The Japanese AV industry is under a lot of pressure right now.
Just today we heard that top porn star Nozomi Aso has been arrested on drug charges.
Then there have been all the reports and criticisms about alleged coercion and exploitation in the industry, which even led to the arrest of porn industry staff and an official industry apology last month.
Now the arrests have led to new charges. This time, the president of production company CA, Yoshihide Murayama, is one of 52 people -- 9 actresses 24 male performers, plus crew -- accused of indecent exposure during a shoot a camping ...
Japanese porn star Nozomi Aso has been arrested on drug charges, according to the July 21st Shukan Jitsuwa weekly tabloid that went on sale today.
The 27-year-old AV star is a graduate of Senshu University and made her debut in 2012. She left Soft on Demand in 2014 and then joined MAXING. Since then she has switched again to chacha promotion. She appeared in many releases in 2015 and 2016. One of her films from December last year was aptly called "Fucking Machine Sex Nozomi Aso". As well as enjoying commercial success in Japan, the slender actress with a G-cup is also popular in China. She ...
A woman who fell asleep on a train woke up to find herself abducted and trapped in the home of a man she did not know.
The 28-year-old company employee from Adachi ward in east Tokyo was allegedly confined between June 4th and June 5th after she fell asleep on a train.
The suspect is 33-year-old Yoshifumi Kurita, a temp from Sagamihara, who was arrested by Kanagawa police on June 18th.
According to police, Kurita is maintaining silence, though there have been five similar cases in the area around where there crime took place.
The victim had been out drinking and was riding on a JR ...
A panel of experts advising the National Police Agency in Japan has issued a report on so-called "JK business", which is the name given to the various euphemistic services offering sex with schoolgirls.
Similar to the more general enjo kosai (compensated dated), there has been a lot of media and police attention on the growing JK business industry in recent years. Some of the services include osanpo (walking dates), where you pay to have a walk with a schoolgirl. It may end at a love hotel.
Other services include sleeping side by side in a "soine" cuddle cafes or getting a massage. ...
The stalker who stabbed music idol Mayu Tomita may have appeared anonymously in Japanese porn as an uncredited, amateur performer.
The 27-year-old Tomohiro Iwazaki stabbed the underground idol in around 20 places with a 8.2cm knife after taking the bullet train from Kyoto to Tokyo to wait at a station near where she was holding a concert.
Tomita reminds in critical condition while Iwazaki is in police custody. The case has generated a storm of negative press about the police response and Japan's problem with stalking. After the horrific murder in 2013 of high-school student Saaya ...
A Yokohama court has ordered a transsexual parlor to leave a residential complex in the city after a group of residents got together to sue it on grounds of violating the terms of usage.
Locals were annoyed about the large numbers of employees and customers coming and going in the elevator.
Police were unable to do anything about Hanatsuki Yokohama because it was a classed as a gay service.
In Japan, paying for penetrative sex is illegal, so prostitution services get around this by officially not offering "full service", though this is frequently a mere camouflage maintained to ...
Talk about being hoist by your own petard.
A man in Japan apparently rang up police to ask them if it was against the law to date a 15-year-old girl? This led to police investigating him and finding he had naked photos of a third-grader in his home.
The unemployed Hisao Okazaki (45) was arrested by Kanagawa police on suspicion of violating laws against child prostitution and child pornography, after he was found to have taken pictures of a half-naked female junior high school student with his smartphone and saved the data.
Okazaki has apparently admitted the charges. "I certainly ...
Be warned. Be careful what you have in your drawer or on your phone, hard drive or cloud.
While the government was pressured by mangaka and animators to exclude comic book and drawn images from the new pornography laws passed in 2014, it seems the courts do not agree.
The Tokyo District Court has found an artist "guilty of violating the child pornography law by creating and selling realistic computer graphic images of a naked girl," reports the Asahi Shimbun.
The court on March 15 sentenced Akashi Takahashi, a 55-year-old computer graphic designer from Gifu city, to a one-year ...
Vice seems to have a bee in its bonnet over Japan's so-called "JK industry" of schoolgirl prostitution.
After its provocative and criticized article and video last year, now it reports on a police crackdown on "businesses that exploit underage girls".
The article is written by Tokyo Vice (no relation) author Jake Adelstein, who has made a career out of presenting himself as the gaijin expert on all things Yakuza. Recently he has tried to talk a lot about teenager prostitution too and linking it to AKB48, getting a lot of flak for it.
When a UN investigator visiting Japan ...
Good news! The punishment for serial voyeurism is not as harsh as you might expect!
The case of the Kobe serial drain panty voyeur has captivated us all, from the unabashed earnestness of the act -- hours spent in a storm drain just to glimpse a few seconds of the holy grail of passing women's panties -- to the defense by his mother that Yasuomi Hirai it not a pervert, but just likes to hide in drains
Well, it seems that such extreme panchira fetish acts don't land you in as much trouble as you might expect.
The 28-year-old Hirai has now been summarily indicted and fined ...
