Last autumn a sensual ad for Glico's sweet Dororich drink with five Gravure idols was a big hit. Glico had such a good time with the curvy ladies that they made a new one! This time the five lovely ladies are... Anna Konno (b. 1989) Ayaka Sayama (b. 1993) Asuka Kishi (b. 1991) Mitsuki Hoshina (b. 1996) Arisa (b. 1989) It's great to see Gravure idols getting mainstream exposure like this. More of this ...

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No one is above the law. An ex-cop from the riot police has been arrested for the attempted abduction of a 15-year-old school girl in Akishima, Tokyo. Former police sergeant Koichi Omura (32) left the force in March but has been busy since then. He is accused of coming up to a fifteen-year-old high school first grade student early in the morning on April 15th. He was in a rented car and she was walking along a street. "There was a crime nearby. You need to cooperate with me in a case," he said to her, no doubt hoping either to terrify her into "cooperation" or to make her feel ...

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Outspoken Osaka mayor and founder of the Japan Restoration Party, now Japan’s third largest party, Toru Hashimoto has got himself in hot water over some comments he made about the "comfort women" during the war and his recommendations for how to avoid rapes in Okinawa. Hashimoto, no stranger to getting noticed by provocative comments, told reporters in Osaka on on Monday that the "comfort women" (local women forced into prostitution by the colonizing Japanese forces in Asia during the war) were necessary in order to maintain military discipline. The women “were necessary in ...

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Boys, time to despair. The pages of your tabloids won't be filled with images of sexy Gravure model Yumi Sugimoto for a while. The top sexpot has come down with acute pyelonephritis, meaning she has to take a few weeks off work and recover. Recently Yumi has been working more in the mainstream, including a role in a musical till earlier this month and even a supporting part in a NHK period drama in 2012. She also appears in the tokusatsu TV show, Engine Sentai Go-onger. Get well soon, ...

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A man has been arrested for molesting a woman on a train, known as chikan in Japan. Nothing new in that. Another day, another groper. But this time the 26-year-old man from Osaka claims the whole thing had been arranged via a special online forum. On the website people who want to molest and a woman who wanted to be molested invited collaborations for a public "session" on a moving train. The date and plan was set for the Kokawa-Kainan Wakayama line one morning during the Golden Week holidays. The woman told forum members what she would be wearing and that she would respond ...

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We've always known that the people behind AKB48 do not understand the meaning of bad taste, and here's the latest demonstration. From Lolicon kiddy dancing to "hand-bras", AKB48 continues to plumb the depths of the cringe-worthy. AKB48 member Yuki Kashiwagi is filmed grating a yam to make totoro for no better reason that than it is an excuse to show incredibly gratuitous and infantile shots of her drinking what is suggested to be cum. Seriously, this is embarrassing to watch. They literally show close-ups of the idol's mouth eating the white liquid -- and yet, Yuki is forced to ...

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It pays to be careless sometimes, it seems. For a Japanese porn star, despite all those nakadashi (creampie) scenes, you would think that getting pregnant was the thing they fear most. It signals if not the end of their career, at least a large blimp where they cannot work. But not if you are as cute as the cosplayer JAV porn star Tsubomi, whose latest film is simply called "Tsubomi Pregnant." We think the main point of the film is thus pretty obvious. Of course, there are lots of pregnant porn films already and even pregnant women sex shops for people with lactating breasts ...

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Hurray for good customer service. Over on Tokyo Reporter we read a interesting little summary of a tabloid article that claims Abenomics -- the Japanese prime minister's fiscal policies aimed at bringing inflation -- are having no effect on the sex industry. You can still head to a soapland and have a good time with all the foam and frolics for as little as 10,000 yen, and sometimes even lower in certain east Tokyo neighborhoods like Yoshiwara. Abenomics might have raised the Nikkei by sixty percent but actually a price war has emerged between certain establishments in notorious ...

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To celebrate the upcoming Tokyo performances of the Hatsune Miku opera "The End" we wanted to show a side to the virtual idol that likely won't be put on a stage soon... but deserves to ...

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It's not looking good for Akihabara's maid cafes as customers drift away from paying exorbitant prices for cups of coffee where there are no "extras". According to a media report, maid cafes started in Akihabara in 2001 and then you get visit on for a drink for a mere ¥500. (These days it is more like double that or more!) Based on national database figures, there were a mere 132 maid cafes in Akiba at the end of 2011. Since the peak was 282 cafes, this means 150 -- over half -- have closed. In the decade the world economy has hardly done so well and Japan in particular is ...

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