Sometimes, things do have a happy ending.
When AKB48's Minami Minegishi shaved her head back in 2013 to apologize for a sex scandal, it prompted immense controversy over the control that management has over idols' private/person lives, and sparked headlines around the world. Her tearful video, head shaven like a nun, was painful to watch (though images of Miichan seeming to pose happily for photos with her peers either just before or after suggested to some that the video was purely performative).
As a 20-year-old, she had to undergo a traumatic and humiliating experience in public just for ...
At Tokyo Kinky, we hope we don't moralize. We like to stay as open as possible, even -- and perhaps especially -- when the tastes do not match our own. And given the kind of content we share, we are hardly qualified to get on a high horse and start preaching to the masses.
As such, it is with a touch of bemusement that we are watching a dispute unfold, first on Twitter and now in the mainstream media.
An article titled "I am not alone -- we are all alone: Using masturbation as an ethnographic method in research on shota subculture in Japan" appeared in the respected academic journal ...
It seems like everyone is doing nude shoots these days, from Nana Asakawa to Kyouka, Mariya Nagao, and Aoi Fujino.
Nude shoots can be a great way to make a comeback or boost a flagging career, or even, as in the case of Kyouka, go out with a bang.
Multilingual gravure idol and actress Manami Shindo, however, has already set a precedent in past photo shoots in 2021 that showed off her naked butt and (under sheer/wet clothing) breasts. Those shoots marked Shindo's full entry into the world of gravure -- and what an entrance it was.
Now the 30-year-old has decided to go one step further and ...
So you've already got your breast-shaped fortune and your handwritten schoolgirl love letter.
The latest item available from Japan's capsule toy vending machines (gachapon or gashapon), which usually sell collectibles for kids, is a mini denma massager vibrator.
As regular readers or avid Japanese adult video viewers will know well, the denma "wand" is a massager-style vibrator that is popular with couples due to its wide, flexible head that can run all over the most sensitive parts of a female body.
Denma toys come in all shapes and sizes, plus there are various accessories for attaching ...
We came across an interesting interview with pink movie actress Chisa Hasegawa (長谷川千紗) in the excellent Substack newsletter Tokyo Calling. Here are some highlights.
As regular readers will know well, pink movies (pinku eiga) are softcore porn or sexploitation films that were immensely popular in Japan in the 1960s and 1970s, but were decimated by the rise of hardcore adult video in the 1980s and 1990s (as chronicled in The Naked Director). Nonetheless, the industry is still going, surviving thanks to the dedication of certain performers and producers, and eking out a tiny margin ...
The Japanese actress Yoko Shimada (島田陽子) has died, aged 69, from complications of colorectal cancer.
She was best known internationally for her English-speaking role in the miniseries Shogun from 1980, adapted from the James Clavell bestseller.
Shimada rose to fame in Japan in the 1970s as an actress and singer, and then capitalized on her role in Shogun and became a star in Japan (though more international roles were few and far between).
But it all came crashing down in the late 1980s, when an affair with the musician Yuya Uchida was exposed by the tabloids and all her work dried ...
Actors. Singers. Musicians. Sportsmen. Comedians.
Being one of these is apparently a sure-fire ticket into the panties of hot girls. It's a truism, indeed, but few would dispute it. And one that's certainly true in Japan -- even for porn stars.
Remember how we reported in 2021 about the comedian who was dating Japanese porn star Runa Shimotsuki?
Now comes the scoop from tabloid Weekly Friday that Akihiro Tabuchi of the comedy duo Indians is dating the gorgeous Suzume Mino (美乃すずめ).
The 37-year-old comedian was snapped with the 26-year-old beauty, who made her debut in the ...
We've written in praise before about sporty and muscular Japanese women, from actual athletes to nubile gymnasts.
So we were pleased to hear (perhaps rather belatedly) about this trend among women in South Korea for geongangmi, or "healthy beauty," which has led more women to embrace a larger, muscular physique over the slim and slender look that dominates the mainstream.
Korean female bodybuilders are not new, of course, but this is a more mainstream look that celebrities have promoted, such as pop star Hyolyn and popular actor and boxer Lee Si-young.
Traits included a strong tan and ...
Roshutsu outdoor/public sex is a big part of adult video in Japan and, thanks to Fantia and OnlyFans, there are also lots of amateurs trying to make a quick yen by making and posting their own videos.
But be careful, folks: the boys in blue are not as keen on your content!
Yuina Yamamoto was recently arrested with her boyfriend, Ryuken Yoshino, a restaurant owner in Nagoya, for public indecency.
The pair, who live together, were known for making sex tapes under the name RYO&YUU and posting them online to make money.
Since last summer, Yamamoto and Yoshino filmed videos and then ...
While Japan is always keen to promote its traditional culture to the world, the truth about it is sometimes complex and not altogether positive.
Geisha are one of the most iconic images associated with Japan, especially Kyoto. But in very simplistic terms, geisha were and remain not so different from modern-day hostesses in that they get paid to entertain patrons who were/are typically male, older, and wealthy.
There is, of course, still a culture of geisha today in places like Kyoto. One ex-trainee geisha (known as a maiko) has caused a stir by sharing some of the more unsavory facts about ...
