Japan is a great nation of customizers, adapters, and modifiers. You can see it in the cuisine, which is often a fusion of different influences and turned into something new. It's also evident in ...

How to turn Japanese women on? Or even, how to turn just any women on? This is a question that keeps us up at night. Fortunately, there's plenty of advice out there if you know where to look. And ...

Gravure idol, YouTuber, and keen plastic model maker Umi Shinonome delighted us with her naked butt in her debut photo book released last year. Give the people what they want. It's an old adage but ...

Here at Tokyo Kinky, we pride ourselves on how we strive to keep up with the latest research and fieldwork. It's a tough job, but someone's gotta do it. And so when we see an academic article titled ...

We've always had a soft spot for Yuriko Yoshitaka, not least because her young debut means she seems to have been with us forever. She has one of the most recognizable faces in the land, plastered ...

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 ...