We saw an interesting story first shared on Tokyo Reporter, which appeals to our sense of the fetishistic.
Tokyo cops have busted a special parlor in Takadonobaba, near Shinjuku, where male customers could go to smell Japanese schoolgirls in private rooms.
The manager, one Takanori Izuchi, was a mere 33 years old but he was boldly running the aptly-named Pure Doll JK Community near the JR Station on the Yamanote Line. It's not the smell fetish per se that's the issue here. Izuchi and another employee were arrested for hiring actual teenagers to let male patrons sniff them in their ...
We already know that there's a strong subculture in Japan for cross-dressing -- and one which doesn't fit easily into any western ideas of gay culture -- but here's something new.
Metrosexual Japanese men worried about their nipples showing through t-shirts may be turning to these nipple stickers to cover up.
There are several products out there on the market, it seems. The "Nipple Shields" by Tex Mex are marketed as "fashion help for men", especially young high-fliers in the business world who don't want their muscular chests with pokey nipples showing through their tight white ...
That's the question that Time Out Tokyo asked its readers online back in August.
Unfortunately we have no idea how many people answered and what proportion were looking at its Japanese website or English one -- so this could in fact just be a handful of people's preferences.
Still, beggars can't be choosers and in the absence of another similar survey, we were amused to look at the results.
The biggest surprise is the main question about favorite position.
Doggy-style won, followed by cowgirl. While most people probably pretend in a survey to be more adventurous than they are and are ...
Okay, we've very late with this -- a quick search reveals people were talking about this back in 2012! But for some reason we've only just found out about it and it's so cool, we wanted to blog it now, two years after everyone else.
Sexual harassment is a serious issue in Japan -- especially in the workplace. The problem is so ingrained now some women have given up on finding a solution.
But Etsuko Ichihara and Taiki Watai's attitudes towards sexual harassment is certainly novel, even if we're not sure if it makes it better or worse.
They take that most phallic of Japanese root ...
Our friends at KanojoToys have told us they are having a 10% off sale to celebrate Halloween.
We usually go over to KTS to browse the latest great sex toys but they also have a nice selection of cosplay costumes and "fun stuff" -- many items of which could be both a private toy and public costume.
Even the bondage toys and BDSM gear would make an awesome costume to shock and scare fellow revellers come October 31st.
And even if you don't need an original Halloween costume, you can still claim a 10% discount on your purchases by using the code "creepynight".
Tokyo Kinky's ...
Japanese sexy lingerie brand Ravijour has held its first solo strip show -- sorry, we mean fashion show. To look at the pictures, it's an easy mistake to make!
Models include Elli Rose, Mayuko Arisue and Natsumi Yoshida strutted their stuff on October 8th and showed off their slinky bodies in Roppongi to celebrate 10 years of one of Japan's two main drop-dead-hot lingerie lines (the other is Peach John).
I know we write about Japanese lingerie like Ravijour perhaps a bit too much on this blog, despite it being a bit too ordinary to qualify for "kinky". It's just ...
Calling all plush doll fans! Our friends at KanojoToys have told us they have the possibility to work with Japan's leading makers of foam sex dolls, Dekunoboo.
The idea is to create a special KanojoToys-exclusive, KanojoToys-designed plush doll.
Following the previous collaboration with a sex toy maker which led to the very nice Chokyo Shojo Bondage Virgin Manami Sujiman Onahole (its popularity surprised even us!), everyone is very excited about what we can do with a whole doll.
Nothing is final yet but first KanojoToys wanted to collect ideas from fans. What kind of sex doll ...
At last, the first major Nogizaka46 scandal!
The idol group's Sayuri Matsumura has been snapped kissing a man. But unlike her peers in AKB48 who tend to have affairs with their managers or with their otaku fans, Sayuri has opted for a guy in his thirties already married with a kid!
The tabloid Shukan Bungei ran the photos this week showing Sayuri on the street in the arms of the man.
Way to piss off your management, "betray" your fans, AND play up to the fantasies of older male admirers all at the same time, Sayuri!
The 22-year-old Sayuri has tearfully apologized but we ...
Our friends over at Japan Trends picked up on a very funny about this pop-up cafe about to open this weekend in Harajuku where women (we presume only women) can get the experience of being pressed up against a wall by a hunky guy.
This is known as kabe-don in Japan and typically sees a hot guy with his hand on the wall by the girl's face. She has her back for the wall and her face angled up, waiting for him to plant a smooch on her lips.
Only at the Morinaga Kabe-don Cafe, the "hunk" is a mannequin.
Yes, we're not kidding. If you go to the cafe and try one of two new Morinaga dessert ...
We've been reading some interesting reports about goings-on in Osaka, which despite its inferior size compared to Tokyo, is often the first to try certain trends. And we suspect this might be the case here.
Following a recent series of arrests and police raids on "suspicious" maid cafes and schoolgirl "massage" parlors in Akihabara and elsewhere, the JK girl services are rebranding to get around the child labor laws. Now the high school girl parlors as so-called taiiki-suwari cafes.
A new addition to the Japanese erotic lexicon!
These cafes of course have a no-touching policy. ...
