The fertility/harvest festival held annually at Tagata Shrine in Komaki, Aichi, isn't as famous as the Kanamara festival, held near Tokyo, but is another example of an ancient Shinto event in which ...

The former HKT48 idol Haruka Kodama recently appeared on a TV variety show where guests were asked to give their insights on how a couple can improve their relationship. She gave one suggestion that ...

Japan is famously, perhaps infamously, a land of few condom users. To the chagrin of brands like Okamoto and Sagami, especially because they produce some the thinnest and best-quality condoms in the ...

Tea Friends is a new Japanese film about sex services for the elderly. A former sex worker called Mana (Rei Okamoto) runs the eponymous service, which she considers more like a community of "tea ...

A 54-year-old Japanese man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering an ex-music idol. Police in Fuchu arrested Akira Ishikawa on February 3 for killing a 24-year-old former idol called Sana ...

Our friends over at Kanojo Toys, the internet's largest source of Japanese adult items shipped globally, are having a sale for Valentine's Day. Starting this week and running through Valentine's ...

In October last year, we posted something about the extraordinary phenomenon that are the Rakuten Girls in Taiwan: the squadron of cheerleaders who entertain fans at games played by the Rakuten ...

There are peeping Toms and then there are peeping Toms. And these guys didn't do things by half measures. Shizuoka police have arrested a gang of peeping Toms who have been active for 30 years -- ...

Back when Ah, Wilderness (sometimes just Wilderness) came out in 2017, we inevitably took most interest in the nude sex scenes featuring a long-time favorite of this blog, the gravure idol Anna ...

Earlier this week we shared pictures of what retired gravure idol Yukie Kawamura now looks like in her late thirties, having seemingly embraced the role of married semi-rural mom. If Yukie's comely ...