Hinatazaka46 idol Hinano Kamimura has released her first photo book. The 19-year-old's book, Sono mama de (As It Is), came out on September 12 with four different covers (one for each of the seasons). It features a series of pics of the music idol in underwear or swimwear, plus a somewhat more explicit of her in a bath. Some shots have a summery vibe; others look ahead to the imminent autumn season. If you want a slim and youthful Japanese girl, you've come to the right place. There's one decidedly sexy, more mature shot where she's lying in her underwear on a ...

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One of the bigger and somewhat stranger media stories of the last few days in Japan has been the case of a influencer from Osaka who was denied entry to Hawaii. Considering the millions of tourists who enter Hawaii annually -- many of them from Japan -- it might seem like an odd story. The border officer became suspicious of Karen Okajima because she had written she was an office worker on her ESTA immigration form but seemed to have a lot of clothing in her luggage for someone traveling alone. The 32-year-old says she was taken to a private room and questioned for a long time. She ...

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When you've been at this game as long as us, you start to see patterns and cycles in the mainstream media's reporting about Japan -- including by the Japanese media itself. Perennially, we spot articles about sexless Japan based on a new survey with minimal data. Sometimes even the same content reappears, slightly rejigged for a fresh article. In 2017, we reported on the private sex museum run by a photographer from his own home. Yoshitaka Hyodo's extraordinary museum in Yashio, Saitama, is still around and going strong. It has received the latest boost to its publicity with a recent ...

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Last year, police in Hong Kong cracked down on foreign sex workers, arresting several women including former Japanese porn star Noa Aizawa. It's well known that active and former adult video performers do sex work. It can be especially lucrative to engage in such work outside Japan, particularly other parts of Asia, where JAV is immensely popular. If your career is flagging in Japan or you want a change of pace, you can enjoy a good lifestyle with affluent clients abroad. It seems that situation in Hong Kong is much the same, with media reporting the arrest on September 5 of 11 members of a ...

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The tabloids are all of a flutter over rumors that recently retired top porn star Yua Mikami (30) is sleeping with not one but two boy band singers. According to the Weekly Bunshun, Kento Senga (32) of Kis-My-Ft2 spent around three hours at Mikami's apartment on the night of August 31. A few hours later, he was apparently followed by Kento Nagao (21) of Naniwa Danshi. The report ignited something of a Twitter firestorm in early September. It's not the first time that Mikami has found herself at the center of such romance rumors. She was previously said to be dating singer Yuya Tegoshi and ...

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Our friends at Kanojo Toys are currently offering a store-wide discount on all Japanese adult toys. You can get 20% off any order until September 14. To claim your discount, just enter the promo code END when you check out your order. The code is valid on multiple orders, so you can keep buying goodies at the discount during the period of the sale. But Kanojo Toys is the biggest Japanese adult store online shipping internationally and with thousands of toys to choose from, where do you start? Well, you can't go wrong by browsing the new releases. Our recommendations among recent ...

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Japanese adult video fans will probably already know who June Lovejoy is, one of the most successful foreign performers working in the JAV industry. Lovejoy made their porn debut in early 2020. Not content to sit on her AV laurels, Lovejoy newest passionate project is now up and running. They have launched a rival to Tokyo Kinky. Just kidding. Tokyo Love District is (in Lovejoy's words) an online "guide of Tokyo and Japan in general with a focus on people working in the Japanese adult industry, JAV industry members, fetishists, artists, models, and anyone that is working in the unseen scene ...

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Do Japanese girls want to date Western guys? It's a question that many of our readers probably want to find out. Of course, the answer is: it depends on the girl. But such obvious points aside, what do Japanese women, especially young Japanese women, think about dating non-Japanese man, particularly from Western countries? Fortunately, instead of going out and doing a time-consuming survey ourselves, we found this nice video of street interviews from a few months ago. The interviewer, Takashii, manages to score comments from some fine-looking and very eligible ladies. We're not sure how ...

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Another week, another new Japanese adult video debut. This time, the newbie porn performer who has caught our eye is Ruu Totsuka (十束るう), who used to be known professionally as Shiho Nagisa (渚志帆). Her debut (code STARS-901-T) came out on SODstar digitally on August 30, and then on DVD on September 21. Apparently, she's been working as a voice and stage actor since the age of six! She's meant to be currently a gravure model, though we had never seen her before. Regardless, her 20-year career just entered a whole new chapter. The 26-year-old native of Kumamoto has incredible ...

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Earlier in the year, we wrote a short profile about Aya Takanashi, the former porn star who is now a columnist. Her articles in Spa! are always worth a read, usually introducing certain aspects about the adult industry and her insights on them. We spotted her recent piece about street scouts (known in Japanese as "scout man"). Such suited, flashily dressed figures are often seen hanging around certain neighborhoods of a big city. In Tokyo, this often means Kabukicho. They go up to women and try to entice them with offers of well-paid work. Sometimes this is porn work, though the true ...

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