The Education Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi has apologized for using an official car to pay visits to a "sexy yoga" studio.
It follows a sexual harassment scandal involving a leading bureaucrat in the finance ministry, who was recently forced to resign after audio emerged of him asking to hug and touch the breasts of a female newspaper reporter.
The tabloids have gleefully parsed the details of this new transgression, such as the private oil massage Hayashi received from the yoga instructor. Was there also a bit of rub and tug?!
We, on the other hand, are more intrigued by the instructors. ...
Except for some content on what used to be known as "non-terrestrial channels," Japanese television does not usually show nudity except for comedic effect.
While the content might be cheeky, even erotic, you will disappointed if you have just switched over from HBO. The drama sex scenes, for example, are innocent and nude flesh carefully hidden by camera angles. Take the recent TV show that focused on a nude photography shoot -- surely a subject that necessitates nudity -- that only showed us butt.
And so it is that we were amused to see the NHK Educational TV, known as NHK E-Tele, a ...
After the positive response to our post last week on the hotly anticipated adult video debut of Saika Kawakita, we decided to take a look at another stunning new addition to the pantheon of Japanese porn.
Yui Tomita is apparently (all right, the marketing bods don't always tell the truth) an actual college girl who has just released her first AV this month from Moodyz.
The 149-minute title (MIDF00036) is directed by Michiru Arashiyama and is out on the Moodyz Fresh label.
A slender body, pristine looks, and the ability to squirt immense fountains of shiofuki when she's aroused enough ...
Whoever says that Japanese girls are shy probably hasn't been out much at night in Tokyo.
There are plenty of ladies in Shibuya, Roppongi and the like who are very forward, especially after a few drinks. As the weather heats up, we look forward to enjoying a bit of nampa with these girls on the streets at night.
If you're lucky, you'll meet a couple of girls like these two, who recently decided to show the city the fact that they weren't wearing bras.
They flashed their breasts for a not insignificant amount of time by pulling up their tops and fondling their busts while both sitting ...
Just when you think the bureaucrats couldn't get any sillier, along come some to prove you wrong.
Activists and ero-manga (adult manga) fans in Japan have been shocked by the recent designation by Hokkaido and Shiga prefectures of two reference books as "harmful" to youngsters.
Zenkoku-ban Anohino Erohon Jihanki Tanbouki (Nationwide Study of Pornography Vending Machine of Yesterdays) and Ero Manga Hyogenshi (The Expression History of Ero-manga) by Yusuke Kato are about adult manga but are not adult manga themselves. But this distinction means nothing to Shiga and Hokkaido: the former ...
Japan's biggest adult retailer and a porn producer in its own right (through the various production companies in its group), Soft on Demand is now going one step further.
Following in the footsteps of the Playboy bar in Kabukicho that is staffed by hot gravure idols, the SOD is opening the Soft on Demand Tachi Syain standing bar in Akihabara (apparently located "15 seconds' walk" from the Showa-dori Gate).
Patrons will be served by, you guessed it, actual Japanese adult video ...
New women debut in Japanese adult video every month. Many are actually nameless -- uncredited "extras" -- and some are actually just women who are now performing under a new name. A small minority are celebrities from another industry that are switching over, typically to the Muteki label.
But another set of women are those who make a genuine splash on their own merits, who stir up real buzz just for being hot and appearing in an exciting release.
Suzu Honjo was a recent example of this. Noa Takeuchi was, too, but then her AV releases literally disappeared from the shelves.
Saika Kawakita ...
The glory of Japanese television strikes again. From handjob karaoke contests to gravure idols stripping off samurai armor and filming behind the scenes at a nude photo shoot, there seems no end to the imaginations of producers.
This time, it was Wednesday's Downtown, a variety show on TBS presented by the comedy duo Downtown (Hitoshi Matsumoto and Masatoshi Hamada).
The gorgeous and decidedly busty gravure idol Fumina Suzuki was stripped naked and then wrapped in plastic for no reason other than to show off her breasts being squeezed by the tight layers of semi-transparent plastic. ...
We all have our peccadilloes, but some are stranger than others.
Some of them are rightfully referred to as fetishes -- and some will get you arrested. And sometimes they are both.
Judging by the astounding amount of smell fetish toys, sprays, and lubes available, Japan would seem to have a thing for erotic aromas.
A minority, though, inevitably take things too far.
One day, a Japanese man decided he wanted to take some shoes from a school in Noboribetsu on the northern island of Hokkaido. But he didn't want them as ordinary footwear. No, his interest lay in their pungent value ...
The results are predictable and messy. Along comes a journalist in the West who fancies tackleing the thorny old saw that is sexlessness in Japan, or a perceived problem of sexlessness, and blunders around making generalizations based on some Google searches.
This time it's well-known writer Julie Burchill in the British right-leaning weekly magazine The Spectator, who provocatively asks "Why do the Japanese despise sex?"
Her rationale seems to be that it all comes down to hikikomori -- acute social withdrawal syndrome -- which affects, the article claims, some half a million male ...
