Staged Seduction: Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club is a new book by Akiko Takeyama, published by Stanford University Press. It is an ethnographic study of the men and women who produce and consume ...

Tenga is back -- and we mean they are BACK. Because it's return of the Flip Hole, Tenga's biggest hit of all. After the Black, White, Silver and Red versions, followed by the more compact Flip ...

Yoshiwara was the main red-light district (yukaku) in Edo, the old name for Tokyo. Its legacy continues to resonate today: the area remains full of soaplands and prostitutes, and other parts of the ...

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 ...

A woman who fell asleep on a train woke up to find herself abducted and trapped in the home of a man she did not know. The 28-year-old company employee from Adachi ward in east Tokyo was allegedly ...

Ahead of the release in July of her new photo book, a preview image of Minami Minegishi has come out showing the slinky idol doing the classic semi-nude "hand bra" (tebura) pose. While pretty tame ...

As we know, virtual reality is big right now and that includes for the adult market. This isn't from the recent Adult VR Festa but the geeks and tech event, Niconico Chokaigi 2016, held in April, ...

Ami Tomite becomes the latest former AKB48 idol to strip off and show us her nude body. Granted, the pictures are "censored" for weekly tabloid publication but these are essentially verging on ...

The recent interest in Japanese AV performers' labor and human rights continues to develop. It's one of the big stories of the year so far. Following the arrest mere days ago of a porn performer ...

The AV industry in Japan is not all take, take, take. It likes to give back, too. The "boob aid" annual event is one of the best examples of this, in which porn stars let their breasts be groped ...