Manatsu Akimoto of Nogizaka46 has released a brand new photo book. Released this week, it shows off more of her body than fans (and perhaps even the creators) might expect — namely, that she is fully shaved downstairs.

The 26-year-old is pulling down her panties just enough, if you zoom in, to show that she is almost certainly paipan between her lovely legs.

Akimoto’s second solo photo book, “I Want to be Happy” (Shiawase in shitai), comes out today, April 6th. The lingerie-themed book was shot in Italy and Okinawa. The publishers are anticipating a hit, preparing an initial run of 105,000 copies.

Akimoto’s peers in Nogizaka46, Yuki Yoda and Mizuki Yamashita, also released their own sexy photo books this year, while former member Misa Eto also released a semi-nude photo book in January.

Now available on Amazon Prime in Japan, No Longer Human was released in 2019 and stars Shun Oguri.

The R15-rated film is ostensibly not based on the eponymous novel by Osamu Dazai but on his actual life, particularly his lovers, though the originally novel is also autobiographical.

Fumi Nikaido plays the protagonist’s latest lover, a young war widow called Tomie Yamazaki. She has a sex scene where she shows off her breasts, which Dazai ravenously licks and kisses. This follows Nikaido’s recent appearance in River’s Edge and its nude scenes.

Dazai would eventually drown himself (with Yamazaki) at the age of 38 after finishing No Longer Human.

Dazai’s other lover, Shizuko Ota, is played by Erika Sawajiri — she of the recent drug scandal that ended her career and the alleged contract with her ex-husband determining how much sex they could have per month.

She shows off her naked back and breasts in a couple of scenes. Ota bore Dazai a child.

Incidentally, the film is directed by Mika Ninagawa, who made Helter-Skelter with Sawajiri (and which featured a great nude sex scene).

Rie Miyazawa plays Dazai’s long-suffering wife in the film.

With the coronavirus pandemic still raging all over the world, many people are stuck at home. If they are stuck there with a partner, the chances are they are passing the time by getting intimate together. There’s nothing quite like sex to take one’s mind off a crisis. Failing that, there’s always masturbation, so we are sure that traffic for porn sites is going through the roof right now.

Things in Japan just got more serious, with the declaration last night of a state of emergency, although the current number of infections are still much lower than other major industrialized nations.

How has COVID-19 affected the adult and sex industry in Japan?

In other parts of the world, the coronavirus has led to a huge boost to sex toy sales. While we haven’t seen any figures yet on the Japanese industry — share if you have — we know that sex toys are selling well — so well, in fact, that certain shops are selling out of onaholes. Our friends at Kanojo Toys are still open for business as usual, shipping Japanese sex toys all over the world.

One of the most prominent early response from the industry to the crisis came from Soft on Demand, which launched a campaign offering free porn. It was so popular that the SOD server crashed.

But then came the down side: the campaign may have attracted people hoping to exploit the situation to do harm, since there is speculation that it led to a personal information leak.

Gravure idols are mostly stuck at home right now, with photo shoots and releases postponed. They have been posting alluring selfies on their social media accounts, which certainly helps take our minds off the news.

Many gravure idols will likely lose work due to the crisis, as will so many. Sex workers and hostesses, too, are going to suffer from possibly weeks of lost income. Will they be compensated? So far, the Japanese government’s announcements on aid packages have excluded such people as bar hostesses and sex workers, even though they pay taxes just like the rest of us. This has rightly prompted concerns from many that this constitutes discrimination. Officials have promised to take another look at the scope of the compensation.

Incidentally, hostess clubs (and bars in general) have been a cause of infections spreading in Japan. Dozens of people who worked in Shinjuku establishments have tested positive, meaning they probably passed it on to other colleagues and customers.

Even before the state of emergency was declared, brothels in Tobita Shinchi, the long-running red-light district in Osaka, had already taken the step of shutting their doors to protect patrons and employees during the crisis.

Stay safe, everyone! We will continue to blog about sex, sexuality, and adult themes in Japan.

