We're rather belatedly catching up with some of the AV and gravure releases we missed last month. One was the first photo book released by the gravure idol Hana Takeuchi (竹内花).
"Hana no Mitsu" (Flower Nectar, or Hana's Nectar) came out on September 8 from Wani Books, which specializes in gravure publications. Shot by Seiji Yanishi, the photo book has a summery vibe that doesn't sit well with the autumnal temperatures in Tokyo, but we're not complaining about the shots of Hana clutching blocks of ice to her naked chest.
Talking of which, according to her profile, the 24-year-old has a ...
Managers at Universal Studios Japan are clutching their pearls at the risqué costumes that some patrons are wearing.
The coronavirus pandemic was almost the nail in Japan's Halloween street cosplay coffin: the pandemic years saw the numbers of people gathering for street parties in crazy costumes (often bearing no relation to Halloween) drop dramatically.
Now the custom is returning and theme parks are also always popular places to visit in costumes, regardless of the season. But it seems that patrons at USJ in Osaka are taking things too far, emphasizing the sexy side of the Japanese ...
Hong Kong have cracked down on foreign sex workers, arresting numerous women on October 17.
According to local news reports, they included the former Japanese porn star Noa Aizawa (愛沢のあ), who has been working as a prostitute from a hotel in the city.
Police have targeted a prostitution ring that was promoting Aizawa's services as a sex worker on social media by using her past adult videos as promotional material. Along with Aizawa, another woman arrested at the hotel was from Thailand. They both entered Hong Kong on travel visas.
In all, 16 women were arrested in a series of ...
Sometimes we see something that makes us feel a bit nostalgic -- and a bit old!
Rika Adachi (足立梨花) was one of our favorite gravure idols about a decade ago, mainly for her nice butt. She made it onto our now-legendary list of "Japanese babes with great asses."
To be honest, we haven't followed all the ins and outs of her modeling and acting career in the years since, though we remember when she was forced to deny having had plastic surgery (which is secretly quite common in Japan).
Well, now Rika Adachi has released a new photo book to mark her thirtieth birthday (what? When did ...
At professional baseball games in Japan, like in the United States, it is common to invite a celebrity to make a ceremonial first pitch.
We remember some minor controversy a few years ago when a very scantily clad Mitsu Dan was asked to do this duty.
In Taiwan, though, they do things differently.
At the stadium for local baseball team Rakuten Monkeys, sponsored by the Japanese e-commerce giant, in Taoyuan City, a squadron of sexy office ladies entertain visitors with their thighs and curvy butts.
Wearing face masks (which are still ingrained over here in East Asia), the five slinky ladies ...
OK, our headline is a bit deceptive, but the gist is essentially true.
It's been years in the offing and it might finally be happening: the law forbidding women from remarrying after a divorce is going to change.
Currently, a woman in Japan is legally unable to remarry straight after a divorce. She has to wait 100 days. Her ex-husband, though, is free to marry someone new without waiting.
The law was ostensibly introduced in the 19th century to the civil code to avoid disputes over a child's father. The "cooling-off" period, which was six months until 2016, was put in place in case the ...
What feels better than having a pair of amazing breasts wrapped around your penis, rubbing back and forth?
Vibrating breasts!
The Shaking Breasts Powered Paizuri Titjob Toy is a new effort by the ever-reliable adult boffins at Japanese sex toy brand PPP. We all love paizuri (titfuck), in real life, in porn, and with our toys, but there's one thing that can enhance the experience in addition to the size and quality of the breasts themselves.
Lubricant, we hear you say, and we agree. But one other thing is power. And the Shaking Breasts Powered Paizuri Titjob Toy are very aptly ...
There is something of a minor trend among gravure idols to emphasize their academic background. If they come from a prestigious or famous college, this is often made a significant part of their appeal.
And so it was when Serina Fukui first burst onto the gravure scene a few years ago. The pharmacy student at Keio University -- one of the most prestigious private colleges in Japan -- was praised for her curvy charms and her brains. And it was the latter that made the former even better.
Having graduated from Keio, Fukui now works as a regular pharmacist in Tokyo but has continued her ...
Piracy is the bane of porn producers, who wring their hands over their lost profit margins whenever their efforts are illegally uploaded to video sharing sites.
This all makes it harder to generate decent money from porn, though the adult video industry in Japan is still reasonably healthy due to DVD and streaming sales.
What about elsewhere? It seems that people are looking for new ways to monetize porn.
Perhaps it is for that reason that the performers in this Chinese porn have opted to wear, literally, ads on their skin, even when they are going all out doing the sex that the script ...
As frequently reported on this blog, the new porn law in Japan has proven very controversial.
Though touted as a way of protecting performers, especially younger and debuting performers, by giving them far greater freedom to get out of contracts and by making production and distribution companies delay release, the legislation introduced in June was opposed by many in the industry.
While many major production companies have maintained a careful silence, perhaps concerned about stoking calls for a total ban on unsimulated sex in porn and encouraging further regulations to target the coercion ...
