She is the woman of many names and many occupations. Elly Akira is a Japanese porn star who also went by the name of Yuka (Yuuka) Osawa. Now she stars in porn under the name Eri Arai. Following us so far?
She's half Japanese, half Syrian. If that wasn't special enough, she is also an award-winning artist, photographer, writer, and businesswoman. Oh, and she has another name: Fareeza Terunuma.
It's under this name that she takes part in art shows and has now launched a new career as a music star.
Her first single is called "Kakkoii" (Cool) and is under yet another moniker, Terunuma ...
Pure unadulterated sex appeal.
From her graceful looks to those cute small breasts, Mei Hayama (葉山めい) is simply bliss.
You'll notice that these days we branch out a bit and don't just offer Gravure idols in these kind of Japanese sexy babe showcases anymore.
We still love idols, don't worry. But we like to branch out occasionally. And there's plenty of amazing women to feast our eyes on in the world of Japanese pornography.
Mei Hayama made her JAV debut last year. Being born in 1994 -- yes, she's Heisei era! -- she is still kind of under the age of consent. How did she ...
We all love the wacky kawaii-ness that is Kyary Pamyu Pamyu. She's like Harajuku on LSD and we also know about her more risque past as a child idol!
Now she has stepped over a certain line and we're not sure what to make of it.
While performing one of her songs on NHK's New Year music bonanza Kohaku Uta Gassen, she revealed she has something strapping between her thighs.
Between her chaste, cutesy legs we found... a beefy black man!
And is it just us or has the guy got an erection?
Still... who can blame him?!
We wonder if Kyary Pamyu Pamyu is ...
We always get excited about new Tenga products.
Japan's most stylish adult sex toys brand, Tenga is more corporate than it was before. It is now owned by DMM and used Dentsu for its marketing. It is also working with overseas distributors more and more, and we just hope it doesn't lose its cool willingness to be daring while also making commercially viable adult merchandise.
It has been branching out from just toys for the boys recently. It started with the Iroha and the Iroha Mini, Tenga's first vibrators for women.
They seem to have developed a hankering for this kind of sex ...
He is famed as the man with the midas touch, who can make a woman orgasm just by a few expert twists of his fingers. He is Taka Kato, the biggest man in Japanese porn.
And he is throwing in the towel.
After 8,000 women and 10,000 titles to his credit (talk about notches on the bed post!), the sprightly 54-year-old is retiring from Japan's most productive industry.
Along the way he has starred in a documentary about Japanese male porn stars and produced his own finger vibrator attachment, in a dog-eat-dog competitive industry dominated by the girls -- literally, there are said to ...
Hug pillows (dakimakura) are nothing new in Japan. There is a wealth of pillows out there with cases featuring idols or in the actual body shapes of young girls.
Here's a new twist and its all a marketing stunt.
How do you make cockroaches appealing? That's the dilemma facing Gokiburi Kujo Meister, an extermination company.
It came up with a novel way to promote its services -- moe. It seems when in doubt, you can always turn to the forces of cuteness and kinkiness combined to make a new marketing campaign that at the very least will gain a response.
Gokiburi Kujo Meister has ...
A winter exhibition by publisher Dengeki Bunko started on December 28th and features over 50 examples of artwork from the publisher's line-up of manga and light novels.
One was a special section of an onsen hot spring scene with several Dengeki manga heroines.
The ladies are understandably au naturel and visitors can pose for photos while pretending to enjoy a hot soak with their favorite 2D characters.
Here's a sign saying it's okay to peek.
And you are allowed to enter the "ladies only" section of the hot spring. Clearly some people ignored the notice telling ...
Every New Year in Japan much of the nation tunes into the five-hour singing show Kohaku Uta Gassen. This year featured the recently remarried (to yet another foreigner!) Ayumi Hamasaki as well as now regulars AKB48, who appeared as all 110 singers.
But there was a surprise for AKB fans. Yuko Oshima made the shock announcement that she would be graduating.
The twenty-five-year-old is a veteran from the Akiba idol group and is the latest in the most popular members to announce her departure. So far, only Atsuko Maeda has really been able to forge a post-AKB career.
Yuko didn't ...
The year is almost over. It's time to look back over the past twelve months at the ladies who made the biggest impression.
Here are our picks, in alphabetical order.
Haruka Ayase
The former idol is now a respected actress and one who confidently assured the country that she need not be typecast in the ditzy girl-next-door roles anymore when she took the lead in the year-long Taiga drama, "Yae no Sakura". We still love her curves, though.
Mitsu Dan
Another big year for the thirtysomething curvy lady. She seemed to be on everyone's lips, figuratively speaking. She even ...
American film website TC Candler has issues its yearly list of "most beautiful faces".
Japanese girls featured: Satomi Ishihara was at #32, followed by Nozomi Sasaki at #41, Mirei Kiritani at #46, Haruka Shimazaki (from AKB48) at #56, (recently married to yet another foreigner) Ayumi Hamasaki at #60, and finally Aya Ueto at #99.
Despite the ubiquity on Japanese advertising of people like Atsuko Maeda, Emi Takei and Ayame Goriki, they were nowhere in sight and so can be presumed to have little to no global presence. So much for Dentsu.
Kiritani was at #12 last year while ...
