The results are predictable and messy. Along comes a journalist in the West who fancies tackleing the thorny old saw that is sexlessness in Japan, or a perceived problem of sexlessness, and blunders around making generalizations based on some Google searches.

This time it’s well-known writer Julie Burchill in the British right-leaning weekly magazine The Spectator, who provocatively asks “Why do the Japanese despise sex?”

Her rationale seems to be that it all comes down to hikikomori — acute social withdrawal syndrome — which affects, the article claims, some half a million male adults in Japan, who have become recluses addicted to online gaming and pornography.

Apparently this minority is responsible for the entire nation’s lack of sexual activity and, the writer tries to suggest, the falling birthrate.

Because the “celibacy syndrome” — a preference for online porn to human relationships — can seemingly “help explain Japan’s catastrophic decline in population.”

[Hikikomori] are an important component in what the Japanese government calls “celibacy syndrome,” an imminent national catastrophe which has seen nearly half of their young women as well as more than a quarter of their young men “not interested in, or despising, sexual contact.” The Japanese Family Planning Association predicts a whopping one third plunge in the country’s population by 2060. Feminism — often blamed for the rise of the kidult — is hardly a big thing in Japan; but the nuclear bomb certainly was.

Seriously, Ms. Burchill, a pun about Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Putting that aside, what’s the solution? Yank all those pesky hikikomori out of their lairs, match them up with lady friend, and wait for the babies to start coming?

Despite the very clickbaity title, however, the majority of the article is not even about Japan, but rather “commitmentphobes,” “adultescents,” or “kidults” (whatever these buzzwords really mean).

There are startling statistics out there and there’s certainly a problem to be tackled, but we hope that journalists try a little harder when reaching for causes.

We all have our peccadilloes, but some are stranger than others.

Some of them are rightfully referred to as fetishes — and some will get you arrested. And sometimes they are both.

Judging by the astounding amount of smell fetish toys, sprays, and lubes available, Japan would seem to have a thing for erotic aromas.

A minority, though, inevitably take things too far.

One day, a Japanese man decided he wanted to take some shoes from a school in Noboribetsu on the northern island of Hokkaido. But he didn’t want them as ordinary footwear. No, his interest lay in their pungent value and, to check, he gave different ones an expert sniff before he selected his choice of shoes to steal. This time it was a pair of female footwear.

It was not the first time that the elementary school has experienced such a theft and the prior crimes are the reason it installed the surveillance camera in the entrance to its gymnasium. This meant footage was captured of Hajime Okazaki crawling on all fours and carefully picking up the shoes to test their respective smells according to certain olfactory criteria to which only he is privy. It’s like something out of Edogawa Rampo.

With surveillance footage showing him in the act, it was perhaps only a matter of time before Okazaki was apprehended by the boys in blue. A police search of 41-year-old Okazaki’s residency in Tomakomai City turned up around 20 pairs of shoes that would seem to be stolen from other people. Okazaki claimed his crime spree was driven solely by smell and it didn’t matter if it was male or female shoes.

The glory of Japanese television strikes again. From handjob karaoke contests to gravure idols stripping off samurai armor and filming behind the scenes at a nude photo shoot, there seems no end to the imaginations of producers.

This time, it was Wednesday’s Downtown, a variety show on TBS presented by the comedy duo Downtown (Hitoshi Matsumoto and Masatoshi Hamada).

The gorgeous and decidedly busty gravure idol Fumina Suzuki was stripped naked and then wrapped in plastic for no reason other than to show off her breasts being squeezed by the tight layers of semi-transparent plastic. Fumina was personally “prepared” by a particularly curvy lady and then “revealed” by two other gravure models wearing only white underwear and shoes. Ah, Japan — the land where feminism just basically never happened.

There really isn’t much else to say about this, other than the fact that it’s wacky, inventive, and addictive to watch. And it’s also further proof that Japan’s ranks of surprisingly underpaid gravure idols will do pretty much anything for money if it involves a TV appearance.

