The Japanese porn star Minamo has announced her retirement.
The wildly popular adult video performer put out a statement on June 14 on her social media channels announcing her forthcoming retirement in December, while Soft on Demand released a special page on its website. It brings to an end a five-year career that has seen the 26-year-old mononymous star rise to the top of the industry.
In that time, Minamo (usually written in uppercase roman letters in Japanese) has achieved significant mainstream recognition alongside her dozens of adult video releases, photo books, and calendars.
The ...
A few weeks ago, controversy erupted over a Japanese man's posts on social media boasting about paying for sex from underage sex workers in Indonesia.
In posts going back to at least 2024, he brazenly wrote about how he was looking forward to having sex with these "living onaholes" aged 16 or 17, and was going to "creampie" them.
It inevitably led to outrage online last month. Angry Indonesians found further examples of other Japanese men boasting about their supposed exploits. Warnings were issued by the Japanese embassy and government that child prostitution is illegal. Police in ...
The Japanese porn star Yui Hatano celebrated her 18th anniversary in the industry this week.
In that time, countless other performers have fallen by the wayside and most have been forgotten, Hatano has not only retained her popularity, but kept up an enviable rate of releases and also seemingly not grown jaded as she got older.
It is estimated that the award-winning performer, known affectionately to fans as Hata-chan or Yui-chan, has appeared in more than 3,000 porn titles since her debut way back in 2008.
Of course, such a long career has a downside. You feel old compared to your ...
The Bakobako Bus Tour Cup is the highly anticipated first masturbator cup by Moodyz, the Japanese adult video production company. As JAV fans will immediately note, the toy is inspired by the eponymous series of porn productions whose premise is a bus taking a random set of men to a remote resort with Japanese porn stars on board to help make the trip as memorable and pleasurable as possible.
En route to the resort, the men enjoy plenty of sex in their seats. The male performers are genuine amateurs recruited from the general public at regular intervals. If you're an average Joe Tanaka, ...
A porn parody of Strange Houses, the hugely successful franchise created by the writer and YouTuber Uketsu, has been abruptly canceled before its release.
Strange Houses is a series of YouTube videos, several bestselling novels and books, a manga, and a hit movie. The books have been translated into such languages as English and French.
A porn parody, Strange Penis, was set for release from KM Produce featuring a female performer in a black sheer bodystocking, her face covered in white and only her mouth visible. This is clearly mimicking the unique look of Uketsu himself, who keeps his ...
Joshi Spa! recently interviewed the adult video performer Mana Sakura as she reaches a milestone.
In addition to being a porn star, Mana Sakura is a novelist, most famously writing stories based in her experiences in the industry. Her latest novel, Child Substitute, came out in February and is about pregnancy and childbirth. It marks a decade since her literary debut.
Though her porn output has heavily decreased (even if she does have a new SOD Star release out later this month), the 33-year-old Sakura has not officially retired, and has now been a firm part of the industry for an ...
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 ...
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 ...
It's even a really original and kinky scenario, or a desperate attempt to make a hit on a low budget.
The latest Japanese adult video release by Karin Kitaoka sees her play a schoolgirl who is so horny that she has sex with a chair. That's pretty much the whole setup. But it's a good one.
School is over. She's in the classroom, feeling all horny and hormonal, and she starts to pretend she's kissing a male classmate and licks her chair and desk, which eventually evolves into full-on intimacy with the furniture.
She begins with a recorder, which is naturally uses to probe her vagina. ...
Retired porn star Akari Mitani recently appeared on the Abema variety show Hyena of Love 5, where she revealed some surprising details about her love life.
Mitani, who debuted in 2017 and retired in 2024, released a vast number of AVs during her long and successful career, as well as many sex toys.
Now aged 27, Mitani discussed her love life on the show, which aired January 20. She shared that she never had a boyfriend in the eight years she worked in the industry. Like Kurea Hasumi, with whom she is close friends, she said: "I didn't go out and play, nor did I have sex with any man except ...
