We have long had a crush on Misumi Shiochi (塩地美澄), the curvy jukujo with a gently undulating gravure idol career that emerged from her TV announcer and presenting work (largely for a regional channel in the 2000s).

She only released her first photo book in 2016, when she was already in her thirties.

Now aged 37, the very comely Shiochi has posed for what is surely her sexiest photo shoot yet — a series of semi-nude pics, released as a digital photo book, that show off her ravishing and alluring body. In Japanese cup sizes, she is apparently a G-cup but we are not wholly convinced. That’s not a complaint per se, just a doubt on the veracity of her official bust specs.

Such details aside, she’s a real stunner. This is the most naked she has got, unless we are overlooking a previous shoot. We love the side boob, her knead-me-now bouncy buttocks, and that fleshy waist with love handles.

Here are some highlights from older shoots that we love.

For more, larger pictures of Misumi Shiochi, check out our archive on tumblr.

Over the weekend here in Tokyo, temperatures climbed close to 30 degrees Celsius — a reminder that summer is once again just around the corner and, hopefully, an end to this coronavirus pandemic.

Another, very welcome reminder came from the Instagram account of actress and model Kyoko Fukada, a long-time favorite of this blog, who posted a video of herself surfing and showing off her stunning, toned and tanned bikini body.

Sure, she is wearing bikini bottoms but they have cheekily slipped down to reveal a decent slice of her butt crack. We’re not sure when the video was filmed but it was presumably before the current semi-lockdown in Japan began.

Now aged 37 and still, shockingly, somehow unmarried, Fukada is technically in the ara-fo (around 40) age bracket and a jukujo. And yet she still exudes a youthful radiance that is fun, alluring, and sporty. We could all learn something from her zest and benefit from this vibrant elixir that is her gorgeous, sun-kissed body.

Bring on the summer if we can expect more of this.

Long-running rural strip club in Japan turns to crowdfunding to stay in business during coronavirus crisis

We have been chronicling how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting the adult industry in Japan, from shutting down hostess clubs to inspiring sex workers.

Like hostess clubs and the like, strip clubs were also quick to shut their doors after the state of emergency was announced.

Having first started in the postwar years, the striptease industry in Japan is dying anyway, so this may well be one of the final nails in its coffin.

We spotted an interesting article about one example of a strip club located in the Dogo hot spring resort in the western Japan prefecture of Ehime. The location is significant. Such hot springs were where young couples went to get naked and intimate together, or where adulterous couples went for secret trysts. It is why sex museums were frequently found at hot springs.

New Dogo Music (ニュー道後ミュージック), the latest in the club’s various names over its 50-year history, was just about afloat before the current crisis. It has a second floor where dancers could stay when not traveling the country to perform at other clubs. The club is lucky in that it is a mere stone’s throw from one of the most popular bathhouse destinations in Japan, Dogo Onsen Honkan, guaranteeing the club constant foot traffic.

Until the crisis.

The club boasts 40 seats and a circular stage, and like others in the industry has attempted to clean up its facilities and appeal to female patrons (it only installed women’s toilets recently, that’s how few women were expected).

Its clientele is aging and declining, though, which means money for improvements is tight. The club was able to raise thousands of dollars in donations last year to spruce up the building.

However, just as the renovations were successfully finished and the club was in its best shape for years, the coronavirus hit and the club had to close temporarily on March 30.

So once again it is turning to donations to stay alive.

It has launched a crowdfunding campaign with the aim of meeting a target of ¥5.5 million (about $50,000) by mid-June. It has already received nearly ¥3.9 million by the end of April. Of the 170-plus donors, about half are women.

Starring the beautiful model and actress Ayaka Miyoshi, the musical comedy Dance with Me was released domestically last August and was recently broadcast on the Wowow channel. This Japanese movie with a decidedly La La Land shtick about a prancing office lady is perhaps most notable for giving Miyoshi her first big starring role.

Far from the musical numbers or the charms of the lead actor, netizens watching the movie on TV seemed most interested in the dance sequences where Miyoshi’s skirt was lifted up and revealed her cute OL panties.