In times of crisis like the current pandemic, thank goodness for the generous genius that is Toy’s Heart.

The long-running Japanese adult toy brand has been a part of our lives for what seems like an eternity. Back when we first started getting interested in sex toys in Japan and trying out the early Tenga releases, we found Toy’s Heart and quickly realized that this is a brand with something special.

Its signature anime/manga-style character packaging has been replicated and extended by the good folks at Tama Toys, but there will always be a special place in our, well, hearts for Toy’s Heart.

Never one to rest on its laurels, the brand has another winner with this release: the Eternal Fella Innocent Sweet Bite Onahole.

We all know and enjoy using double-hole masturbators, but what about a toy that gives you two mouths? And not designed with two mouths on the outside, but two mouths inside a tunnel.

This uniquely imagined design is here and it works. Slide yourself into this snug canal and get blown by two girls (or by the same buxom lady from two directions) at once — complete with tongues and teeth waiting to nibble and stroke your glans and shaft. Even better, the position/angle of the two mouths is different, so you will definitely feel their “bite” from all sides with each thrust.

The Eternal Fella Innocent Sweet Bite Onahole is available now globally from Kanojo Toys, the internet’s top destination for Japanese sex toys.

We wrote recently about some of the ways that the coronavirus pandemic has affected the adult industry in Japan.

We didn’t talk about prostitution much except for the closure of Tobita Shinchi, a famous red-light district in Osaka, and outbreaks associated with Kabukicho in Tokyo.

It’s a sure thing that people aren’t going out to red-light districts or brothels, but what about other types of fuzoku services such as delivery health?

Well, it seems that call girls are still available and may even be busier than usual as lots more people hang around at home with little to do except think about sex.

Some call girl services, at least, are inevitably trying to market themselves in such a way as to cash in on the current crisis.

One delivery health service in Funabashi, Chiba (just east of Tokyo), was offering “cluster” and “lockdown” discounts (38% off! 60 minutes for ¥10,000), which may not actually sound so enticing.

What is enticing, though, is “Koronatan Insei” (コロナたん★陰性) a 20-year-old young lady available for hire from the service.

With a name that translates roughly as “Miss Corona Negative,” the G-cup stunner may not be a cure or protection against the virus, but she will surely help take your mind off its threat.

The Funabashi delivery healthy service was operating under a name meaning “Novel Pussy Virus Attack! Penis Vaccine Please” (新型オメコウイルス襲来！ワクチンポください) and the tagline “Sexual desire pandemic” (性欲パンデミック).

As the pandemic outbreak in Japan has grown more serious over the past week, the cheeky service seemed to change its name to the tamer JD Gal, though the URL still reveals the original name. Koronatan Insei is also no longer found on the website.

Perhaps this marketing campaign was a little too provocative for the current times.

We recently wrote about the various ways that the coronavirus pandemic is affecting the adult industry in Japan.

While certain prostitution services are attempting to exploit the crisis for its marketing potential, the plight of hostesses is gaining attention. Kabukicho, where many hostess clubs are located, has been identified as one of the probable causes of the spread of the virus in Tokyo due to the closely confined nature of the clubs. One-fourth of people in Shinjuku infected in March were working in role connected to nightlife services.

With nightlife in the capital essentially dead for weeks and central areas like Shinjuku ghostly quiet, especially since the state of emergency was declared, what about all those hostesses, bouncers, touts, and so on now out of work? The compensation package lined up by the government will not, at least it was initially announced, provide for such people, provoking a response that this constituted job discrimination.

Some enterprising hostesses, though, have found ways to continue working in the age of corona: through virtual kyabakura, or virtual hostessing. (Kyabakura is a Japanese word for “cabaret club,” a euphemism for hostess club.)

A Japanese television show highlighted this trend, demonstrating how it works with a video link placing the hostess and client in the same “room” digitally speaking. This is done using the now globally popular Zoom, hence the particular service that has pioneered this approach is called Zoom Kyaba! (sic).

The trend was also featured on Yahoo! News in Japan. We are not sure how widespread it is yet but this particular service was set up by a guy in his thirties, who was interviewed in the article.

