Our friends at JapanTrendShop (yes, we have friends in the non-adult world too!) are selling a fascinating, only-in-Japan kind of product that we reckon has a secret usage.

Here’s how they put it:

Do you live in a small apartment but really want to make some noise? Can’t resist the urge to shout at your computer when you work? Or do you just really love karaoke? Well, in Japan, small apartments and thin walls can be a real issue, so that’s why there’s the need for a product like the Danbocchi, a personal soundproof cardboard studio so you can make all the noise you want!

The official story is that Danbocchi is a super lightweight, reinforced personal cardboard sound box so you can concentrate on work or watch that DVD or play that game.

Or watch porn.

Yes, we all know how NOISY Japanese porn is — lots of screaming girls (why do they scream?!)

So what could be better than your own mini studio for watching your latest JAV DVD? You will never need to keep your mouse need the volume button again — ever ready to turn it down at a particularly screamy moment. No, now you can watch Maria Ozawa et al shriek, screech and squeal away to your heart’s content.

That’s right. That headline is not wrong.

This has to be one of the most awesome collaborations we’ve heard of in a long time and vindicates our years of campaigning for mainstream sex doll recognition.

Lady Gaga has teamed up with Orient Industry to make a sex doll molded on the Queen of Pop.

The result is the Gagadoll.

This is how Universal Music Japan describe it:

Japan’s latest and finest technologies were put into the creation of the “GAGADOLL”. It’s the world’s first life-size human-shaped listening station that closely resembles Lady Gaga. The bone conduction system enables one to listen to her songs and message.

The “GAGADOLL” was inspired by the concept of “ARTPOP” and this masterpiece made by Japan’s master craftsmen has been highly-praised by Lady Gaga herself.

We’ve long been admirers of Orient Industry and its fantastic range of luxury silicone sex dolls.

We even once had the privilege to visit their studio and see them at work lovingly creating these life companions.

Sadly, the Gagadoll is not going to be on general sale but it can be booked for appearances, it seems.

Caught in the act.

A smart lady has caught a man trying not too discreetly to snap a shot of her panties while sitting opposite her on the train.

She then put it on Twitter for the world to see.

If her tweets are to be believed, she would appear to be a high school student.

This kind of thing happens every day in Japan. There are lots of perverts on the trains, including so-called respected professionals.

It reminds us of this other incompetent snapper on a train, himself photographed being none too subtle about his under-the-skirt photography.

Soft on Demand (SOD) are some of our favorite people in the world.

Not only do they make fantastic Japanese porn, they are also a retailer who sells and distributes other production companies’ products.

Kaku-butsu is SOD’s incredible fuzoku (sex club) portal site, providing information and rankings on hundreds of clubs in Japan.

The name literally means “every thing” and it lives up to its boasts of comprehensiveness.

You can see the club’s prices, their area, their services (i.e. can the girl be “delivered” to your love hotel or apartment, or do you pick her up at the club?), and the girls’ upcoming schedule and availability.

You can search for all the girls listed in the clubs, and this can be done by area, body, busy, “genre” and more!

There are videos and, of course, a brilliant rating and review system so you can see what other patrons think of the girls.

We also love how the registered users who make a profile and record their reviews of girls and clubs are given the brilliant euphemism of “inspectors”.

So, the question now is — are you ready to join the inspectors and test out some of the fantastic clubs?

At the time of writing, the club with the best ranking for its girls is “Ikebukuro Nurse Oshigoto” with Rio and Yua, both a nubile 23 years old. If you want a bit of nurse action for a very cheap price — some of the most reasonably priced sex clubs in Tokyo can be found in Ikebukuro and other parts of north Tokyo — then head to these clinical ladies.

Ryoma Sakamoto was a famous figure the era when Japan shifted from a feudal nation to a modern one. He is one of the most popular samurais in Japanese history.

But it’s also the name of a 30-year-old unemployed guy in Ome City, north Tokyo.

This Ryoma Sakamoto was informed by his girlfriend that she wanted to break up with him and the “samurai” was mighty pissed off. So pissed off he set about a plan of action, as any hero would.

