This Monday it's Coming-of-Age Day in Japan. On top of being a national holiday for everyone, if you are turning 20 you get to dress up in a kimono and attend a ceremony where you become a legal ...

The BBC has weighed in on the whole "Is-manga-child-porn?" argument with an online article and radio show with the balanced headline: "Why hasn't Japan banned child-porn comics?"? James Fletcher ...

Baymax protects the young male protagonist in Disney's Big Hero 6 but these are some heroes we'd like to protect ourselves. And they certainly live up to the "inflatable" bounce of the big-screen ...

Have you ever looked a homeless Japanese woman and wondered what it's like to have set with her? Homeless Japanese Old Women Gang Bang finds out for you. As we've written ...

What happens when otaku ask the gods for good fortune for the year ahead? Ita-ema, that's what. These are the ema plaques, usually hung on boards at Shinto shrines in Japan to ask for fortune ...

Good news if you want to support persecuted Japanese female artist Megumi Igarashi (aka Rokudenashiko). Known for her artworks modelled on her own vagina, she has produced glow-in-the-dark figures, ...

The sweetly named Chocolat Ikeda is a Gravure idol and tarento, with a body and face as delicious as her name. She was born in 1991 in Saitama and we hope has a long career ahead of ...

Be careful. With some prudent cropping, it's easy to be deceived. We've all be in one of those sketchy clubs and thought that girl in the corner looked hot, only to be disappointed when our hands ...

Here are some more cute cosplayer highlights from last month's Comiket 87, which was held at Tokyo Big Sight from December 28th-30th. Also check out our "companion" booth babe ...

In 2014 we loved how the selfie (known as jigadori locally) phenomenon took the Japanese porn star world by storm. Here is a selection of the some of the best pictures, from see-through cosplay ...