Another one bites the dust.
Mayu Harada has announced she is officially leaving Keyakizaka46.
Of course, we are sure this has nothing to do with the fact that the 17-year-old was featured in leaked photos showing her kissing and embracing an older man.
It is rumored that the man was her junior high school teacher. The school where he works in Ota ward, Tokyo, has apparently been flooded with phone calls from angry parents. After all, who is next on his hit list of underage kids?
The idol industry's response? Nothing to see here, keep moving along, nothing to see ...
Former SKE48 idol Seira Sato has very generously stripped off for some sexy shots showing off her naked body, including a very sensuous glimpse of her butt.
Thanks, ...
When Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, the UN’s special rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, told the media that Japan should "ban sexually abusive images of children in manga" at the end of her visit in October, you might think the manga industry would be the ones to get all hot under the collar.
Actually, the strongest reaction seems to have come from the Japanese government itself.
It was another comment Maud de Boer-Buquicchio made that has stoked up trouble.
She drew on unknown statistics to claim that "Some 13% of schoolgirls in Japan are ...
Previously known for her fairly innocuous roles, Anne Suzuki appeared in The Egoists (also known by its Japanese title, Keibetsu) in 2011.
In the film Anne Suzuki plays a stripper/dancer Machiko Yagi, which understandably calls for her to be nude and showing off her body on the pole. Talk about changing your image from the girl-next-door type.
The movie features two very nice sex scenes.
In one, Anne Suzuki strips off her yukata in a ryokan (Japanese inn) before her lover gets to work on top of her.
In the other, Anne is on top, her sweaty and tattooed body heaving with ...
The completionist side to our personality just wants to post this, even though it's not new.
What with all the fuss earlier this year of the porn debut of Momona Kito as Yua Mikami, we want to continue our exploration of this theme: the afterlife of Japan's "respectable" idols.
Remember AKB48's Rumi Yonezawa?
Well, since her departure from the group in 2012, it seems her career hit hard times. So many idols are processed through the well-grease machinery of the industry that there will inevitably be casualties that fall by the wayside.
And given the open secret that idols ...
Some people don't learn their lesson.
Well, Yasuomi Hirai is nothing if not consistent.
We first reported on his unique "talents" back in June 2013, when he was arrested for hiding in a drain in order to look up the skirts of girls passing by over him.
Two years on, and Hirai is at it again.
Once again Hyogo police have arrested the panchira fetishist for hiding in a storm drain, all so he could take photos of pedestrians in Kobe.
This time he was caught on August 16th after he was spotted using his phone to film up the skirt of a woman as she walked past the drain he was ...
We've just discovered @toto_sh1, who is a "self-proclaimed photographer". Well, plenty of those about.
But he or she has created this awesome series of an otaku taking his blow-up lover on a date to Asakusa, and we can't resist sharing.
They first set off for their adventure by riding the subway together. The other passengers seem unperturbed.
They do all the usual tourist stuff like posing at the Kaminarimon gate and take a ricksha together.
They have someone draw their caricature and enjoy an ice cream.
But it all ends in tragedy in the ...
The opening of Japan's first major public exhibition of shunga erotic prints is quite a landmark event. We finally got to go recently.
We went on a Saturday and the line to get in stretched out of the venue. They were there in their hordes: men, women, couples, foreign tourists (European, American and Asian).
Lining up, some were excited, some seemed curious -- while others appeared intellectual and austere. Inside, however, everything changed. All the faces displayed the same awe and amazement; couples exchanged looks and words ("Wow, so big"). Couples gripped each other just that little ...
Ever hired a lady of the night and then changed your mind? Tried to cancel and had trouble with the girl or her handlers?
One man had such a problem in Kabukicho but ended up on top, legally speaking.
Yukie Shimoyachi, a 30-year-old prostitute, was arrested earlier this week for extortion. She had forced a man to pay her a "cancellation fee" of ¥50,000 ($410) in the early hours of September 27th.
The man had been lured by a street tout in Kabukicho (lesson of the day: DON'T trust those guys) with the promise of a lady who could provide full penetrative sex services (technically ...
In the latest example of how the "sex ban" on AKB-affiliated idol groups does not work in practice (er, these are young women with legions of male admirers) and is just a ruse to appease certain otaku, images have leaked showing Keyakizaka46's Mayu Harada apparently kissing a man.
The much older male is shown kissing Mayu Harada on the lips and groping her breasts in what appears to be Puri Kura photo-booth images.
The 17-year-old Mayu may be in a relationship with the older man, who some suspect is her former junior high teacher. If true, a physical courtship between the two ...
