Uber Eats (and similar services) has become a part of daily life in Tokyo, with its bike couriers often seen shuttling around the city making deliveries. You know that something is an established ...

Toru Muranishi is probably Japanese porn's most notorious director and producer in. For years, a mythic figurehead of the excesses of the early years of the industry who lost it all, he is now known ...

The growing problem of syphilis in Japan is not new: we've been writing about it for years now. But it simples that it won't get better any time soon. Just when you think cases can't rise anymore or ...

A 40-year-old political candidate has allegedly fathered a child with a junior high school second grader. Masayuki Hiratsuka, who is the head of the Popular Sovereignty Party and advocates not ...

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police's chikan (molesting) app Digi Police (Digital Police) has won plaudits for recently leading to the arrest of a man in his fifties, who was allegedly groping the body of ...

One of the fascinations of this blog is with the afterlives of idols, whether music, gravure, or porn. What do the hordes of women do after their (frequently brief) moment in the spotlight is ...

A reader recently chided us for not writing about the Yumi Sugimoto's return to gravure (though we did post pics on tumblr). The truth is, even with "gravure comebacks," there are simply too many ...

It was surely inevitable. We all know that used panties is an infamous and genuine fetish in Japan (and elsewhere, of course), whose needs are served by various products sold by major companies as ...

Loosely adapted from the book by Jake Adelstein, the HBO series Tokyo Vice features nude scenes with several actors, both American and Japanese. Legion and Fargo star Rachel Keller is semi-nude in a ...

After losing his wife, the former TV announcer Mao Kobayashi, to cancer in 2017, the top kabuki actor Ebizo Ichikawa was reinvented in the public imagination as a sympathetic figure bravely battling ...