An hour with a hostess costs ¥3,000, with an addition ¥2,000 charged if you wish to specify which hostess. (This is quite a bit cheaper than the cost of an actual hostess club, where you typically pay ¥5,000 for an hour — plus have to pay for the hostess’s drinks, which have a heavy markup.) There are currently over a dozen ladies with whom you can chat on Zoom, though only between 7pm and 12am.

The female body is a mysterious vessel, the female orgasm especially so.

Here are three ladies who should know what they are talking about: porn stars Jessica Kizaki, Airi Kijima, and Hinano Kamisaka.

In these video interviews, they describe what it is like when they orgasm. While we have seen them writhe with pleasure in countless adult videos, it is something else to hear them talk about the feeling and physical changes they undergo in detail.

This will surely come in handy for when you try to parse your female partner to see if your efforts are having any effect on her sexual experience.

Does her face turn red? Is she twitching or flinching? These are some of the signs to watch out for.

Should you go slow or fast? Hard or gentle? These AV queens help us out with these eternal questions…

The video, which was posted in November last year, has reasonable English subtitles that you can turn on.

These are many more video interviews posted with these three stars, available on the B-side Life YouTube channel, including several in-depth Q&As with Jessica Kizaki before her retirement.

These news stories are coming thick and fast.

Just Monday we reported on the emergence of a service using Zoom to offer a virtual hostess club experience.

Now there is SmaCaba, another remote hostess club service.

With a typically Japanese mashup of “smartphone” and “kyabakura” (cabaret club, a euphemism for hostess club) for its name, SmaCaba links hostesses and customers through their handheld devices. The session that a customer enjoys with an available hostess is conducted via LINE, Zoom, or Skype. Sessions are available from 7pm every day except Sundays.

The customer/user pays with digital “drink tickets” that are priced in three tiers (silver, gold, or diamond), ranging from ¥1,500 to ¥5,000 per 30 minutes. The customer buys these through the service and then sends the QR code or URL to the hostess via their app of choice to start their session. However, there are also additional “food” and “drink” tickets if you want to pay extra: these must be like perks or tips, since you won’t actually be buying a real drink for the hostess like in an actual club (which is generally how the bill increases). It is also apparently possible to “drink” with friends in the same way as a group might go to a hostess club together.

Certain details about the SmaCaba system are still tentative or unannounced at time of writing (the registration page, for instance, is not ready yet), though we expect it will become a popular service if the crisis continues and real hostess clubs remain closed.

This is just one of the ways that the coronavirus pandemic is affecting the adult and sex industry in Japan.

With Kabukicho in Shinjuku quickly identified as a risky district where COVID-19 infection was spreading, hostess clubs and various other services in the red-light district are now closed and the streets deserted. This has put thousands of hostesses, touts, bouncers, other club employees, and sex workers out of work for weeks, not to mention all the people in secondary industries who served the needs of hostesses like hair and nail salons, beauty clinics, luxury retailers, and even taxi drivers.

Here’s some welcome distraction for your mind and, more importantly, your body during these coronavirus days.

EXE has returned to one of its big hits last year and released the Puni Ana-roid Sex Machine 2.

This is an update and improvement of the bestselling Puni Ana-roid Sex Machine, which was itself a development of the popular Puni Ana series of onaholes.

Once again, this is a fully automatic and powered masturbator toy. And once again, you can enjoy an integrated audio of the gynoid character’s voice but now there are both seven massage patterns and seven vibration patterns (that’s a total of 49 combinations!).

The makers have cranked up the specs while retaining all the best features and functions of the original, including the 145-degree-adjustable base and suction cup that lets you attach the toy to a table or counter for hands-free action. The hole and tunnel itself is now more realistically colored and textured for guys who want a more natural experience. That said, the toy is also suitable for sex machine and piston masturbator beginners.

The Puni Ana-roid Sex Machine 2 is available for global shipping from our friends at Kanojo Toys.

