In August, a "sexually explicit" event featuring an adult video filming vehicle was held in and around a municipal park in front of JR Nakano Station in Nakano ward, west Tokyo.
The event was the "Pink Bon Odori," held on August 1 at Nakano Central Park. It was sponsored by the ward.
At a press conference on September 8, Mayor Naoto Sakai apologized. "It was inappropriate, as it took place in a public space frequented by children," reports the Sankei Shimbun and Asahi Shimbun.
Sakai clarified that no sexual content was mentioned in the sponsorship application.
The "Pink Bon Odori" was a ...
We all love Japanese porn stars. We all want to have sex with them.
But would you want to marry one?
Because of the nature of their profession, porn stars sometimes face discrimination when it comes to marriage, parenthood, and further career options.
Those who have tried to develop new careers in the public eye have suffered criticism, such as Yua Mikami for her modeling and fashion brand work, and those who have openly shared details about their marriages and children have also received abuse online.
On a recent episode of Abema's Hyena of Love, porn star Ai Sayama was shown discussing ...
Kanna Seto burst onto the Japanese adult video scene late last year and quickly made a huge impression with her girl-next-door face, pale skin, slim body, and huge breasts. It is a formidable combination and her debut attracted some of the biggest online attention we have seen in a long while.
Seto's career has gone from strength to strength, releasing 12 titles since then from S1 No. One Style and building a following both in Japan and in other parts of Asia.
The 21-year-old's first photo book came out from Shogakukan in January and she has at least three more AV titles scheduled ...
The backlash against former porn star Yua Mikami's attempts to build a mainstream career for herself in fashion has continued with viral and divisive criticism of her wearing a wedding dress.
Mikami was appearing as a guest at a public talk that was part of a boat racing event in Yamaguchi on July 27.
A twentysomething married woman who wanted to wear the same dress design for her bridal photos wrote a vitriolic post on X on July 27 about how her plans were no ruined by the ex-adult video performer. It got a surprising amount of attention (120.5 million views, 152,000 likes, and 3,3000 ...
Japanese porn is a huge industry, pumping out productions big and small on a daily basis, and served by an army of performers.
How do you keep those sexual scenarios fresh and new? By turning to parody for inspiration, whether it's lampooning recent events and scandals, anime and manga, TV shows and movies, or even YouTube channels.
Parody is a major and fun part of the adult video industry, narrowly avoiding copyright infringement while entertaining at the same time as arousing viewers. And both delighting and enraging fans of certain franchises.
The latest choice of material is the ...
They say the internet is forever, but one organization is trying to fight that.
A nonprofit called the Organization for Pornography and Sexual Exploitation Survivors (or PAPS) has had around 67,000 images and videos taken down over the past six years, it recently told Kyodo News.
The group asked website operators and providers to delete a total of 99,266 sexually explicit photos and videos between fiscal 2019 and fiscal 2024.
Of those, 59,653 have been completely deleted from the internet, while 7,577 have been deleted from some of the sites where they were posted.
As of May this year, a ...
Three years on from the passing of the controversial porn law, the situation for the Japanese adult video industry remains complex.
Prompted by a desire to curb the issue of coercion in porn that had led to numerous scandals and arrests, as well as fears that the lowering of the age of adulthood to 18 needed safeguards to protect teenagers from exploitation, the porn law gave performers much stronger rights, including cooling-off periods after a contract is signed and a production is filmed.
It seemed to usher in a real shift in the discourse, to such an extent that some pushed to end ...
Top Japanese adult video performer Momona Koibuchi recently gave an interview to Japanese tabloid Spa!, discussing her career and her unusual background as originally a civil servant in Yamagata, northeast Japan.
Here are some highlights from the interview with the 26-year-old porn princess.
Q. You went from being a civil servant to being a porn actress, but did you originally want to become a civil servant?
Momona Koibuchi: Not at all. Actually, I like clothes, so I wanted to work in the apparel industry, or as a fashion designer. I like talking to people, so I wanted to work in ...
Given the huge volume of porn produced in Japan and, thus, the large number of women involved, it is inevitably that many of the performers will have families after they retire from the industry. The question of former or current adult video stars raising families is one that occasionally appears in the media, often with a degree of sympathy (for the abuse they can suffer online) and curiosity.
Spa! recently featured an interview with AiRis, an up-and-coming gravure idol and singer who is also the daughter of 46-year-old former porn star Mariko Sata.
Single mom Sata was active in the ...
As regular readers will know, we have a strong interest in the afterlives of music idols, gravure models, and porn stars.
The situation is particularly tough for the latter, who face discrimination and criticism if they go public with personal details like pregnancy or attempt to branch out into more "respectable" professions.
The former adult video star Yua Mikami had one of the most successful careers among performers of her generation. She already reinvented herself once, graduating from a career as a music idol in SKE48 to JAV, where she known by her birth name, Momona Kito.
Since ...
