All those hundreds of thousands of office ladies slaving away in Japan's corporations are not as bored or subservient as you might think.
An online survey by konkatsu "marriage-hunting" web portal Aikatsu asked 1,162 women if they had had sex with someone from their workplaces. More than three in four women admitted to having slept with a coworker.
Given the amount of time that many Japanese people spend at their companies as well as the relatively high number of social events that take place among colleagues, especially nighttime drinking, it is not surprising that many relationships ...
We know that adultery is quite common in Japan, especially among men -- and that's probably before you even start thinking about the various sex services out there for the guys to try if things get stale.
But women are not holding back anymore. The rapid growth of services like Ashley Madison and the popularity of TV dramas like Hirugao with Aya Ueto suggest that women are also keen to dip their toe into the big ocean of extramarital affairs. Several high-profile cases have exposed this. For every Ken Watanabe there's a Yuki Saito and Aoi Miyazaki. Even Becky, though not married herself, ...
Following our post on what age Japanese women have their first kiss, we found a related survey that tries to find out if Japanese women kiss guys on the first date or if they wait it out.
The results of the survey, which had 6,510 responses, suggest that Japanese man and women are slightly modest but that a very healthy number (27%) are willing to smooch on the first date.
Here's the breakdown.
1. On the third date (2,127 people)
2. On the first date (1,753 people)
3. On the second date (1,146 people)
4. On or after the fifth date (910 people)
5. Upon marriage (184 ...
A survey set out to discover at what age Japanese women have their first kiss.
The results, taken from 2,350 women polled online, show disparity between different ages and prefectures.
The oldest average ages were in Nara and Aichi, where women were 19.1 years old when they had their debut smooches. This was closely followed by Ishikawa with 18.7 years old. Aichi is the strange one here, since it is the prefecture with Nagoya, Japan's fourth largest city (after Tokyo, Yokohama, and Kyoto).
The youngest age for women to start kissing was in Tokyo, where women experienced their first ...
A survey by Himawari Life Insurance, ostensibly related to its breast cancer awareness efforts, asked 1,000 Japanese women (250 each in their twenties, thirties, forties, and fifties) about their breasts.
Asked to rate their own breasts on a scale of 1 to 100, the average was 46.1, which we find rather disappointing.
Even more unequivocal, however, was the response to the most important question in the survey: Do you like your breasts?
I like them: 4.8%
I kinda like them: 16.3%
I don't like them very much: 25.5%
I don't like them at all: 19%
I neither like nor dislike ...
We stumbled upon a report of yet another survey that basically claims that many young Japanese no longer want romance in their lives.
One in four young Japanese people apparently claim that "love is a pain in the butt".
Japanese matchmaking service Partner Agent recently polled a total of 1,960 men and women between the ages and 20 and 29 or 40 and 49. Among the questions asked were "Do you want to have a romantic relationship, or do you think that romance is an inconvenient pain?" Among the 20-29 demographic, 24.5 percent were of the latter opinion.
Almost half of the young ...
A masturbation survey of Japanese men has identified the place in Japan where people masturbate the most as well as other useful factoids.
The National Male Masturbation Survey 2017 examined the current state of male self-pleasure. A total of 5,279 men aged between 15 and 64 around Japan were asked questions about their masturbation habits.
Onanism is biggest in Kanagawa Prefecture, it seems, with an average of 3.77 jerks a week. Several other prefectures followed closely behind. Incidentally, national average was 2.94 times per week. Does that seem a lot or a ...
What kind of female body do Japanese men and women find most attractive?
It's a big question and a popular common one. Judging by what we tend to see all around us every day in advertising and in the media, "slim and slender" would seem the obvious answer.
But is it?
There is currently something of a trend for sporty and active-looking women.
Certain "strong" and muscular women have also attracted a following, not least baseball gravure idol Ami Imamura.
And we've been saying for years that curvy ladies are hotter. Our favorites include Haruka Ayase, Saaya, Ayaka Sayama, and ...
Have Japanese breasts reached a tipping point?
That's what underwear brand Triumph is suggesting in its latest Lingerie White Paper, which indicates a continuing trend towards larger busts.
Sales for its A-cup bras have fallen from 58.6% in 1980 to just 4.1% in 2016
The results for the last two years are tallied below:
A-cup sales (2015): 4.7%
A-cup sales (2016): 4.1%
B-cup sales (2015): 19.5%
B-cup sales (2016): 19%
C-cup sales (2015): 26.1%
C-cup sales (2016): 25.6%
D-cup sales (2015): 24.8%
D-cup sales (2016): 25%
E-cup sales (2015): 16.7%
E-cup sales (2016): ...
The question of Japanese bush is one that preoccupies much of our waking life.
Too much or too little? For women who obsess about shaving almost every follicle elsewhere on the slender bodies, the bush is often an oasis of relatively unkempt hirsute charm: allowed to bloom and grow. It's thus sometimes a shock (pleasant or not) to encounter women who trim, wax or fully shave down there (paipan), even though this is very common elsewhere in the world.
But what about the guys?
Panasonic is suggesting that more and more men in Japan are seriously grooming their bodies, including ...