With many if not most universities in Japan starting their spring semesters with online-only teaching and classes, students are unable to do what they do best: hang out on campus.

Instead, they are stuck at home, not quite on lockdown per se but also unable to go to their universities, and probably lacking the financial resources to do many others things.

So what can they do? For the uninspired, there is always Netflix. For the horny, of whom there are many, there is sex, masturbation, porn, and adult toys.

In the case of this college girl, she decided to entertain herself and the rest of the world with a series of nude selfies showing off her incredible body.

She has one of the biggest busts we have seen among an amateur: a true qualifier for the title of bakunyu.

She matches the innocence suggested by her pale skin with a dirtier, more worldly personality evoked by that labret piercing.

These are just a small sample of the selfies she uploaded. There are many more out there — plus videos!

We have been recently exploring the incredible erotic art of Namio Harukawa (春川ナミオ).

Harukawa specializes in femdom fetish art, especially facesitting, portrayed through amazing female characters with huge hips, thighs, and buttocks. If you want to see guys smothered by phatt asses, this is the world for you.

Here is just a small sampling of his awesome creations.

An anthology of his art, Garden of Domina, has been published bilingually. Though now in his seventies, Harukawa continues to hold exhibitions regularly.

If you like Namio Harukawa’s work, we suggest you check out the fetish creations of Yoshifumi Hayashi, about whom we wrote a short article a few years ago.

Bloomberg has published an interesting in-depth article on hostess clubs in Japan during the coronavirus pandemic.

“Champagne, chandeliers and glitzy cocktail frocks are all part of the fantasy world conjured up by Japan’s hostess clubs. The coronavirus has delivered an unwelcome dose of reality.”

Since the outbreak, much of the media reporting and imagery promoted by politicians has unfairly blamed nightlife for spreading the virus, rather than the various other factors (also) responsible such as crowded commuter trains, offices, and regular izakaya and restaurants.

It is true, however, that infections have spread through nightclubs, live music venues, and hostesses clubs around the country.

Especially after the state of emergency was declared, most establishments are closed for the foreseeable future. The Ginza and Kabukicho districts in central Tokyo are like ghost towns.

Many of Mochizuki’s Ginza hostesses, who are self employed, have gone to stay with their families to save money, she said. Others remain in Tokyo in tiny apartments with no work, yet may be denied access to benefits the government is providing to workers amid the pandemic.

Naturally, a hostess club falls into one of the riskiest types of workplaces during the current pandemic: the hostesses can’t wear masks (the whole point of their job is that people can see them); the clubs are small, crowded, and poorly ventilated.

The discretion of clubs has also made it hard to trace the potential infections since lists of customers are not kept and patrons demand privacy.

Custom started to collapse already in February, after companies started to stop employees from claiming “entertainment” as an expense.

With most if not all now closed, hostesses, who are technically self-employed freelancers, and owners face uncertain futures. There are fears that some will become sex workers to make ends meet. Some are turning to Zoom and apps to keep going.

The Ginza club owner interviewed by Bloomberg, though, is skeptical of the success of such online tools. They won’t allow hostesses to recreate the alluring atmosphere of a club remotely.

“It’s like performing on a stage… I think it helps to think of us like geisha. We’re professionals at the art of conversation.”

You’ve tried the hand grenade. You’ve had sex with a brain. You’ve done the Tokyo Skytree.

Now try the Nuku-Fes Onahole.

This masturbator toy by Chiku Work is not only a very cheeky parody of the manga/anime multimedia franchise Love Live! School Idol Project, it’s also a unique toy in its own right.

We mean, just check it out! What the heck is that? A block? A slab?

As our friends at Kanojo Toys tell us:

The circular dents on the surface of this uniquely designed masturbator replicate the placement of buttons in the Love Live! School Idol Festival video game, and pressing them in different orders while you stroke yourself pushes the internal quaver-shaped nubs forward for extra stimulation.

Putting the controller/interface aspect to one side, the outer design is somewhat reminiscent of the Chokouha Brick Onahole from many moons ago. It’s good to know the spirit of innovation still runs strong in the Japanese adult toy industry!

