What happens to a porn shop in Japan when a major earthquake strikes?
February 15, 2021
/ Tadashi Anahori
Over the weekend, a large earthquake struck off the coast of Japan. Here in Tokyo, we felt some pretty bad jolts for some time on Saturday night, but it was far worse for the northeast of the country.
Social media was soon awash with images of fallen bookshelves, smashed plants, collapsed and broken furniture.
One set of images that caught our eye on Twitter were these two photos of the insane disorder wrought upon a porn shop in Koriyama, Fukushima.
The manager of Book Fan 24 shared two pictures of the shelves emptied and countless numbers of DVDs and adult manga piled up on the floor. ...
Ex-porn star, now manga artist Nayuka Mine looks back on her adult video career
February 5, 2021
/ Tadashi Anahori
Nayuka Mine is one of the most high-profile ex-porn stars in Japan.
She worked as an adult video performer for five years from 2005. She has since become a popular manga artist. Her latest book, a semi-autobiography, came out in December last year.
In a recent two-part interview with the Bunshun online, 36-year-old Mine explained her past.
She was scouted for AV at the age of 19. She hadn't appreciated that she had big breasts until then, when her assets were praised by the scout. Rather, at high school, she had been teased for being "fat" by her male cohorts. At the time, she had come ...
First look at gravure idol Kaoru Yasui porn debut
February 2, 2021
/ Tadashi Anahori
Reported by us back in late December, the porn debut of busty gravure idol Kaoru Yasui has attracted a lot of attention.
It's probably the most high-profile gravure switchover since the likes of Miu Nakamura, Miyako Akane, or Shoko Takasaki/Takahashi a few years ago, whose career has soared in the years following.
Now the first preview image has appeared and, understandably, interest is focused on 21-year-old Kaoru's huge breasts -- an H-cup, in case you were wondering.
The 153-minute (DVDTEK098) was released in Japan yesterday, February 1. We expect it to sell well, but Kaoru will ...
Osaka nurse makes porn debut after getting 10,000 Twitter followers
January 12, 2021
/ Tadashi Anahori
People sometimes make outrageous claims on social media, and don't always follow through.
But This Japanese lady apparently wasn't lying.
The nurse and purported influencer claimed that she would make her adult video debut if she got over 10,000 followers.
Mikako Horiuchi (堀内未果子) went by the name Onikonbu (卍鬼昆布ちゃん卍) for her then-little-known Twitter account, which she had used since May 2012.
Well, the F-cup beauty soon did accrue that number of followers -- and more. She was as good as her word and promptly shot her first porn release (IPIT00015), which came out ...
Busty gravure idol Kaoru Yasui to make porn debut with Muteki
December 28, 2020
/ Tadashi Anahori
Like most people, we are keen -- alright, desperate! -- to see this year done and dusted. With the new COVID strain, though, something tells us that the calendar simply turning into 2021 won't suddenly makes things OK.
So we are always pleased to see news like this sneak into the final days of the year.
The gravure idol Kaoru Yasui is known for her busty body, large butt, and come-hither looks. The 21-year-old previously went through a professional name change, her kanji shifting from 安位薫 to 安位カヲル when she changed left her agency at the end of August. Having made her debut ...
Scammers cheat Japanese man of small fortune by claiming “unpaid porn fees”
December 17, 2020
/ Tadashi Anahori
We've all seen those pop-ups that sometimes appear on particularly dodgy sites, demanding that you pay a ridiculous amount of money.
Most of the time, you can click away and rest easy that it's a bluff.
But sometimes people do pay.
Spare a thought for this Japanese man in his fifties, living in the frigid northernly city of Sapporo. He kept himself warm by watching some porn online.
But then he got a text to his phone in October from someone claiming to be NTT Finance, which is a genuine company (a subsidiary of the telecommunications giant). He duly rang the number in the message, only ...
A visit to SOD Land, Tokyo’s porn theme park bar complex that is surprisingly hygienic
December 4, 2020
/ Tadashi Anahori
These days, we aren't going out much, but we might be persuaded to make an exception here.
Tokyo Weekender published a photo report on the recently opened SOD Land, which is publicized as a porn theme park.
As previously reported, the complex opened in the Kabukicho area of Shinjuku in central Tokyo back in October, and features five floors devoted to adult video.
Tokyo Weekender's report emphasizes the "safety" aspect of the visit, in how the site has adapted to the risk of the coronavirus through face masks, disinfecting visitors from head to foot, and a special UV filter in the ...
Another minor Japanese music idol makes her porn debut
December 1, 2020
/ Tadashi Anahori
While most recent news about Japanese porn has been dominated by the very welcome return of Asahi Mizuno, we wanted to highlight another example we found that shows how part of the industry operates.
Once again, a minor idol from a group relatively unknown in the mainstream has been persuaded to switch from music to porn.
In this case, it's 19-year-old Sayaka Takayama (高山さやか), formerly of Girl's Horizon (aka Garuhora), who has made her AV debut under the name Nana Yaotome (八乙女なな) mere weeks after leaving the group.
The 180-minute release (MIFD00140) comes ...
Mariya Nishiuchi to play porn star in next season of The Naked Director
November 5, 2020
/ Tadashi Anahori
There's a lot of excitement swirling around since the announcement that the singer and model Mariya Nishiuchi would be appearing in the upcoming second season of the hit Netflix drama The Naked Director.
The drama charts the career of Japanese adult video impresario Toru Muranishi, whose ambitious productions revolutionized the industry in the 1980s and 1990s.
Nishiuchi will apparently play Mariko Itsuki (樹まり子), a busty stunner who notched up dozens of credits in porn releases in the late 1980s and early 1990s as well as several photo books.
Now the question is: How much will ...
SOD Land porn theme park bar complex opens in Kabukicho, Tokyo
October 14, 2020
/ Tadashi Anahori
Top Japanese porn producer Soft on Demand has opened its mini theme park complex in Kabukicho, Tokyo, which, despite recent gentrification, remains one of the centers of the adult and sex industry.
As previously reported, SOD Land is five floors devoted to porn. Visitors can get food and drink served by actual adult video stars or sex workers in several different types of establishments.
Here are some pictures from when the site opened to the public on October 10. People were lining to get in, despite the pre-typhoon rainy weather.
The "silent bar" on the top floor is the ...