While we are used to police raids on small or even clandestine bars and clubs for breaching rules on public indecency or licensing, it was a shock when the failure to obtain the proper license led to the arrests last year of management at SOD Land in Kabukicho and the expensive closure of the "porn theme park" for five months. (Thankfully, it is up and running again, and in very rude health from all accounts!)
Well, now the same kind of issue has claimed yet another high-profile victim.
Police have arrested the manager of Burlesque Tokyo, a popular burlesque club in Roppongi.
The erotic ...
What's the solution to Japan's dating problem? Namely, large numbers of young people just don't seem all that interested in dating.
Well, reports Nikkei Asia, it could be combining dating with getting a foot on the property ladder.
A new dating service in Japan matches singles based not on things like movie preferences or even, shock, physical attributes, but on their dream home.
This might seem random or even just plain wrong as an approach, but the choice of where you want to live reveals things about your values. And if your values don't gel, it will probably be a problem in the long ...
The new Korean TV drama A Killer Paradox (Sarinja-ng-Nangam) features a nude sex scene with Choi Mi-geum in the cowgirl position.
The scene only lasts a few seconds, but Choi Mi-geum makes quite an impression. We see the attractive Choi sitting on her male lover and bouncing up and down in short yet intense bobs, closing her eyes in pleasure. She leans back her arms on his legs, all the better to buck her hips gently yet firmly.
We get to see a bit of her butt and then a nice shot of her small Asian breasts. She has lovely skin.
The scene is in the first episode of the Netflix show ...
When a foreign-born contestant won Miss Japan last month, it sparked much wringing of hands from certain sections of the commentariat and internet, and a roughly equal amount of earnest gushing about how much Japan was changing.
Karolina Shiino, who was born in Ukraine but has lived in Japan since the age of five and eventually naturalized as a Japanese citizen, was awarded the title of Miss Japan in a ceremony in January. The face of Japan was now officially a white woman. This was enough of a news story to make waves internationally.
Now, as they say, the plot thickens. The 26-year-old ...
Japanese sex dolls are some of the best in the world in terms of quality and variety. In particularly, the silicone sex dolls by the likes of Orient Industry are the crème de la crème.
They are not, however, cheap. Given the amount of craftsmanship and material that goes into them, not to mention all the options you get to customize them, this is no surprise.
And perhaps it is a surprise that a prefectural government should splash out on a sex doll using public funds. Well, there's also the issue of ethics too!
Tokushima Prefectural Government reportedly spent more than ¥400,000 on a ...
Another month, another damning survey that says Japanese couples are sexless.
The latest, conducted with 4,000 married people, concludes that two in three marriages in Japan are sexless.
The survey asked people in their twenties, thirties, forties, and fifties (500 men and women from each age group).
The results show that 68.2% engage in little or no sexual intercourse: 43.9% of respondents said they had fully "sexless" marriages, while 24.3% were "nearly sexless."
Of course, like with all surveys, there are issues here, not least how they define "sexless" (zero sexual contact, ...
Sex in Japan can be noisy business, with excessive groans and even "narration" of how they feel from the female party. Couple this with thin walls and windows, and densely packed residential areas, and you have a recipe for overheard copulation.
This can be a kinky experience but also infuriating, especially if it's late at night and you just want some shut-eye. It can even lead, as we've shared before, to receiving angry notes from neighbors.
But is this grounds for more serious legal repercussions?
Legal website Bengo4 recently considered this issue. It received an inquiry from someone ...
The biggest entertainment world scandal in Japan of late has been the allegations of past sexual assault made against one of the nation's most famous comedians, Hitoshi Matsumoto.
The reports first emerged in a tabloid magazine in late December and have continued to unfold. At first, Matsumoto, his agency (Yoshimoto Kogyo), and broadcasters ignored or gave the report a minimal denial, and colleagues offered on-air support, but more revelations are still trickling out in further articles, and 60-year-old Matsumoto has now withdrawn from his television commitments, nominally so he can pursue a ...
A new survey has found that a third of unmarried Japanese adults in their twenties, thirties, and forties have never been in a relationship.
As reported by Kyodo News:
At 34.1 percent, the ratio of single men and women who have never had a romantic relationship was at a record high since Recruit Holdings Co., a staffing service group, began conducting surveys on people's views on marriage in 2017.
The figure of 25.6 percent for people not seeking marriage nearly matches the finding in last year's gender equality survey by the Japanese government, which has been struggling to deal with the ...
Japanese photographer Kishin Shinoyama has died at the age of 83.
As regular readers will know, Shinoyama is regarded as the king of the hair nude (full-frontal nude), and is largely responsible for establishing it as a publishing genre in the early 1990s with his photo books of Rie Miyazawa (Santa Fe) and Kanoko Higuchi (Water Fruit), though Shinoyama and others had already done nudes in the previous decade (notably, a lovely shoot with Aki Mizusawa).
Others quickly dropped their clothes in front of the camera (not least, Yoko Shimada and Saki Takaoka), hoping to replicate Miyazawa ...
