The Economist recently reported on the Japan's porn industry as it continues to respond to the coercion scandals that (belatedly) came out in the 2010s, and the legislation that politicians have ...

Earlier this week, we reported on the latest scandal to hit former Morning Musume member Ai Kago. A more recent member of the idol group is Haruka Kudo, who is 23 now but joined Morning Musume when ...

Last week, we reported on the sexual assault that Korean music artist DJ Soda suffered at a music festival in Osaka during a part of her performance on August 13 in which she got close to ...

The travails of former music idol Ai Kago continue. Once a member of long-running female idol group Morning Musume -- she was part of the same generation as Rika Ishikawa and Nozomi Tsuji -- she ...

It's one of the industry's open secret that most Japanese music and gravure idols are poorly paid. While it's natural to assume that a struggling musician or an underground (chika) idol has a day ...

Last week, Japan was hit by Typhoon Lan. While Tokyo just suffered a bit of rain and wind, the west side of Honshu had more serious weather conditions, and public transport ground to a halt. And ...

Japanese rope bondage master Osada Steve has launched the World Kinbaku Federation, a new organization that "strives to protect and preserve authentic kinbaku as practiced in Japan." Osada notes the ...

VR Instant Box Girls stars Ichika Matsumoto and, as the name suggests, is intended for watching with a VR device like the Oculus. As far as we can tell, this is a new series of AV by SOD Create and ...

Firefighters in Japan have a reputation for being pretty macho and sexually active. This reputation is arguably not unearned, as past scandals have shown. Remember the hunky firefighters who ...

Professional female cosplayers are some of the sexiest women in Japan, yet they tend to be confined to conventions and such events. Likewise, gravure idols are fixtures on the pages of weekly ...