It's summer in Tokyo, which means temperatures in the high thirties and insane levels of humidity.
For decades, the government has encouraged corporations to allow their employees to dress down for the hotter weeks of the year, leading to the "Cool Biz" campaign that inspired a buzzword. Cool Biz usually means a loose shirt and no tie or jacket.
But as the summers grow hotter and longer, people are finally starting to wear shorts to work. A very sensible thing, most would agree, but it has apparently led to something called "leg hair harassment."
We say apparently, because the whole thing ...
The gravure industry has welcomed another newbie to the fold this week -- and someone with an unusual background.
For a start, she's not super-young. Eriko Kimura is 29 (and turns 30 in September) and has a regular job, working at a major IT company. She is currently affiliated with a big entertainment agency, Oscar Promotion, but basically does modeling only on the side.
Kimura just did her first gravure shoot for Weekly Playboy, appearing in the issue released on June 15. She made her official gravure debut last July and released a digital photo book. She got her big break in 2024, where ...
The Osaka expo has proved controversial for a number of reasons, not least the huge budget overruns, the infestation of bugs, the unfinished pavilions, and the overpriced food.
But what about panchira (panties flash)? The latest issue involves a young Japanese woman who has posed for photos deliberately showing off her panties, and then posted those pics on social media for likes and views.
She certainly succeeded in getting a lot of attention.
The OL-themed cosplayer yuu_OLdays posed against the expo's famous wooden ring structure (the largest wooden structure in the world), wearing expo ...
Stand back, guys, because there's a new gal in town.
She's called Mimi Yuzuki (柚月美美). She apparently works as a regular office lady for a company while moonlighting as a cosplayer. And now she's a gravure idol after making her debut in the April 21 issue of Weekly Playboy.
"I was nervous. It was not just the gravure-style poses I had to make, it was also my first time to work with a professional cameraman, makeup artists, and stylist."
The shoot has also resulted in a digital photo book.
Besides her obvious beauty (which has drawn comparisons with ex-gradol Misako ...
One of the most highly anticipated Japanese adult video debuts this month is that of Hikari Ogura (小椋ひかり), whose first release comes out on April 15 from E-Body.
Marunouchi OL's Most Amazing Breasts: Shocking Body Amateur Trial AV Debut (EBWH222) has, as the title suggests, an office lady theme and really places the emphasis on Ogura's tits. And what tits they are: these J-cup boobs weigh over 5 kilograms (11 pounds).
If the marketing is to be believed -- and in JAV, publicity is always a little suspect -- Ogura is a real OL who is giving porn a try for just a single release, so ...
At professional baseball games in Japan, like in the United States, it is common to invite a celebrity to make a ceremonial first pitch.
We remember some minor controversy a few years ago when a very scantily clad Mitsu Dan was asked to do this duty.
In Taiwan, though, they do things differently.
At the stadium for local baseball team Rakuten Monkeys, sponsored by the Japanese e-commerce giant, in Taoyuan City, a squadron of sexy office ladies entertain visitors with their thighs and curvy butts.
Wearing face masks (which are still ingrained over here in East Asia), the five slinky ladies ...
Is compensated dating with sugar daddies increasing among Japanese women due to remote working?
Bunshun Online had an intriguing article suggesting something to that effect. It interviews a 24-year-old female office worker who has started doing "papakatsu," a newly coined kind of compensated dating where younger women go on dates with older men.
She started her new sideline in January and over the course of the past few months, has met over 60 men this way.
The woman says that shifting to working remotely has changed her whole daily schedule, making it more flexible, whole semi-lockdowns ...
Office romances can be great -- but can also get messy.
In days past, office ladies (OL) were almost expected, alongside their other duties, to hook up with their future hubbies among the desks of their company, marry, and then quit to start a family. Thankfully, those stereotypical expectations are, if not quite dead, on the decline.
That said, the office romance (shanai renai) still holds a special appeal for men and women seeking distraction from those mind-numbing hours of spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations.
While the fantasy has fueled a thousand adult videos and gravure shoots ...
Just yesterday on these digital pages, we recalled the Ken Watabe adultery scandal that allegedly took place for the most part inside a multipurpose toilet in Roppongi.
We blogged about the two intrepid YouTubers who, in search of viral success, got themselves arrested and indicted after they tried to film passersby's reactions to sex sounds coming from a train station multipurpose toilet. They were consciously referencing the Watabe scandal, which has essentially ended his career.
As is Tama Toys, the prolific Japanese adult toy brand with a penchant for parody.
Its new release, ...
The Zozosuit is a tailor-made polka dot bodysuit. Less a genuinely interesting service/product than a publicity stunt by Japanese online fashion retailer Zozotown, it was, at least initially, a flop.
But one very confident Japanese woman with a preference for nude selfies (or a young lady with a very kinky boyfriend) has found a new use for the garb and it suddenly takes on a whole new value when she is showing the world how it looks when gradually unpeeled from her slender body.
After first stripping off her regular work clothes (very nice!), the apparent office lady wore no bra beneath ...
