Toshiki Hanai, a twenty-eight-year-old assistant district court judge in Osaka, has perhaps not surprisingly lost his job.
When you get caught filming up a girl's skirt (panchira) on a train, you might reasonably expect there to be repercussions if you are supposed to be an upholder of the law!
That's what Hanai was apparently caught doing in August 2012.
Another male passenger spotted the nimble judge squatting down on the crowded commuter train during the morning rush hour, trying to get a good view with his smartphone of the heavenly world up a girl's skirt.
The valiant ...
Parks are not just for strolling around in.
Unlike other cities, Tokyo's parks are open all night. Photographer Kohei Yoshiyuki used to visit Chuo Park in the early Seventies and search for goings-on in the dark.
At the time, it was common for couples to go the park to have sex. But that alone wasn't what was interesting.
The couples weren't alone. People were watching.
In effect, the park was an open-air public happening bar.
After spending months entrenches with the voyeurs so that they would trust him as a "regular" in Chuo, Yoyogi and Aoyama parks, Yoshiyuki then ...
There are people with smell fetishes everywhere and we are not sure if there are more in Japan -- or whether the Japanese are simply much better at integrating their fetishes into products and social structures.
Either way, you can find a ton of pretty amazing smell fetish goods out there.
We went shopping...
Japanese Schoolgirl Armpit Smell Bottle
This bottle collects the aroma of a sweaty schoolgirl's armpit especially for your pleasure.
Japanese Virgin Girl Sweat Spray
And if it's just perspiration you are after, try this virgin sweat spray, which is great for adding to clothes, ...
We've been "investigating" another fab genre of Japanese pornography a lot recently.
Homeless porn.
Back in 2011 we saw our first title, where a young J-girl is homeless in L.A. and has to sleep with tramps to get a place to stay.
But there are many, many more.
Some take the common "girl-in-peril" motif and have the young lady being forced to undergo something that is "dirty" or humiliating, or an incredible challenge.
Often the sex is semi-public, watched by all the other homeless guys in the community.
In general, this "humiliation" style is a frequent style in many Japanese JAV ...
Black Tights Girl is a new photo book by photographer Masaki Okado focusing on yet another fetish, sexy black stockings worn by Japanese girls.
We have recently seen a lot of these kinds of books, from twin tail ponytail girls to ones with panties on their faces. It seems the market is boundless.
Yes, the sad thing about the winter finally starting to end is that in a month or so's time, we will be seeing less and less of these kinds of stockings!
Masaki Okado has also done previous photo series on Japanese schoolgirls in summer uniforms and also girls with small ...
Shotacon or Shotaro complex (正太郎コンプレックス) is a tricky subject to get into and we have been hesitating for a while, since we know it might get a harsh response from some.
On the surface it looks like a gay fantasy, describing an attraction to young boys and their wily charms.
But nothing is quite so straightforward.
We often bang on about this but ambiguity is such a strong part of Japanese erotica -- there are no clear definitions.
Japanese fans of shotacon are probably not definable just as "gay" and in fact much of the fantasy seems to involve boys who are possibly ...
Good ol' Osaka, ever the dirtier, less noble metropolis compared to Tokyo.
Remember this is the city that gave Japan the cup of instant noodles AND no-panties cafes!
Take the case of a certain Mr. Yamaoka, a simple 37-year old guy who just happens to have an addictive fetish for stealing women's panties.
Yes, what could be wrong with that? Well, a lot actually, especially when you are going around literally ripping the underwear off girls.
He would go after anyone, even people just walking along the street on their way home.
He was eventually arrested in November for ...
The Japanese have a thing for tentacle sex.
From historical shunga prints to modern day manga and anime, there are countless examples of monsters attacking, groping and penetrating pretty damsels with their hairy appendages.
It's actually more like a form of "rape" (and we use that word with caution), as reflected in the Japanese term for it, shokushu goukan (触手強姦).
The most famous example bar none is Hokusai's immensely sensual The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife, in which an octopus is literally eating out a beautiful woman. Yikes! I bet her hubby didn't see that ...
Another day, another fetish.
This time it's cute girls with twin ponytails -- particularly useful for grabbing hold of!
Photographer Kan Furuya seems to like young girls with this kind of haircut, so much so that he's made a whole photo book out of it, Harenochi Twin Tail, which went on sale in late October. In Japan, pigtails is called the "twin tail".
We guess he likes the bright and bubbly look of the girls, coy and cute -- but still sexy.
The book is part of a whole website called the Twin Tail Project Japan, which seeks to promote minor idols with the double ...
Think you've seen everything JAV has to offer? Think again.
Specialist porn maker Cocoa Soft and major name Soft on Demand have got together to make the Kakusei ("Awakening") where star Ryo Tsujimoto undergoes a series of wholly new bodily experiences.
She is put into a mud bath, painted in gold and even encased in a vacuum pack (vacbed)! Beat that Han Solo!
This 180-minute epic had us utterly hooked for its visual flare and carnal experimentation.
This kind of fetish was not something we were so familiar with and we certainly can't say how common it is outside the artifices of JAV. ...
