It has been a somewhat peculiar November in Tokyo.
The annual changing of the leaves has duly appeared, transforming the trees around the city and creating piles of crisp leaves to jump in.
It has also been unseasonably hot on some days, almost like an Indian summer.
And it has been windy, with blustery days sending the fallen leaves into swirls in the air.
All very Instagrammable, yes, but so what? Well, we spotted this unfortunate side effect of the windy days.
A TV presenter on Fuji TV's show Mezamashi TV was giving a live report on the weather when the wind blow hard against her. ...
Besides COVID and the change in prime minister, the biggest story of the year in Japan is probably the massive box office success of the anime version of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba.
The popularity of the franchise has skyrocketed and, inevitably, we have got adult parodies, since parody is such a regular component of the porn and toy market here.
First there was an early porn parody starring Mitsuki Nagisa.
Now Tama Toys, the leaders in this kind of toy, have come along and conjured up a superbly made parody onahole.
The Kimetsu no Yaeba Fangs Onahole is playing on the popularity of ...
We have some sad news to report.
Normally the release of a new photo book by an idol would be a cause for celebration, but Mai Ishioka's (石岡真衣) upcoming "After the Rain" is apparently to be her last.
One of our long-time favorite gradols, Ishioka has announced that that she is "graduating" -- i.e., retiring from the industry.
This can be more one of several things: her career is stalling and so her agency is dropping her at the end of her contract; she is fed up with the industry and her career, and wants to do something else (or get married, which is hard to do while remaining a ...
The AKB network of idol supergroups faces a particular challenge in these COVID days of maintaining revenue when meet-and-greet and even concerts are not realistic.
The idols remain popular, of course, and field requests to appear in the weekly magazines or release photo books.
Mina Oba, for instance, recently appeared in a photo shoot for the weekly magazine Flash.
The lingerie shoot showed off the 28-year-old modest yet sensual bust. Thank you, Mina, for taking our minds off the emerging third wave of corona infections in Tokyo.
It's probably about time for Team K's ...
On November 12, idol Moga Mogami announced that she is pregnant on her personal blog.
This should not be surprising, given that she is now 31 -- an age when many women in Japan would be pleased to start a family.
But she's not married, nor was a marriage announced at the same time.
Unlike a large number of prominent celebrities in Japan, she is not planning to marry the father of the child. Such shotgun weddings (or dekichatta kekkon) are common here, since the need for contraception is frequently ignored, though also because it is sometimes the only way to force the all-powerful ...
Collaborations between adult toy makers and artists or doujinshi circles are common in Japan, and are one of the reasons that box art is such a major aspect of sex toys here.
The Akane Onahole, a new release from Tama Toys and available internationally from our friends at Kanojo Toys, is a great example of the kind of toy that dominates the market and the style of erotic art that generally decorates the boxes (especially for brands like Tama Toys, Toy's Heart, Peach Toys, and so on).
Gracing the packaging is the titular Akane, a perfect girl who you want to spend a lazy ...
As we've blogged before, there are a few cases of sexy Japanese siblings who both work in gravure or modeling.
Now those rare ranks have received a new addition: Nanami is the sister of the model and actress Maki Horikita, though the latter is now technically retired since she married and started a family.
The mononymous choice of name is probably deliberate, as she probably does not want to trade on her older sister's fame. (There is also a porn star called Nanami Horikita, so she surely wants to avoid potential confusion!)
She is certainly carving out a different career path, at least ...
Earlier this year we wrote about the comeback photo book featuring 40-year-old model Asami Kumakiri (熊切あさ美).
Even after entering her fifth decade, the jukujo beauty still looks stunning with her sun-kissed, well-toned body, which she shows off in the modest yet sensual shoot. The appropriately named "Bare Self" is her first photo book in 16 years and has enjoyed good sales.
Now we have more images from that photo book to share as well as a semi-nude photo shoot from a weekly magazine that Asami Kumakiri did recently.
We've also included some images from a 2021 calendar that went ...
The technical intern training program in Japan has rightfully attracted international condemnation for legalizing what often amounts to near-slavery conditions for foreign workers, especially Vietnamese. Employers -- including small manufacturers -- are allowed to pay these workers extremely low wages and it is all sanctioned by the government.
The workers are trapped, unable to change jobs and frequently in debt to middle-men for the fees to get their places on the scheme and come to Japan.
Over the years, many sad stories of abuse and even suicide have emerged from the "internships" ...
It's a crown that has been claimed before and we always feel obliged to award the title to voluptuous gradol Yuka Kuramochi, but there's now yet another contender for the best ass in Japan.
Recently showcased on Japanese TV (because apparently audiences like this kind of content!) and known for her fitness videos, Khaleda Amin could cut glass with her toned body. And then when she starts posing with her buttocks, you can hear a pin drop in the minds of every male viewer in the land...
This is the ass we need in these gloomy COVID times.
Perhaps inevitably, the ...
