Dokujo, an online magazine in Japan for single women, recently introduced the results of a survey of its female Japanese readers about dating foreign men.
It asked readers around Japan about their experiences of dating foreigners. It collected the results of 404 readers and published the results. What do they reveal?
209 women (51%) said that they had never dated a foreigner.
82 women (20%) said that they had dated a foreigner in the past.
72 women (17%) said they were dating a foreigner at present.
And 41 (10%) said that they had never dated a Japanese man.
While this ...
Up-and-coming model and actress Arisa Komiya stars in Yumeji: Ai no tobashiri (2015), sometimes known in English as Yumeji: A Spurt of Love.
It is a period drama about the affair between the famous painter Yumeji Takehisa and a girl called Hikono Kasai, who died young. It's all rather arty as you would expect from a biopic about a painter but we love the portrayed early-twentieth-century sex that involved seductively slipping off a woman's kimono. Romance!
While we are hardly in Ami Tomite territory here, the 23-year-old known for her acting in the Tokumei Sentai ...
If you want to perv over scantily clad girls posing for anyone to take their picture, then head to Akihabara at the weekends where the main strip, Chuo-dori, is pedestrianized. You should find plenty of cosplayers happy for you to snap away.
This has led to some issues in the past, though, when police and the local Chiyoda government have become alarmed that some ladies are effectively putting on mini stripteases for the benefits of the male audiences. Flasher idol Asuka Sawamoto even got arrested in 2008 for letting guys photograph her underwear.
Some say that the street massacre in ...
The world media has once again taken an interest in Japanese pornography -- in particular, porn made for and starring seniors.
We previously noted the press attention lavished on silver porn star Yasue Tomita and veteran male performer Shigeo Tokuda.
Doing the rounds of various overseas media outlets this time is an Associated Foreign Press article about the retirement of Maori Tezuka.
After a decade of peeling off for X-rated movies, a Japanese porn actress famous for being the country's oldest has called it quits -- at the ripe old age of 80.
Maori Tezuka, a former opera ...
How much do women working as prostitutes in Japan earn? Regardless of your nocturnal habits, it's no doubt a question no doubt many of us have asked at various times.
Grow As People (GAP) is a nonprofit group that supports sex workers and it just released a new report.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, it found that wages decrease with the age of the workers (the opposite of the classic Japanese corporate model).
It based its report on an online survey conducted in 2015 with 377 women working at Kanto-area "delivery health" brothels (fuzoku), which dispatches call girls to love ...
This has to be one the best film titles ever.
The 2000 Korean movie Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors features Eun-ju Lee in the main role. It is a kind of comedy-drama and is also known as Oh! Soo-jung.
We thought of this film today because of its director, Hong Sang-soo. He has been somewhat in the news due to his recent release, The Handmaiden, which had some very steamy lesbian sex scenes, and his affair with its leading actress, Kim Min-hee. This has caused quite a scandal in the Korean entertainment world.
In retrospect, Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors has a tragic ...
We stumbled upon this fun story about condoms being distributed to teenagers in South Korea.
After reading so much about "sexless Japan" in recent years, it is heartening to see that our neighbor is also trying to combat similar issues of either not having enough sex or doing it in dangerous ways.
Instinctus is a Korean company that is run by a 26-year-old guy who is bisexual and sells "vegan condoms". He has also installed a condom vending machine that is only for those aged 19 or younger.
Perhaps not surprisingly, this has attracted the attention of the police.
"Police ...
We all like a no-strings attached kind of arrangement. So where to find Japanese ladies keen on this?
We just spotted this amusing photo report on a visit to a dating telephone club, or terekura, which were once commonly located in city neighborhoods as places where men could go to ring up women for dates.
These days terekura have been more or less replaced by deai cafes and online alternatives, where you can be introduced to ladies willing to do the business with you -- for some compensation, natch.
The blogger went to a terekura in Kabukicho, one which I'm sure many of our ...
Today, we revisit a golden oldie.
The Perfect Education is a series of pink eiga (soft-core porn films) that started in 1999 and has so far has produced eight films.
Directed by Ben Wada, the original 1999 film (called Kanzen naru shiiku in Japanese) stars Naoto Takenaka in the lead (and who allegedly directed the sex scenes himself).
Hijiri Kojima here shows off her 22-year-old charms even though she is playing a schoolgirl, who gets captured as a sex slave by an older man.
At the time of making film, Kojima had also just published a hair nude ...
It's from late December 2013 but we just stumbled upon this stimulating article on The Tokyo Files about Yoshiwara.
As regular readers will know, Yoshiwara was the licensed pleasure quarter in historical Tokyo (Edo). Today it doesn't correspond to an official address (funny that!) but you can find it at Senzoku 4-chome in Taito-ku, which is in the east of the city and very far from the expensive brand stores or third-wave coffee shops of Shinjuku, Shibuya and Omotesando.
Its location from 1675 was moated with two entry points: the Japanese love to control everything, even ...
