Picture the scene.
You're driving down the highway and suddenly you look up at the advertising billboard overlooking the road. Rather than the usual commercial for that drink or car you'll never buy, it's playing porn. Japanese porn.
This is what greeted drivers passing through Jakarta, Indonesia, last month.
On the large advertising screen, in place of an actual commercial or video, someone's browser was displaying -- which just so happened to be showing a clip from a Japanese AV.
Fortunately for the morals of the city (and unfortunately for the horny drivers), what was ...
A new series of instant noodle ads use a gravure idol, music idol, go-go dancers, race queen, and well-known seiyuu. What more could you ask for?
Kara-Ou is apparently pretty spicy -- so hot, in fact, that they hired in-demand gravure idol Sayaka Tomaru and music idol Erina Kamiya as well as Karen and Kazue, go-go dancers from CYBERJAPAN DANCERS (yes, the troupe that's perhaps the sexiest thing in Japan right now), race queen Aya Hayase, and voice actress Chiaki Takahashi.
Watch these ladies get hot and sweaty as they gulp down the noodles.
Here is busty Sayaka Tomaru.
And ...
Every year the Oppai Bokin "boob aid" event attracts plenty of attention, including lots of foreign press and visitors who use it as another "wacky" stick to beat Japan with.
The truth of the matter is, those guys paying money to line up and touch porn stars' breasts are helping a good cause, because the event is for promoting safe sex and AIDS awareness. Launched first in 2003, the event raises millions of yen each time.
The storm of chatter has reached such a point now that earlier this year an online petition was launched to get the event stopped. "Stop exploiting women's bodies ...
There's exhibitionism and then there's Chinese exhibitionism. Yes, they do roshutsu so much better on the mainland.
As this sexy, slinky angel of a woman proved by casually shedding her clothes in a branch of Ikea in Beijing. After all, this is supposed to be a place where you buy the stuff to furnish your life, so why not really make yourself at home?
Sometimes the anonymous woman discreetly keeps her coat on while opening it up for her photographer companion to shot her beautiful body.
Other times the leggy lady gets really bold and takes everything off to stand stark naked in the ...
Photographer Yasumasa Yonehara is up to his old tricks again. And boy are we grateful.
We reported on his Runner's Pai series of videos earlier in the summer, which seemed to consist of nothing more than busty gravure idols running on treadmills because... just because.
In July he organized a live music event called NDG Champion Carnival at Shibuya Club Asia, a nightclub located in the heart of Shibuya's "love hotel hill" (very handy, by the way), featuring the likes of Mai Tsukamoto running for all their worth while their assets bounce up and down. Just because.
Yonehara exhorts ...
Ever wanted to attend a swinger club in Japan? Tokyo has a vibrant underground scene of happening bars.
As regular readers probably know from experience, "happening bars" (or couple kissa) are clubs where you can go and switch partners with other couples, or if you are single just pick random strangers to have sex with. (Theoretically there is a distinction: a happening bar is for couples of singletons, while a couple kissa caters to couples and perhaps single women.)
Sometimes they are foreigner-friendly, too, but it's rare. It always helps to speak at least some ...
As discussed on this blog before, Japan's love hotels have increasingly become focused on amenities.
In spite of the western stereotype of love hotels as gawdy, crazy lairs of kinkiness, the actual number of themed chambers and unusual rooms is low -- and largely consigned to the countryside (notwithstanding the odd exception in Tokyo like this steampunk hotel).
Instead, the love hotels in the inner cities like Tokyo, Osaka and Kobe have to compete against each other in terms of value and facilities. And that comes down to more mundane yet important things like baths, food, wifi, ...
Now that's what we call tentacle sex.
Some people really go that extra mile for their cosplay. Here is one example that's going to be hard to beat for a while.
Cosplayer Namada spent half a day with photographer Kazan Yamamoto and the results are incredible, not least because Namada is beautiful and she was posing with a friend. That friend being a 18kg (nearly 40 lb) live octopus from Hokkaido.
Regular readers to this blog will immediately spot that this is a reference to Hokusai's The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife, perhaps the most famous example of shunga ...
Yet another article is claiming Japan is a sexless wasteland of virgins and singletons.
In this case, the bold claim is that "almost half of young men and women are virgins".
These articles are perennials, loved by editors and journalists -- but treated with some disdain by old hands. The other common trope is that is a kinky wonderland, full of very fetish and craziness imaginable. Perhaps the two myths are not as incompatible as they sound.
Personally, we sit on the fence with this one.
A survey of Japanese people aged 18 to 34 found that almost 70% of unmarried men and ...
Virtual dating has long been a big part of the adult industry or quasi-adult industry in Japan.
What with all the reports of sexless Japan and "parasite singles" still living with their parents well into their thirties, you might almost be forgiven for thinking that "virtual boyfriends" apps and digital idols were responsible for the downfall of the nation.
There were more examples at Tokyo Game Show 2016 that will surely not do much for Japan's reputation in this regard.
The show featured an array of otome romance apps for ladies to find that Prince Charming in 2D form.
One ...