Panchira (panties shot) is a rich and evolving fetish in Japan, inspiring photography, games, porn, sex toys, and even umbrellas — not to mention, the actual unpleasant (and criminal) activity of upskirting women in public or cosplayers at events.

Scouring movies and TV dramas for possible panchira seems to be a duty that Japanese netizens are required to fulfill.

The Japanese government’s uninspired response to the coronavirus — announcing, belatedly, a state of emergency, but carrying out few tests — may well prove the end of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s long term.

One of the most maligned and mocked initiatives has been Abe’s offer to send each household in the country two face masks.

This has been criticized as an “epic fail” due to the ineffectiveness of just two masks, delayed distribution, quality of the masks, and their cost.

But by far the most novel critique and, simultaneously, striking utilization of the masks has come from idol Amo Shiratama (白玉あも).

The Hokkaido-born Gothic Lolita in her late thirties, who describes herself as a “menhera idol” (idol with mental health issues), recently posed for a selfie in which she used one of the masks as a pair of panties. She shared the selfie on Twitter with a hashtag literally meaning “Abe’s mask challenge.”

In her tweet, she joked that the mask was big so she tried putting it on (the masks have actually been criticized for their small size).

The results are sexy yet silly, and promptly set the internet on fire. Lord knows, we need this kind of distraction right now.

We’ve been using the semi-lockdown here in Tokyo to catch up on various TV series saved on our watch list for too long.

And so we finally found time to watch the BBC/Netflix drama Giri/Haji, whose storyline has a connection with Japan and stars various Japanese actors.

The show is pretty good, though our prime reason for sharing it with our readers is, of course, the nudity.

There is an OK sex scene with the actress Anna Sawai (澤井杏奈), where you get to see her breasts while she is on a bed with Yosuke Kubozuka. It’s shot from a bit of a distance, unfortunately, so we can’t see as much as we’d like, though it’s quite hot how she is looking down presumably as he penetrates her and she holds his legs.

The 27-year-old, fully bilingual Sawai is Japanese but grew up abroad (she was born in New Zealand), and will star in the forthcoming Fast & Furious 9 (release delayed until next year due to COVID-19). She was formerly a pop star as a member of the group FAKY until she left to pursue her acting career.

In the latest of our reports on how the coronavirus is affecting the adult industry in Japan, we highlight love hotels, the temporary accommodation that exist for couples to have sex.

Love hotels are enjoying a supposed boom due to the pandemic and semi-lockdown measures imposed by the government.

An article we saw recently claims that the “pandemic sees thriving demand at suburban love hotels.”

The basis for the claim is largely a single Japanese-language media article, itself based on a single interview via Twitter with an employee at a love hotel in Kanagawa, the prefecture immediately to the west of Tokyo. As such, the accuracy of the analysis and claim is dubious, but the logic nonetheless seems to hold up.

Apparently, more young people are traveling to the hotel from other areas for sex.

“Our staff has noted that they’re seeing more cars from customers with license plates from outside the prefecture, particularly Tokyo residents who have been sneaking out. While under pressure from the metropolitan government to engage in ‘self-restraint’ and stay home, they’ve been quietly converging on hotels in certain locales.”

Some love hotels have closed temporarily to abide by government exhortations to isolate ourselves during April and May. Those in Tokyo, in particular, felt obliged to follow the government request to close.

Hotels and other forms of accommodation are technically essential services and can legally remain open. And it seems that the ones that are still open, are busy.

“Even before the coronavirus outbreak we were often filled to capacity for overnight guests,” the hotel staff member said. “So when the restrictions came into effect, we expected demand would taper off, but that wasn’t the case. Things have barely changed, and most nights we have no vacancies.”

Using the, er, reliable source that is a Twitter hashtag, the article says that business seems up at various hotels.

So is this crisis making us all more horny? The reason for a boom, if there truly is one, is perhaps more prosaic.

