What do gravure idols, porn stars, music idols, and models do after they are famous? It is a question that preoccupies us a fair bit on this blog.
Some open small businesses -- and the savvy former stars choose ventures that trade on their fandom and existing networks.
Former SKE48 member Machiko Tezuka is now 38 years old and firmly into sexy jukujo "older woman" territory.
She opened a kind of "gravure cafe" in Akihabara in 2015 in which gradols talk to customers at a table and entertain them in swimwear. Highlights on the menu included "tit squeeze pancake" for ¥1,500, which ...
The Japanese adult brand Tama Toys has carved out a well-deserved reputation for its awesome lineup, especially onaholes, pillow covers, crossdresser costumes, and anal toys. It is especially known for its consistently impressive manga-style box art, often made in collaboration with top hentai and doujinshi illustrators, or featuring its own catgirl mascot, Super Tamanyan.
Not satisfied with getting these great toys online?
If you're near Tokyo, you can visit a Tama Toys cafe that opened on February 17 inside Blaise Tacos in Akihabara (of course!). It showcases the Tama Puro Project ...
A few years ago, various shops began to appear in places like Akihabara offering services like hugs, ear-cleaning, "snuggling," massages, and "reflexology." However, like how massage parlors may provide more than just a massage, some of the "cuddle cafe" (soine-ten) establishments merely used these services as fronts for forms of prostitution. A police crackdown ensued and we actually thought there were very few, if any, left.
It seems that such places are still around and up to their old tricks, operating under the guise of rifure-ten (reflexology shops).
A rifure-ten chain, Rapunzel ...
Around the end of December, people started tweeted about a "worrying" new development in Akihabara, the Tokyo district known for electronics and otaku culture.
The restaurant Kitchen Jiro has been replaced by a "free guidance place" (muryo annaijo) -- essentially a sex industry information center, where you can get introductions on nearby soaplands, massage parlors, and other types of brothels. Such modestly sized places are common in areas like Kabukicho or Ikebukuro in Tokyo, Namba in Osaka, or just about any downtown area in a major Japanese city.
Does this, as people seem convinced, ...
Horny otaku in Akihabara will have to go somewhere else for their kicks -- because they can no longer stand on the street and admire buxom anime ladies.
Perhaps in another sign that Tokyo is becoming less tolerant, not least as the behemoth of 2020 looms large, a billboard in the gaming and anime subculture district has been removed following complaints that it was too sexy.
Installed on November 1st, the billboard was an ad for the video game Motto! Haramase! Honoo no Oppai Chou Ero *Heart Mark* App Gakuen! (もっと！孕ませ！炎のおっぱい超エロ♡アプリ学園！) -- ...
As recently shared by Kotaku, anime girl virtual reality massages in Japan are, as the name suggests, virtual and the actual reality is quite different to what the customers see in their headset.
He might well be experiencing a female anime character giving him plenty of TLC and charming looks, but the grim truth is that a guy is sitting in front and providing the physical side of the massage.
One such VR massage provider is Toranoana VR Relaxation, which plans to open in Akihabara, Tokyo.
This is not a rub-and-tug joint but instead you do get to enjoy a virtual reality ...
Japan's biggest adult retailer and a porn producer in its own right (through the various production companies in its group), Soft on Demand is now going one step further.
Following in the footsteps of the Playboy bar in Kabukicho that is staffed by hot gravure idols, the SOD is opening the Soft on Demand Tachi Syain standing bar in Akihabara (apparently located "15 seconds' walk" from the Showa-dori Gate).
Patrons will be served by, you guessed it, actual Japanese adult video ...
Following the initial buzz, the adult implications for virtual reality in Japan have not yet quite lived up to the hype.
We were amused to see the recent demonstration by idol Kanna Hashimoto of a "4D goggles" where a robotic arm feeds the wearer a candy while watching Hashimoto do the same virtually. Otherwise there has been a lack of major new projects, unless they simply passed under our radar that was too clogged with AV and onaholes to notice.
But this is fun -- and perhaps something that only the minds of Akihabara could have conceived. It's a virtual reality experience of dining ...
A journalist working on a BBC Three documentary about child sexual exploitation was held in police custody.
The 29-year-old Stacey Dooley was held by police in Tokyo for two hours during the making of her documentary, Young Sex For Sale In Japan.
"It [the doc] focuses on the fact they only made it illegal to possess child pornography in 2014," said Dooley. "We set out to try and understand why it took a privileged country, like Japan, so long to come to this conclusion. Also to see if the change in their law had made any real difference on the ground."
Dooley and her team were ...
As we now know, what was touted as Japan's first adult virtual reality was so popular (and disorganized) earlier this month that it had to be closed down.
We were one of the many unlucky souls lining up outside that summer day in Akiharara, hoping to get in and see what the future of sexuality might look like.
With the glories of the internet we were able to find some of the treats we missed.
And here is another.
Called Chroma Key AR, which uses a smartphone and augmented reality (AR) technology to combine a digital image of a girl that displays on the screen with a ...
