Ama are Japanese free-divers who are usually women and are most famous for fishing for pearls.
The mermaids dive into the sea with no equipment and just a net to get their catch, and are often naked except for a fundoshi.
Eishin Ozaki has been taking photographs of the mermaids for half a century, starting in 1955 when he was in his thirties. Now 92, he continues to exhibit, though one suspects his diving days are over.
He went diving at Hegura, near Wajima in Ishikawa prefecture, but couldn't keep up with the local Ama female divers there. The go from the surface to the ...
The new "child porn" proposal put forward by the ruling LDP, the Komeito and Japan Restoration Party immediately stoked controversy in the manga and anime worlds, with insiders suggesting it would destroy the industries.
Now there is a suggestion that under the rules of the new law, even scenes from the famed and beloved kids' anime Doraemon wouldn't be safe from the censor's scissors.
Essentially it allows any depiction of under eighteen year-old people to be defined as child porn, and being caught with such filth can get you a year in jail or a hefty fine.
As part of the ...
This week let's take a lustful look at Karen Kobayashi (小林かれん).
Karen is a gravure idol born in 1997, making her a tender 16, and perfect for the youth-obsessed Japanese entertainment world.
Let's hope Karen sticks around our world for a little while ...
Kiyoshi Hayashishita, the famous father of a dozen children and star of long-running reality TV show "Big Daddy", has told a tabloid of a side-line he used to do to earn extra cash.
"I was a driver for a delivery health [a euphemism for call girl services]. The hourly rate was ¥5,000. It was just four hours but you could earn ¥20,000 in a night. It was a really good part-time job."
He also explains how the drivers -- who take the girls by car to the love hotels and often wait -- also function as bouncers when things go wrong.
He sometimes had to take along a wooden sword to ...
We recently came across a bilingual interview with a hostess on Jagr Magazine. It seems genuine, though the hostess is apparently not Japanese (shame!).
Here are some highlights.
Interviewer: How does a hostess club work?
Hostess: I came to Tokyo years ago, and I never knew what a hostessing job was, but my dad's friend told me if you want easy money, hostessing's the right job because you're a pretty girl.
I thought hostessing was escorting, but it's actually like a relationship with the men. Ginza hostessing clubs are five stars. The one that I worked at was one of the top three ...
A three-party group has put forward a bill proposing to extend the ban on so-called child porn to anyone even just possessing it.
The ruling LDP and its allies Komeito and Japan Restoration Party (led by Shintaro Ishihara and Toru Hashimoto) proffered the new bill to the Diet at the end of May.
The manga and anime industries have already reacted in horror to the new draconian bill.
But what does this mean for the law and the average person?
Well, if you are just possessing a picture showing a Gravure idol or swimwear idol under 18, then you are liable for arrest. "Possession" ...
A women's you-know-what needs attention. It's not just a simple vessel for men to stick themselves in and push as hard as they can -- it needs training to remain tight.
Not having children is one solution, of course.
Another is to train your vagina regularly with various exercises.
You can also use this Femi Fit Wakageru, which fits very snugly indeed.
No, this isn't a vaginal dildo -- though we reckon it could also function as one! -- it's primarily for exercising your vagina.
Your hole will close around it after you insert it (with lotion if necessary). Move your hips ...
Some people to go to ANY lengths to catch a glimpse of the holy grail, it seems.
Hyogo police have arrested a twenty-six-year-old company employee from Kobe for hiding in a 30-by-45-inch grate in the side of the road in order to spy on girls' panties as they went by.
Yasuomi Hirai has admitted his guilt.
Around 10am on June 5th, he was spotted at a grate opening in Kobe after having entered the roadside drain via a space twenty meters away.
Nearby there is a girls' college and girls' high school, and many of the students would pass by. Hirai also lived nearby.
A ...
The results of the AKB48 Senbatsu "general election" event are in -- and the participants for the band's 32nd single, as announced at an event on June 8th in Yokohama.
This year -- the fifth "general election" -- the AKB honchos changed the system slightly with "candidacies". 246 idols stood, the most of any of the elections since 2009, including girls from all the major AKB groups and the various teams within each group: AKB48, SKE48, NMB48, HKT48, JKT48 and SNH48. Six graduated members also stood, though not Tomomi Kasai.
The big surprise was the victory of "disgraced" former ...
This blog may well call itself Tokyo Kinky but that doesn't preclude us from stepping over the water sometimes to write about the wonders that are women in China, Taiwan or Korea.
We have a particular liking for Korean girls, not least the stunning actresses -- who are much more willing to take off their clothes for hot sex scenes in films than their Japanese counterparts.
We are the lucky recipients of this and in fact have previously tempted opinionated readers to join us in speculating which girls are sexier -- Japanese or Korean?
Well, there is of course no real answer to such a ...
