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 ...
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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" ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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