His plan was revenge. And it involved home-made porn. Yes, it was, as it is known, “revenge porn.”

He began to threaten his thirtysomething girlfriend who he had been seeing for some years that he would distribute their photos and videos made together. You can imagine the kind of images and videos he was talking about and would worry the girl if they got out.

Sakamoto’s stratagem was simple. Email. He sent four emails to his former girlfriend’s phone with nude pictures of her attached and threatened to distribute the files online.

His “enemy” was more cunning. She went to the police and he was arrested for attempted coercion on December 7th.

We’ve wanted to showcase the delights of Chiaki Kyan (喜屋武ちあき) for ages and we couldn’t hold back any longer.

Everything about this girl is special — from her unusual surname to her peculiar mixture of eros and kawaii girl-next-door sweetness.

With a body to die for, she is voluptuous where it counts and alluring and sensual without losing her approachable cuteness. And that bob haircut is simply irresistible.

Born in 1984, Chiaki has been with us for a few years now and is a member of idol groups Nakano Fujoshi Sisters and its sub-unit, Fudanjuku, where the girls dress up as boys.

Chiaki, I don’t care what you dress up as! You will be always hot!

We blogged a few days back about the fascinating story of the double life of elementary school teacher Hitomi Sugawara, part Setagaya ward music pedagogue and part minor porn star.

All good things have to come to an end, and in her case it because she was involved with uncensored porn. Having no pixelation was the issue here, not that she was a teacher during the week.

We were all speculating about what she looked like. A small image of her online was swiftly removed by her school when she got snagged by the cops.

Now proper pictures have now emerged so we can finally see what she looked like!

As well as her teaching career, Sugawara also worked as an opera singer. Her porn career went under two names, either Shizuru Junno or Reiko Magi. It was as the latter that she appeared in uncensored porn, which sealed her fate.

She tended to play “wife” roles as her “ordinary” looks made her attractive to guys who wanted some realism in their porn.

Her motivations could have been very practical.

As a contract teacher she no doubt needed some extra cash, as her wages would have been below average. Saying that, an “amateur” (shiroto) like her would only earn something like 30,000-50,000 yen per shoot, about the same as the guys. It is well known that, despite the prodigious output of the JAV industry (or even, because there is just so much produced), most of the girls are not paid much unless they are major stars. The uncredited “kikaku joyu“ who appear in the films with big groups of girls may get as little as 10,000 per shoot.

Still, look on the bright side. When she has finished serving her time, a future full-time career in porn is certainly a possibility. She has shown her willingness to suffer for her profession.

The Japanese celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve with sex.

December 24th is the day everyone looks forward to because on that evening it is the time for couples to go out on expensive dates, and love hotels are always packed in the evening.

Basically, no one bothers with December 25th, since they do all the important stuff on Christmas Eve.

Oh, and they like to eat KFC. So chicken and sex.

Taro and I will be getting some chicken in but have gone past the time when we expect to go on dates.

That’s why we were glad to have a chance to do some dressing up. Enter the To Aru Holy Night Santa Cosplay Set, a super cute and hot Santa costume for girls to get kinky at Christmas.

Slip on the hat and dress in this set, and your partner will certainly be more than willing to help in the kitchen when it’s time to do the cooking. I find it works a treat with Taro and the boys.

If Father Christmas looked like this, frankly we would never have stopped believing in him!

If you spot a man with scissors on a train, he may not be dangerous but he may be seeking out an unusual method for satisfying his fetish.

Especially if he is Masamitsu Ando.

Chiba police arrested Ando last Thursday for cutting the skirt of a junior high school student the previous day.

The schoolgirl was on a JR train very early in the morning from from Tateyama to Chiba when the 41-year-old company employee used scissors to cut her skirt when she was sleeping in the seat next to him.

Young girls should know better than to dozen on trains in Japan, given the danger of being groped, but it was apparently 6 a.m., so we can forgive the third grader. She won’t be doing it again, though.