People who usually go somewhere during the Golden Week holidays were stuck in Tokyo. For young couples, this means they might well want to spend some time in “sex quarantine” for a few hours in the afternoon or evening, though it also meant possibly traveling to Kanagawa by car to find a hotel that is open.

And given that most other date options like department stores, movie theaters, and so on are currently closed, a session in a love hotel, where there is WiFi, food and drink, karaoke, a well-stocked bath, and more, is actually as sensible as it is sexy.

Given how hostess clubs and the sex industry have been demonized in Japan for spreading COVID-19, should this mini surge in love hotel usage be worrying for hygiene reasons?

Well, yes. Because although rooms are cleaned between patrons, they are not sanitized.

“We’ve been cleaning the rooms just the same as before. That means we arrange the room neatly and replace the sheets on beds and plastic wrapped items like towels used by the customers with clean ones. We also air out the rooms for 10 to 15 minutes after customers vacate them, and give them a perfunctory wipe down. Rather than ‘cleaning’ the room per se, it’s more like just restoring it to the way it was. Assuming customers made physical contact with this place or that, and disinfecting them with alcohol, just isn’t done. We just restore the room’s appearance to what it was before.”

We like it when the legions of idols who pass through the ranks of AKB48 and its sister groups manage to find second careers after graduation. This is actually quite rare, though a lucky few do go on to work as actors, singers, models, tarento, or other types of entertainers.

Now Miyuki Watanabe, formerly of NMB48, has established herself as an underwear model by posing for Peach John.

The shoot has shown off a lot more of her cleavage than we have seen until now, and we like the results, even if Miyuki is far from what we might call busty.

The popular lingerie brand Peach John is known for its use of models and impressive shoots. It has previously harnessed the power of AKB48 idol Haruna Kojima, but this was back when she was still in the group (and she has since faded from public view since graduating).

Perhaps, then, the closest comparison is with Yuki Kashiwagi, the former member of AKB48, who also posed for an awesome lingerie shoot (for the Peach John rival, Ravijour) after leaving the supergroup. (She nominally designed the lingerie, too.)

Things seem to be going well for Miyuki Watanabe. This latest advance in her career, which has received a lot of publicity, comes in the wake of the semi-nude photo book that she released last year.

Its name might be a bit of a mouthful, but the Maga Kore Z-Ton Maji Hada Mesu Dachi Real Body Hole’s design more than lives up to the promises of the embellished title.

Part of the ongoing Maga Kore manga-inspired collection by KM Produce in collaboration with various partners, this luxury masturbator is based on the hentai doujinshi series Mesu Dachi by Z-Ton. (It’s also apparently part of a “Maji Hada” mini series of adult toys with incredible realistic skin textures.)

Though described as a “body hole” by the makers, it is almost more like a sex doll than a masturbator. The toy has a torso with breasts and stunning nipples as well as a lower body with thighs and movable legs. It almost goes without saying that the toy has two holes. A set of gym clothes is also included so you can recreate scenes with the awesome idol on the box art.

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, just look at those stunning nipples! The flexible legs are also a really cool trick, allowing you to try out a variety of positions and angles, and have the toy move with you while you have sex.

The Maga Kore Z-Ton Maji Hada Mesu Dachi Real Body Hole is available now from our friends at Kanojo Toys.

It seems that during lockdown, even Japanese television producers are getting desperate for ideas.

The popular TV show Ariyoshi Hanseikai recently featured the gravure idol (gradol) Mai Arakawa (荒川真衣).

She appeared semi-nude for a sequence. Nothing new about this, which is often how gradols appear on TV in Japan.

Except that Mai Arakawa is known for her love of eating insects — something she shares with the world in her YouTube videos — and her penchant for all things creepy and crawly was showcased to a certain extent by having her pose with beetles on her buttocks and garter belts, or butterflies over her breasts and crotch.

We can see no reason for this except, why not?

Born in 1994, Arakawa actually works as a nurse and does idol work on the side. She lives with some 300 reptiles and insects.

