention translates into hard sales).
The announcer-model Kasumi Mori's debut photo book, Su no Kasumi (Pure Kasumi), generated a lot of air time on TV and from gravure and regular media after it was announced in December.
The attractive 28-year-old had already made a real splash with alluring shoots for the fashion magazine Anan and gravure weekly Friday. Now she was trying to cross over into the riskier world of print photo books, which have high production costs due to the color printing, locations (this ...
In the FX/Disney series, a new adaptation of the James Clavell bestseller, Japanese actress Yuka Kouri (向里祐香) has a nude sex scene in the first episode.
The 33-year-old actress, best known until now for her roles in local TV dramas and low-budget films, plays Kiku, a courtesan.
She enters a room and then alluringly slips her kimono off a shoulder to expose a breast, playing up to every male fantasy tropes involving Japanese women in one shot. The kimono comes off the second shoulder and we glimpse her other breast.
She then lies naked on top of a man all while another guy ...
Earlier in the month, we reported on a new services offered by a real estate company that puts couples together on blind dates to view properties.
If that sounds a bit outlandish, wait till you hear what local governments think the solution is to boosting the marriage and birth rate in Japan.
You've guessed it: artificial intelligence.
The buzzword of the decade is not only going to change everything from graphic design to how movies are made (and no doubt, how porn is produced), but also how we find prospective partners.
Matchmaking events and services are now using AI to filter ...
This completely passed us by when it came out locally in May last year, but the ever-reliable Twitter (X) account Nude Asian Films alerted us in a post to a nice nude sex scene in the Japanese film Roadside Flowers and Grass.
The movie is about a mentally disturbed women who escapes an abusive relationship and ends up with a guy who has withdrawn from society (yes, a lot of low-budget Japanese films tend to explore these kinds of scenarios). It stars Shintaro Yuya and Mayu Sakuma in the lead roles.
It is the latter we were frankly more interested in, because we had featured her on the blog ...
Do you want to work surrounded by vibrators, dildos, and female customers? Sounds like a dream job for us.
The Vibe Bar Wild One in Shibuya is looking for new staff.
The bar sadly closed at the end of September 2020, no doubt hit hard by the pandemic, but will reopen in 2024 at an as-yet unannounced date. In the interim, the bar, which recently celebrated its eleventh anniversary, has operated as a space for hire for private events, photo shoots, and so on.
Famously, the bar is by women, for women, and men can't go unaccompanied.
Based on the concept of "see, touch, and try," the ...
When the 27-year-old Mari Takahashi agreed to stand as a candidate for the Democratic Party for the People, the senior members of the party must have been pleased. Japanese politics is a staid world full of graying men in dark suits, and the presence of young blood -- especially photogenic young female blood -- is a dream come true.
Takahashi is a graduate of Keio University, one of the most prestigious colleges in the country. She won the university's beauty contest in 2016 and worked as a TV announcer while still at college, followed by three years at an IT consultancy company. She also ...
There is one way to tell that a social phenomenon in Japan has become significant: when it has inspired either its own parody porn production or an adult toy.
As noted many times here, Japanese adult video frequently draws upon real-life incidents to make parodies. Examples include the women's support group that has faced harassment, the assault of a music idol, and -- and this is where things get very meta -- an AV that lampooned the recently introduced porn legislation.
It is a similar situation with the Japanese sex toys industry, such as the Uber Eats onahole and the masturbator based ...
While we are used to police raids on small or even clandestine bars and clubs for breaching rules on public indecency or licensing, it was a shock when the failure to obtain the proper license led to the arrests last year of management at SOD Land in Kabukicho and the expensive closure of the "porn theme park" for five months. (Thankfully, it is up and running again, and in very rude health from all accounts!)
Well, now the same kind of issue has claimed yet another high-profile victim.
Police have arrested the manager of Burlesque Tokyo, a popular burlesque club in Roppongi.
The erotic ...
