Regular readers might remember Ayana Kobayashi, whose stunning gravure shoot we wrote about in 2019. It was notable because she did an alluring nude shoot with her butt and nipples on display despite being married (to a comedian).
She has since released a couple of DVDs.
It's perhaps because she's a bit of an outsider -- someone who came to mainstream gravure a bit late and already married with a child -- that she's freer to say certain things.
Now in her early thirties, Kobayashi recently made headlines with a blog entry in which she described her own experience with sexual ...
The model, occasional actress, and former AKB48 music idol Mariya Nagao continues to get more alluring the older she gets.
Slinky. Cheeky. Sexy. Mariya-chan has got it all in abundance.
On the verge of 30 (she hits that magic number in March next year), she has thankfully not gone the way of most AKB idols and disappeared into the ether, but still fields regular invites to do gravure photo shoots, model jaw-dropping lingerie, and publish photo books.
In recent months, she has been in the gossip columns because the tabloids found out that she has a boyfriend who is a former host.
In early ...
We have written before about multilingual actress and model Manami Shindo, who has a penchant for doing nude shoots.
She also did nude sex scenes in 2022 in the movie Far Away, Further Away.
The 31-year-old who can speak five languages has followed this up with another erotic role in the movie Manji, which involves nude lesbian sex scenes with the actress Noriko Kohara.
Who is Noriko Kohara, we hear you ask? Well, she's actually none other than Noriko Kijima under a different name. Kijima had a gravure career in the 2000s in which she did nude shoots (which got her featured in our ...
Slinky sexplot Kanami Takasaki is to release her second, hotly anticipated photo book.
Blooming Bud comes out on January 25, 2024, from Transworld Japan, which specializes in publishing idol books and calendars.
It features Takasaki, who is known for her girl-next-door looks, in a more alluring, sensual style, including a cover image where she is posing naked at the sea, holding up a sheer piece of fabric. As the title of the book suggests, 26-year-old Takasaki is possible entering a more mature stage in her career.
Blooming Bud has a beach theme and was shot in Hawaii. To promote it, ...
Regular readers will know how often we praise the Japanese adult brand Tama Toys on these digital pages. The feisty, prolific manufacturer pumps out a huge range of toys and goodies, including probably the best hug pillows and covers in the industry.
It has also developed a fine line in creating radical, sometimes bizarre masturbators. Perhaps you remember its previous achievements, like masturbators inspired by a bullet, brick, bamboo, and even a grenade.
More recently, we wrote about its strikingly designed heart-shaped masturbator toy.
Now comes another entry in the annals of ...
The surge in streetwalkers at Okubo Park near Kabukicho, Shinjuku's red-light district, has prompted a media panic over the last year or so, not least because the women seem very young.
A lot of media reports have indicated that the women are doing sex work to pay off debts or fund their trips to host clubs. The latter have been demonized by the media and politicians of late, and lawmakers are trying to target "malicious clubs" that trap vulnerable women in a spiral of debt.
The streetwalkers are also perhaps not as freelance as you might think, as one case indicates.
A 27-year-old ...
The Japanese movie Shrieking in the Rain is about a 1988 sexploitation film shoot. Since the movie deals with softcore porn, it inevitably has some fairly explicit scenes itself.
It first came out in late 2021, streaming on Amazon Prime, and there now seems to be a more explicit "late-night version" rated R18 that's available on Netflix Japan. To be honest, these release details are a bit confusing and it's perhaps why the hot stuff only came to our attention recently.
Directed by Eiji Uchida, who made the JAV-themed The Naked Director series for Netflix and the film Love and Other Cults, ...
A 43-year-old man has been arrested at a hot spring facility in the Mie city of Kuwana for entering the women-only bathing area.
The man, who is described in media reports as unemployed, is from Kasugai in Aichi.
According to police, the man is suspected of sneaking into the women's baths at around 8:30 pm on November 13.
A female customer alerted a member of staff, who confirmed that a man was washing himself in the female bathing area, and then called the cops.
However, the story then becomes complicated because the man told police: "I'm a woman inside, so I can't understand at all ...
We recently wrote about the frankly shocking papakatsu compensated dating fraud perpetuated by a woman to fund her trips to host clubs.
It shows many things, not least the extraordinary lengths some women will go to to feed their addiction to host clubs.
This issue has drawn attention of late, with host clubs seen as more exploitative than hostess clubs. Host clubs have developed an image as an ecosystem that preys on vulnerable women and with a financial structure that leads to debt, whereby women are encouraged to rack up huge bills that they pay later.
Many of the women who go to host ...
Former top adult video star Sola (Sora) Aoi has given her first on-camera interview in four years.
Once the most famous Japanese porn star, and popular also in other parts of Asia, Sora Aoi announced her marriage at the start of 2018 to DJ Non.
When she then announced she was pregnant at the end of that year, she experienced quite a lot of abuse on social media. Despite not appearing in porn since 2011, many trolls still criticized her for becoming a mother, saying it was "sad for the children."
Now aged 42, Sola Aoi has two kids with DJ Non. She gave birth to twins in May 2019.
She ...