We all like short skirts and schoolgirls’ skirts. But just snippets of material from the skirt? Now that’s a new one.

No, it seems that Ando — who apparently work(ed) in a supermarket — didn’t want the 14-year-old schoolgirl’s skirt per se so much as a better view of what was underneath. “I wanted to see her underwear,” Ando admitted to the cops.

Now that’s totally fair enough as far as fetishes go.

We are no stranger to ploughing the non-kinky fields of Japanese lingerie. Sure the flesh on display may not be anywhere near as revealing as Japanese adult video world or even Gravure idols, but frankly, it is more than enough

Along with rival brand Ravijour, Peach John are famously very risque in their models, including with celebrity young ladies like AKB48′s Haruna Kojima.

They can also perform magic: Converting a modest A-cup bust into something very big and very sexy. For flat-chested Japanese girls, this is a life-saver.

Now take a look at the lingerie Peach John has created with cheerleaders and cabin attendants in mind. Your fantasies have come true!

Ever wanted Rola in a sexy Santa costume? Here she is.

Or a French maid a la Peach John?

A cheerleader?

And a cabin attendant? You better believe it!

Cats are big in cosplay. Don’t take our word for it, take a gander all the cat girl cosplay and hentai anime porn there is out there.

No surprises, then, that there is actually a whole range of cat girl-themed adult toys, drawing on the wealth of feline fetishes that exist out there.

Now you can add a tail to your girl in the place that matters… and it’s more than just decoration.

The Cat Tail Anal Plug is a vibrator that you stick into her ass for some buzzing pleasure.

The tail itself can be twisted and turned in various directions, plus it comes with a bell for extra kinky fun. It comes in three colors: white, black, tabby. So you can get one to match your real pet.

There’s also stuff for the boys too. For example, there is the Nyanko Cat Girl Ass Onahole, a double hole buttocks masturbator.

Or the more straightforward 2ch Pussy Cat Onahole, a virgin Japanese girl masturbator inspired by Japan’s famous online community.

The Animal Getchu! Cat Onahole, meanwhile, is a masturbator that comes with tabby cat fur wrapped around it.

It’s an open secret that many Gravure idols and Japanese TV celebrities use plastic surgery to enhance their appearance.

While this is even more prevalent in Korea and relatively openly admitted to, it is still seen as a bit of a deception in Japan.

How do the girls get that innocent doll-like look? Often not just through their genes, it seems.

Only does the occasional lady break the silence and tell the truth.

One idol and actress attracting attention at the moment is cute Rika Adachi, who has a very lovely pert butt, not to mention a very “pure” face.

At a recent event Twitter users thought her eyes looked funny and quickly jumped to the conclusion that she had had plastic surgery on them. There was a distinct extra “oomph” to her eyes that would seem to be like they had recently been “added” to by a expert.

However, Rika later denied this and explained on her blog that she was simply tired, having slept for only 1.5 hours the previous night.

What do you think?

For comparison, this is what Rika looks like “normally”…

As widely reported in the media, the police have begun a new campaign cracking down on so-called “walking dates” in Akihabara in Tokyo.

On Monday night, a dragnet of 100 police officers raided the famed electronics shopping and otaku subculture district in search of girls of schoolgirl age standing on the streets.

Apparently ten girls under 18 were taken into “protective custody”. Their crime? Wearing a school uniform on the streets of Akihabara.

Recent concerns about walking dates recall the media frenzy on enjo kosai in the 1990′s, though this is supposed to be the first major crackdown by the national police on the phenomenon.

It follows previous raids on maid cafes and schoolgirl “reflexology” massage parlors in Akihabara and Ikeburo in January.

Osanpo is a service offered by establishments where a customer can head out onto the streets with the schoolgirl (or a maid). Of course, where they go from there is up to the pair. Frequently this will involve a trip to a love hotel for a tryst. Needless to say, the customers are adult men. It is a similar service to douhan, offered by hostess clubs where the lady and the male client will dine together before going to the club.

