In December 2019, it was reported that 61-year-old Japanese politician Yasuhiro Ozata (小里泰弘) was asked to pay a "break-up fee" (solatium) by a much-younger woman with whom he was having an affair.
The Liberal Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives and former Cabinet minister allegedly paid Yuno Morita (森田由乃) ¥100,000 per night during their relationship. They became acquainted through a members-only club where she worked in Roppongi three years ago. They would subsequently meet as often as three times a month at a hotel -- high-end, naturally, not some grubby ...
One of the most sensational stories over the summer was that of nude jukujo model Kazuko Iwamoto, who was arrested for stabbing her married, younger lover at a train station apparently after he spurned her for getting pregnant.
The details of the adultery and the 43-year-old model's descent into what was possibly a kind of mental collapse are lurid yet also all too familiar.
Now the dust has settled, we can take a look at the career that Iwamoto has more than likely destroyed with her act of vengeance.
In the summer, just as fate was taking a strange turn for her, Iwamoto released her ...
The Japanese entertainment world has been shaken recently by a widespread scandal involving 11 comedians at leading agency Yoshimoto Kogyo who did side jobs for a criminal organization.
The initial scandal broke in June, when many comedians were found to have worked at a party in December 2014 by a criminal group engaged in fraud. To be fair, they apparently did not know the nature of the client who had hired them, but it once again highlighted the long-suspected connections between organized crime and comedy in Japan -- a link encapsulated by the shock retirement of Shinsuke Shimada in ...
It's election season in Japan, which means posters of candidates everywhere as well as election broadcasts on TV. Pretty soon the streets will be filled with the soundscape of the trucks trundling around, calling out the local candidates' names to all and sundry.
As always, though, it's the more unusual candidates vying for a well-paid position in the House of Councillors that make the most impact in a gray field.
Takashi Tachibana is standing for election as a member of the Party to Protect the People from NHK (NHKから国民を守る党) -- a long-running libertarian-esque stance that ...
A few weeks ago, Japanese netizens were fascinated by the bloody and cautionary tale of "too cute" Yuka Takaoka, who was arrested for allegedly stabbing her boyfriend with a kitchen knife in Shinjuku.
The latest gruesome episode of romance gone very badly wrong is interesting to us at Tokyo Kinky because of who the alleged perpetrator is.
Kazuko Iwamoto (岩本和子) was arrested for apparently attacking her married lover with a utility knife in the resort town of Atami, west of Tokyo.
The 43-year-old Iwamoto was reportedly incensed when she found that her male lover was in fact married. ...
Sagami doesn't just make incredibly thin and accomplished condoms, it also conducts research on adult tastes and sexual customs in Japan. In fact, along with Tenga, Japan's contraception manufacturers are the most reliable sources for information and data.
And these can sometimes turn up surprising, even shocking, results.
One recent survey conducted with 14,100 people in October and November last year across Japan's 47 prefectures nationwide found that 15.2% of women were cheating on their partner or sleeping with at least one more person.
Needless to say, the result for men was higher -- ...
Here's a little sex scandal to cheer up your post-Christmas blues or stir you out of your post-Christmas stupor, either with fury or envy.
Weekly tabloid magazine Shukan Bunshun has broken a story about Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Teru Fukui taking a luxury cruise in Japan's Inland Sea for two nights with a beautiful woman who works as an official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. They were snapped arm in arm at the port in Hiroshima on December 22nd, preparing for their trip that would last over the Christmas Eve season, which is a romantic time for couples in Japan.
Such a ...
It's often regarded as axiomatic that adultery is common in Japan. Men have sex at their fingertips. Just take a trip to one of the countless "fuzoku" sex services available or go on a "compensated date."
The ladies are catching up, though, if you believe that is the reason for the growth of Ashley Madison in Japan.
One Japanese survey, at least, suggests that adultery is really not as gender-biased as you might think. In fact, slightly more women admitted to cheating on their partner in the past.
The survey was conducted, somewhat bizarrely, by a hair-removal salon with coupes aged ...
All those hundreds of thousands of office ladies slaving away in Japan's corporations are not as bored or subservient as you might think.
An online survey by konkatsu "marriage-hunting" web portal Aikatsu asked 1,162 women if they had had sex with someone from their workplaces. More than three in four women admitted to having slept with a coworker.
Given the amount of time that many Japanese people spend at their companies as well as the relatively high number of social events that take place among colleagues, especially nighttime drinking, it is not surprising that many relationships ...
We know that adultery is quite common in Japan, especially among men -- and that's probably before you even start thinking about the various sex services out there for the guys to try if things get stale.
But women are not holding back anymore. The rapid growth of services like Ashley Madison and the popularity of TV dramas like Hirugao with Aya Ueto suggest that women are also keen to dip their toe into the big ocean of extramarital affairs. Several high-profile cases have exposed this. For every Ken Watanabe there's a Yuki Saito and Aoi Miyazaki. Even Becky, though not married herself, ...
