We've looked at surveys before -- from men who never date to the best breasts, habits and the most-viewed Wikipedia pages.
Now Sagami, one of Japan's leading condom makers, has released the results of a big nationwide survey, Nippon no Sex, it did in January this year.
It surveyed 14,100 men and women online (plus 29,315 in a pre-survey), aged from their twenties to their sixties, and from all of Japan's forty-seven prefectures.
The results are a little alarming in places, such as that 40.6% of Japanese males are still virgins (as opposed to just 25.5% of women), and that the average ...
With the ink on her 2012 divorce to an Austrian actor still fresh, singer Ayumi Hamasaki is rumored to have taken up with another "white" lover.
The pair were spotted at a luxury resort in Bali, where they apparently shared the same hotel suite.
Ayumi seems to have been around for an eternity, though she is only a mere 34 years old. Last year she had a relationship with a dancer, but it was over before it even really registered.
She had a notorious short-lived marriage to Austrian actor Manuel Schwarz, which ended in late 2011/early 2012, ostensibly due to Ayumi wanting to spend ...
Want to canoodle with a former AKB48 idol? Just go to one of Erena Ono's "handshaking" events.
Such meet-and-greet sessions are controversial staples of the AKB48 itinerary, and since graduating from the idol supergroup in 2010, Erena has been using similar tactics to entice fans to buy more CDs.
After purchasing a copy of her new album (Erena's first solo release), you were allowed to meet Erena -- and it seems she is being very rewarding these days if you get the three editions of the CD. At an event over several days last week, such fans had their photos taken with a Cheki ...
The days of deai-kei websites are looking numbered as high-profile cases of arrests and suing continue.
Deai-kei sites are ostensibly dating sites, though many are actually run all by men, who pose as women -- sometimes as idols -- in order to extract fees over long periods of time.
Police arrested the thirty-four-year-old executive of a deai-kei company earlier this month, along with the nine part-time men and women who worked there -- no doubt as the "voice" of the women deceiving the men by email. The company, Wingnet, has sales in excess of 10 billion yen. An arrest warrant has ...
Another day, another new brand opens up a store in Tokyo. This time it's Desigual, the Spanish clothes shop, which held a "seminaked [sic] party" to celebrate the opening of its new Japanese branch in Harajuku on June 22nd.
People started to appear the night before and numbers had already exceeded the 100 limit by nine o'clock when the reception opened.
Why? Because if you came wearing a swimsuit, you could take home whatever you wanted in the store -- for free!
The folks waiting outside were given gowns to wear and protect their modesty, but once inside they were semi-naked ...
Ama are Japanese free-divers who are usually women and are most famous for fishing for pearls.
The mermaids dive into the sea with no equipment and just a net to get their catch, and are often naked except for a fundoshi.
Eishin Ozaki has been taking photographs of the mermaids for half a century, starting in 1955 when he was in his thirties. Now 92, he continues to exhibit, though one suspects his diving days are over.
He went diving at Hegura, near Wajima in Ishikawa prefecture, but couldn't keep up with the local Ama female divers there. The go from the surface to the ...
The new "child porn" proposal put forward by the ruling LDP, the Komeito and Japan Restoration Party immediately stoked controversy in the manga and anime worlds, with insiders suggesting it would destroy the industries.
Now there is a suggestion that under the rules of the new law, even scenes from the famed and beloved kids' anime Doraemon wouldn't be safe from the censor's scissors.
Essentially it allows any depiction of under eighteen year-old people to be defined as child porn, and being caught with such filth can get you a year in jail or a hefty fine.
As part of the ...
We recently came across a bilingual interview with a hostess on Jagr Magazine. It seems genuine, though the hostess is apparently not Japanese (shame!).
Here are some highlights.
Interviewer: How does a hostess club work?
Hostess: I came to Tokyo years ago, and I never knew what a hostessing job was, but my dad's friend told me if you want easy money, hostessing's the right job because you're a pretty girl.
I thought hostessing was escorting, but it's actually like a relationship with the men. Ginza hostessing clubs are five stars. The one that I worked at was one of the top three ...
A three-party group has put forward a bill proposing to extend the ban on so-called child porn to anyone even just possessing it.
The ruling LDP and its allies Komeito and Japan Restoration Party (led by Shintaro Ishihara and Toru Hashimoto) proffered the new bill to the Diet at the end of May.
The manga and anime industries have already reacted in horror to the new draconian bill.
But what does this mean for the law and the average person?
Well, if you are just possessing a picture showing a Gravure idol or swimwear idol under 18, then you are liable for arrest. "Possession" ...
Some people to go to ANY lengths to catch a glimpse of the holy grail, it seems.
Hyogo police have arrested a twenty-six-year-old company employee from Kobe for hiding in a 30-by-45-inch grate in the side of the road in order to spy on girls' panties as they went by.
Yasuomi Hirai has admitted his guilt.
Around 10am on June 5th, he was spotted at a grate opening in Kobe after having entered the roadside drain via a space twenty meters away.
Nearby there is a girls' college and girls' high school, and many of the students would pass by. Hirai also lived nearby.
A ...