Schoolgirls on the streets of Akiba may well be soliciting osanpo walking dates outside of these kinds of massage parlors and shops, which will be happening more since the police began to target them.

An osanpo date will cost around 5,000 yen for 30 minutes or 8,000 yen for an hour, so if you are heading to a love hotel, you need to be quick or you will be paying double time (both the hotel fee and the “walking” fee).

As the city gears up towards 2020, the fear is that the government and police will seek to crack down more and more on subcultures and subversive areas like Akiba, as well as overt signs of sex and prostitution in Japan, including the wealth of porn mags to be found in most convenience stores.

Soft on Demand has canceled the release of a porn film featuring the debut of a 21-year-old former actress who graduated from a “noted musical school”. No names were specified but it is an open secret that the school was Takarazuka, who have brought out the legal guns to stop their name being “tarnished”.

Takarazuka is of course the all-female cabaret theatre troupe based in the Osaka area that inspires a devout following among fans, who travel from all over the country to see the women play either the male or female roles in kitschy musicals at theatres in Osaka, Tokyo or other major cities.

The troupe is famous — not unlike AKB48 — for having a no-dating policy and being run by men (natch), and it has launched the career of several major actresses and models. It is also not without an erotic element, being a sort of quasi-lesbian all-female spectacle of hot ladies dressed partly as men.

However, many of the stars fade after their time in Takarazuka and, also like AKB, there have been problems with the way it is run. Actresses train in a special school and have to live in dorms. This cultivates bullying and a very secretive, closed society. In seems that when you have lots of beautiful women trapped together without boyfriends, all hell breaks loose.

The actress in question, Rena Takatsuka (which may not have been her original name when she was at Takarazuka — it can also be written “Takazuka”, which is suspiciously similar to the school’s name!), had trouble fitting in with the regimented way of life demanded by Takarazuka. She is said to have taken the school to court in 2009 over bullying, as well as having been dismissed from the prestigious ranks over accusations of shoplifting in 2008, just half a year after entering the school. In 2010 she got her dismissal overturned and she was given a graduation certificate. She then returned to Tohoku, where is from.

The world was rubbing its hands in glee at the prospects of Rena Takatsuka’s porn debut, not least because she was said to have a G-cup beauty!

Amazingly Takarazuka has got Soft on Demand — Japan’s biggest porn producer — to back down from releasing the film, which has no doubt cost SOD millions and millions of yen not only in potential revenue, but also in the amount they have already spent producing and promoting the title. It was set to be one of its major winter releases but now may never seen light of day.

We can at least console ourselves with Rena’s debut photo book “Starlight” — from which some of the images in this post are taken — that should hopefully still see a release.

Over December 6th and December 9th, Japanese Facebook dating app Match Alarm did an online survey of 2,944 male and female Japanese singles in their twenties and thirties.

It found some surprising results, most notably that 81.3% of Japanese single women would want an older man for a partner.

On the other hand, compounding the stereotype that all Japanese men want innocent maids and anime characters, the survey found that nearly 47% of men wanted a lover who was younger.

Things get more logical when broken down into age groups. Both men (51.2%) and women (over 90%!) prefer an older lover when they are in their early twenties and this makes a lot of sense. After all, an older lover will be able to treat you and show what’s what in bed.

However, once the men got over 30 the numbers who wanted a young lover suddenly jumped, reaching over 80% for the guys in their late thirties (woman wanting an older lover even at that age remained at 50%). Of course, it could just be a woman aged 25 or 28, so let’s not all assume that 39-year-old Japanese men all want to bed teenage girls, okay?

We’ve long promoted the wonders of older women on these pages. As sexy as young girls can be, don’t forget how hot ladies in their thirties or forties can be too!

Haruna Kojima, the 25-year-old AKB48 idol who we believe is the only major AKB girl with anything worth talking about, has released her first photo book “Kojiharu”.

Just in time for Christmas, the book features a selection of hot images, not least one in which Haruna is doing her best to promote the AKB tradition of the te-bura — or “hand bra”.

