Photographer Yasumasa Yonehara is up to his old tricks again. And boy are we grateful. We reported on his Runner's Pai series of videos earlier in the summer, which seemed to consist of nothing more than busty gravure idols running on treadmills because... just because. In July he organized a live music event called NDG Champion Carnival at Shibuya Club Asia, a nightclub located in the heart of Shibuya's "love hotel hill" (very handy, by the way), featuring the likes of Mai Tsukamoto running for all their worth while their assets bounce up and down. Just because. Yonehara exhorts ...

Remember Yasumasa Yonehara? Super big a few years ago, he's the instantly recognisable bald Japanese photographer with that habit of taking slutty pictures of slutty girls in hotel rooms. What a guy. Yes, he's one of those people who just proves that if you are cocky enough and say you are a photographer, you can apparently get almost any woman to pose for you. Perhaps that's why half the male foreigners we seem to meet in Japan claim to be photographers (the other half claim to be DJs). Yonehara has now turned his attention to swimwear. After all, it is summer. We have no ...

Today we wanted to introduce you to one of the premier image-makers of contemporary Tokyo erotica, photographer Yasumasa Yonehara. Yonehara is very much in the Araki mold of photography -- grainy, shaky, snapped-from-the-hip kind of shots... and filled with girls, boobs, legs. He seems to recruit his ladies in the clubs, take them back to hotels for shoots -- and then who knows what else?! If you can't make it to Tokyo for any of his gallery shows, he seems to occasionally have exhibitions in New York too. And his regular blog for Hypebeast is always guaranteed to have ...