What to do about Japan? Its population is aging and its birth rate is falling. That’s the double whammy and not a week goes by without some new farfetched plan being proposed by some idiotic politico.

Well, this one might just be the most outlandish one we’ve heard so far and the latest in a long, long line of gaffes by Japanese male politicians.

A member of the Shinshiro Municipal Assembly in Aichi Prefecture last month suggested a way to increase the Shinshiro City population. While nove, it is probably illegal and also just plain outright crazy.

Give out “punctured condoms” to married residents. Yes, distribute knowingly damaged contraception to “trick” couples into getting pregnant.

Needless to say this was met with criticism and last week independent Assemblyman Tomonaga Osada was told by the assembly’s Chairman that his comments “lacked dignity for an assembly member and consideration.” Osada then suffered the indignity of having his proposal not only rejected but actually deleted from the minutes of the June 18th meeting in which he made it!

Is that punishment or censorship? We’re not sure.

According to media reports, Osada is 49 years old and now into his third term as an Assemblyman at Shinshiro. The small city in Aichi has a population of 49,000.

Of course, the whole reprimand only happened in the first place because the public got wind and there was a bit of a brouhaha. Last week a Japanese Communist Party assembly member wrote about it in his blog on Monday and it soon went viral.

Osada said his motives were faultless. He just wanted the people of Shinshiro to “feel friendly toward City Hall.” His only hope was that the birth rate would be boosted but he apparently now accepts that puncturing condoms would be an “inappropriate” idea.

Will this finally take the crown for AKB48 Fan of the Century?

As reported by our friends at JapanTrends.com, one admirer of Yuki Kashiwagi has succeeded in making a working android of her, the Yukirin Robot.

AKB48 fans aren’t known for their subtlety or restraint. From purchasing up crazy amounts of CDs and merchandise to attacking the objects of their desire at handshaking events, AKB48 is a group that inspires all manner of extreme response from its fans.

But this is something we haven’t personally seen before, though it is at least technically impressive.

It lacks arms but has a moving head and eyes, and can sense when you are looking at it and look back at you.

The Dr Frankenstein here is Takayuki Todo, a post-grade media art student who made the android for his graduation project. First shown earlier this year, it was exhibited at Niconico Chokaigi 3, a tech event at Suzaka City in Nagano Prefecture on the weekend.

With its tongue firmly in its cheek, the android was advertised as being at a booth not for the usual “handshaking” as the AKB girls do but for “staring”.

Not so much the uncanny valley as the otaku valley, with a few alterations the Yukirin Robot could become an awesome sex machine-cum-sex doll that we think would be worth a LOT of money!

And for comparison’s sake, here is the “real” Yuki Kashiwagi in all her glory…

After having seen a Japan release back in February, people overseas are getting the chance now to see Girl’s Blood (released in Japan as Aka x Pinku, or Red vs. Pink) and it’s making waves.

Starring Yuria Haga and Asami Tada, the film is basically a softcore lesbian porn film. Tada and Haga in particular have excited legions of men for their explicit girl-on-girl scene.

Directed by Koichi Sakamoto (known for his contributions to the Kamen Rider series), it also stars the lovely Ayame Misaki.

It literally starts with Yuria Haga butt naked and then proceeds from there.

Another nude starlet in the film is Rina Koike, who also engages in a little nude lesbian fighting.

Here is how the film is billed:

Four girls take part in illegal underground fighting event Girl’s Blood held at an abandoned school building in Roppongi every night. The girls have their own stories and quirks from their private lives. Satsuki (Yuria Haga) suffers from a gender identity disorder, Chinatsu (Asami Tada) ran away from an abusive husband, Miko (Ayame Misaki) is a S&M queen and Mayu (Rina Koike) has a Lolita face.

The now infamous sex scene between Tada and Haga sees the pointy-breasted latter go down on her big-busted companion, licking her out. Unusually for a Japanese (relatively) mainstream film, it features full-frontal nudity. In reality, the lesbian seduction is just a masturbation fancy of the Haga character, who is writhing on her bed at home while fingering herself… until she gets disturbed!

As part of the release of Girl’s Blood (Aka x Pinku) there was also a cosplay photo book release with Ayama, Yuria and Asami in full sexy gear.

The lovely F-cup Asami Tada has done nude scenes before.

We always get super excited when Tenga releases a new sex toy.

It’s just something about the way they market their products, making proper images to advertise them (a surprisingly rare thing in Japan!), making a special website, coming up with decent copy, and of course the products themselves looking always top notch. Though owned by SOD now, Tenga started off as a small independent adult brand that hit the big time with its Tenga Eggs, Onacup and then, even more so, the Tenga Flip Hole.