AKB girls have a habit of doing this kind of shot, though at least this time there is no child involved.

Here are some luscious snaps from behind the scenes.

And just to prove how nice Haruna’s breasts really are…

Merry Christmas, folks!

Happy Christmas, everyone!

Here’s something we really wish Santa would bring… Some sexy Japanese girls in Santa cosplay outfits!

This is one Japanese idol tradition that we certainly still believe in.

Itsuki Sagara

Yurika Tachibana

Sayaka Oonuki

Momoko Tani

Mizuki Hoshina

Ayaka Komatsu

Enjoy the holidays!

American film website TC Candler has issues its yearly list of “most beautiful faces”.

Japanese girls featured: Satomi Ishihara was at #32, followed by Nozomi Sasaki at #41, Mirei Kiritani at #46, Haruka Shimazaki (from AKB48) at #56, (recently married to yet another foreigner) Ayumi Hamasaki at #60, and finally Aya Ueto at #99.

Despite the ubiquity on Japanese advertising of people like Atsuko Maeda, Emi Takei and Ayame Goriki, they were nowhere in sight and so can be presumed to have little to no global presence. So much for Dentsu.

Kiritani was at #12 last year while Sasaki has been on the list four times. However, this is Ishihara’s first time as “top Japanese beautiful face”, and it’s the first appearance on the list for the other girls.

Sadly for the Japanese, K-Pop star Nana from After School was chosen as #2, while Girls’ Generation Taeyeon was at #9, miss A Suzy at #14, and Jessica at #20.

I think that’s Korea 1, Japan 0.

Oh, and by the way, #1 was Marion Cotillard.

The year is almost over. It’s time to look back over the past twelve months at the ladies who made the biggest impression.

Here are our picks, in alphabetical order.

Haruka Ayase

The former idol is now a respected actress and one who confidently assured the country that she need not be typecast in the ditzy girl-next-door roles anymore when she took the lead in the year-long Taiga drama, “Yae no Sakura”. We still love her curves, though.

Dan Mitsu

Another big year for the thirtysomething curvy lady. She seemed to be on everyone’s lips, figuratively speaking. She even performed the first pitch in a baseball game in some very sexy attire.

Kanna Hashimoto

The teenager who came from nowhere to nationwide fame in a day. After wowing the internet and crowds in Fukuoka, the hype built to a frenzy until she was in such demand that she was making event appearances twice in a day, in different cities!

Haruna Kawaguchi

This cutie had a big year, though her TV drama’s ratings did poorly. Keep going, Haruna!

Haruna Kojima

The sweet AKB48 veteran continues to make waves in her sexy advertising commercial for lingerie brand Peach John and with her semi-nude first photo book release. Sensibly she is not pursing singing or acting.

Ruriko Kojima

This young lady spent much of the year in the public eye and on television (and in only her underwear), though she has also faced many obstacles, not least an online campaign against her. We can’t imagine what anyone would have against this sweet thing!

Nanao

This model with VERY lovely legs had more exposure this year, including a big sexy shoot for An-an magazine.

Rino Sashihara

Talk about a comeback. After being banished to Fukuoka in a sex scandal in 2012, this girl came back into the limelight by snatching the AKB48 General Election away from Mariko Oshima and Mariko Shinoda.

Hinako Sano

This pretty lass has become one of the most visible idols this year. And we can certainly see why!

Readers, do you have any other suggestions?

Every New Year in Japan much of the nation tunes into the five-hour singing show Kohaku Uta Gassen. This year featured the recently remarried (to yet another foreigner!) Ayumi Hamasaki as well as now regulars AKB48, who appeared as all 110 singers.

But there was a surprise for AKB fans. Yuko Oshima made the shock announcement that she would be graduating.

The twenty-five-year-old is a veteran from the Akiba idol group and is the latest in the most popular members to announce her departure. So far, only Atsuko Maeda has really been able to forge a post-AKB career.

Yuko didn’t elaborate on when she would be leaving. Usually there follows of a few months of further promotional events before a big graduation ceremony.

Happy New Year, folks!