As always, the year saw a lot of new porn stars make their debuts in the Japanese adult video industry. Some of the most prominent ones were featured here on these digital pages, though even we struggled to keep up with the sheer number of new talent arriving on the scene.
Here is a list of some of our favorites and highlights from 2022, in no particular order.
Rikako Inoue (Yotsuha Kominato) (probably the biggest debut of the year in terms of buzz)
Natsu Igarashi
Minami Seno
Hina Nitori
Uta Iori
Moeka Marui (featured in July)
Naruha Sakai
Hatsume
Monika
Rena ...
'Tis the season for giving, they say, but perhaps this 31-year-old Japanese man took that custom a little far -- and very much in the wrong direction.
Kyosuke Katsu, a company employee in Gamagori, Aichi, was arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage after he poured urine on the clothing of a fellow passenger on a train.
According to police and media reports, Katsu used a straw to squirt or pour urine onto the clothing of a 32-year-old woman who was sitting in front of him while the train was traveling from Okazaki Station to Gamagori Station at around 11 o'clock at night on December ...
Things get wet in love hotel rooms. That goes without saying, presuming you're doing your job right.
But what about wet as in watery wet? No, we're not just talking about enjoying a soak in a bath together.
Among the myriad facilities and attractions at Japan's colorful love hotels, this is perhaps the most elaborate we have heard of: Hotel Regent Odaka in Nagoya has its own private water slide for guests. Elaborate -- or crazy?!
These traveling YouTubers recently stayed at the hotel and filmed their exploits (all safe for work, we should add).
You can climb up the stairs to the top of ...
Ai Shinozaki made a gravure comeback initially in late 2021 and then again in early 2022, and the resulting semi-nude photo book was one of the highlights of the year.
Now aged 30, the famously busty (bakunyu) babe is a very welcome re-entry in our orbit. (In fact, she had been absent so long we presumed she had retired from gravure and entertainment.)
Her 2022 photo book was about as nude as it's possible to be without actually showing tits or ass (besides hints of her butt and plenty of side boob).
She's not resting on her laurels, it seems. Her latest shoot continues her gravure ...
In our quest to bring readers the latest updates on sex and nude scenes, we spent some time watching the little-known Japanese movie Shodo (Impulse), a low-budget, bondage-themed erotic film released in Japan in late 2021.
The Shibuya-set film, which purports to show the love lives of young people in Tokyo, has several nude scenes, including a particularly nice one where Uri Suzuki in a threesome with two guys on a bed in a love hotel. Suzuki pours alcohol over her breasts.
In another POV-shot scene, Suzuki is giving a guy a blowjob while he is restrained on the bed.
In ...
"Shibari is 90% emotional. The other half is technical."
Following our earlier article about Steve Osada's online Japanese rope bondage learning platform, Kinbaku Academy, we sat down with the rope master for a conversation about his career and the state of shibari/kinbaku today.
Steve Osada (also often referred to using the Japanese name order, Osada Steve) inherited the Osada name in 2001 from grandmaster Eikichi Osada when he died. They had first met in 1998 for a photo shoot and Steve eventually started helping the grandmaster with his weekly shows as a pulley operator. The rest, as ...
The Japanese actress Yui Kitamura (北村優衣) has a few decent nude scenes in the 2022 movie Believers.
The 23-year-old beauty shows her breasts and a bit of butt in several scenes, including some quite explicit sex scenes. We love her pale skin and breasts -- not only their shape but also the nipples and areolae. And if you like a slightly larger ass, which is sadly rare among many Japanese or East Asian women, Yui Kitamura is quite voluptuous.
The film, which is adapted from the Naoki Yamamoto manga, came out in Japan in the summer to relatively little fanfare and passed by under our ...
Sure, if you want attractive design in the universal sense, you turn to Tenga. But if you want real innovation -- design that makes you sit back and go, huh?! -- you look to Tama Toys.
From grenades to bullets and toilet bowls, there's almost nothing that Tama Toys won't take inspiration from in its noble quest to product sex toys that feel great.
Its latest groundbreaking design is the Grasp Heart Masturbator, which, as the name suggests, resembles a human heart.
Despite the red color, there's no blood or romance. Just pure pleasure.
You lube up and slide your cock between the left and ...
The 25-year-old gravure idol Minami Haruna (春名美波) has just got a career boost with her first photo book release at the end of last month, plus she has made a splash in the weeklies by going nude for it.
The former race queen looks ravishing in these shoots, which range from a hotel room to a ship, a swimming pool, and what seems to be a random spot in the countryside.
"Harenchi na watashi" (Shameless Me) is a genuinely nude photo book, though it's not full-frontal nudity and it's a little disingenuous with the breasts nudity.
We get to see Haruna's butt in all its bare glory, but ...
The feminist activist Yumi Ishikawa made headlines worldwide in 2019 with her #KuToo campaign against wearing high heels in workplaces.
The actor and model also simultaneously made a lot of enemies, especially among male trolls, and is frequently attacked online. Some call her a hypocrite, since when she was younger, she posed for full-frontal nude shoots as a model and did at least one nude scene as an actor. (Personally, we don't see a problem here: you can do both feminist campaigning and sexually appealing modeling -- the two are not mutually exclusive -- and we all do things in our ...
