Back in 2019, we lamented the (fortunately temporary) closure of Osaka's red-light district Tobita Shinchi in a bid to stave off a crackdown by the authorities ahead of the G-20 summit. (Because the ...

Oh no. One of those surveys has appeared. Despite our best efforts to celebrate the diverse and exciting sexual landscape in Japan, these perennial surveys reporting on sexlessness in the country ...

Who's your favorite gravure idol? Who do you like to see grace the covers of the tabloid magazines every month? These are the questions constantly running through our minds on an almost daily basis ...

Hot Powers is best known as a retailer but it also produces its own toys to great acclaim and success. One example is the high-quality Favorite Things Hole, which take the best elements of a ...

How many idols find true happiness? Of course, the majority who do tend to retire and live the rest of their lives in quiet obscurity. The ones who remain in the news often do so because their ...

The revelation that the head of Japan's third largest opposition party, Yuichiro Tamaki, has been having an affair with a former gravure model, Miyuki Koizumi, sparked a media frenzy at the start of ...

Continuing a time-honored tradition of using up-and-coming celebrities for its models, the leading Japanese lingerie brand Peach John's new choice of model is announcer Kasumi Mori. Mori has ...

Over the years, we have seen a wide range of inspirations for masturbator toys, from numerous parodies of franchises to things like a hand grenade, heart, human brain, milk carton, or sea ...

The Japanese female TV announcers who present the news and other shows do pretty well, but some of them branch off to pursue even more successful careers in other fields: as a general celebrity ...

We are used to Japanese politicians, both male and female, having affairs with hostesses, party workers, foreign musicians, and even other lawmakers. But what about gravure idols? In a case that ...