The latest celebrity scandal in Japan is the affair between baseball player Katsuki Azuma and popular porn star Jun Suehiro.
The 29-year-old Yokohama DeNA BayStars pitcher's relationship with the 25-year-old JAV performer came to light in a Weekly Bunshun scoop late last week, after Suehiro was spotted visiting Azuma's hotel.
Azuma has admitted the affair and apologized to his fans. He is married and has a daughter with his wife.
However, it still isn't 100% clear if the woman was Suehiro, who has so far maintained silence on the matter. She looks like the porn star, who is known to be ...
Last year, we reported on the strange case of the Japanese guy with four "wives." The situation seemed straight out of a manga and yet it was true.
In that case, the man and his harem were all relatively young. But age didn't stop another man.
The 76-year-old Hirohito Shibuya lived with nine wives in Higashiyamato, a suburb of Tokyo. Technically speaking, since polygamy is illegal in Japan, eight of the women were his ex-wives and he was only married to one of them.
Three of his children with the women also lived at the residence.
Shibuya was found dead on Sunday of an apparent suicide, ...
The revelation that the head of Japan's third largest opposition party, Yuichiro Tamaki, has been having an affair with a former gravure model, Miyuki Koizumi, sparked a media frenzy at the start of this week.
The tabloids have continued to pump out stories about the affair, much of which is just speculation.
Of course, adulterous politicians is a story as old as the hills but this one has has longer legs because Tamaki is so prominent right now (his party arguably holds the keys to keeping the minority Liberal Democratic Party government in power) -- and this is surely why the tabloids ...
We are used to Japanese politicians, both male and female, having affairs with hostesses, party workers, foreign musicians, and even other lawmakers. But what about gravure idols?
In a case that recalls Kensuke Miyazaki, who had advocated for fathers to take paternity leave but was caught having an affair with a gravure model while his wife (another lawmaker) was giving birth, a tabloid has broken a scoop on Democratic Party for the People leader Yuichiro Tamaki, who is alleged to have been having an affair with a former gradol.
Flash has revealed that the 55-year-old Tamaki has been ...
A few days ago, we reported on the amusing and somewhat outlandish tale of the popular YouTuber whose adultery was caught out by his own social media posts and TV coverage of the Shohei Ohtani baseball game in the United States that he had attended.
Streamer and YouTuber Junichi Kato (also known as Unko-chan) had boasted about going to see the Japanese sports legend play, but he was not there alone as he had claimed.
Thanks to some clever detective work, it turned out that Kato was attending the match with his lover, who was none other than porn star Ai Hongo.
Kato fessed up and openly ...
Who do porn stars like to date? And does intimacy with their romantic partners feel special or, as the British say, like taking a busman's holiday?
These are the kinds of questions that addle us to Tokyo Kinky.
We have seen ample evidence that Japanese porn stars like to date comedians and pop stars.
Shunka Ayami is apparently dating a singer, while Yua Mikami is or was allegedly dating two singers at once (well, it's hardly the first time that she's had more than one sexual partner at the same time).
AV stars to fall for comedians include Suzume Mino, Makoto Yuuki, and Runa ...
One of Japan's current leading gravure idols, Miyu Murashima, has issued an apology after news broke that she has been having an affair with a married man.
It came to light that the 25-year-old model has been seeing married Yuma Fujii, following a report on June 12 by the tabloid Bunshun.
The 32-year-old Fujii is a professional basketball player who once played on the national team.
Of course, it takes two to tango, and the man is surely as much to blame, if not more so than Murashima.
There are two issues here.
While not as severely policed as with music idols, where dating is ...
The veteran voice actor Toru Furuya may well be 70 years old and something of a legend in the industry, having provided voices for such series as Conan, Gundam, Dragon Ball, and One Piece, but his career and status is currently facing ruin due to a sex scandal.
Furuya married his second wife in 1985 but rumors have long swirled that he is a little too friendly with his fans, including inappropriate touching at meet-and-greet events.
Earlier this week, Furuya issued a public apology in response to a report in the Weekly Bunshun tabloid that he been having an affair for more than four ...
When confronted with a scandal, most Japanese politicians rely on a stock phrase: "I don't recall that."
And so it it was refreshing to see that Hiroyuki Miyazawa, the 49-year-old House of Representatives lawmaker, came clean and stated plainly: "I remember that."
A member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Miyazawa recently resigned his seat when Weekly Bunshun reported on his penchant for papakatsu sugar daddy compensated dating and regular use of sex workers.
He is also supposed to have been practically living with a woman in her twenties during the pandemic, despite being ...
It is widely perceived that adultery is common in Japan, but what's the reality?
Sure, there are lots of dating apps out there, including ones specifically for people already with partners.
There's also a bustling cottage industry of private detectives whose entire raison d'être is to find out whether your spouse is cheating or not.
It also depends on the definition of adultery and cheating. Prostitution is a large industry in Japan but would a session every now and then with a sex worker count as an affair or cheating?
Well, a survey by the aptly named Love Is All of 1,966 married men ...