New women debut in Japanese adult video every month. Many are actually nameless — uncredited “extras” — and some are actually just women who are now performing under a new name. A small minority are celebrities from another industry that are switching over, typically to the Muteki label.

But another set of women are those who make a genuine splash on their own merits, who stir up real buzz just for being hot and appearing in an exciting release.

Honjo Suzu was a recent example of this. Noa Takeuchi was, too, but then her AV releases literally disappeared from the shelves.

Saika Kawakita (河北彩花) is one such.

Her 168-minute porn debut (SSNI-190) goes on sale from April 19th on the S1 No.1 Style label. Here are some early previews.

Apparently just 18 years old and with a stunning E-cup bust, the angelic lady is set to charm Japan, thanks to her sweet smile and stunning body.

We also found this great clip.

Now, we reckon there’s not a straight man alive who can dislike that clip.

Japan’s biggest adult retailer and a porn producer in its own right (through the various production companies in its group), Soft on Demand is now going one step further.

Following in the footsteps of the Playboy bar in Kabukicho that is staffed by hot gravure idols, the SOD is opening the Soft on Demand Tachinomi standing bar in Akihabara (apparently located “15 seconds’ walk” from the Showa-dori Gate).

Patrons will be served by, you guessed it, actual Japanese adult video stars.

Opening May 3rd, the bar will be staffed by SOD female employees (incidentally, who have been known to star in porn themselves) on Thursdays and Fridays, but then turned over to AV idols on weekends and holidays.

There’s no word yet on where, who and when, but keep an eye on the official Twitter account (Japanese only) for more details. The SOD roster is vast, so we reckon there will be some major names among the ladies serving drinks from May. But given that this is a standing bar (tachinomi), though, don’t expect the venue to be large!

By the way, this isn’t actually the first bar to feature AV idols. Vivi, for example, is a girls’ bar in Kabukicho staffed by porn stars. Likewise, a lot of porn stars earn extra money as hostesses (and vice versa).

Just when you think the bureaucrats couldn’t get any sillier, along come some to prove you wrong.

Activists and ero-manga (adult manga) fans in Japan have been shocked by the recent designation by Hokkaido and Shiga prefectures of two reference books as “harmful” to youngsters.

Zenkoku-ban Anohino Erohon Jihanki Tanbouki (Nationwide Study of Pornography Vending Machine of Yesterdays) and Ero Manga Hyogenshi (The Expression History of Ero-manga) by Yusuke Kato are about adult manga but are not adult manga themselves. But this distinction means nothing to Shiga and Hokkaido: the former designated Zenkoku-ban Anohino Erohon Jihanki Tanbouki a “harmful publication” in late March while the latter did the same for the academic Ero Manga Hyogenshi the same month.

This designation means that the books can only be sold in special areas in retail outlets ostensibly for pornography and other content for those aged 18 and over.

But is it justified? Ero Manga Hyogenshi examines historical changes in the depiction of breasts or genitalia in erotic and phonographic manga. Erohon Jihanki Tanbouki is a photography book documenting surviving vending machines that sell pornographic magazines, books, and videos.

Though their content might be drier, the books feature female nudity and depictions of sex on their covers.

“After the ‘harmful publication’ designation, it would be difficult for libraries to possess the titles in their collections or use them as a reference in public lectures,” Kotaro Ogino warned the Asahi Shimbun, representative of Uguisu Ribbon, a nonprofit organization that advocates for the protection of freedom of expression. “I believe a healthy society is where an open discussion on the ways and degrees of sexual expression (in various media) is held.”

Whoever says that Japanese girls are shy probably hasn’t been out much at night in Tokyo.

There are plenty of ladies in Shibuya, Roppongi and the like who are very forward, especially after a few drinks. As the weather heats up, we look forward to enjoying a bit of nampa with these girls on the streets at night.

If you’re lucky, you’ll meet a couple of girls like these two, who recently decided to show the city the fact that they weren’t wearing bras.

