Be warned. Be careful what you have in your drawer or on your phone, hard drive or cloud.
While the government was pressured by mangaka and animators to exclude comic book and drawn images from the new pornography laws passed in 2014, it seems the courts do not agree.
The Tokyo District Court has found an artist "guilty of violating the child pornography law by creating and selling realistic computer graphic images of a naked girl," reports the Asahi Shimbun.
The court on March 15 sentenced Akashi Takahashi, a 55-year-old computer graphic designer from Gifu city, to a one-year ...
An AFP article doing the rounds on sites like Japan Today and Mail Online has some bad things to say about Japanese porn.
The headline blasts: "Japan's porn industry preys on young women, say rights advocates".
Well, not an unfamiliar topic, we hear you say.
Japanese women are being exploited and abused in Japan’s multi-billion dollar pornographic film industry, rights advocates said on Thursday, calling on authorities to strengthen laws to protect them.
Pornography is widely available in Japan, where some actresses become well known enough to appear on mainstream TV chat ...
This is a working list of idols from AKB48 or sister groups like SKE48 who have graduated onto second careers in nude modeling and/or adult video (AV).
There are rumored to be others but these are what we know of. Share if there are others!
Momona Kito
The most high-profile recent graduate into the porn industry, Momona Kito starred in an ostensibly one-off porn release by Muteki as Yua Mikami. It was such a hit, she has since decided to do more and make a whole career of it.
Rina Nakanishi
Rina Nakanishi was the pioneer, laying the ground for the other idols who have followed in her ...
It seems that Japanese AV actress Mei Matsumoto isn't content with all the cocks she has during her day job. She also wants some in her private life.
Specifically, if a tweet is to be believed, she seems to want some interracial action.
She appears to be dating Philip Minoru Kimura, a K1 kickboxer born in 1993 in Brazil.
Judging by his name and looks, he has some Japanese blood in him. We wonder if it's his physique or Latin charm that Mei digs. Hey, we can kick butt ...
Maro (Maroka Uchiyama) was one of Ayumi Hamasaki's dancers. He and Hamasaki started dating while she was on the rebound from divorcing her husband Manuel Schwarz in 2012.
However, the fling lasted only until 2013, since when Maro became famous for being famous -- and sometimes appeared on TV talk shows to spill the beans on the breakup.
Clearly his career is going in another direction now since Maro has just made his porn debut. Here are some highlights.
Japan is the world's biggest producer of porn, though it suffers from a ...
Breasts and charity often go together in Japan, as we have seen from past stunts where you can get a grope of some porn star breasts if you donate to a good cause.
Now Japanese adult satellite channel SKY PerfecTV! is holding the 24-Hour TV: Eroticism Saves the Earth (ERO24TV) again is promoting an AIDS awareness charity.
And its methodology is novel, if flawed. Apparently the longer you can keep your eyes closed and not give in to temptation to look at the lovely ladies on display they will donate your money.
Love is Patience is the name of the challenge, available ...
The mega-cup beauty has done it again.
Not content with transforming herself into an incredible nude model under the mysterious name of Rara Anzai -- complete with a ravishing photo shoot to boot -- Japanese porn star Shion Utsunomiya has now changed her AV professional name again.
Now she is Rion.
Born in 1994, Rion (or RION) made her porn "debut" in September 2015, two years on from her original debut (if that's not a contradiction in terms) as Shion Utsunomiya in September 2013. In June 2014 she released a nude photo book as Rara Anzai.
Now she is attacked to and has three AV ...
The completionist side to our personality just wants to post this, even though it's not new.
What with all the fuss earlier this year of the porn debut of Momona Kito as Yua Mikami, we want to continue our exploration of this theme: the afterlife of Japan's "respectable" idols.
Remember AKB48's Rumi Yonezawa?
Well, since her departure from the group in 2012, it seems her career hit hard times. So many idols are processed through the well-grease machinery of the industry that there will inevitably be casualties that fall by the wayside.
And given the open secret that idols ...
Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, the UN’s special rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, has been in Japan for a week-long visit.
At the end of it she praised Japan for tightening up the law and banning possession of child pornography in June last year.
But she said Japan must do more and ban all "sexually abusive images" of children in manga.
“When it comes to particular, extreme child pornographic content, manga should be banned,” she said.
Japan's new laws have some loopholes, such as images and videos where underage models are wearing ...
After the recent court ruling against the underage idol who "broke" her contract and had a relationship, and the ruling in favor of the hostess who had a long-running affair with a client, there have been some interesting legal developments in Japan of late.
Now a woman who refused to take part in a porn shoot and was sued for ¥24 million (over $200,000) for breach of contract by the production company has won her case.
The court in Tokyo ruled that the "nature of the work is one that you cannot force someone to do it against their will".
The judge threw out the production ...
