The Japanese porn industry is in trouble.
While we might spend much of our time on this blog singing its praises, the truth is this has been a bad year, full of accusations of coercion and trafficking of female performers.
We always knew it went on, especially towards the bottom end of the industry. Needless to say, the links between organized crime in Japan and other sections of society, such as big business, politics and mainstream entertainment, are well documented, and the idol and porn scenes are similarly connected.
These are social problems, though. What about financial ...
At the Japan Adult Expo 2016 on November 10th-11th, around 4,000 people attended, including many Japanese AV fans from other parts of Asia.
Held for the third time, the event features 200 AV makers and studios, and offers a great opportunity for fans to get close to their adult idols.
At the booth for Aroma Kikaku, which specializes in fetishes, Hibiki Otsuki was there to welcome fans.
KMP had the likes of Ayaka Tomoda and friends were on hand to pose for pictures.
Echoing the biggest adult trend of the year, Total Media Agency (TMA) -- despite the name, it's ...
Just when you think Japanese AV cannot get any weirder. Just when you think they've come up with all the outlandish scenarios imaginable. Along comes another one to set your mind blazing at the crazy erotic possibilities.
The folks behind this concept deserve some sort of award, because this is awesome.
We all liked to play on jungle gyms when we were kids. But what about a vibrator jungle gym?
As the name suggests, this is a jungle gym constructed entirely out of massager wand-style vibrators (called a denma in Japan) -- 250 of them, to be precise. That's a lot of ...
The photographer Sakiko Nomura has a new exhibition at Ba-Tsu Art Gallery in Harajuku showcasing the beauty of Japanese AV actors.
During the 1990s, Sakiko Nomura trained with Nobuyoshi Araki, who knows a thing or two about erotic photography.
As we know, male porn performers are in short supply in Japan and so deserve our admiration for doing what must be a tough job. Yeah, having sex with hundreds of hot women a month for money. We really sympathize.
But seriously, the photography looks great. There's certainly a homoerotic overtone. And it gets even more fun when we consider ...
This year, in addition to crazy numbers of people in cosplay on the streets, Shibuya also hosted trash cans that spoke to you in porn stars' voices when you filled them up with your garbage.
And that wasn't the only porn-themed attraction in Shibuya over the Halloween weekend.
Regular viewers of Japanese AV will be familiar with the "magic mirror truck" series that features a vehicle installed with a one-way glass wall. It travels around the city, looking out at unsuspecting citizens on the streets while all manner of sexual antics take place inside.
Porn industry giant Soft on ...
Earlier this year Weekly Playboy already organized one of the best photo shoots ever when they brought together 50 gravure idols in one studio.
As part of its 50th-anniversary celebrations the magazine also put up a billboard in Shinjuku with life-sized images of top models.
Now the generous editors have followed up with 51 Japanese porn stars, all lined up naked in one mega assembly.
Sadly the nipples and pussie are censored for the online version (the print edition, maybe not so). What's the point of getting all this flesh together if you're not going to show it?!
We ...
The feel-good story of the year has turned out to have an unhappy ending, folks.
We made no secret of our joy when an advertising display screen in Indonesia was "porn-jacked" so that it started streaming Japanese pornography.
The incident happened on September 30th in Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta, during the rush hour on a 24-square-meter (260-square-foot) LED billboard. The porn was broadcast on a web browser for five minutes before the police cut the power to the screen. However, this was enough time for it to be filmed by many motorists. It soon started spreading on social media ...
The latest big porn debut is another lady who is switching from mainstream entertain to AV.
The actress and model Anri Sakaguchi released What a day!! on the Muteki label this month, which specializes in crossover debuts.
Sakaguchi is the daughter of the late actress Ryoko Sakaguchi and golfer Tateo Ozaki. The 25-year-old apparently has large debts and has been forced to turn to porn to make ends meet.
The first pictures from Sakaguchi's release have now emerged, showing her nipples and tits that are on the modest yet pointy side.
It has been reported that her fee is ¥120 million, ...
Picture the scene.
You're driving down the highway and suddenly you look up at the advertising billboard overlooking the road. Rather than the usual commercial for that drink or car you'll never buy, it's playing porn. Japanese porn.
This is what greeted drivers passing through Jakarta, Indonesia, last month.
On the large advertising screen, in place of an actual commercial or video, someone's browser was displaying -- which just so happened to be showing a clip from a Japanese AV.
Fortunately for the morals of the city (and unfortunately for the horny drivers), what was ...
Want to see what Kanna Hashimoto is like in bed? The sweeter-than-sweet is unlikely to be making her actual porn debut any time soon (though many of her music idol peers do have a habit of "graduating" into adult careers, so it's not completely off the books), but the next best thing is this Kanna Hashimoto lookalike porno.
Kanna, if you recall, burst into the mainstream in 2013 after capturing the hearts of Japan's netizens. Since then she has become a major force in the music idol industry and fronts big advertising campaigns.
This porn title stars Kaname Otori, who was born in ...
