At regular intervals, it is common to see media articles breathlessly discuss the future of sex and sexuality in terms of robotic vaginas and dolls, especially combined with augmented reality tech. ...

Has the woke brigade, as some disparagingly call it, finally caught up with Japan? The gentrification of Kabukicho is still ongoing and a new commercial complex, imaginatively called Kabukicho ...

Another day, another celebrity adultery scandal. Sometimes it feels like this. But there's something a little different about the latest (minor) scandal to hit the news. Yukie Joji is herself a ...

The former AKB48 idol Haruna Kojima has returned to gravure with her first shoot in six years. She appears in a cover shoot for Young Magazine's May 1 issue, which went on sale this week. As you ...

If Instagram is to be believed, everyone has a personal trainer these days and is obsessed with developing the perfect muscles. In Korea, it's called geongangmi (healthy beauty) and here in Japan ...

We all love to watch female streamers on Twitch, YouTube, and the like. And let's be honest, we pay as much attention during their streams to them as their actual content -- if not more. And if you ...

Ah, April. The glorious month of the cherry blossom (depending on where you are in Japan) and new starts, because both the academic and fiscal years begin. During April, youngsters up and down the ...

Police in Tokyo have arrested a 40-year-old man for employing a 17-year-old high school student. Takeshi Shikano runs a sex industry business in Ikebukuro. He has been arrested on suspicion of ...

In March, we wrote about the former Self-Defense Force nurse and sex worker running for election for a local assembly in Tokyo this month. Hasumin Yoshikawa has promised to debut in porn after the ...

The media narratives about Japan typically conform to a handful of familiar tropes: Japan is a sexless, childless hellscape, or Japan is a kinky, weird land of bountiful sexual fetishes. Of course, ...