They flashed their breasts for a not insignificant amount of time by pulling up their tops and fondling their busts while both sitting on a bicycle in public. The bike is in a parking area, it seems, but it’s fully open to pedestrians.

In the video posted online, people can be seen walking by — and not, apparently, fazed by the sight of these two ladies showing off their breasts.

We can’t identify the location based on the background but we have an inkling that it’s Roppongi.

And if you think that’s slutty, wait till you see what Japanese girls get up to in the countryside and what horny couples like to do sometimes on highways.

After the positive response to our post last week on the hotly anticipated adult video debut of Saika Kawakita, we decided to take a look at another stunning new addition to the pantheon of Japanese porn.

Yui Tomita is apparently (all right, the marketing bods don’t always tell the truth) an actual college girl who has just released her first AV this month from Moodyz.

The 149-minute title (MIDF00036) is directed by Michiru Arashiyama and is out on the Moodyz Fresh label.

A slender body, pristine looks, and the ability to squirt immense fountains of shiofuki when she’s aroused enough with the help of a denma massager vibrator. Are these assets that will take her far in porn or what?

Yui Tomita has momentum behind her, it seems, or at least the faith of the porn powers that be, since her second AV title — a nakadashi cream pie special — is already slated for a release at the end of this month from Honnaka.

Except for some content on what used to be known as “non-terrestrial channels,” Japanese television does not usually show nudity except for comedic effect.

While the content might be cheeky, even erotic, you will disappointed if you have just switched over from HBO. The drama sex scenes, for example, are innocent and nude flesh carefully hidden by camera angles. Take the recent TV show that focused on a nude photography shoot — surely a subject that necessitates nudity — that only showed us butt.

And so it is that we were amused to see the NHK Educational TV, known as NHK E-Tele, a digital channel run by the venerable public broadcaster ostensibly as educational content, indulging in some subversive tactics.

Of course, this was a show about art — specifically an artist’s efforts to make a painting. He was concentrating on his latest masterpiece, a nude. The beautifully tanned model lounged elegantly on a sofa, reclining to reveal a generous bust on her chest as well as enough of her groin so that we could tell she didn’t have any wild bush like many Japanese women (take a look at Saki Takaoka’s ravishing nude photos for a prime example). Her nipples were filmed in close-up for reasons that were purely noble, we’re sure.

So we have a paipan model being carefully scrutinized by an older male painter and, no doubt, a lot of male viewers.

Now that’s educational.

The Education Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi has apologized for using an official car to pay visits to a “sexy yoga” studio.

It follows a sexual harassment scandal involving a leading bureaucrat in the finance ministry, who was recently forced to resign after audio emerged of him asking to hug and touch the breasts of a female newspaper reporter.

The tabloids have gleefully parsed the details of this new transgression, such as the private oil massage Hayashi received from the yoga instructor. Was there also a bit of rub and tug?!

We, on the other hand, are more intrigued by the instructors. Positive Star Yoga in Ebisu, Tokyo, is managed by Yuko Shoji, a former gravure idol (not a former adult video idol, as Shukan Bunshun claimed) and thus serves as another informative example of what glamor models in Japan do after the gigs dry up and they get a little older (and, no doubt, wiser).

Previous examples we have covered include Yuuki Ota, now an enamel artisan, Yuka Kosaka, who now runs a nursery, and even at least a couple of models who went on to become famous politicians.

Shoji has run Positive Star Yoga for eight years. The official website lists dozens of female instructors and there is also a branch in Osaka.

At Positive Star Yoga, students receive private yoga lessons and oil massages in private rooms for the princely sum of ¥11,000 per hour. Many of the instructors are apparently former gravure idols, who communicate with their customers via Line and meet patrons for meals. In effect, it is kind of like a yoga studio that combines the appeal of a hostess club.

