While the Tokyo Game Show last weekend ultimately did not feature Sony's divisive "Summer Lesson" demo for the Project Morpheus HMD headset, it did have some virtual boyfriends instead.
One booth at TGS 2014 showcased virtual dating and romance apps so women could get their perfect partner. The only snag is that the man in question does not exist in reality.
Voltage Romance Apps features a series of smartphone social apps with fake boyfriends for lonely women. They even have English-language versions adapted for North American audiences.
The average user is a 30-year-old Japanese ...
It's high time we talked about otoko no ko (also written otokonoko) (男の娘). The name of course is a play on the word for "boy" but whose characters mean "male daughter". As we know, the word for daughter (musume) is also employed a lot to mean "cute young girl", and that's the nuance here.
The phrase has been used since the 2000's. A otoko no ko is a cross-dressing cosplayer, who dresses as a girl for certain occasions. It's an unusual combination of cosplay culture, sexuality, and (in a way) otaku culture (it's quite geeky as subcultures go). It took the world of men dressed as ...
Last summer photography Manabu Koga delighted us with his series of sexy photographs of slinky girls swimming underwater in various states of undress.
Now he's back with a follow-up, Underwater Knee-High Girls plus, released this October.
Sexy Japanese girls in knee-high socks, diving underwater. The concept is unchanged -- when it ain't broke, don't fix it! -- though this time the slender maidens having some incongruous props like umbrellas and raincoats, meccha gear, and even rabbit ears.
The models include Shimarisu Mashima and ...
Our exquisite sexpot this week is slinky Akane Suzuki, born 1984.
The Gravure idol has been absent from our lives for a while now after a career of gradually increasingly revealing photo shoots.
She went out with a bang, ending by stripping complete nude in 2010. Since then we have seen no appearances by Akane but we can still hope for a (suitably scantily clad) comeback one ...
We consider ourselves aficionados of some of the weirder sections of the Japanese porn canon. And let's face it, there are some oddities out there.
For example, in "World's Kinkiest Nude Library Challenge", an entry in the shuchi "shame" genre, a woman does crazy things while in a public library... totally naked, natch.
"Elf" sees a man have sex with a fairy-like girl with pointy ears.
"Daddy Quiz Daughter Sex" has a father tied up and forced to watch as his daughter is raped by men in masks if he gets questions wrong.
We think the titles of "Human Farm Cow Girls Orgy" and "Tokyo ...
Bandai's Sailor Moon franchise has created a second set of its limited edition lingerie, with help from Japanese sexy lingerie maker Peach John.
The previous sets were all almost impossible to get your hands on, selling out very quickly. This new series promises to be just as popular, not least because of the way it is being marketed.
Peach John knows all about picking the right sexy models with the right bodies. Last time they had the likes of Rei Yasui looking very nice indeed in the lingerie.
This time round they have Peach John favorite, AKB48's Haruna Kojima, dressed up like ...
In our time we've seen a fair few -- hundreds, maybe even thousands -- of JAV porn star so-called "clone masturbators". Sometimes these are the real deal, literally molded from the pussy of the Japanese adult video actress.
It really hit exploded with the release of the Meiki Maria Ozawa a few years back, thus also furthered the craze for masturbator onaholes using the name "meiki" to denote quality.
Some of the clone masturbators are really more like tributes to the original source, a case of really being more an onahole "inspired" by her.
Dogma, a Japanese porn maker, also has ...
A civilian group has been formed for dealing with the problem of stalking among sex workers.
Following several high-profile murders, the issue of stalking by men in Japan has been big news recently.
The creation of SWASH in Osaka would be important in that respect alone but it's actually aimed at helping protect the working environments of sex workers, which is very rare. Although prostitution per se is not illegal in Japan -- only profiting from prostitution -- it is nonetheless almost unheard of for sex workers to be acknowledged in this way.
However, prostitutes working in ...
As we know, Tenga take their sex toy design very seriously and have a good eye for marketing stunts.
They also make some of the best quality (and best-looking) sex toys in Japan today.
And it seems even their internal corporate modus operandi contain a clever tactics that make an impression and advertise their products.
Business cards are very important in Japan. You cannot work without them. But Tenga have done something pretty awesome. As IT Media discovered when they paid a visit to the Tenga HQ a little while ago, Tenga employees are now using the Pocket Tenga as an integrated ...
The luscious Miho Kinouchi is a Japanese actress, born in 1975.
She made her acting debut in 1990 and also worked as an idol singer. She stripped off in some dramas.
Marrying in the late 1990's, she divorced in 2005. Her nude photo books include "Uramado" (Back Window) in 1998.
Sadly absent from our lives now, let's remember how beautiful she looked in these ...
