Former Morning Musume music idol Maki Goto has caused a sensation with her new photo book, flos
Many years ago, she did some great semi-nudes shoots (one on a bed showing off her naked side and barely hiding her tits, and another where she lies naked on a sandy beach).
Gomaki, as she is known to fans, married in 2014 and has two kids, but her image was hit by allegations of adultery with her former boyfriend, leading to a public apology in 2019. Her husband sued the boyfriend for several million yen.
She has subsequently made a comeback as a singer and model.
Part of this comeback was her ...
Yuka Oki has just graduated STU48, the Setouchi-based version of AKB48, and seems determined to make a name for herself.
And as past members of the AKB and Nogizaka sister groups have demonstrated (most recently Miku Tanaka and Ruka Kitano), stripping off is a surefire way to get attention.
She hasn't done quite that, but Oki has done probably her sexist shoot yet.
Aptly titled "Breaking Compliance," Oki's shoot for Flash sees her switch from music idol to gravure idol with aplomb, wearing a figure-hugging leotard or swimsuit that buttons up along the middle.
The high-cut item really ...
Our friends at Kanojo Toys have launched their Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale.
You can now get 20% off any order until December 4 if you use the promo code BFCM. (A bigger discount is available for newsletter subscribers, so sign up for the newsletter to hear more.)
Kanojo Toys is the biggest Japanese adult toys store shipping internationally, with almost 9,400 products in stock as of writing and with around 30 more added each week.
It offers a wide range of toys for men, including masturbators, dolls, fetish lubes, and hug pillows, and also various toys for women and couples, ...
Which Japanese adult video stars look like other Japanese celebrities?
Some Japanese porn performers have a striking resemblance to well-known models, idols, actresses, and other celebrities. This is sometimes just coincidence but the likeness is also often ruthlessly exploited in the marketing for certain releases, even to the extent of the choice of performer name.
We listed a few examples below.
Mitsuki Takahata and Minamo.
Minami Minegishi and Asuka Momose.
Kanna Hashimoto and Kanon Kanade (and something tells us that the marketing department was fully aware of the ...
In her new photo book, 36-year-old Haruna Kojima goes nude with some pics that are going to send her legions of fans' pulses racing.
We've been following Kojiharu's career ever since her AKB48 days and we are pretty sure this is perhaps her most explicit shoot yet, though it sadly stops short of actual nudity in terms of nipples or full butt (luckily Sayaka Nitori showed us how to do shoots with nipples well earlier this year).
Still doing lingerie modeling despite both her age (approaching 40) and success as an entrepreneur, Haruna's first photo book in nine years came out at the end of ...
It feels like it's been quite some time since we've got excited about a current member of the once-might idol groups like Nogisaka46 or AKB48. Sure, the former members give us plenty of material to wax lyrical about on these digital pages -- we're looking at you, Haruka Kodama and Ruka Kitano -- but are we alone in lacking a crush among current members?
Perhaps that's going to change soon.
Renka Iwamoto (岩本蓮加) is still just 20 years old but a veteran of Nogizaka46, having joined the group way back in 2016.
She's now developed into a mature young woman, as her debut solo photo book, ...
Back in 2019, we lamented the (fortunately temporary) closure of Osaka's red-light district Tobita Shinchi in a bid to stave off a crackdown by the authorities ahead of the G-20 summit. (Because the 2020 Olympics ended up being held in 2021 and with basically no visitors, the Tokyo Games ultimately did not involve as much of a crackdown on porn and sex services as expected.
There's nothing we hate more than hypocrisy and trying to hide what society is truly like, but Osaka is at it again.
With next year's expo fast approaching, Osaka police have raided a strip club called the Toyo Show ...
Oh no. One of those surveys has appeared.
Despite our best efforts to celebrate the diverse and exciting sexual landscape in Japan, these perennial surveys reporting on sexlessness in the country get lots more attention and tarnish the reputation (probably made worse by our own regurgitation of them on these digital pages).
Of course, decline in sexual activities between long-term partners is common across the world and so is a decline in dating and sex among the young, though the reporting on it in Japan tends to veer toward the orientalist.
This latest survey is a bit different, because ...
Who's your favorite gravure idol? Who do you like to see grace the covers of the tabloid magazines every month?
These are the questions constantly running through our minds on an almost daily basis -- and we're clearly not alone.
If you want to let the world know which lady you love best, you can now do so via a contest run by gravure magazine Weekly Friday.
The Grademy Award seeks to find Asia's top gradol. Celebrating the fortieth anniversary of Friday, voting is now open online via the dedicated website.
Friday is taking a broad definition of gradol -- basically anyone who does ...
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 ...