But this was a long time ago, relatively speaking. Lately the company has focussed on pushing overseas, with some success.

It has also branched out into new markets. This is not just an inevitability; in general many Japanese sex toy makers are (finally!) experimenting in bringing their innovation to female vibes, after years of neglect in favor of the guys. In fact, Tenga’s recent releases for men haven’t been so exciting. They have been mostly updates on preexisting products rather than anything radically new. But their vibrators have been groundbreaking, not least for the sophisticated attitude towards design and color.

Tenga have had success with two lines: the Iroha series of vibrators — perhaps the most stylish vibes in Japan — and Vi-Bo, a series of vibes for couples.

Now comes (no pun intended) a new Tenga Iroha — the Iroha Fit. Hitting the shelves in August, this is a curving vibe for g-spot stimulation par excellence.

As it’s still unreleased we haven’t had a chance to try it out yet but we can’t wait. There are two variations of color/design: Mikazuki is yellow and a sleek curve, while the Minamozuki is blue and has a wavy form for more stimulation options.

There are two buttons that control the magic. The top turns the Iroha Fit on and creates a loop. The larger lower button switches between the four buzzing modes.

The Iroha Fit is waterproof and can even be partly submerged, plus it is gentle to the touch. What more could a gal want out of a vibe?! We also love the gift box.

The Tenga Iroha Fit Vibrator is now on pre-order at KanojoToys.

Our scrumptious specimen this week is the slinky Gravure model Rei Toda (戸田れい).

Born in 1987, Rei is now approaching 30 and so, by extension, likely the end of her career, though she continues to release DVDs and even pop up in mainstream TV commercials sometimes.

Rei, we hope to see as much of you as we can! Keep on working even after you hit the bit three-oh!

Japanese weekly tabloid Shukan Post has done a mammoth public service in conducting a superb survey of Japanese women to find out their grooming habits. As in, their bush hair grooming habits!

Shukan Post ran an online survey asking 1,000 women about the nether regions. The ladies were aged from 20 to 69, so we have a range of generations here. The average age was 41.9 years so the majority were in their early thirties or forties — the rather lovely jukujo (MILF) category.

As many of our readers will be aware, although the ladies of the adult industry are quite well trimmed, most Japanese women are pretty bushy. Despite Japanese women’s obsession seemingly with shaving and plucking every follicle of hair on other parts of their body, they don’t let a bit of growth down there bother them.

Here’s a classic example: Eri Ishida in one her famous “hair nude” full-frontal shoots.

These survey confirmed our experiences. 53% of the women said their public hair was “dense”. 56.2% of the women answered “Do you groom down there?” with a “I do nothing”!

Some other results: I bikini wax (26%); I trim my bush (23.6%); I remove hair right up to my genitals (7%); I remove hair up to my anus (5.5%).

So, there you have it. Proof that the Japanese female is and simultaneously is not trimmed.

The advertising for Japanese lingerie is practically pornographic. And we say that in a very complimentary way.

Ravijour, who along with Peach John are the lingerie of choice for girls looking to spice up their bodies, have announced their autumn catalog. And given the eye-watering photos they released with it we think these bras and panties are going to be very popular.

The concept behind this season’s designs is apparently “jewel”, which could just as easily be a reference to the precious quality of the models’ bodies.

As usual the models include Elli Rose, Mai Miyagi and Azusa Koizumi.

The lingerie is now on sale around Japan so happy hunting for girls wearing it!

Earlier this year Ravijour also had fun with a concept True Love Tester Bra that only unhooks when it detects real romance.

Forget Fifty Shades, sado-masochism infiltrates all walks of life in Japan, it seems. Including anime cover hug pillows.

Hug pillows (dakimakura) are of course the pillows designed to be “hugged” to help you through the night. Sometimes they are innocent enough (like comfort blankets) but often it’s a euphemism for a type of sex doll, complete with slots for masturbator sleeves. And naturally, there are lots of cool covers to go on these hug dolls, especially moe ones of anime characters.

But the this month saw a strange trend sweeping the Twittersphere in Japan.

Turning your anime hug pillow into a sex slave. With duct tape.

Yes, those girls and boys have been taped up, revealing the dark side of hug pillows that many would not have known even existed. Oh, boy, does it exist all right.

These taped-up bedroom prisoners are apparently not confined to either gender. There are male and female dakimakura being duct-taped.

We’re not sure who or what or why, but some of these images appeared in quick succession around the middle of the month, and were promptly spread and retweeted like crazy.

Even poor Thomas wasn’t safe.

The fire of this latest Twitter meme may burn out quickly, as so many are apt to do. But we hope not!

