We've talked before about Edo era Tokyo sex shops. Well, the locals also had their own sex dolls as well, called Azumagata Ningyo (吾妻形人形).
After purchasing your "dutch wife" from Yotsumeya, you took the Tenga of its day back home for some fun. It was a crude device, something like a picture school, covered with a bundle of clothing, but made from Tortoiseshell material and so could be heated up with hot water for the natural touch. The piece de resistance was surely the "onahole", in this case a leather pouch.
We should point out that there seems to be no serious historical ...
An otaku engineer has devised a system so that his lust for idols will not be hampered by the constraints of the 2D. Now he has created a poster that can respond to being "kissed", perfect for reenacting his fantasies of making out with his favorite fantasy girls.
We love how the young guy who developed the poster is so flagrant about his motivations:
I'm a big fan of pop idols, and I have posters of them in my room. It bugged me that the posters didn't move at all. We built this system because we thought, if a poster could move to match people's movements, that would be interactive ...
After being snapped going home with her boyfriend recently (I love the smile on her face, is she thinking about the upcoming hanky-panky?), the hot haafu Japanese-French TV presenter Hélène Hayama has announced she is to marry.
There's been lots of celebrity marriages announced in the past few weeks, including singer Takako Uehara, Korean actress Jun Ji-hyun, and model Miyuki Koizumi (pictured below).
So, here's the big question: Does it mean you no longer find the girl or idol so hot?
Or take a lovely actress like Yuka Itaya. She's just had a second child. Does that lessen ...
You can rely on the Japanese to celebrate what's best about the world.
In Komaki, Aichi prefecture in central Japan, there exists the Honen Matsuri, a fertility festival held at Tagata Shrine in mid-March.
A festival that asks for a good harvest, the highlight is certainly the massive phallus that processes around the shrine. Unfortunately, despite the multitude of gods in the Shinto universe, in fact the cock is not worshipped as a deity in its own right.
Even more famous is the Kanamara festival at Kanayama shrine in Kawasaki, that features a massive pink cock and apparently grow ...
We talk a lot about idols and porn stars on this blog.
But there are plenty of sexy intelligent Japanese women too, you know! Here we introduce you to some of the very best.
Crystal Takigawa (b. 1977) is a former news reader, sadly now turned into a generic and ubiquitous model.
Mieko Kawakami (b. 1976) is an award-winning novelist, singer and actress. Born in Osaka, she recently got married for the second time to a fellow writer.
Mariko Asabuki (b. 1984) is another novelist from Kansai and very pretty as well!
Kasetsu (b. 1975) is a contemporary calligrapher. Not ...
Shock news of the week! Atsuko Maeda (前田敦子), probably the most popular and famous member of AKB48, has suddenly announced she is quitting the idol super group!
At a concert on Sunday she made the surprise announcement to thousands of fans, while choking back tears and being comforted by the other girls. It is apparently an individual decision, made in consultation with AKB48 supremo Yasushi Akimoto.
Atsuko entered AKB in 2005 when she was just 14 and now she is heading towards adulthood -- or age 20 -- she said she had to make a new. No doubt she will head onto other and ...
Adultery is often far more tolerated among couples in Japan than in other countries. Especially older women accept that their husbands will shop around occasionally.
When the shoe is on the other foot, though, things work out differently...
A Kanagawa public official, Gen Noda (47), recently suspected his wife was having an affair. No man to take this lying down, he began following his wife.
Soon enough he rumbled her entering a "hotel" with another man, a company employee. Despite the flagrant adulterer's younger age, the cuckold wouldn't stand for this effrontery -- and promptly ...
The makers of popular Japanese SNS Ameba Pigg decided recently to change the hit game's policy so that even the under fifteen could join.
However, this set off a storm of protest from current users, with some 30,000 comments being left on the staff blog post.
Well, anyone concerned about the new mood at Ameba Pigg might rather want to consider how it might spice things up, especially when you hear about the Ameba community fan site, Pigg H, which is basically a porn version!
In addition to making your avatars having twosomes and threesomes with others, the site includes "erotic ...
Now THIS is the reason why I have a smartphone!
We've just come across this fun and sexy app, WETTY by miniskirted police that lets you practice stripping girls' clothes off! You use a water gun to get the ladies wet and then make them lose their apparel.
Not quite as good as the famous rip "Mosatsu app", based on the photo book series, but this is in so many ways a kind of chikan practice game!
Sadly the real Japanese cops, on the rare occasion you see a woman police officer, never wear miniskirts. Nor do they look like ...
Shun Oguri, one of Japan's best-looking actors, is to marry his long-term girlfriend, the model, Yu Yamada.
They've been a famous celebrity couple for four years now, in spite of rumors in recent years of Shun's infidelities with other ladies. His career also took a hit recently when he turned his hand to directing a film, only for it turn out a massive flop at the local box office.
Yu is the always smiling and personality-less celebrity model, best known for her long legs and clean-cut image.
My prediction? Like other recent celebrity marriages, it won't ...