As aficionados will already know, there are Japanese porn subgenres featuring insects and even eels. And there’s fetish art and photography, where women have sex with cockroaches and snuggle with octopi.

We have also seen this combination of unusual animal and sexy gravure idol on Japanese TV before, for example once with a live octopus.

The Japanese adult video star Yui Hatano has recreated a virtual porn set on the Nintendo Switch game Animal Crossing.

Hatano then proudly shared the results on Twitter (tip of the hat to @Genzolico for pointing us to this), quickly achieving hundreds of retweets and thousands of likes.

The porn performer’s avatar is wearing black underwear that contrasts with her hair — which is blue.

The porn set itself seems to be a one-room apartment, which is a staple of adult video. Note the generously sized box of tissues by the bed and the funky lava lamp (though we are not sure if we have ever seen one of those in JAV before). There is no sexual partner on set: Animal Crossing only lets you go so far with recreating the scenes in your imagination!

The cameras are clunky pieces of equipment more like the ones used to film the news in a studio, rather than the handheld devices preferred on porn sets.

Yui Hatano, who is also immensely popular outside Japan, especially in other parts of Asia, enjoyed a big hit earlier in the year with her porn parody version of Joker.

Producers are promoting Mao Watanabe (渡辺まお) as a 19-year-old, second-year college student, releasing her first AV (1EOMOI00009) on May 22 on SOD Create.

Who doesn’t like a good porn debut? And who isn’t intrigued by the performer’s path to porn?

Fortunately, or not, millennials leave online footprints. Inspired netizens swiftly got to work and managed to apparently confirm and identify the student, tracking down old photos and an online paper trail. Mao Watanabe is indeed a student from Miyagi, as advertised, and now attending at the prestigious Waseda University in Tokyo.

We have our suspicions, though, that it may not be the same person and — even if it is — she is choosing not to use her real name for a reason. As such, we won’t add to the online morass or risk putting ourselves in legally hot water by sharing it here, or her non-porn pictures, though readers are welcome to read the claims in Japanese.

The angelic-faced Mao Watanabe is advertised as liking traditional Japanese dance and having lots of friends. Well, she will have plenty more of those after her porn debut is released.

The “cloned” onahole is a staple of the Japanese adult sex toy market: masturbators produced based on a particular woman’s vagina and vulva.

Some are more realistic (and expensive) than others. The best are designed with molds or 3D models taken directly from the women’s body.

Of course, these women are usually porn stars, and releasing your own clone toy through a brand like Nippori Gift is a sign that you have established a certain status in the industry.

Over the years, we have seen and used countless numbers of such onaholes. But we think this is the first time we have seen one like this.

The Eimi Fukada’s Pussy Just Before She Comes Onahole is molded on Eimi Fukada’s you-know-what exactly at the moment when she is about to climax. If you want to experience the sensation of penetrating a top Japanese adult video star’s pussy when it is engorged and aroused, just as she reaches orgasm, then you finally have the chance with this toy by A-One.

As the video shows, Eimi was involved in the creation process and oversaw the development of the toy. She apparently even drew a picture of her vagina so that the makers could craft as close a replica as possible.

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May the Shinto gods bless Japan’s generous sharers of nude selfies.

If you like Japanese girls with a bit of meat on their bones, this amateur is for you.

Her thighs and waist have some fine love handles, while her ample bust is certainly above average for a Japanese woman of her age (mid-twenties, by the looks of things).

She isn’t afraid of showing off everything, including her trimmed bush — but even her full face.

Most of the shots were taken at what looks like her apartment or a (apparently expensive) hotel room, though others seem to be in locations like a semi-private booth in an izakaya on a date, where she is happy to pull up her top and flash her bust.

Be warned, though, that not all of these are selfies — and in fact, the hands or arm of a male photographer are visible at two points, which rather spoils the effect.

Nonetheless, these nude selfies and photos are a sight for sore eyes in these COVID-19 times when we can’t enjoy our usual jaunts to love hotels and rolls in the hay with the ladies.