The Nuku-Fes Onahole is available now globally from Kanojo Toys.

One gravure idol is so proud of her buttocks that she used them as the “paper” for telling a kamishibai-style story.

Kamishibai (literally “paper plays”) are old types of street theater storytelling with a narrator and illustrated boards. Though it is very rare to see it outdoors in Japan now, you can still find kamishibai events for children.

Maity is a G-cup idol who is ostensibly head of the “thong squad.” She got a friend to draw illustrations on her butt cheeks.

The story seems to be able two friends who get separated.

Maity then shared the results with fans in a series of posts on Twitter, one per day.

This is an original and savvy way to raise her own profile and accumulate a following on social media. Maity has just released an image video DVD, which is probably not coincidental.

Here’s a look “behind the scenes.”

And here are Maity’s buttocks sans kamishibai.

It’s not made explicitly clear but we suspect this stunt was inspired by a lack of work and/or lack of other means of doing publicity during the semi-lockdown situation in Japan.

It’s a tough time for the gravure industry, since photo shoots are basically out of the question or very difficult to do given the current coronavirus-induced state of emergency that has shut down many services in Japan.

Magazines are still publishing and new content is appearing somehow, but we expect a lot of gradols and their jimusho (agencies) will be out of pocket due to the pandemic. The majority of idols didn’t actually earn much to start with. It’s a common misconception of the industry that idols earn a lot of money. Let’s support them in any way we can! Especially if they are telling stories with their butt cheeks.

Have you ever wondered what type of Tenga Cup are you? Which onacup reflects your current mood, personality, or fashion style?

One creative Twitter user took this to the next level: by assigning Tenga Cups to match the different outfits of a woman — specifically, a music idol.

The classic red “deep throat” onacup is sporty. The white version is a shrine maiden. The Premium Cup is a glitzy outfit. The Rainbow Pride Cup is a bikini. And so on.

There are two versions of the collage that has gone (very slightly) viral: one featuring Mai Chusonji (aka Chanmai) and the other with Kaori Masukodera.

Both are idols who make up the girl group Bed In, a kind of pastiche band active since 2015 where the two members dress in trashy clothes that take us back to the fashion of the bubble years in Japan. If you like gaudy outfits and slits in skirts that leave little to the imagination, then you will adore the look of this group.

Of course, there are many more types of Tenga Cups than the six included in these image collages. Another approach could be to assign each onacup version to a different idol in a group with lots of members like AKB48 or Nogizaka46. That’s another productive task to help us get through the COVID-19 lockdown!

The former Morning Musume idol Asuka Fukuda has posed for a hair nude (full-frontal nude) shoot.

Now 35 years old, Asuka Fukuda’s looks have matured from the cute to the alluring, and we like the results very much. She lies down and shows off her naked body including an attractively trimmed bush between her legs.

It’s been a while since we saw a major nude debut, so this is a bit exciting in our world.

Though the former Morning Musume star Maki Goto, for instance, posed for semi-nude shoots and even showed off her naked butt, this is apparently the first fully nude shoot by a member of the group.

Fukuda made her debut in Morning Musume in 1997 when she was 14 as one of the founding members. She left in April 1999. In the 2010s, she pursued a music career again as a vocalist with a group called PEACE$TONE, though the group went on indefinite hiatus from April 10.

These nude images are previews that appeared in the weekly magazine Friday, taken from a new photo book, “PASSIONABLE,” which comes out in Japan on June 19. The title is, you guessed it, a coined portmanteau word derived from “passion” and “able.” Fukuda, at any rate, still has the ability to get our passion going.

Nudity that shows pubic hair in Japan is usually interpreted as illegal according to the country’s arcane, semi-imported obscenity laws, though a tastefully done photo book is often able to skirt around these rules.

NMB48’s Sae Murase has posed for stunning lingerie shoots featuring the popular idol in various states of undress.

