Japanese men famously like to be mothered and pampered. This culture starts with the housewife mothers who have little to do but tend to their every needs, and then continues with their female ...

Forget Cornelius, Noise and all that. It seems that Japan's reputation in the world of electronic dance consists of little more than the country that has both technology and horny people. To be ...

Our lavish lady this fine summery week is Mari Hasumi (蓮見茉莉). Unlike most of the girls we feature on our regular Idol of the Week column Mari is not a Gravure model but a Japanese porn star. ...

Forget Fifty Shades, sado-masochism infiltrates all walks of life in Japan, it seems. Including anime cover hug pillows. Hug pillows (dakimakura) are of course the pillows designed to be "hugged" ...

Our scrumptious specimen this week is the slinky gravure model Rei Toda (戸田れい). Born in 1987, Rei is now approaching 30 and so likely to reach the end of her career, though she continues to ...

Will this finally take the crown for AKB48 Fan of the Century? As reported by our friends at JapanTrends.com, one admirer of Yuki Kashiwagi has succeeded in making a working android of her, the ...

What to do about Japan? Its population is aging and its birth rate is falling. That's the double whammy and not a week goes by without some new farfetched plan being proposed by some idiotic ...

It's probably uncontroversial to say that Japan is a culture in which more men use professional sex services than in many other countries. Japanese men have few qualms about using call girls and ...

Artist and manga-ka Megumi Igarashi is not afraid to shock, in spite of her innocent smiles. After all, this is a young woman whose artist name is Rokudenashi-ko (Good-for-nothing girl) and who calls ...

We know this is going to be a divisive release -- and that's why we're blogging about it. Over at Kanojo Toys, they have a JAV porn DVD for sale called "Rina-chan Best". "Rina-chan Best" is a ...