While we are used to police raids on small or even clandestine bars and clubs for breaching rules on public indecency or licensing, it was a shock when the failure to obtain the proper license led to the arrests last year of management at SOD Land in Kabukicho and the expensive closure of the "porn theme park" for five months. (Thankfully, it is up and running again, and in very rude health from all accounts!) Well, now the same kind of issue has claimed yet another high-profile victim. Police have arrested the manager of Burlesque Tokyo, a popular burlesque club in Roppongi. The erotic ...

The Netflix romance series First Love is based on two Hikaru Utada songs and stars Hikari Mitsushima and Rikako Yagi with male co-stars like Takeru Satoh. Sadly, fans of Hikari Mitsushima will have to make do with the movie Life and Death On the Shore from a few years ago if they want nudity, as there's nothing on display here. But the series does feature a short yet decent sex scene in episode five with the slinky model and showgirl Kily Shakley. She is seen rapidly riding her lover in the cowgirl position, bucking her hips with serious aplomb, and showing off her cute butt and pierced ...

The 2018 Japanese movie Still Life of Memories didn't make much of a splash when it was first released and we are finally catching up with it now. The somewhat peculiar plot is about a love triangle that emerges between a photographer, played by Masanobu Ando, and his younger girlfriend (Rima Matsuda, b. 1994) and a jukujo museum curator (Natsuko Haru, b. 1983), who asks the photographer to take pictures of her most intimate body parts. Yes, this is one of those little films that looks certain to cement the reputation that Japanese have internationally for perversion -- and Japanese women, ...

Old strip clubs were already on a downward, possibly terminal spiral even before corona hit. The pandemic then wiped out the intimacy-based business model for all kinds of strip shows, not to mention hostess and host clubs and even fuzoku sex services. But perhaps especially the vintage burlesque and strip clubs were more precarious than others, being frequented by older clientele and located often in small premises (and in regional areas). We already reported in one long-running strip club in Ehime's struggle to stay afloat during the crisis. There are relatively few such old clubs left in ...

Long-running rural strip club in Japan turns to crowdfunding to stay in business during coronavirus crisis We have been chronicling how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting the adult industry in Japan, from shutting down hostess clubs to inspiring sex workers. Like hostess clubs and the like, strip clubs were also quick to shut their doors after the state of emergency was announced. Having first started in the postwar years, the striptease industry in Japan is dying anyway, so this may well be one of the final nails in its coffin. We spotted an interesting article about one example of a ...

Japan's first strip show opened in January 1947 and we found some fantastic vintage advertising for it. Seventy years ago, the pioneering strip club event took place in Shinjuku at the Teitoza theater and was rather tame, not surprising given the attitude toward women at the time. It was a "gakubuchi show", where woman would strike poses of famous nudes in art history, such as Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus" that features on the advertising. This is similar to other tableau vivant or poses plastiques early strip shows in other cities, perhaps especially London. They kept their bras on for ...

Burlesque fans, get your party clothes on, because on December 11th ageHa will host Burlesque Tokyo Collection x ageHa - Tokyo Tip Night. The one-night only event will feature around 50 burlesque dancers, which should be more than enough to whet our appetites. It starts at 11pm and costs ¥3,000 on the door, or ¥2,500 in advance. This video shows some of the sexiness we can expect. The main performers are from the aptly named Burlesque Tokyo club in ...