Our lovely lady this week is Mai Sasaki (佐々木麻衣).
The curvy, sultry girl was born in 1988 and though she doesn't enjoy the front-page fame of her colleagues in the Gravure world, she has built up a quiet following of men eager to see more of her body.
See previous Japanese idols of the ...
Japanese TV is disgraceful at times. Here is the shocking image from a TV show broadcast on state channel NHK.
It shows quite clearly a young child fondling a certain member. What a scandal!
Hang on, it's not human. Does this make it worse? Is it bestiality as well as prepubescent porn? Well, no.
But it does look a bit funny!
For your information, it actually shows a girl helping to milk a jersey cow in Miyazaki prefecture. Still, with shots as ambiguous as this, it's almost enough to make you pay your NHK ...
After it got big media attention last year, designer Kaori Kato's novel if creepy "flip-a-skirt" calendar has returned with a new edition for 2014.
We weren't sure what to make of it when we blogged about the skirt-lifting calendar last year. Now we have been thoroughly won over by its charms.
Like in 2013 you can lift up the skirt to reveal the calendar below. This year's version comes in two colors! You get the pleasure of lifting up a skirt for every month.
Plus there are memo pad-like skirts where you can attach a note to a girl's ...
For around ¥4,000 an hour you can have a girlfriend or boyfriend. Well, you can have what's nice about having a partner without the physical stuff, at any rate.
Rental friends have been around for a while in many places and the ones in Japan have often disproportionately been given space by the foreign media. Obviously they are a fringe service for certain types of people who need extra bods at weddings and so on. How much truth is there in the coverage?
Well, the services do exist, that's for sure, and they are often more innocent (and innovative) than you might think.
We read an ...
It must be the season. Just as Tokyo is getting pounded by typhoons on a weekly basis, so is the foreign media taking an interest in reporting about "nerdy" Japan.
First we had the respected newspaper the Guardian cherry-pick some statistics to produce the dubious conclusion that young people aren't having sex anymore.
Now the BBC has an article about "the Japanese men who prefer virtual girlfriends to sex". Well, my first response was -- you've just found out about this now?!
Secondly, of course, it tars us Japanese guys with the same brush as the otaku. Much as we love otaku ...
Our lovely lady this week is the cute Rio Uchida (内田理央).
Born in 1991, Rio Uchida is an up-and-coming Gravure idol.
She made her debut in 2010 and her popularity is on the rise thanks to her slinky body, topped with girl-next-door charm -- and a cute ...
There's been a lot of media attention about stalking recently, not least due to the sad case of 18-year-old Saaya Suzuki, murdered by a stalker earlier this month.
Now comes another odd twist on the situation.
The National Police Agency (NPA) has reported a 3.8 increase on incidents of stalking by citizens over 60 over the last decade.
So much for the golden years.
Apparently stalking is on the increase in general, though the rise is much more notable for pensioners.
Stalkers in their sixties jumped from 383 in 2003 to 1,329 in 2012, plus there was an increase from 90 to 505 of guys in ...
Have you ever wanted to see a film about a talking vagina?
You can from December 7th in Japan.
Junan is based on a 1997 book by Kaoruko Himeno about a pure girl who becomes interested in sexuality and whose vagina then suddenly develops not only a personality -- but even a voice!
The lead is played by the lovely Mayuki Iwasa, who will be stripping off for the role, including a full nude scene. Mayuki is more known as an idol than a serious actress, though this odd movie will no doubt not do any harm to her reputation for being sexy.
This might be the strangest ...
A long article in the Guardian has been published that purports to be sociological and serious, but is actually perpetuating the usual myths we read about our great country -- everyone is unhappy, everyone only works, no one has sex.
The sexes, especially in Japan's giant cities, are "spiralling away from each other". Lacking long-term shared goals, many are turning to what [a sex therapist] terms "Pot Noodle love" -- easy or instant gratification, in the form of casual sex, short-term trysts and the usual technological suspects: online porn, virtual-reality "girlfriends", anime cartoons. ...
What were we saying yesterday about the police?
Well, now they've turned their attention to someone who has been delighting Tokyo in recent months.
Twitter has been abuzz with images snapped of an old guy wandering the city dressed in sailor school uniform cosplay and very happy to pose for pictures.
He has companions who dress up with him!
He even went to France dressed like that.
The "seeraa fuku ojisan" (sailor school uniform old guy) is actually Hideaki Kobayashi, aged around 50.
His cult has grown to the extent that he's been interviewed by the ...
