Do you want to work surrounded by vibrators, dildos, and female customers? Sounds like a dream job for us. The Vibe Bar Wild One in Shibuya is looking for new staff. The bar sadly closed at the end of September 2020, no doubt hit hard by the pandemic, but will reopen in 2024 at an as-yet unannounced date. In the interim, the bar, which recently celebrated its eleventh anniversary, has operated as a space for hire for private events, photo shoots, and so on. Famously, the bar is by women, for women, and men can't go unaccompanied. Based on the concept of "see, touch, and try," the ...

     Read More     

When the 27-year-old Mari Takahashi agreed to stand as a candidate for the Democratic Party for the People, the senior members of the party must have been pleased. Japanese politics is a staid world full of graying men in dark suits, and the presence of young blood -- especially photogenic young female blood -- is a dream come true. Takahashi is a graduate of Keio University, one of the most prestigious colleges in the country. She won the university's beauty contest in 2016 and worked as a TV announcer while still at college, followed by three years at an IT consultancy company. She also ...

     Read More     

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 ...

     Read More     

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 ...

     Read More     

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 ...

     Read More     

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 ...

     Read More     

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 ...

     Read More     

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, ...

     Read More     

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 ...

     Read More     

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 ...

     Read More