It was announced at a press conference yesterday (March 4th) that idol super group AKB48 is now recruiting a new member. Nothing new in that. The difference is that the new girl will be over 30!
For a limited time only (April 12th to August 31st), the new 30-plus girl will join the youthful ranks of Japan's largest money-spinning musical machine.
Applications for the Otona AKB48 Auditions (Adult AKB48 Auditions) are now open and close on March 28th. Anyone can apply as long as they are over 30; you can be married or single, professional or a total amateur.
So do you think we can ...
A police officer from Kagawa Prefecture has been arrested for using his smartphone to photograph up the skirt of a female, disguising the camera underneath a legging that he was wearing so as not to contaminate a crime scene.
Mitsuru Higashiyama (35) was arrested in January and on February 28th it was announced that he was suspended for three months. He has also voluntarily resigned from his post.
Higashiyama had apparently used the same contraption at four places between February 2013 and January this year on five separate women.
"It was to satisfy my sexual appetites," he has ...
A researcher from University of Tsukuba has spent many valuable hours developing a way to make otaku dreams come true.
This system has been developed officially for "hospital patients" and it basically allows you to "sleep next to" a virtual character.
Scientists being the geeks they are, the explanatory images for the system naturally use Hatsune Miku as an example, as images doing the rounds on Japanese Twitter show.
This actually the same as the Hatsune Miku app/eye-pad device we wrote about at the end of last year.
Using the Oculus Rift headset for the head-mounted ...
Yesterday Tokyo Kinky went along to the opening day of Pink Tokyo, Japan's new adult expo at Differ Ariake on Tokyo Bay.
Running until Sunday March 2nd, Pink Tokyo is a chance to interact with sex toy makers and see events with Japanese porn stars and idols.
This is the first year it has been held and it was clearly a "test", since it was smaller than we expected. We still remember the Adult Treasure Expo AET at Makuhari Messe in 2007, which was bigger, with more booths and more interesting things happening around the "fair" part of the event. At Pink Tokyo there weren't any ...
Noriko Yabu is a 33-year-old artist who takes selfies.
Nothing special in that.
Except her surreal selfies are underwater, and she's naked.
Her series of images are called Suisou, which could be read as "aquarium" or "cistern" but the characters she uses mean "water funeral".
So is this a dead body in the water? Are we turning into necrophiliacs?
We find these immensely subtle and erotic, or are we revealing something about ourselves? Does no one else share this fetish?
There is a long tradition of water and sexuality in Japan. Nude scenes ...
We first heard about this cosplay dream at the end of last year. Bandai had worked with Peach John -- who know a thing or two about lingerie -- to create these fantastic Sailor Moon-themed underwear sets.
And then they sold out in days.
They promised a return and more stock. They re-launched last week and we spoke to our friends at KanojoToys.com about selling them globally.
Then the Sailor Moon cosplay lingerie sold out again. In one day. In all colors.
We think the high attention might have something to do with the fact that they got sexy model Rei Yasui to model the ...
The pizza delivery man is a staple motif of porn. But what about cute Japanese pizza delivery girls?
Or even pizza delivered by two-dimensional idols?
Love Live!, a collaboration between Dengeki G's Magazine and a record label, is an anime, manga, video game and series of music releases, set at the fictional Otonokizaka Academy, where a group of girls start up an idol band called μ's (pronounced "muse").
Since Valentine's Day until March 30th, the Pizza Hut Kanda branch has been operating as "Pizza Hut Otonokizaka" complete with Love Live! girls on the shutter, windows and even the ...
It seems the foreign media has just discovered what a love hotel is.
Only the other day we blogged about an article that held the love hotel industry up as a shining light in Japan's economic doldrums.
Now AFP have followed up with this recent video report to accompany the same article in which an intrepid camera crew interview a hotel manager about the love hotel system.
Pressing buttons, pay, get the key and then go up... "Discretion is guaranteed."
There is a nice touch where the camera lingers over a catalog advertising some sexy costumes.
It also features footage ...
After sizzling in previous titillating striptease TV commercial and titillating us with her luxurious body in the lingerie photo shoots, AKB48's only genuinely hot member Haruna Kojima is back with another sexy Peach John TV ad.
This time the scene is -- like a plot from a bizarre outdoor Japanese porn film -- a horse racing track! Haruna first shows off her body on the paddock where she parades her stead. Then she takes to the track to win the race and then promptly take off her clothes again to reveal her modeling the pink "work bra II", which is 20% lighter than a regular bra. All ...
This is a request to make a dream-come-true happen again.
In 2013 gravure model Yukie Kawamura starred in the TV adaptation of manga "Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches".
Kawamura, despite being 27, played Rika Saionji, the seventh "witch" and a high school student. But not just any high school student. Rika Saionji is a "no-pan" (no panties) schoolgirl!
Well, this is Fuji TV so there wasn't any actual nudity. However, Yukie revealed some tantilising details about her own commando experiences.
She says she often just lounges around completely naked when staying at hotels for work. And ...
