Just spotted this great pic recently. The top stars of Japanese porn are all lined up just the way we want to see them. Which one is your favorite?! I personally like Akiho Yoshizawa (吉沢明歩), down in the bottom left, the ...

Famous pink movie (sexploitation) theater Ueno Okura Theater is to shut its doors in August, bringing to an end fifty-nine years of sex history. A new cinema will be built in front of the old building. Okura first appeared in northeast Tokyo in 1951 and started showing pink movies from 1962. Despite its age it still attracts many old fans to its weekly three-movie schedules, with some 2,000 visitors per week. However, since the last decades saw the rise of video and then DVD, the pink movie theaters, once a staple of Japan's sex industry. There were some 300 theaters at its peak but now ...

We don't like mosaic, right? There's nothing worse than having the mood ruined by some nasty pixels covering the very areas you want to see the most! We won't get into the complicated, ambiguous reasons for why Japanese porn has mosaic (we've blogged about that before), but rather I wanted to give you all some practical tips. I'm gonna let you boys into a secret: There are ways to get rid of it! With the Olympia DV-9900, your dreams have come true! All you need is this little gadget and your regular Japanese DVDs, and hey presto! How does it work? Well, just hook it up between the DVD ...

If you love watching Japanese porn you will notice straightaway one very strange thing: pixelation. There's not a private part in sight -- they're all fuzzed and blurred out by the censors. Why the need for mosaics? Is it some strange kinky thing that men like? Well, maybe it is NOW, since a whole generation of Japanese men have grown up obsessed with porn and sex featuring pixels rather than penises. The real reason for it, though, is a 1907 obscenity law that remains unchanged to this day. (Taro and Tadashi, however, hate mosaic and always get under-the-counter porn that is ...