In March, we first reported about Hasumin Yoshikawa, the former Self-Defense Force nurse who left the service due to sexual harassment, started a career as a porn star, and also ran for a seat in a local assembly in Tokyo.
She ultimately proved unsuccessful in her campaign, despite gaining fame online and giving speeches in her fatigues. However, her adult video debut still came out in early May.
Like all of the gimmicky candidates for the Politician Girls 48 Party, she now has to make a living somehow, and unless you're make a new porn production every month or so, it won't pay the ...
After its huge success last year, Japanese porn star Eimi Fukada is to hold another 24-hour "free hugs" event this weekend.
The event in August 2022 saw her hug over 3,000 fans for free (though a small fee was charged for a photo) and maintain a smile the whole time (and change clothes every six hours).
The entire event was streamed online too, though there was a caveat. Women were allowed to hug Fukada but male participants had to keep their arms down and let Fukada do the hugging.
We assume the same rules and conditions will apply to the event in Osaka (whose marketing tagline read ...
The ero-cosplayer Yuko Haruno (春野ゆこ) will make her porn debut in an adult video that comes out digitally on May 30, followed by a physical release in July.
The epic, 217-minute AV production (1STARS00799), filmed in 4K, from SODstar promises to make much of her pale skin and beautiful, massive breasts (supposedly an I cup). The publicity is also emphasizing Haruno's versatility with cosplaying a wide range of characters, which puts her in good stead for different porn scenarios.
They say that all newbies looking to break into an industry now need a platform to sell ...
Let's do a quiz. How well do you know your Japanese porn stars? Can you identify an adult video performer just from close-ups of their body parts?
The pics show only key parts of the JAV performer's naked body (namely, breasts, butt, bush, etc.). No faces, natch.
The "quiz" has been doing the rounds on the Japanese interwebs recently and we thought we would share it with readers so they can try it for themselves.
If we're honest, we think this is quite hard.
Scroll slowly to avoid showing the answer before you're ready to check!
Here's the first question.
So who is it?
The answer is ...
In March, we wrote about the former Self-Defense Force nurse and sex worker running for election for a local assembly in Tokyo this month.
Hasumin Yoshikawa has promised to debut in porn after the poll, whether she wins a seat or not.
Well, her party, the anti-NHK fringe right-wing populist Politician Girls 48 Party (aka Political Party Girls 48), has become mired in in-fighting among its leadership and accusations about misappropriate use of party funds, but Yoshikawa continues to campaign in Setagaya. In fact, we even received one of her pamphlets through our letterbox at the Tokyo ...
Last week, we wrote about the Politician Girls 48 Party (aka Political Party Girls 48), the latest incarnation of an anti-NHK fringe right-wing populist party. The candidates are all female and feature many former idols, models, and minor celebrities.
Now, as the party fields candidates in various upcoming local elections, more details have emerged about its prospective lawmakers.
In April, Hasumin Yoshikawa is standing for a seat in the Setagaya City Assembly election. Setagaya, incidentally, is where the Tokyo Kinky offices are located. It's a large, mostly residential part of Tokyo known ...
You would think that a company as large and successful as Soft on Demand would have an army of lawyers and legal advisors on retainer, and that they would consult them carefully when launching a major and costly new project. Or perhaps they did and their team simply wasn't doing their job right.
Either way, our proverbial jaw hit the floor when we read this news.
On March 16, it was announced by Tokyo Metropolitan Police that the 40-year-old CEO of SOD -- the biggest porn producer in Japan -- has been arrested for violation of the fuzoku law. You might presume this is related to ...
On Monday came news that Yua Mikami is to retire from porn after a stunning eight-year run in the industry.
The announcement isn't a huge surprise, given her age (she turns 30 in August) and length of time in the industry, plus Mikami had also done other things in parallel with her adult video performing, such as being a member of a K-Pop music group (comprising only porn stars), selling NFT art, and designing her own apparel.
As regular readers and JAV fans will know well, Yua Mikami used to be a member of the AKB48 spin-off group SKE48. She is one of many AKB-related idols who branched ...
As regular readers will know, one of our preoccupations is the afterlives of idols: what happens to music, gravure, and adult video idols after they retire?
Aya Takanashi is a freelance columnist and writer. She claims she made her debut as a porn star in 2016 because "I had nothing else to do" and then left the industry after two and a half years. In a recent article for Spa!, she says she was able to return to the "daytime world" (meaning the non-porn world) as if nothing had ever happened.
After her AV career ended, she worked for a while as a scriptwriter for social network games before ...
The ex-porn star Kaho Shibuya is suing a production company for ¥7.4 million (about $55,000) for mental distress, infringement of privacy, and harm to her reputation after it neglected to handle unedited data properly, resulting in a leak of footage.
In January 2022, Shibuya ascertained that two of her adult video releases made in September 2016 and released in 2017 had been uploaded to a video site in an unedited (uncensored) format not available commercially. In other words, the genitals on the content were not blurred out in the usual Japanese way (known as "mosaic," a custom in porn as ...