Yuko Shoji, however, has refuted such a description, along with the claim that she is a former porn star. That may well be the case, but Shoji has definitely done nude photo shoots as well as released nude “image videos.” Some of these have a yoga theme.

So if you want to learn yoga in a private setting with a genuine former gravure idol, you now know where to go!

Combining bodybuilding and sports with gravure, “muscles idol” Reika Saiki is a femdom fetishist’s dream come true.

It’s not hard to imagine her appeal with harmony of cute face and muscular body. Imagine those thunder thighs and powerful arms pinning you down while she grinds you! She’s not completely new to the scene, though. We already noted her brawny charms in 2016.

Now Reika Saiki has taken things to the next logical conclusion: by transforming into Street Fighter’s Chun-Li.

She recently posed for some stunning shots that really show off her combat pose and chunky legs.

This isn’t all done solely for our viewing pleasure, however (even if the viral success of the stunt has earned her a lot of new fans). Reika Saiki is even continuing her workout during her cosplay session. Take a closer look at those wrists — strapped to each is a 1kg (2.2 lbs) weight!

Reika Saiki also looks mighty fine in a wrestling costume, too.

Here’s an awesome idea for Japan’s porn creators! How about a lesbian AV with Reika Saiki facing off with “yoga gravure idol” Yuko Shoji?!

To each his or her own, as we always say. One man’s fetish is another man’s nightmare, and vice versa. But even so, sometimes the mind does

Twitter user @cAstadb recently shared some awesome images of her encounter with a foreigner in Shibuya, which apparently resulted in her stepping on his face and body. Clad in a skirt, black top, and black boots, she walked over his chest and face.

Just what is going on here?

In fact, the man is Fumare Lou-chan (Stepped-on Lou), a white American and total Japanophile with a seriously strong penchant for femdom and women stepping on him. He is currently in Japan, traveling around Tokyo and Osaka in search of feet.

As his Facebook and Twitter feeds reveal, his regular visits to Japan never fail to involve a few young ladies with lovely legs stepping on his face. He seems to love their shoes and boots, too, since he sometimes gleefully sucks the heels.

Japanese-speaking podophile Lou-chan really, really loves feet and it seems there is no shortage of cute girls willing to indulge his fetish for foot worship — even on public streets. Let’s face it, Lou-chan is not what would be conventionally considered a hunk and he’s probably no longer a spring chicken. But none of this seems to matter when it comes to finding women with feet to answer his needs.

Clearly he is attracting more and more local attention. The recent pictures of him in Shibuya went viral, with Lou-chan’s own tweet receiving thousands of likes and retweets.

Lou-chan’s foot worship fetish reminds us of facesitting (queening, kinging), which is also a vibrant subculture in Tokyo.

Remember our excitement over Suzu Honjo? Ahead of her much-anticipated adult video debut for Soft on Demand, she did a lavish nude photo shoot.

Now we’ve found some preview images from her first AV release, which came out on April 26th from SOD Star.

Directed by Ietaro, Honjo’s 305-minute title (1STAR00888SS) has attracted 10,000 advance reservations, which is a lot in an overcrowded industry where many performers debut to a whimper (with the exception of a few celebrities switching over from another industry) and most releases shift only a few thousand in total.

In her porn debut, Suzu Honjo is the sex partner of a decidedly older, slightly overweight man — thus igniting a thousand fantasies of middle-aged salarymen all over Japan.

Alternatively, the sight of the slender 21-year-old’s body being ravished by such a man might rather fill you with revulsion and painful envy! Well, they say there is a shortage of male AV performers, so perhaps this guy was the only person they could find to step in and do the honors. Somehow, though, we find that hard to believe!

See the Tokyo Kinky Tumblr page for larger images.

We recently stumbled across this video of a black man who freestyle raps his way around the love hotel district of Kabukicho in Shinjuku, Tokyo. In the background we see couples scurrying into the entrances for an intimate session.

As the foreigner wanders the streets of Kabukicho’s love hotels, he apparently bumps into a random Japanese lady. He serenades and picks up the woman, and then together they enter a love hotel for some good interracial times together.

