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 ...
Happy Christmas, everyone!
Here's something we really wish Santa would bring... Some sexy Japanese girls in Santa cosplay outfits!
This is one Japanese idol tradition that we certainly still believe in.
Itsuki Sagara
Yurika Tachibana
Sayaka Oonuki
Momoko Tani
Mizuki Hoshina
Ayaka Komatsu
Enjoy the ...
Haruna Kojima, the 25-year-old AKB48 idol who we believe is the only major AKB girl with anything worth talking about, has released her first photo book "Kojiharu".
Just in time for Christmas, the book features a selection of hot images, not least one in which Haruna is doing her best to promote the AKB tradition of the te-bura -- or "hand bra".
AKB girls have a habit of doing this kind of shot, though at least this time there is no child involved.
Here are some luscious snaps from behind the scenes.
And just to prove how nice ...
Over December 6 and December 9, Japanese Facebook dating app Match Alarm did an online survey of 2,944 male and female Japanese singles in their twenties and thirties.
It found some surprising results, most notably that 81.3% of Japanese single women would want an older man for a partner.
On the other hand, compounding the stereotype that all Japanese men want innocent maids and anime characters, the survey found that nearly 47% of men wanted a lover who was younger.
Things get more logical when broken down into age groups. Both men (51.2%) and women (over 90%!) prefer an older lover ...