Our lavish lady this fine summery week is Mari Hasumi (蓮見茉莉). Unlike most of the girls we feature on our regular Idol of the Week column Mari is not a Gravure model but a Japanese porn star. But as such, a lot of details about her remain cloaked in shadow.

Either way, her slinky body is more than enough to satisfy us!

Forget Cornelius, Noise and all that. It seems that Japan’s reputation in the world of electronic dance consists of little more than the country that has both technology and horny people.

To be fair, it is not wholly wrong. This is the nation of the Shiri robotic ass and the Yukirin AKB48 android.

And clearly Basement Jaxx like this side of things since for their music for “Never Say Never ft. ETML” they featured it almost exclusively.

Set in some distant future where dance has been banned or “72% people have stopped partaking” in dancing — again, is this a reference to Japan? — it tells of the efforts of a “Dr. Nakamatsu” — another in-joke — and his team’s efforts to create a dancing robotic ass, the Tw3rk-Bot. Yes, really.

Directed by Saman Kesh, the actual robotic butt featured does not appear to be the Shiri but actual a robotic pair of legs with a pair of silicone buttocks attached.

After the scientists succeed in “bringing dance back to mankind”, they have sex right there in the lab. Meanwhile the Tw3rk-Bot goes on sale to the public… but the energy of dance can never be boxed up, it seems…

Japanese men famously like to be mothered and pampered. This culture starts with the housewife mothers who have little to do but tend to their every needs, and then continues with their female underlings in the office, their girlfriends and later wives (homemakers, mostly), and then even with hostesses and call girls.

But there are some guys who clearly don’t want to be treated with kid gloves the whole time. Rather, they want to be shouted at!

Regular readers to this blog will need no introduction to Risa Yoshiki, one of the most popular Gravure models in Japan and popular for her slinky body that she frequently shows off.

But Risa has another side to her personality that we didn’t know.

She currently starring in a cult late-night TV show called “I want Risa Yoshiki to be angry at me”, which is airing on TV Tokyo on Friday nights (the bizarre time of 1:53 AM!) in August.

As you can see from the preview, Risa features in a range of wardrobes, locations and styles. However, one thing remains the same — she is always angry.

Whatever your level of Japanese, we think you get the gist. She proceeds to do nothing but lob insults in slightly melodramatic acting directly at the camera, which purports to show the perspective of the (frightened or excited) male viewer.

For all their chauvinism, Japanese men are very masochistic and like to be punished. Here they have the infinite pleasures of imagining not only that Yoshiki is their girlfriend but that, whether it be in a restaurant, riverside or park, she is furious and is going to beat the shit out of them — verbally, at least. Yes, this is basically femdom TV.

As part of its same “Play” series, TV Tokyo also has an odd TV show where Gravure model Shizuka Nakamura has a conversation with “you” and there are subtitles for you to read out like you are actually there talking to her.

We pride ourselves on one thing above all at Tokyo Kinky.

We’ve seen pretty much every kind of sex toy the Japanese adult industry has yet to invent. But we still get surprised sometimes, and so we were when we took out the Wink Campus Box Onahole. To be honest, though, we shouldn’t have been: how come no one has designed this before?

Well, maybe they have but we personally hadn’t seen a masturbator sleeve quite like this from any of the major manufacturers like Toy’s Heart, Tama Toys et al before. Please correct us if you know better.

Made by newcomers Enjoy Toys, the Wink Campus is a very cute moe box with a tight and tender onahole. But there’s the rub. The box itself can be reversed to make a figure-like shape, complete with a slot for you to insert the onahole itself. And then you have a girl idol with a hole, right there in the packaging.

In other words, you can combine the box and the masturbator to create a mini sex doll of your own!

How neat is that?

A whole swath of Japanese sex toys, especially onaholes, stake a lot of their appeal on having very moe and sexy imagery on the packaging. Part of the selling point is obviously that you can pretend the tight hole belongs to the schoolgirl or other figure painted on the box. But this Wink Campus onahole is really taking this to the next logical level.

We look forward to more masturbators coming our way from Enjoy Toys!

Wakayama police have arrested Yoshikazu Kabe (48) for causing a nuisance to members of the public… by putting underwear on a car wing mirror.

Perhaps it wouldn’t have been so bad if it had been Kabe’s own underwear. But he was arrested on August 3rd for doing this with other people’s panties… women’s of course!

He apparently did it to at least one car parked in a city parking area in Wakayama City between the morning of the 3rd and 4th of March this year. He left multiple pairs of women’s underwear tied to the wing mirror.

The “victim” (i.e., the car) was owned by a 22-year-old woman, though it is unclear if Kabe knew that.

