What a waste?! I hope they lock this guy up!
Sadly, police say they are unlikely to charge Hideaki Adachi, who was discovered dumping waste in a public park in Osaka City. This in itself is an offense but it's what he was dumping that has made the headlines: porn. Lots and lots of porn.
Adachi disposed of almost a quarter of a ton of pornography. After he was caught in the act, he claimed the stash was a friend's and he was getting rid of it.
How much is a quarter of a ton of porn? Apparently it's 17 sacks -- containing films, magazines, and 500 VHS video tapes (remember those?). He ...
The Japan Society of Sexual Science has completed a large survey of sexual habits among middle-aged and elderly couples, investigating Japan's chronic issue of "sexlessness".
Surveying sexual activity among 1,162 middle-aged and older men and women, the results show intriguing trends for the reality of Japanese relationships.
The survey was conducted between January 2011 and December 2012, with men and women living in the Kanto region (which includes Tokyo, Yokohama, Saitama, Chiba etc.) aged between 40 and 79. The average age of male respondents was 59.5 and for women it was ...
We saw an interesting story first shared on Tokyo Reporter, which appeals to our sense of the fetishistic.
Tokyo cops have busted a special parlor in Takadonobaba, near Shinjuku, where male customers could go to smell Japanese schoolgirls in private rooms.
The manager, one Takanori Izuchi, was a mere 33 years old but he was boldly running the aptly-named Pure Doll JK Community near the JR Station on the Yamanote Line. It's not the smell fetish per se that's the issue here. Izuchi and another employee were arrested for hiring actual teenagers to let male patrons sniff them in their ...
We already know that there's a strong subculture in Japan for cross-dressing -- and one which doesn't fit easily into any western ideas of gay culture -- but here's something new.
Metrosexual Japanese men worried about their nipples showing through t-shirts may be turning to these nipple stickers to cover up.
There are several products out there on the market, it seems. The "Nipple Shields" by Tex Mex are marketed as "fashion help for men", especially young high-fliers in the business world who don't want their muscular chests with pokey nipples showing through their tight white ...
That's the question that Time Out Tokyo asked its readers online back in August.
Unfortunately we have no idea how many people answered and what proportion were looking at its Japanese website or English one -- so this could in fact just be a handful of people's preferences.
Still, beggars can't be choosers and in the absence of another similar survey, we were amused to look at the results.
The biggest surprise is the main question about favorite position.
Doggy-style won, followed by cowgirl. While most people probably pretend in a survey to be more adventurous than they are and are ...
Okay, we've very late with this -- a quick search reveals people were talking about this back in 2012! But for some reason we've only just found out about it and it's so cool, we wanted to blog it now, two years after everyone else.
Sexual harassment is a serious issue in Japan -- especially in the workplace. The problem is so ingrained now some women have given up on finding a solution.
But Etsuko Ichihara and Taiki Watai's attitudes towards sexual harassment is certainly novel, even if we're not sure if it makes it better or worse.
They take that most phallic of Japanese root ...
Japanese sexy lingerie brand Ravijour has held its first solo strip show -- sorry, we mean fashion show. To look at the pictures, it's an easy mistake to make!
Models include Elli Rose, Mayuko Arisue and Natsumi Yoshida strutted their stuff on October 8th and showed off their slinky bodies in Roppongi to celebrate 10 years of one of Japan's two main drop-dead-hot lingerie lines (the other is Peach John).
I know we write about Japanese lingerie like Ravijour perhaps a bit too much on this blog, despite it being a bit too ordinary to qualify for "kinky". It's just ...
Our friends over at Japan Trends picked up on a very funny about this pop-up cafe about to open this weekend in Harajuku where women (we presume only women) can get the experience of being pressed up against a wall by a hunky guy.
This is known as kabe-don in Japan and typically sees a hot guy with his hand on the wall by the girl's face. She has her back for the wall and her face angled up, waiting for him to plant a smooch on her lips.
Only at the Morinaga Kabe-don Cafe, the "hunk" is a mannequin.
Yes, we're not kidding. If you go to the cafe and try one of two new Morinaga dessert ...
We've been reading some interesting reports about goings-on in Osaka, which despite its inferior size compared to Tokyo, is often the first to try certain trends. And we suspect this might be the case here.
Following a recent series of arrests and police raids on "suspicious" maid cafes and schoolgirl "massage" parlors in Akihabara and elsewhere, the JK girl services are rebranding to get around the child labor laws. Now the high school girl parlors as so-called taiiki-suwari cafes.
A new addition to the Japanese erotic lexicon!
These cafes of course have a no-touching policy. ...
It's that time of year again. Every year we snigger gleefully at the return of the "flip-a-skirt" calendar.
The tribute to groping in paper form allows you to see the dates by literally lifting up the skirt of a cute girl!
And the best thing is that it is a high school girl's skirt too! She even has cute knee-high socks on.
And just to make the men feel better, note that the calendar is designed by a female designer (Kaori Kato) -- so it can't be sexist, right?
Available in blue or gray, the concept and look of the 2015 calendar is much the same as in previous years. After ...