In the next video, things get a bit more heated. Our gaijin adventurer continues his rapping while his female companion sits behind him on the bed, showing us her alluring bare back as she bobs along to the beat.

“What happens in the love hotels, stays in the love hotels,” as the video description says. We all abide by that motto.

When the lady turns around in answer to the singer’s requests, however, she is covering her breasts with her hands and is, somewhat strangely, wearing a Noh theater mask. We presume she took it off after the camera was put down and the real action got started.

Okay, so obviously this is all set up but it’s still well made.

The man is known as the Rhyming Gaijin and he has quite a following online, it seems (apologies if we are late to the party). We found this profile of him on Metropolis from 2014.

The same rapper also made this video about kanji, as modeled on the body of a naked white woman. Beacuse why not?

It’s the end of an era, sort of.

One of the most prominent adult shops in Tokyo, Condomania, located right on Omotesando in Harajuku, will close at its current store on May 1st due to road expansion work.

It opened in 1993 with the aim of stopping the spread of HIV in Japan. For 25 years it has continued that work of making sex safer, along with another branch in Sannomiya in Kobe.

It’s not necessarily bad news for Condomania. A new Tokyo branch will open on May 3rd, but this one is slightly down a backstreet around the corner from Ice Monster on Omotesando. So Condomania survives, but will be less visible than before — a fact no doubt the Shibuya and Tokyo governments will like very much.

We have paid many visits to Condomania over the years, since it stocks many fun and original contraceptives (Japanese and international) not available at regular drug stores. It is also active in sex education and campaigns. We particularly liked the series of “Flesh Love” vacuum-packed photography it once created with Hal.

Japan is certainly famous for its vast pantheon of adult video and amazing sex toys. It is less well known, however, for its condoms, even though Japanese brands like Okamoto and Sagami produce some of the best (and thinnest) on the market. Another issue related to this is that Japanese men basically don’t use condoms (leading to plenty of unplanned pregnancies and a growing syphilis problem), so places like Condomania face an upward battle to push their wares.

Keep up the good work, Condomania, and let’s hope you can stay open for another 25 years or more!

We love “ordinary” onaholes and masturbator sleeves as much as any man, but sometimes you need a bit more oomph. That’s when we start searching among the shelves of Japan’s sex machines for some more powerful stimulation.

You don’t need to go far before you encounter Rends, who have produced some of the most impressive entries in this genre. The most famous is surely the A10 Cyclone, which combines with the R1 controller unit for a robotic masturbation experience like no other. It was one of the first truly successful Japanese sex toys internationally (along with some early Tenga toys and AV star clone onaholes).

Rends then did an update with the Vorze A10 Cyclone SA Sex Machine, a Bluetooth- and WiFi-enabled standalone toy that had its own series of inner cups.

Now Rends has come along with the A10 Piston SA Sex Machine, a “throbbing pussy” machine that goes on release later in May and is set to break yet more ground in the adult toys industry in Japan — and globally, thanks to Kanojo Toys.

Once again, this is a standalone unit and follows on from Vorze A10 Cyclone in adopting a sleek, white, and futuristic look. It is interesting to see the way we have shifted away from the more mechanical style of previous sex machines.

But this is not just a cosmetic change, though. There are multiple modes here (seven piston types, seven speeds), each offering a different kind of physical sensation, from a deep throat to a hand job, irrumatio, and more.

Rends also promises that the A10 Piston SA is ideal for synchronizing with VR adult content, though further details and tests are not announced as of yet.

The A10 Piston SA Sex Machine is now available on preorder from Kanojo Toys.

If what is said online is to be believed, this kinky lady is 18 years old and a recently graduated high school student.

Her body seems delightfully mature and so we reckon she’s possibly a few years old, but that’s not a bad thing.

She has posted a ravishing series of nude selfies for all the world to see as well as a couple of videos (be sure to scroll down) where she rubs her breasts to show off their paizuri potential.

