Japanese television is a pretty tame beast, mostly full of cooking programs and inane comedy shows.
When things do get sexy, they tend to stop at Nanao in her lingerie, which is lovely but hardly the stuff HBO wet dreams are made of.
Back in 2012, Kaoru Hirata appeared in a drama broadcast on the satellite channel BS Japan when she was a sprightly 22.
Okay, so you don't actually see any real nudity but this is still pretty tantalizing.
Hirata has done a proper nude scene at least once before. She appeared in R-18 Bungakusho Vol. 1 Jijyojibaku no Watashi (I Am Caught in My ...
We've seen a mini explosion in futanari-themed adult toys in Japan and we really like what we are seeing.
Normally relegated to the fantasy worlds of eroge, manga and anime, or obviously fake AV, these toys allow you to explore the hermaphrodite fetish in real form.
After the recent futanari masturbator toy, here is a futanari sex doll and dakimakura cover.
Tama Toys has a series of dakimakura covers and the 40th in the range is a futanari girl. The double-sided cover is nothing short of awesome, complete with giant breasts, French maid lingerie, and bukkake.
The Futanari ...
Onna no Ko Club is fast becoming the biggest (and certainly the most accessible) player in the growing otoko no ko and josou cross-dressing scene. It already has bars in Shinjuku (in Nichome, of course) and Osaka where you can go to try dressing up as the opposite sex (or just watch if you're not into actual cross-dressing).
It was recently featured in the Ellen Page documentary about gay Japan and its manager interviewed by Kyodo News.
Now it has a new salon bar in Ueno, this time with stylish chandeliers.
Opening on April 1st, it is located in the Okachimachi area of Ueno, a ...
Tenga, the "Apple of the Japanese adult industry", has always had a great attitude towards marketing, sponsoring art and music events, beach clean-ups and even getting the approval of a Buddhist monk.
It recently held an advertising contest, offering the winner the chance to get a top prize of ¥1 million's worth of Tenga products.
Needless to say, Tenga's brilliant approach to design and product quality, not to mention its tongue-in-cheek attitude towards its publicity, were great creative inspirations.
Here are the winners.
This won the grand prix. It elevates the Tenga ...
The BBC occasionally likes to weigh in on adult Japan matters, not always with success.
It recently profiled Keiko Takemiya, "the godmother of manga sex in Japan". This time they go the extra mile and get some reasonable background and interviews, but some of their assertions are off -- not least the headline.
Takemiya was just 26 when she started Kaze to Kino Uta (The Poem of Wind and Trees).
It opens with two naked teenage boys in a 19th-century French boarding school lying on top of each other, post-coital. The series centres on one of those boys and another new boy. ...
Many a boyhood fantasy evolved out of video game characters like Lara Croft and Chun-Li.
Surely this is just the brilliantly logical conclusion of those fantasies.
The new Street Fighter V has been modified to include a fully naked Chun-Li fighting against herself... also totally naked. Hell yeah!
It wasn't made by a Japanese person, as far as we can tell, but the genitals are smoothly censored. Hopefully that will keep the video up on YouTube.
The mod file can be downloaded ...
Even classic games can be kinky!
The Kentama is by SSI, one of Japan's leading adult toys makers. It's a shameless attempt to cash in on the kendama boom sweeping Japan right now, but of course it's a cheeky adult version.
For those who don't know, the kendama is a cup-and-ball toy that dates back to the Edo era in Japan. It's similar to the bilboquet in France.
Naturally, even a regular kendama has phallic influences. After all, there's a long shaft (ken) and a ball that you try to "spike".
This has historical roots. The kendama is not just a toy but also an engimono (good ...
Be warned. Be careful what you have in your drawer or on your phone, hard drive or cloud.
While the government was pressured by mangaka and animators to exclude comic book and drawn images from the new pornography laws passed in 2014, it seems the courts do not agree.
The Tokyo District Court has found an artist "guilty of violating the child pornography law by creating and selling realistic computer graphic images of a naked girl," reports the Asahi Shimbun.
The court on March 15 sentenced Akashi Takahashi, a 55-year-old computer graphic designer from Gifu city, to a one-year ...
We blogged last autumn about the Rokudenashiko's upcoming first English-language book, What Is Obscenity? The Story of a Good For Nothing Artist and her Pussy.
Now the Canada-based Koyama Press has released more details and images ahead of its release in May.
The book is written by "vagina artist" Rokudenashiko (the artist name of Megumi Igarashi), translated by Anne Ishii, and edited by Anne Ishii and Graham Kolbeins. The cover is by the famous designer Chip Kidd.
Rokudenashiko has been arrested twice for "obscenity" for making and distributing artworks based on her ...
What seemed to be a one-off by a former SKE48 that proved such a hit it developed into a longer porn career, and Momona Kito (now performing under the name Yua Mikami) has morphed into a fully fledged AV star. Her new-found confidence and sass is obvious if you compare her rather timid first appearance last year with this year's releases.
Here are some stills from her latest porn release, which really show off Momona's breasts. Out April 1st, the setting is thrillingly domestic. The bathing scene looks seriously hot.
Currently Momona is releasing a new AV ...
