The weather has finally stopped raining and the temperatures are warming up here in Tokyo. Spring has arrived and with it, the promise of pleasanter days enjoying the cherry blossom and other highlights of the season.
To celebrate the very welcome arrival of spring -- which always marks a new academic and fiscal year in Japan -- our friends Kanojo Toys are currently holding a store-wide sale.
You can get 20% off any toy you order during the campaign. Use the promo code Spring to claim your discount at the checkout.
The campaign ends, Kanojo Toys tell us, on Thursday, March 27, so you ...
In recent days, every time we logged onto X (formerly known as Twitter), we were confronted by confronted by the not-unpleasant spectacle of videos of a very busty and sexy personal trainer giving what seemed to be an insanely intimate workshop to a very lucky male patron, whose face would end up in the trainer's barely concealed cleavage or even in her crotch.
We assumed this was essentially a parody or marketing ploy for a freelance model's OnlyFans account, and in fact no such gym existed. However, given the very actual existence of sexy yoga lessons in Tokyo (that certain politicians ...
Yui Imaizumi has announced that she is returning to the entertainment industry.
At the height of her fame and popularity in early 2021, the former Keyakizaka46 cutie announced she was pregnant and married to YouTuber Mahoto Watanabe. She was just 22 and he several years older.
But then the problems started, with revelations the Watanabe had been grooming a 15-year-old and that he was arrested in 2019 for allegedly beating up a previous girlfriend.
In March 2021, Watanabe was arrested on suspicion of violating the child prostitution and pornography law (because he had asked the ...
Rui Sakuragi was one of the biggest adult video stars in Japan in the first half of the 1990s. She made her debut in 1989 and then left the industry in 1996 at the peak of her popularity.
In her subsequent career, she was a stripper until the year 2000, and did some acting on TV during those years.
But in the past quarter-century, fans didn't know what she was up to and rumors swirled that she had passed away.
That silence ended recently.
So what is the now 56-year-old Rui Sakuragi doing today? She's working as a hostess at a club in Ginza run by another top ex-porn star, Hitomi ...
A cameraman has been arrested for groping a gravure idol during a shoot.
The 61-year-old Nobuhiko Namai was arrested for touching the model on multiple occasions on a two-day shoot that he was handling for the production company where he works.
The alleged incident took place in October last year during a shoot in Chiba. It was not clear why it has taken so long for the incident to come to light or for police to act.
During the shoot, Namai is accused of touching the model's lower body without consent. He was in charge of filming for an image video they were shooting for release on DVD. ...
Regular readers may remember the story we ran in December about a backstreet in the Taiyujicho/Toganocho district of Umeda that underwent a makeover in a bid to decrease the number of young women who hang around there, waiting for men to pick them and go to a nearby love hotel.
The paving for around 100 meters of the street was changed to a bright yellow color decorated with marine images in the hope that this "brightening" effect would shame young women from coming to loiter (turning the street into a de facto red-light district). Many of these women are presumed to be engaged in sex work ...
A recent column in Weekly Playboy explored what ChatGPT tells us about sex workers in Japan.
Procurement and acquisition consultant Takanori Sakaguchi used AI to analyze the sex industry in Japan. With his ChatGPT Pro account, he collected data on 635 sex workers at soaplands and "delivery heath" call girl services: their heights, busts, waists, and hips. The data were taken from high-end services as well as cheaper ones.
The results for height are not surprising: sex workers are essentially as tall as most Japanese women.
What about those all-important breasts? Sex workers almost all have ...
Police have arrested a Vietnamese man living in Hamamatsu for the alleged rape of a sex worker.
According to a report by TV Shizuoka, the unnamed man has admitted having sex with the woman but claims there was consent.
The 28-year-old works in the food and drink industry, and lives in Chuo Ward, Hamamatsu. The allegation relates to an incident at a love hotel in the same ward in late February.
It is unclear why it has taken this long for police to arrest him.
The sex worker is a woman -- presumably Japanese, though not specified in the report -- in her twenties who works for a ...
No boyfriend or girlfriend? No problem. There's an app for that.
In fact, there are lots of apps for virtual dating in Japan.
But dating sims are so entrenched in Japanese society that they are even now part of ID photo booths.
Such booths, which are commonly found at stations and malls around the country, are quite competitive. You would think they are much alike but different booths offer special functions, like being able to edit and retouch your photos before printing.
ID Vox booths even offer you some companionship during the few minutes that you are taking your passport ...
There's little more rejuvenating than a long, relaxing session in a sauna, especially in winter. But how about a session in a sauna with a top gravure model?
That's the basic premise behind an event recently held by the gradol Jun Amaki.
Known for her huge bakunyu breasts (an I cup?!) and for making the Virgin Killer Sweater a viral hit, Jun Amaki has been part of our lives at Tokyo Kinky for so long, she's practically family. In fact, it's been a decade or more, since she's practically 30 (she hits that milestone in October), so is relatively mature by gravure standards.
The industry ...