She spends some of the selfies in the bath and her wet hair looks very sexy against her beautifully pale white skin.

She certainly has a great bust — at least, by Japanese standards — but she also seems to know what she’s doing with her pussy. In several shots she is spreading her pussy lips wide open or fingering herself.

She only gives a few hints about her face, including a heavily pixellated shot, but her lips are probably our favorite thing about her.

See other posts about Japanese amateur female nude selfies.

Just another day in Japan’s capital city…

If you like playing the role of a sex slave, then you may well envy this man, who has been amusing large numbers of Tokoyites by dressing up in a leotard and being walked around outside on all fours like a dog. The results are as surreal as they are erotic.

We wonder if Omaru Uwabaki may find himself arrested if he’s not careful. Strutting around Tokyo in a tight leotard and even letting his master walk him like an oversized poodle on a leash as he scrambles along the ground on all fours, he’s about as nude as it is possible to get without being actually nude.

He’s certainly succeeded in attracting plenty of attention and the recent tweets with videos and images have exploded on social media.

He’s actually been doing this schtick for months (even years), popping up in various crowded urban areas in either a leotard or schoolgirl clothing to pose for strangers to take photos. He varies the colors of leotard and other outfits he wears, though he always stands out.

He’s nothing if not brave and inventive. He may even put on a little dance routine for the crowds, such as here in central Shibuya. Now that’s what we call omotenashi.

And if you think this is strange or attention-seeking, wait till you spot the foreigner who likes Japanese girls to step on his face in public.

Yuka Kuramochi is one of the most popular gravure models in Japan, famous and beloved particularly for her curvy butt.

The bits and pieces of acting the 26-year-old has also done have not been anything to write home about… until now.

Since she has done what we think is her first sex scene, in a television drama called Yareta Kamo Iinkai (The Almost Got Laid Committee), which stars Nogizaka46’s Mai Shiraishi as well as Yuka Ogura. The live-action adaptation of Yoshida Takashi’s manga was first produced by online broadcaster AbemaTV (fast developing a reputation as the HBO of Japan) but this version was produced for late-night broadcast on TBS.

All right, this is mainstream Japanese TV, so there’s no actual nudity on display per se. But the scene is still pretty hot and will delight Yuka Kuramochi’s fans.

Playing “mystery woman” Marie Akimoto, Kuramochi is shown kissing her male lover on the street, before they retreat back to a hotel room. She’s then exposed in her underwear embracing the understandably happy man on the bed. The camera lingers on her butt and cleavage.

Another alluring scene shows her stripping down to her lingerie on the roof of a building.

Shoko Takahashi is one of the few gravure idols whose crossover to adult video has been a lasting success.

Formerly known as Shoko Takasaki, she has continued to enjoy commercial triumph after triumph with her porn releases, which typically exploit her incredible bust (and breasts that have, unusually for AV stars, inverted nipples).

And now the goddess has released what is, to our knowledge, her first clone masturbator toy: the Meiki no Syoumei File Shoko Takahashi AV Star Onahole.

Onahole enthusiasts will quickly spot that this is the latest (actually, the eleventh) in a specific series of high-quality “meiki” toys based on top porn stars.

Nippori Gift may have missed a trick here in not including a replica of Shoko’s amazing breasts on the masturbator sleeve, but perhaps an onahole with breasts or a paizuri breasts toy is slated for her next adult toy. Let’s hope so.

The Meiki no Syoumei File Shoko Takahashi AV Star Onahole is available now from Kanojo Toys.

Incidentally, our friends at Kanojo Toys are currently having a Mother’s Day sale, so now is the perfect time to get yourself a hot jukujo or MILF toy! Get 10% off by using the copuon “mothersday.” In fact, everything’s valid for the sale discount, so be sure to take advantage of this when you place your order for Shoko Takahashi’s toy or any other you fancy. Happy fapping, folks.