While the uptick in streetwalkers around Okubo Park in Shinjuku, Tokyo, has attracted immense mainstream and social media attention, mostly because it seems to be very young women doing it (according to the police and media narrative) because they are all in debt to host clubs, what about Osaka?
Japan's second city rarely likes being outdone by the eastern capital, hence it is holding a hugely over-budget world expo next year as a kind of riposte to the Tokyo Olympics. And it also has its own new "problem" with streetwalkers.
The location is a certain backstreet among the love hotels in the ...
Hot Powers is best known as a retailer but it also produces its own toys to great acclaim and success.
One example is the high-quality Favorite Things Hole, which take the best elements of a masturbator and packs them into a single toy.
It was created in collaboration with the YouTuber efty, who is known for innovative use of 3D printers to make stuff.
We were exploring efty's YouTube channel and came across this video made of a visit to Hot Powers' factory in Saitama, which probably marked the start of their creative collaboration.
We once visited the factory of renowned sex doll ...
The photographer Beniko has launched a crowdfunding campaign for a follow-up photo book to her 2023 publication about Japan's disappearing old red-light districts (yukaku, akasen).
Beniko is herself a former sex worker at a soapland in Yoshiwara, the famous red-light district in east Tokyo that was a booming licensed pleasure quarter during the Edo period. A single mother in her early fifties, she taught herself to use a camera from the age of 48.
She has given guided tours of Yoshiwara and taken portraits of porn stars, strippers, and Yoshiwara soaplands.
Her photography project has ...
After they retire, most JAV porn stars disappear into obscurity, though a prominent handful have remained in the public eye in other roles, such as writers and photographers.
Yua Mikami is pursuing a career in modeling and apparel, though has faced some criticism over her association with other brands, and former adult video star Minami Aizawa recently announced she would no longer use her performer name in her post-JAV career.
Among the many things that porn stars have expertise at, understanding about hygiene, physical health, and STDs and STIs surely ranks near the top.
As regular ...
Once again, Tokyo Kinky's team was sadly prevented from attending in person due to unavoidable schedule clashes, but the 26th edition of Japan's largest fetish event, FetiFes, took place on September 15.
The biannual event features vendors, talks, and performances by various kinds of idols and fetish artists, from newbies to industry veterans.
It's a great way to explore the full range of the fetish scene in Japan and meet actual adult video and ero-cosplay idols face to face as well as buy erotic merch and toys.
Are you into zentai? Pocchari chubby girls? Bondage? Fundoshi? Office ...
Sexless partnerships account for as much as 64% of marriages in Japan, according to one report by JEX Japan Sex Survey in 2024.
The lack of intimacy can be attributed to a range of factor, especially long working hours, small homes with thin walls, and the common custom of all the family sleeping in the same room on futons.
Abema Times recently interviewed some couples to find out more. The streamer spoke to people for whom sex is not an indispensable part of a marriage.
In fact, one woman in her thirties who has been married for six years has never had sex with her husband. They never ...
The police crackdown continues on the phenomenon known as Toyoko kids, referring to the young delinquents gathering in the main plaza in Kabukicho at night.
Delinquency in Shinjuku's Kabukicho is absolutely nothing new but the current issue was sparked, in part, by the pandemic and is spatially different now, with young people gathering in one main location and the optics at nighttime contrasting with the "clean" Kabukicho.
The crackdown is linked to the attempts to gentrify Kabukicho and turn it into a tourist-friendly destination, even at night, which is ongoing for several years, and the ...
Japan's public broadcaster has to appeal to a wide section of the nation with its programming. The show Makaizo no yoru (Crazy Modification Night) is primarily aimed at engineer-type guys who love making and customizing stuff.
But did the family-friendly broadcaster sneak a porn subtext into the latest edition?
This one featured three teams of male engineers competing to make fast vehicles made partly out of vibrators.
It's either a bold approach to modifying and making a vehicle in a wildly original way -- or a very cynical attempt to win views and clicks with a crazy concept. Some ...
The 25th edition of Japan's largest fetish event, FetiFes, took place on April 28. Certain household responsibilities prevented the Tokyo Kinky team from attending, so we were pleased to find the festival had generously published a huge gallery of pictures from the event (available on the festival website along with galleries from past editions).
All the images are taken by officially approved photographers (who are are credited on the gallery page images if you want to know who they are).
Unfortunately, they are just a gallery, without captions, so it is hard for us to provide much ...
The model Yukina Kinoshita continues to pursue an unusual path following her scandal, divorce (after multiple allegations of adultery), and losing her agency.
She has released a nude photo book and focused on social media channels like YouTube to keep herself in clover, her celebrity lifestyle apparently unaffected by her complete disappearance from fashion magazine covers.
The 36-year-old mother of two, who is currently dating 30-year-old soccer player Hidetoshi Miyuki, is gradually working more in the mainstream media and recently made an appearance on a TV show called Ai no Hyena on the ...
