Who says the industry doesn't look after its own?
The Japanese porn world can get a bad rap, with lots of memoirs recently by former actresses recounting their woes and troubles after fucking and sucking their way through hundreds of men.
But the porn documentary The Other Side of Sex, currently playing at the leading film venue Uplink in Shibuya, will allow porn stars the chance to get in for a discounted ticket price.
Kind of a busman's holiday, the documentary is about the men of the JAV industry and so may prove all too familiar to the ladies.
However, the producers of the ...
Apologies for the excess in AKB48-related posts recently. There's just been so much to write about.
The latest member of the idol "music" group to hit the tabloid rumor lane is Yuki Kashiwagi.
She apparently went on a gokon, the group date very common among young people in Japan.
Yuki's late-night gokon might have been with Japanese soccer players and also famed Japanese porn star Kirara Asuka.
Yuki is 21 and officially single -- so there should be nothing scandalous about this. Except she works at AKB48 where the members are not allowed to have private lives.
This is ...
As we blogged back in December 2011, Masato Uchishiba (34), the judo champion who won two gold medals for Japan at Athens and Beijing Olympics, saw the final nail hammered into the coffin of his career recently when he was jailed for five years for rape.
He was charged with sexually assaulting a teenager, a member of the judo team that Uchishiba was coaching. She had consumed a lot of alcohol and then passed out in a hotel, and then Uchishiba made his move.
Uchishiba has maintained from the beginning that the sex with the teenager in 2011 was consensual, but the court in Tokyo ruled he ...
Famed fashion photographer Leslie Kee (41) has been arrested by Tokyo police for the sale of "obscene" imagery at a Roppongi Gallery.
Kee, Singaporean by birth but based in Tokyo, is one of three arrested for selling photo books with pictures of male genitalia. The trio are suspected of selling seven books to two customers.
The photo books are from Kee's new male nude series, "Super Goh" and "Super Miki", taken over the course of a year. However, the police got wind of non-mosaic "porn" being sold at hiromi yoshii roppongi gallery and swooped in on the dangerous cock-festered ...
The scandal resulting from Minami Minegishi's outrageous decision to have a relationship with dancer Alan Shirahama has brought immense publicity to AKB48 and turned what was a tabloid scoop into an ad giving the name power of the group's "brand" a major push overseas.
All publicity is good publicity, after all.
But doubt over the sincerity of Minegish's "apology" has been cast after photos emerged showing a happy Miichan posing sans signs of contrition with the other main AKB ladies -- for now, themselves sex-free and scandal-free -- shortly after having her head shorn in the style of the ...
Oh, god. Just when you think AKB48 couldn't get any lower. Then this happens.
Following rumors that she had -- shock! -- been on dates and slept at someone's place, minor AKB48 idol Minami Minegishi (20) has been demoted from active member to a kenkyusei (research student) position -- one short of being sacked.
But she also made a bizarre tearful video apology with her head shaved as a sign of penance.
The painful video was uploaded last night and has at time of writing this already been viewed 1.6 million times.
This is so distasteful. Shaving someone's head is what locals did to ...
A long-established strip club in Shinjuku's Kabukicho has been raided by police for letting Japanese porn stars perform and expose their vaginas.
Police have arrested ten for public indecency, including the manager of the Kabukicho T S Music club and several strippers aged 24-39 years old.
The club had been allowing patrons to see the JAV girls' private parts after a show had ended, even lending them cameras so they could take photographs.
Kabukicho T S Music Club opened in 1985, making it a veteran by Tokyo standards. It makes much of its 250 million yen ($2.8 million) turnover from ...
Anan magazine, the ladies' fashion monthly with a liking for nude or sexy shots of famous girls, has gone after another AKB48 member for its latest publicity-seeking cover feature.
After rather lovely revealing shoots with Haruna Kojima and Yuko Oshima, it has now chosen Yuki Kashiwagi, the 21-year old AKB48 singer and model who has oft stood in the shadow of the limelight enjoyed by the other main members of the Akihabara-based idol army.
She is the fifth member to appear in Anan, perhaps indicating more mainstream fame awaits Yuki.
The seven-page shoot took place at a hotel and, though ...
Put your hand up of you've ever watched some Japanese porn -- okay, we're raising every part of our bodies! Well, then you will have probably at least one time seen this star.
But unlike Maria Ozawa et al, she doesn't have a name nor even the fame she deserves. But her role in driving the engine of JAV is undisputed.
Behold, the Fairy Massager Wand -- perhaps the most commonly used vibrator in Japanese pornography.
Why is it so popular?
Well, it's obviously a very powerful vibe and its size makes it very visually effective for shooting porn.
Its size also means it can be ...
Currently showing at Tokyo's most reliable venue for erotica, Vanilla Gallery, until February 2nd, Yoshifumi Hayashi's work is just plain awesome and the whole planet needs to know about it.
From defecating ladies to octopus vaginas, Hayashi's visionary world is both strange and beautiful.
He was born in 1948 and went to Paris in 1976, where he taught himself to ...