According to the police, Kabe and the woman did not know each other. There were four such cases in Wakayama City from March to May this year, and police are investigating thoroughly to see if they are related (duh!) and, intriguingly, for motive! Now that we would want to know. And where he got the panties from!

Admit it. You had the fantasy too. When you were a young boy (or girl) you wanted to have an affair with your (much older) school teacher.

Some lucky kids get to make that dream a reality.

But sometimes this isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. The older woman may not be quite the lover you imagine.

Japanese media is reporting a pretty shocking story about a single mother in Hyogo Prefecture who took advantage of a young schoolboy. But not in the way you’d think.

At the time Tamae Okino was 43 years old and she lived with her 14-year-old daughter, who recruited young runaways and truants off the streets using LINE. They then lived off the generous benefits they could claim from the government.

At one point there were six boys and girls aged 14 to 18 living with the mother and daughter in the small 3LDK apartment in Amagasaki City. Okino was the matriarch all right, cooking and feeding them all, but also beating them when she got angry. They called her “Mama-san”.

She then got them jobs at a local snack bar and at a construction company, though continued to claim benefits.

The snack bar was a 10-minute walk from the apartment and it would charge customers ¥2,000 for one hour.

But it gets worse. She rented them out to the bar’s patrons for groping sessions and even sold explicit pictures and DVDs made featuring the kids online!

This is where being enterprising crosses over a certain line.

Her downfall came when she went another step further down the path to total debauchery. One junior high school boy was threatened by the woman with a kitchen knife in October last year. “Be my slave!” she demanded. The terrified boy could only agree as he was held in a locked room with the blade at the read. He was then subjected to a 3-hour session of abuse at the hands of the group, performed for the pleasure of the woman and another 29-year-old. They filmed the six-strong slave session, and this was their undoing.

The two forced the boy to strip. They then hit him repeatedly on the ass with a belt and then dripped melted wax onto the lower part of his body for about 90 minutes.

The 15-year-old “slave” had attempted to form a relationship with Okino’s daughter — though she was apparently seeing one of the other teenaged “inhabitants” of the 52-square-meter flat — and this drew the wrath of her mother. The unnamed youth was not one of Okino’s gang of foundlings in the apartment.

Not only was Okino arrested in December 2013 and charged with indecent assault, she also faced an indictment for making child porn. Her daughter was taken into care by the authorities.

In the end, in a ruling handed down in a Kobe court on July 30th, she got seven years (prosecutors had asked for eight years), while her accomplice, a salesman, got three years. He also made four girls aged 5 to 15 engage in sexual acts for his filming tastes.

Amagasaki seems to attract these kinds of shocking cases. It was also where notorious murderer and grandmother Miyoko Sumida lived and rang her empire of enslavement.

Why do all the Japanese hotties go with sports stars?

From news readers to pop singers, everyone seems to want a sportsman for a husband. Cute ex-Morning Musume member Rika Ishikawa is no different.

After it was reported in some tabloids she has confirmed the rumors on her blog, and crushed our fantasies. She is indeed dating Seibu Lions pitcher Ryoma Nogami.

Nogami is a mere 27 to Rika’s 29 — the dangerous age when girls get serious about you-know-what.

These day the former Musume is named as a tarento rather than singer or idol. Sadly, with her career on the wane, Rika is surely looking for a guy to put a ring on her finger and pitch something into her.

What a shame. We love Rika’s knowing look, dyed brown hair and sensual body, and hoped we’d get to enjoy looking at it for a few years to come. With marriage on the cards, that likely won’t be happening much longer…

AKB48′s Yuko Oshima like you’ve never seen her before, naked!

At least, that’s what the publisher is (almost) promising.

While she has never been averse to risque shoots, Yuko’s new photo book is particularly eyebrow-raising. By comparison, most AKB girls, even after graduating, remain fairly safe, though there are exceptions. Atsuko Maeda, for example, is attempting to forge a career in mainstream acting (good luck with that).

Over the summer the twenty-five-year-old Yuko has been stripping down for photographer Mika Ninagawa. The results are a photo book to be released in September, “Nugiyagare” (Strip off!). Some advance images have been released to the press to drum up hype (job done!). The shoot was in Ibiza. Ninagawa is known for her superficially colorful, semi-erotic output, including the film Helter Skelter, which had nude scenes for star Erika Sawajiri.

It is also curious that Ninagawa has chosen to use the “hand bra” pose, very similar to the controversial Tomomi Kasai photo that caused a whole book release to be canceled and derailed Tomomi’s career. Admittedly that one featured Tomomi having her modesty covered by a foreign child’s actual hands, but even so, that notorious image was the first thing we thought of when we saw Yuko’s latest photo.

