Tenga is the Apple of the Japanese sex toys industry.
Not only are its adult aids superb to look at and use, but it's savvy marketing means it comes up with awesome ways to promote its products, from sponsoring music and art events, to working with all sorts of top creative types to pursue side projects.
It has also inspired some other people to do Tenga-themed things.
These include a "Tenga coffee tumbler", plus it even gave away a free sex toy with its company business cards earlier this year (the Pocket Tenga was integrated into the business card).
Now tarento and idol Akari ...
Comiket 87 kicked off over the weekend at Odaiba.
Once again Tokyo Big Sight comes alive for three days from December 28th for Japan's biggest cosplay and comics event.
Unfortunately we couldn't be there in person but plenty of others were. Here are some pictures from the reliable folk at KAI-YOU, featuring lots of cute booth babes and "companions", whose job is to pose for pictures and try to promote games to the visitors.
Did they do a good job? Well, they certainly look nice in these ...
They say that otaku are weak. They say they wouldn't last long in a fight.
But not this otaku.
He wears otaku armor!
@umigame2D designed and made this unique suit of Love Live! anime character merchandise, adding more and more layers until you see the results before you.
The "armor", as some are calling it, is made of badges, bags and other "figure goods".
By the pictures he has also apparently been wearing it outside, so don't be shocked if you see this figure lurking ...
It's long time we turned our lustful attention to Mihiro.
This lady of many names (Mihiro Taniguchi or Mihiro, real name Hiromi Yamase) is also an idol of many job descriptions: nude model, AV star, singer, actress, writer...
She was born in 1982 and made her debut about 10 years ago. Although long retired, she continues to be a presence on the sidelines of the industry and also wrote an autobiographical novel that was the basis for the film nude, which charts how a model gets pulled into the world of Japanese pornography essentially by coercion.
The film version starred the very ...
Ignition, a newish English-language online magazine about Japan, has published an article on "Japan: The Sexless Nation".
The article is actually a translation of a piece that appeared in a Japanese newspaper, by Kaku Sechiyama, a professor at University of Tokyo.
It is provocative, to say the least:
Japan has the lowest sexual frequency in the world, and it is the only country where the percentage of people who are not happy with their sex life is higher than that of those who are.
In 2005, out of people in 41 countries, Japan ranked lowest -- with an average of sex just 45 ...
Happy Christmas to all our readers and visitors!
Christmas in Japan is a time for three things: strawberry shortcake, KFC chicken, and sex. Especially Christmas Eve is seen as the most romantic time of the year, the night when you are meant to take a special someone out on an expensive date.
Not everyone has a girlfriend so this time of year can be a bit lonely for singletons.
But cross-dressing cosplayer Nemunemunnn decided to take the matter into "his" own hands. He cross-dressed as his own cute "girlfriend".
The results are impressive. Would you know the ...
Artist Rokudenashiko (or Rokudenashi-ko), popularly known as the "vagina artist", has been charged following her arrest earlier this month.
While writer Minori Watanabe was recently released for displaying the model of female genitalia in her adult shop in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, Rokudenashiko (Megumi Igarashi), who was arrested at the same time, has now been indicted by the police after 21 (!) days being held without charge.
This means her case will go to trial, which is always a long process here. Whether she is found guilty or innocent (Japan has a 99% conviction rate!), at the very ...
We suppose it was inevitable that Japan's most famous cross-dressing elderly gent would get his own mobile phone game app at some point, and so it has proved the case with Sailor Fuku Ojisan (Sailor Uniform Uncle). Also known as Hideaki Kobayashi, this gentile cross-dresser has been a regular spot all over Tokyo the past couple of years (even we saw him by chance on a random train once).
He has attracted fans (and also the police), so of course some people want to monetize this celebrity.
Sailor Fuku Ojisan now has an official game.
"Sailor Fuku Ojisan: Lucky Sorting Game" was ...
A new survey by Recruit Marketing Partners has some shocking results.
41.6% of men in their twenties say they have never had a girlfriend. Only 26.% of unmarried people in their twenties, thirties or forties say they have a lover.
On the other hand, before we write off the Japanese male as a "sexless beast" -- 64.% said they "want a lover", so perhaps the issue is just one of working too long and not having the time to chase after a partner.
We've seen this kind of sex and relationship survey before and they always seem to have headline-grabbing results: 45% of Japanese women ...
We love a scandal and we love a woman who knows what she wants.
Megumi Okina married the CEO of Cyber Agent in 2004 but divorced him the following year. She went through a dry period in her career and then got hitched again in 2009 to a businessman in a shotgun married. She had a second child in 2011.
A famous nikushoku-joshi (man-eater), in the past she has been linked to many famous men, including Takumi Saito and "bad boy" actor Manabu Oshio and nude pictures (called nyan-nyan photos) of their coupling were leaked. Oshio would later be sent to prison for his part in the death of a ...
