Remember the Oppai Bokin (Boob Aid) event in December?
The annual event is run by a cable television network as part of a weekend of charity shows called ERO24TV (or 24-Hour TV: Eroticism Saves the Earth). This is perhaps the highlight of the event, because it allows ordinary men and women to grope porn stars' breasts if they make a donation to charity.
This year's squeeze-a-thon was the most successful Boob Aid yet, with 7,175 men lining up to get their hands on porn stars' busts for a few seconds each.
Well, Boob Aid has become famous overseas too and is regularly featured in ...
A triumph at last for basic human rights and fans of idols in Japan.
A 23-year-old female member of an idol group who was sued for around ¥9.9 million (over $80,000) for breach of contract by dating a fan can celebrate -- and her bank account can let out a sigh of relief -- as her former management agency's suit has been dismissed by the Tokyo District Court.
The girl -- unnamed in the media reports -- had made a contract with the company in April 2012 when she was just 19. It contained a clause saying that damages would be sought if she had a relationship with a fan. She started ...
First she shaved off her hair in a penitence for having sex. Now she is getting fat.
AKB48's Minami Minegishi has gained weight to pose for this "chubby" idol picture.
Why? Because it is a campaign for the luxury fitness gym RIZAP, which runs intensive programs for getting metropolitan people into shape.
Here is Minegishi in her buff form again.
If you live in Tokyo, you would be familiar with RIZAP for the loud advertising trucks they drive around city, depicting before-and-after images of unhealthy bodies transforming into muscular ones.
The gym has ...
We've written before about Japan's amazing condom brands that go to great lengths to market their products in original ways. They have to do this since Japanese people -- if we believe the media and the surveys -- are either not interested in sex or, if they are, don't bother with contraception, leading to rising STDs and unwanted pregnancies.
And so we get the Durex "horror movie" or the annual "Condom Day" stunt.
Okamoto, the makers of the world's thinnest condom, have created this new ad for their products, using a lot of CGI.
It starts with two dinosaurs roaring. But if you think ...
Japan, the land of the panchira (up-skirt panties shot) fetish. Well, not quite. Nonetheless, there is a robust subculture of men obsessed with panchira, so much so it crops up even in mainstream culture too a fair bit.
And now there is this awesome tongue-in-cheek product: the Upskirt Umbrella.
It's been created by the Million Girls Project, which sounds like a college fraternity sex contest.
While people in Japan probably have to head to a store in Akihabara to get their hands on this unique umbrella, international interested parties can instead order one from Japan Trend ...
Vice seems to have a bee in its bonnet over Japan's so-called "JK industry" of schoolgirl prostitution.
After its provocative and criticized article and video last year, now it reports on a police crackdown on "businesses that exploit underage girls".
The article is written by Tokyo Vice (no relation) author Jake Adelstein, who has made a career out of presenting himself as the gaijin expert on all things Yakuza. Recently he has tried to talk a lot about teenager prostitution too and linking it to AKB48, getting a lot of flak for it.
When a UN investigator visiting Japan ...
We previously covered the slinky, slutty delights of Yuki Mamiya, aka Yuki Mogami.
The gravure idol is an occasional actress, appearing in such masterpieces as the soft-core pono Chotto Kawaii Iron Maiden.
She has already done semi-nude (butt) shots and some very revealing gravure idol "image videos".
But in May 2015 she did a hair nude (full frontal) shoot for Shukan Gendai, shot by the legendary Hajime Sawatari. He is a famous photographer but also does these hair nude shoots from time to time, such as with AV actress Yuu ...
Only the other day we blogged about Tenga's awesome Year of the Monkey design onacup.
Well, Tenga actually closed their special year of celebrations for their tenth anniversary by opening a new store in downtown Osaka in December.
It's their first dedicated outlet in Japan and occupies a prominent site in Namba (our old stomping ground).
To promote the store, Tenga invited porn star Mana Sakura to join them for the opening. Mana is fast becoming Tenga's go-to girl for advertising.
Here she is cutting the ribbon and then posing with Koichi Matsumoto, the ...
Japanese love hotels come in all shapes and sizes.
There are all manner of crazily themed hotels out there, enough to fill more than one coffee-table book.
A recent one we looked at is Keibajo US in Niigata, with its classrooms, hospital ward rooms, and more, plus there is this great "vintage Japan" hotel in our old stomping ground of Osaka.
Here is another great example of the sheer inventiveness and skill of love hotels to appeal to our fantasies.
Again, as we know from the history of love hotels, like with most of the really outrageously designed hotels, it is not in a ...
Tenga doesn't waste time and money with New Year's cards, as is the custom in Japan.
Instead it produces a special customized version of its Deep Throat Onacup to celebrate 2016, the Year of the Monkey.
The deep red of the cup is paired with a gold monkey face and mizuhiki-style ribbon.
Sadly this isn't for sale but what a great ...
