Not all manga is One Piece and Doraemon, you know! Akira Narita is a Japanese mangaka (comic book artist) who gained a cult following for writing manga about his experiences with girls at ...

Just when you think Yasushi Akimoto and his minions cannot go any further... they do. AKB48's latest sell-out, a TV commercial for Puccho, sees them dancing to the sounds of their own "music" ...

This has been floating around for a little while now but we wanted to spread the word about this "Japanese porn cultural exchange" campaign, a fundraiser looking for backers to help them make a porn ...

K-Pop girl group KARA were asked at a recent press conference what they thought about Takeshima/Dokdo. Naturally, not being politicians, it is unfair to call on them in this way... but journalists ...

After police predicted an unprecedented amount of fans would gather, the last chance to "meet" Atsuko Maeda while she is still a member of terrible pop "music" band AKB48 has been cancelled at the ...

Another one bites the dust. Yuko Sugamoto from HKT48, the Fukuoka spin-off of AKB48, has announced she is quitting. It is an open secret that this is due to her management finding out about a ...

As much as we love Korea, K-Pop, Korean food and Korean girls, the continuing furore over the island of jagged rocks that is Takeshima/Dokdo has been causing some upsetting silliness over on the ...

American reputations in Japan are not the best, it has to be said, especially if you happen to be a member of the military forces stationed at various points around the country. But we wonder if ...

Something strange has happened. Despite having said that AKB48 just had no genuinely sexy members -- except, perhaps, at a push Haruna Kojima -- I've been changing my mind recently about at least one ...

The Magic Mirror Car (or "MM Go") is a great trope that pops up in many Japanese porn films. It takes a truck with one side converted into a "magic mirror" (one-way glass) so you can see the world ...