Wow, this is big. We have been worried about police crackdowns for a while, especially with the upcoming Olympics likely to become an excuse for exerting state power. Could this be the tip of the iceberg? Police have raided one of Tokyo's top BDSM clubs, KUNKUN. The Ueno club is pretty big (we've been there) and also fairly new (it opened in mid-2012). It is the base of one of Japan's best-known shibari (kinbaku) rope bondage art masters, Hajime Kinoko (Hideto Hiramatsu). Of course, there is a thin line between being bondage club where a show may take place and being a "happening" ...

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Police in Nishi-Biwajima in Aichi Prefecture have arrested three people for public indecency. The leader was company employee Hiroki Muramatsu (51) from Saitama, who was shooting two models in the buff. They were Eri Nishiyama (22) from Nakano in Tokyo, and an unnamed 19-year-old minor. Muramatsu had apparently been doing a shoot at a studio in Kita-Nagoya City around noon on Marh 23rd, which including getting both the ladies completely naked. Muramatsu is a veteran -- apparently he does such naked shoots every weekend in Nagoya and Tokyo. He recruits models online. Nishiyama ...

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Japanese porn shoots are very professional things. We have personal experience (not of appearing in them, we might add!) and can tell you that the major production companies run very slick operations. They come in and shoot their stuff very efficiently, and leave without any trace. They are meticulous about garbage and know exactly what they are doing, because they are literally making a new movie every day. And then there are the more amateurish efforts. The results still have some value and charm. But the shoot itself won't be as well done. Was this one of those? Police have arrested ...

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