These are all highlights promoting the 23-year-old’s new, eagerly awaited photo book “S ga ii” (roughly, I Like to be Sadistic), which was released on April 22. It is Murase’s debut photo book and was produced in South Korea.

The slinky lady looks devastating in black or leopard print panties. Her slim waist is so hot it could melt cheese. And man, those pert buttocks are practically clenched tight enough to bite.

Needless to say, these previews have delighted netizens and fans, even though they probably can’t go to a store to buy her photo book at the book. We expect that online orders will be roaring.

With much of Japan on semi-lockdown (or at least, slowdown) due to measures to prevent the further spread of the coronavirus, freelancers and the self-employed are particularly feeling the crunch.

This naturally includes prostitutes of various types (soaplands, call girls, etc.). Though some delivery health services are trying to cash in on the crisis with coronavirus-themed marketing, we expect most fuzoku establishments are closed or running reduced hours right now. Naturally, accurate numbers of these are hard to come by, though we did read an interview with a sex worker at an Ikebukuro delivery health in which she candidly explained that the number of customers had fallen and the impact this had had on her income.

There has been much speculation that the mass closure of hostess clubs will drive hostesses into prostitution to make ends meet.

And it seems some guys in Japan are rubbing their hands with glee at anticipation of the eager ladies about to pour into fuzoku services to earn an honest yen. One of those gentlemen is apparently comedian Takashi Okamura, who recently stoked controversy on a late-night radio show by joking about this situation.

The 49-year-old Okamura said last week that he looked forward to enjoying the attractive women who will pour into sex work because of their financial straits brought up by the coronavirus, and told listeners to save up lots of money to get the most out of the goods soon to be on offer at fuzoku.

Provocative remarks meant in jest? Parody of the “spend-to-boost-the-economy” spiel that politicians gush? Bad-taste schadenfreude?

At any rate, the Twittersphere was quick to respond with condemnation and the broadcaster, Nippon Hoso, has since issued an apology for Okamura’s comment.

It’s something of an open secret in the Japanese adult toys industry right now that many of Tenga’s most exciting developments are to be found not in its classic range of male masturbation aids, as awesome as they still are, but among its innovative lineup of sex toys for ladies.

Of course, regular readers will need no introduction to the Iroha series, which comprises the core of Tenga’s female pleasure items.

We are pleased to share the latest evolution in this series: the Iroha Ukidama Floating Light-Up Vibrator.

Is it a mood light? Is it a bathing relaxation device? Is it a vibrator? It’s all of these and more.

This vibrator provides a unique and sensual opportunity to get to know your body even more intimately.

It functions as a mood lamp that floats in the bath (the name, Ukidama, means “floating ball/orb”). Just switch it on and let it float on the water while you relax. Naturally, there is more direct stimulation on offer, too, thanks to the “massage” function: let the toy buzz your most sensitive physical regions as you lie back in the tub. With just two buttons and no fuss, you can vary your pleasure between the three vibration strengths and adjust the lighting between three levels.

You can choose from three designs — Hana (flower), Hoshi (star), and Take (bamboo) — all inspired by classical motifs and subtle colors from traditional Japanese art.

The Iroha Ukidama Floating Light-Up Vibrator is available now globally from our friends at Kanojo Toys, your one-stop store for all things adult about Japan.

Here at Tokyo Kinky, we consider it our sworn duty to introduce readers to gravure idols who are not only the famous and established names.

It’s a busy and competitive industry, and many gradols can frankly slip between the gaps. Here today, gone tomorrow. Careers can burn out before they have even had a chance to glow.

That’s why we sometimes turn the spotlight on newbies or more minor names in the industry.

Asako Tani (谷あさこ) is, at least for now, one such example.

Born in 1993 in Kanagawa, Tani is technically a TV announcer (presenter) rather than a fully fledged gradol, but she posed for this stunning gravure shoot in a tabloid magazine a few weeks ago. We couldn’t resist sharing the results with our readers.

She’s also smart, having attended the prestigious Hosei University. Alongside her freelance announcer gigs, she has pursued a gravure career, doing her first shoot for Weekly Playboy in March 2017.