Ryoma Sakamoto was a famous figure the era when Japan shifted from a feudal nation to a modern one. He is one of the most popular samurais in Japanese history.
But it's also the name of a 30-year-old unemployed guy in Ome City, north Tokyo.
This Ryoma Sakamoto was informed by his girlfriend that she wanted to break up with him and the "samurai" was mighty pissed off. So pissed off he set about a plan of action, as any hero would.
His plan was revenge. And it involved home-made porn. Yes, it was, as it is known, "revenge porn."
He began to threaten his thirtysomething girlfriend who he ...
Caught in the act.
A smart lady has caught a man trying not too discreetly to snap a shot of her panties while sitting opposite her on the train.
She then put it on Twitter for the world to see.
If her tweets are to be believed, she would appear to be a high school student.
This kind of thing happens every day in Japan. There are lots of perverts on the trains, including so-called respected professionals.
It reminds us of this other incompetent snapper on a train, himself photographed being none too subtle about his under-the-skirt ...
That's right. That headline is not wrong.
This has to be one of the most awesome collaborations we've heard of in a long time and vindicates our years of campaigning for mainstream sex doll recognition.
Lady Gaga has teamed up with Orient Industry to make a sex doll molded on the Queen of Pop.
The result is the Gagadoll.
This is how Universal Music Japan describe it:
Japan's latest and finest technologies were put into the creation of the "GAGADOLL". It's the world's first life-size human-shaped listening station that closely resembles Lady Gaga. The bone conduction ...
We all have fantasies about sexy teachers. Some of us early adopters were even indulging in these as young as elementary school age.
Well, those fantasies exist for a reason. Because there are women like Hitomi Sugawara (27), an elementary school teacher from Yokohama who "assisted" in a porn shoot as an actress.
Hitomi was a music teacher but got involved with men making porn. The fruits of their labors was then streamed online for a fee. This plucky lass was trying to make a buck in the brave new world of internet porn. But in Japan, you cannot circumvent the big boys in the industry ...
The tabloid FRIDAY has snapped pictures of JAV porn star Makoto Yuuki entering the home of veteran TV personality and comedian Sanma Akashiya at around 11pm in mid-November and then leaving some 14 hours later.
Sanma Akashiya's daughter, IMALU, is a year older than Makoto (23), who is a former Race Queen and minor porn star.
This is Sanma.
And this is Makoto Yuuki.
...and leaving Sanma's home.
While I love Sanma on TV, I think the guy needs to get a reality check when it comes to his dating habits.
The horny devil was also reported to have gone on an intimate date with porn star ...
For all their rabid consumption of Japanese porn, a large amount of men in the country actually fantasize about marrying a different sort of girl.
The TV "announcer".
These are the intelligent girls who graduated from such colleges as Sophie University, she kind of girl you can have a conversation with and not be bored, and who would cook you something that goes with wine.
Women like Christel Takigawa, the thinking man's crumpet.
Ryoko Mima was born in 1984. For many years the weather presenter on a TBS morning show, she has been a been a middle-class favorite for a while -- ...
The Tokyo Motor Show is the biggest event in the calendar for Japan's huge automotive industry. It is the series of days in which it showcases its latest models and futuristic concept cars both for the world press, industry people and the general public.
There are lots of cars, motorbikes and other innovative forms of mobility.
But there are also girls. Lots of girls.
Known as "companions", these ladies are related to Race Queens in that their job is to stand near vehicles, hand out leaflets, pose of photos with the said vehicle, and just smile and look pretty all day. Actually, we ...
We're reaching that age when the ladies a little older than us who we loved as youngsters are getting to the tipping point.
Kanako Kojima (小島可奈子) is one. We've eulogized her assets before, this svelte, charming lady who does not mind trying her luck with the "hair nude" photo shoot.
Now comes the news that actress Kanako has had her first child at the age of 38.
She married a company director in 2011 and since then has been trying for a baby through artificial insemination.
She delighted people by putting on semi-nude pictures of her pregnant body on her ...
In early September we blogged about the exciting news that yet another former AKB48 starlet had made the logical jump from minor idol fame to JAV porn legend.
As one of our readers commented, "It almost seems that the girl groups are designed to create future porn stars."
So Risa Naruse (born 1993) was re-christened Haruna Aisaka and starred in "National Idol".
We've managed to get hold of some of "hair nude" full-frontal shots of Risa/Haruna so we can all revel in the what the AKB48 management pretend to keep hidden (while actually exploiting it fully, of course).
Note how ...
We all like a nice knob.
But some people like a knob more than others, especially the door knob.
While usually relegated to the purely functional task of opening or closing doors, knobs have other charms and two people have been exploring the girls who know this.
Photographer Ai Ehara and manga-ka/illustrator Ryuko Azuma started the Door Knob Girl project in order to gather images of young Japanese girls licking door knobs (and also, to be precise, door handles).
Yes, that's pretty much the gist of it.
It started in 2010 and in 2012 they released a photo book collecting some of ...
