While we tend to concern ourselves chiefly on these digital pages with the goings-on of the Japanese female, we are not blind to the charms and amusements of her male counterpart.
Indeed, we take delight in a real gem like this.
Recently discovered and shared in a series of photos on Twitter by Joshua Hunt, the now-defunct street fashion magazine Relax did a spread on "men who love their underwear" inside an issue in 1997.
The article title translates roughly as: "Street Corner Underwear Attack in Harajuku: Guys So Proud of Their Underwear That They Can Show People."
Ah, the cheeky 1990s. ...
The question of Japanese bush is one that preoccupies much of our waking life.
Too much or too little? For women who obsess about shaving almost every follicle elsewhere on the slender bodies, the bush is often an oasis of relatively unkempt hirsute charm: allowed to bloom and grow. It's thus sometimes a shock (pleasant or not) to encounter women who trim, wax or fully shave down there (paipan), even though this is very common elsewhere in the world.
But what about the guys?
Panasonic is suggesting that more and more men in Japan are seriously grooming their bodies, including ...
There's far too much emphasis placed on the boys on this blog.
How about the something for the ladies? Sure, we cover new vibrators and other adult toys for couple play, but what about girls who like Japanese guys?
IKEMEN should get the ladies' mouths watering.
It features lovingly indulgent pictures and profiles of Japanese male hotties (hence the website name).
The portal has actually been created by an stock photo service and features up-and-coming young actors selected by Cyuincore, who also run their own portal of ikemen working at bars and restaurants around ...
One in four Japanese men in their thirties have never had sex, claims UK newspaper The Independent, drawing from an AFP article doing the rounds.
In what is now an all-too familiar trope for Japan veterans, the foreign media has wheeled out the tired anti-Japanese male propaganda for another punishment session.
Last week it was Japanese dog-groomers shaving their dogs into square shapes (actually, not real dogs at all). This week it's Japanese guys can't have sex.
41-year-old Takashi Sakai is just one of many middle-aged Japanese men who have still not have sex. He has never ...
A new survey by Recruit Marketing Partners has some shocking results.
41.6% of men in their twenties say they have never had a girlfriend. Only 26.% of unmarried people in their twenties, thirties or forties say they have a lover.
On the other hand, before we write off the Japanese male as a "sexless beast" -- 64.% said they "want a lover", so perhaps the issue is just one of working too long and not having the time to chase after a partner.
We've seen this kind of sex and relationship survey before and they always seem to have headline-grabbing results: 45% of Japanese women ...
We already know that there's a strong subculture in Japan for cross-dressing -- and one which doesn't fit easily into any western ideas of gay culture -- but here's something new.
Metrosexual Japanese men worried about their nipples showing through t-shirts may be turning to these nipple stickers to cover up.
There are several products out there on the market, it seems. The "Nipple Shields" by Tex Mex are marketed as "fashion help for men", especially young high-fliers in the business world who don't want their muscular chests with pokey nipples showing through their tight white ...
We have no source for this other than Imgur (over 1 million views at time of writing!) and The Huffington Post, so it could be bogus, but we couldn't resisting re-blogging the exploits of this hapless "lonely Japanese guy" and his efforts to "construct" a girlfriend for himself.
While he could have gone down the now well-chronicled route of buying one of Japan's many amazing sex dolls, which come in all shapes and sizes, instead he decided to use some more shoddy materials and create a girlfriend out of his... shower.
Yes, his shower.
How?! Here is the transformation process.
To ...
It must be the season. Just as Tokyo is getting pounded by typhoons on a weekly basis, so is the foreign media taking an interest in reporting about "nerdy" Japan.
First we had the respected newspaper the Guardian cherry-pick some statistics to produce the dubious conclusion that young people aren't having sex anymore.
Now the BBC has an article about "the Japanese men who prefer virtual girlfriends to sex". Well, my first response was -- you've just found out about this now?!
Secondly, of course, it tars us Japanese guys with the same brush as the otaku. Much as we love otaku ...
That's what the results of a survey would have us believe.
It surveyed 3,616 men and women aged 20 to 49 around Japan on the theme of marriage and children online in early February.
30% of men in both their twenties and thirties answered that they had never had sex or been in a relationship. The numbers of people dated increases for men in their thirties compared with respondents in their twenties, but the proportion of people who with no experience of romance among the unmarried remains the same.
On the other hand, girls in their twenties with no experience of a relationship is ...
According to a recently published international study, and contrary to conventional wisdom, cuddling and caressing are more important to men than women in a long-term relationship. Researchers, studying responses from adults in Japan, the United States, Brazil, Germany and Spain, also discovered that men were more likely to be happy in their relationships and that frequent kissing or cuddling was an accurate predictor of happiness for men.
Julia Heiman, the director of Indiana University's Kinsey Institute, which conducted the study, was quoted as being "[A] little surprised." with the ...
