Tokyo is currently facing a serious shortage of public school teachers, with the blame being put on the long hours and low pay. Could another reason for the shortfall be that young teachers keep getting arrested?! According to an article by Friday, money trouble is pushing some educators into a spiral of addiction and leading them to make risky life choices that land them in trouble with the police. In February, a male junior high school teacher in his twenties was arrested in Nagoya after making the mistake of asking a female plainclothes police officer if she wanted to go to a host club. ...

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Here at Tokyo Kinky, we pride ourselves on how we strive to keep up with the latest research and fieldwork. It's a tough job, but someone's gotta do it. And so when we see an academic article titled "Exploring sexual contact networks by analyzing a nationwide commercial-sex review website," it's a no-brainer whether or not we read. Even if it's written by ecologists. Though framed in academese, the article is essentially looking at reviews for soaplands on a website that covers 66% of establishments in Japan (784 soaplands) and has more than 2 million members and information on 38,964 sex ...

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Following its recent interview with pink film softcore porn star Chisa Hasegawa, the awesome Substack blog-newsletter Tokyo Calling has put out another cracker -- and we are very jealous. We don't know how Gianni Simone pulled it off but he managed to land an interview with a genuine soapland worker, and it's a sensitive and enlightening read. Accompanied by photos by Eric Rechsteiner, the intrepid Simone pays a visit to one of the many soaplands (a kind of bathhouse-style brothel) in Senzoku, the Tokyo area formerly known as Yoshiwara -- the city's most popular and renowned red-light ...

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It's almost time to declare taxes in Japan, so we were particularly amused by this story in the news. Tokyo Taxation Bureau has announced the punishment of a 27-year-old female employee at one of its branches for breaching its rules on civil servants having side jobs. The nature of the side job probably didn't help. The unnamed woman was actually working at a soapland as a sex worker. For her troubles, she has been handed down a nine-month suspension, the bureau announced at the end of January. She was working at soaplands from October 2020 to January 2022 at weekday nights and on days ...

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The tabloid magazine Weekly Bunshun has published an interview with someone they give the alias Yuna Ishihara, who is apparently a 24-year-old student at Tokyo College of Music. But she also appears in adult video and works at a soapland in Yoshiwara, Tokyo's long-established red-light district in the east of the city. But due to the pandemic, her income of ¥900,000 (around $9,000) a month has massively decreased, leading her to take up papakatsu. As reported before, this is a euphemism for compensated dating with older men (sugar daddies). The principle is hardly new but the term has ...

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We are currently enjoying the delights of 21-year-old G-cup porn goddess Rika Tsubaki (椿りか). Naturally, we are doing this courtesy of videos we find online and DVDs we can rent from the good folks at Tsutaya, whose adult section at the Shinjuku-Kabukicho store is superb. But we want more than our eyes and hand can give. For those times, we reach for the Muriyari Gokubuto Rika Tsubaki Mouth Onahole, a new toy from A-One and available globally via our trusty friends at Kanojo Toys. Correct us if we're wrong, but we think this is Rika Tsubaki's first official collaboration adult ...

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Who doesn't like to get clean? And getting clean intimately with someone else is even more fun, hence the soapland is such a wonderful experience. Seriously, you haven't lived until you've tried a nurunuru massage at least once. One of the features of a soapland can be a stool for the male client to sit on while his female partner attends to his special region. The stool is designed to allow particularly close access to his under-area. We spotted our friends at Kanojo Toys offering a great update on this seat: the Luxury Sex Chair. It's deluxe but also minimal. The new style of ...

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Every month in Japanese adult video brings many new porn debuts (shinjin). In October alone, we've spotted debuts from the svelte Mari Sano (佐野まり), 42-year-old jukujo mother (with milky breasts) Miyuki Nishino (西野美幸), the sporty Mana Tsuchiya (土谷まな), college girl Hinami-chan (ひなみちゃん), and Chihiro Konoha (木葉ちひろ). The latter two are purported to be a mere 20 years old, like Ichika Hoshimiya, who also released her own impressive first AV title this month. How is an avid AV fan meant to keep up? And that's just the major debuts, let alone all the ...

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It's one of the famous perks of the digital age: all kinds of funny things can be spotted on Google Street View for those willing to trawl through all the images. Thankfully, there's already plenty of websites out there detailing the images of people wearing strange clothes or doing weird things. Of course, Japan has its own memorable examples and the local version of Street View even lets you take a virtual tour of love hotels. Well, you can now spot something decidedly kinky down in Wakayama Prefecture. Google Street View has unwittingly captured a woman arriving (or leaving?) a ...

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A few days ago, we reported on one of the more surprising (if less spectacular) images from the recent typhoon that hit Japan -- in this case, sending a pair of panties flying splat onto a car window. Typhoon Jebi was quickly followed by a strong earthquake in Hokkaido in northern Japan that has killed dozens. It has also left many areas in Hokkaido without power. It is a major emergency for the prefecture and in times like this, people need to pull together and help each other out. It is in this spirit that a soapland in central Sapporo has, reports the Sankei Shimbun (and picked up by ...

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