Oshima announced her graduation from the idol super group at New Year and she formally graduated in June. This year she seems to be on a mission to vamp her image to something sexier.

While the Orient Industry showroom in Ueno is officially by appointment only, a great new way for both fans with discerning eyes and the more casually curious to experience the wonders that are Orient Industry’s luxury sex dolls have now dropped anchor in Ginza for August.

You should definitely go check out the Otome Expo IV, an exhibition of Orient Industry high-grade silicone sex dolls at Vanilla Gallery in Ginza, open every day from August 5th to August 23rd.

So forget the homoerotic cringe-fest of Abercrombie & Fitch or the vintage plush of the department stores. Where it’s really happening in Ginza is at Vanilla Gallery!

Vanilla Gallery in Ginza frequently features amazing erotica and avant-garde sex art. And this Otome Expo is also not the first time the exhibition has happened.

It costs ¥1,000 for adults (obviously, it’s adults only) and promises to show Orient’s best “maidens” (Otome) dressed up in amazing costumes.

Orient do a great job of taking their work out of the fringe hard-core and presenting it to mainstream audiences as something to be admired, not scared of or laughed at. This series of exhibitions is one example, as is teaming up with Lady Gaga to create the Gagadoll.

For obvious reasons they are out of the budgets of most people but if you’re serious enough, Orient Industry’s current range of silicone companions are available exclusively for overseas customers via KanojoToys, along with many other luxury Japanese sex dolls.

It used to be that 2ch was the platform of choice for exhibitionist Japanese girls looking to show the world their wares. A subculture emerged of these flaunting young sexpots. Now sexy selfies are everywhere, including a “selfie club” for Gravure idols to get in on the fun.

And Twitter has become a favorite place to do it.

A 19-year-old girl apparently going by the name of Yuki has posted 120 pictures of alluring images of her sexy body. A selection of the images follows below and we think you’ll agree that she is blessed with a bust to die for… and she is fully shaved.

She is also inventive, showing herself in a whole range of poses and costumes, and even eating a sausage very suggestively.

And here is what her face looks like!

Sadly, though, we suspect she got help with taking the pictures. Which means she already has a “friend” to take care of her needs.

Some men in Japan like to give women a “present”. By this we mean bukkake, of course — squirting your juices all over their body, often their face.

Sure, there are some guys who would go further. Give her a golden shower, perhaps.

But this is a bit much.

A 30-year-old man who works in a restaurant in Sapporo City, Hokkaido, has been arrested by police on suspicion of putting (his) vomit over random women on the streets.

Toru Sugawara was arrested on August 13th, though he denies the charges. Between May and July there were four incidents in the area where women in their twenties and thirties were targeted for attacks in this way.

Sugawara’s arrest in particular relates to vomit being thrown over a 23-year-old woman on the street in Hokkaido late at night in early June.

The victim says that Sugawara was riding a bike and they passed each other. He was then questioned on the street by the police after the incident, no doubt searching for cyclists matching his description in the area. His DNA was then found to match that of vomit left at the scene.

He has been charged with assault, since we suspect there isn’t a section of the Japanese law that applies more accurately to this unique crime!

Ever been with that special someone and been desperate suddenly to find a love hotel and complete the experience… before the moment passes?

Or you know how the date is going and need to surreptitiously check out your options for a more intimate encounter somewhere in the area?

Well, Tonight for Two might be the iPhone or Android app for you.

The free Japanese app allows you to find and even reserve a room at a nearby love hotel in around ten seconds. Which should be enough time to keep a potential companion for the night interested…

Our tip would be to have it on your phone and make an excuse to run to the bathroom. While you are away from your date, reserve your place at where you want to take him or her next.

You can scan nearby love hotels, check prices, design and features — things like bathroom features are much more important than you might think — and then finish off by making a reservation at your choice of venue.

The good news is Tonight for Two is available in both Japanese and English, though you have to be 18 or over to use it. And it also offers a fairly heft ¥2,000 discount on the regular price for an overnight stay at a love hotel.

However, it is early days for the app (actually just a love hotel version of another app called Tonight, itself a Japanese version of American app Hotel Tonight). At least one user review complains that there are currently far too few hotels — just eight in the listings for the whole of Japan! And only one in Shinjuku, which is famously teeming with love hotels.

And you cannot currently make reservations for “breaks” — i.e. short stays in love hotels — you have to commit to the full overnight package, even though the majority of guests at love hotels only want to use the facilities for a few hours.

The developers are promising to expand the data to 500 love hotels nationwide but it seems like they still have some more work to do…