Triumph, Japan's wackiest bra brand, has released its 15th Lingerie White Paper -- a report on the underwear trends of Japanese women. Triumph has been doing this survey since 2000 and releases it to the press in May every year. And this year's report contains some good news for any who have bemoaned the chopping-board poverty of Japanese girls' breasts. Based on its own product sales from 2014, it has organized the results per Japanese women's breast size: A cup – 5.3% B cup – 20.5% C cup – 26.3% D cup – 24.1% E cup – 16.2% F cup – 6% In 2000, when the ...

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A survey with 3,000 Japanese women about one-night stands reveals some nice findings, though we always knew that Japanese girls are far from innocent. Asking women with an average age of 42 (experience!), this is a pretty balanced poll by News Post Seven. On average, 39% of women admitted to one-night stands. And the "sluttiest" prefecture in Japan? That accolade goes to Miyazaki in Kyushu, since 61.5% of the woman from there said they had had a one-night stand. Up in the chilly north of Aomori, 60% admitted to one-night stands. With Fukushima at third and Kumamoto and Oita ...

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According to an article on Nikkan Gendai, a quarter of Japanese girls have experience working in what is euphemistically known as mizu-shobai. This can apply to full-on hostesses but also just girls working in "snack" bars, girls' bars, and so on. The article quotes a survey of 3,563 women around Japan asking if they have experience working at night at a kyabakura (cabaret, a type of hostess club) or snack bar. 23% answered yes. If we add in how many have experience working in prostitution or in AV, the numbers grow bigger still. According to one specialist writer, then ...

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We've just discovered this great spread that Weekly Playboy (Japan) magazine ran in October 2013. It features the lovely naked talents of Mana Sakura and her body. Mana Sakura, as readers of this blog will surely know, is one of Japan's top porn stars. She and her curvy flesh are lusciously photographed to illustrate a survey done on sex habits. As we love these kinds of sex surveys -- and love pictures of naked Japanese girls -- we couldn't resist, despite it being a bit old now. Indulge us! Weekly Playboy asked 100 amateur (i.e. not professional porn stars) Japanese girls ...

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It seems rarely a week goes by without another survey appearing in the media with worrying stats confirming that Japan is "sexless". Sekkusu-banare, the media dubs it -- literally "drifting away from sex". Well, a survey carried by the Japan Family Planning Association has some shocking results: around half of Japanese married couples are "sexless." Apparently we shouldn't be worried about the "herbivore men" (soushoku danshi) so much as the "fasting men" (zesshoku danshi). The survey, the seventh by the Association since 2002, was carried out last September with 3,000 men and women ...

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Another day, another media article about sexlessness in Japan. This time it was an article by Jiji that got republished on The Japan Times. It focuses on a survey from last September by the Japan Family Planning Association about married couples. It found that 49.3% of people said they had had no sex in the past month. "There was a disparity in the sexes," the article claims, though in fact the numbers are almost the same: 48.3% for men were sexless, 50.1% of women. So around half of people don't have sex! Of course, it's natural that married couples have sex less frequently ...

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Ignition, a newish English-language online magazine about Japan, has published an article on "Japan: The Sexless Nation". The article is actually a translation of a piece that appeared in a Japanese newspaper, by Kaku Sechiyama, a professor at University of Tokyo. It is provocative, to say the least: Japan has the lowest sexual frequency in the world, and it is the only country where the percentage of people who are not happy with their sex life is higher than that of those who are. In 2005, out of people in 41 countries, Japan ranked lowest -- with an average of sex just 45 ...

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A new survey by Recruit Marketing Partners has some shocking results. 41.6% of men in their twenties say they have never had a girlfriend. Only 26.% of unmarried people in their twenties, thirties or forties say they have a lover. On the other hand, before we write off the Japanese male as a "sexless beast" -- 64.% said they "want a lover", so perhaps the issue is just one of working too long and not having the time to chase after a partner. We've seen this kind of sex and relationship survey before and they always seem to have headline-grabbing results: 45% of Japanese women ...

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... is the implication we can draw from data recently released by Hakuhodo as part of its Seikatsu Teiten project, an overview of survey data collected biennially on households on a range of questions. The results show some trends and changes in the national psyche, though interestingly this one, responding to the statement "I don't mind having sex on the first date if our feelings match", has hardly changed. It is now a solid 23.4%, up only 0.9% since the data started being collected in 1994. I guess attitudes towards sex on a first date are pretty established now. The highest ...

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That's the question that Time Out Tokyo asked its readers online back in August. Unfortunately we have no idea how many people answered and what proportion were looking at its Japanese website or English one -- so this could in fact just be a handful of people's preferences. Still, beggars can't be choosers and in the absence of another similar survey, we were amused to look at the results. The biggest surprise is the main question about favorite position. Doggy-style won, followed by cowgirl. While most people probably pretend in a survey to be more adventurous than they are and are ...

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