We love a good comeback story.
After some time quietly doing her own thing on YouTube and Instagram, Yukina Kinoshita (木下優樹菜) has returned to the mainstream entertainment world.
As a kind of de facto apology for her recent scandals, the 34-year-old mother of two is releasing a nude photo book.
"CORRECT" is published by Futabasha and released on March 17. It's being publicized heavily as "nude," though the preview images we have seen so far are only semi-nude (in the classic "hand bra" pose, or tebura). We will update with more pictures when they become available. Hopefully this ...
Michaela Wako Sato (佐藤ミケーラ倭子) is the proud owner of probably the longest tongue in Japan, and possibly one of the longest in the world.
The 25-year-old is a former fashion model and member of idol group Idoling!!!, whose members included Ai Okawa and Rena Sato. As her name suggests, she is biracial (half Japanese, half Brazilian).
She is also very attractive, which gives her a consideration advantage when it comes to standing out among the host of other online personalities, each with their own schtick competing for clicks.
Naturally, such a long tongue has its merits -- ...
One of the strange things about the legal system in Japan is that though the rules on alimony and divorce settlements are far less strict than elsewhere -- especially if no children are involved (but joint custody also doesn't exist) -- there are some surprising things related to adultery. In short, if a spouse has an affair, the other spouse can sue their lover.
There are various conditions connected to this -- largely regarding if the spouse's adulterous lover knew of their marital status -- but it's common for the aggrieved party to seek financial damages. Since alimony per se doesn't ...
Why are loveless marriages so common in Japan? That's the question that prolific bilingual YouTuber Nobita sets out to answer in a recent video.
Note that he's not talking about sexless marriages per se. Obviously that's a factor here but his subject is marriages where love has faded, or even gone completely. That said, as he states at the start, the divorce rate in Japan is comparatively low, potentially meaning that many people are choosing to remain in a marriage with a partner they no longer love.
He focuses in the first part of the video on the case of a friend called Yuka, who has ...
A 24-year-old woman was arrested on January 22 after a 82-year-old man was found dead in a love hotel in Ikebukuro, Tokyo.
The man, Katsuzo Imano, was found in the room on the night of January 21, covered in blood and with box-cutter wounds on his chest. The money in his wallet was gone.
The suspect, Haruka Fujii, apparently called a former boyfriend immediately after the crime and then attempted to flee. Fujii, the ex-boyfriend, and his younger brother were apprehended at Nishi-Hachioji Station, just outside Tokyo, the following morning.
The image above shows Fujii shortly before she ...
One of the regular themes of this blog is the after-lives of gravure idols, models, adult video performers, and so on. What happens after they retire? What can do they do after their time -- often only brief -- in the limelight?
We had Reiko Nagaoka (永岡怜子) on our radar for a while in this regard, because she presents an interesting example. And then her story took an intriguing twist recently and we felt it was time to share.
She first worked in gravure in the 2010s under a different name: Una Shirakawa (白川卯奈).
Shen then switched to Reiko Nagaoka in around 2016, ...
Nana Suzuki has rewarded her many fans by going nude again -- about five years after her previous shoot.
This is what is technically classified as a "semi-nude" in Japan, since you don't see any nipples (much less bush), but Nana certainly looks stunning in profile and with much of her butt on view.
She's now 33 years old and balances mature quasi-jukujo allure with a yoga-toned slenderness.
A model since her high school days for magazine Popteen (and associated with another similar model Tsubasa Masuwaka), Nana is these days mostly a TV tarento famous for being famous, but is finally ...
We all love going to a love hotel. You get to feel a bit naughty, stealing away for a tryst in the middle of the afternoon, or it's just a fun way to end a date or have a one-night-stand.
With its amenities and fun facilities, especially in terms of the bed, lighting, and bathing, a love hotel is the kind of place where things seem to start and end at the door: everything you do inside can be kept hidden from the world or the rest of your life.
Little wonder, then, that they are the places of choice for sex workers to meet clients or for couples having an affair to meet.
But you may never ...
Have you ever wondered which part of Japan has the most love hotels in terms of population density? These are the kinds of questions that keep us up at night.
We found some data, recently shared online by translator Clara Kreft, that is perhaps surprising: it's not the big cities full of horny young people that have the most love hotels (at least in terms of population levels).
It's actually Miyazaki Prefecture on the southern island of Kyushu. Incidentally, the same prefecture is one of the areas of the Japan with the highest rates of syphilis.
The data say there are 5,670 love hotels in ...
It's been another long year where we had to wear face masks a lot.
This isn't such a biggie here in Japan, where people often wear masks if they have a cold or during the annual hay fever seasons. What was common before just became ubiquitous.
One frustration about this, though, is that you can't admire the eye candy on the streets or at the store so much when a beautiful woman (or man) walks by. Sometimes you just want to reach out, pluck off that mask, and get a good look at the person in question.
On the other hand, masks have the side effect of accentuating parts of the face, ...