We were excited to blog in April about the then-upcoming release of a nude photo book by Asuka Fukuda, an ex-Morning Musume idol, that was the first such hair nude (full frontal) nudity by a member, current or former, of the famous group.

Now in her mid-thirties, Fukuda has matured into an alluring older woman (jukujo) who knows exactly what she is doing with her body.

Ahead of the hotly anticipated release of her photo book, “PASSIONABLE,” on June 19 from Kodansha, more highlights from the shoot have appeared. Check out these images.

Fukuda once again shows us she knows exactly what she is doing when she lets her clothes linger on her skin as she strips, revealing her finely trimmed bush and stunning breasts. This ain’t no shy and tender lass, but a woman with experience and awareness of her own sex appeal. We also love the red nail polish.

On the troubled Japanese Netflix reality show Terrace House, which faces possible cancellation after one of its stars took her life following online bullying, the gravure model Yume Hayashi recently made quite a personal confession.

Much of the appeal of the show hinges on watching young people with emerging careers as models and so on hook up. Accordingly, Hayashi has attracted the attention of both male viewers and an occupant of the house.

Hokkaido-born, 24-year-old Yume Hayashi is well known for her sporty body. She goes by the name Yume Yoshida on the show, despite (or perhaps because of) her career so far.

When Toshiyuki Niino, a thirtysomething CEO with no shortage of confidence, was trying out moves to seduce Yume on the sofa, his hand teasingly stroking the back of her neck, he asked her about her sexual experience. (His behavior and attempts to seduce Hayashi/Yoshida, incidentally, have crossed a line for many viewers.)

While not as many as man-eater DJ-model Ayame Tachibana but far more than gravure veteran Sayaka Isoyama, she gave a figure of between 20 and 30. Is that a lot for a young, attractive woman? Or what you would expect?

Niino, at any rate, was unfazed by this, remarking that such a number was “standard.” Naturally, he hopes that he will be added to her tally before long, though his pursuit might have to continue without the cameras rolling (the show is currently on hiatus to shield cast and crew from COVID-19, and may not return after the death of the other female member of the cast).

Have you ever seen (or stayed at) a love hotel like this?

Though the cyberpunk (is that the right descriptor?) style is like something out of a Neo Tokyo landscape or cut from the same cloth as the Robot Restaurant in Kabukicho, it is actually a room in an Okayama hotel with a retro fairground and amusement park theme.

As fans know, the most outrageous and unusual love hotels are to be found not in cities but deep in the countryside.

Saying that, if you are into BDSM and dungeons, there is this love hotel in Asabu, Minato ward, that has been running for four decades.

The images were shared on Twitter by “love hotel researcher Oni,” a 1989-born female photographer whose work focuses on unusual love hotels designed in the 1960s and 1970s. You can find more on her awesome website. She already published two books about love hotels.

Oni also recently highlighted a hotel with a UFO-themed bed, which is certainly a new take on the mile-high club.

Some, like the incredible Gaia hotel in Chiba, are now sadly closed and abandoned but many are still open.

We could spend hours perusing her website and sharing more examples here. Unfortunately, we have to earn an honest yen.

Love hotels in urban areas have been hit hard by measures taken to combat COVID-19 and many were temporarily closed. As such, these photos may well be the closest we will get to visiting a hotel for a while. Saying that, with the state of emergency now lifted in Japan, they should at least start to reopen, and suburban hotels actually seemed to experience a surge in demand from horny folks in lockdown.

In Between Men and the Gods, actress Mitsue Banzai has a wild sex scene that shows off her energy that we all wish we could be on the receiving end of.

Born in Hokkaido and now aged 30, Mitsue Banzai appears in Eiji Uchida’s 2018, Tanizaki-inspired film in a supporting (yet very memorable) role.

She is shown sitting in the lap of a man, bouncing up and down on his manhood rigorously while he sucks her nipples. Shen then rides him energetically in the cowgirl position. This is all shown wide so that you get a full view of her whole body.

Strangely, another man is watching proceedings from behind throughout and eventually comes over to pull her into a pose. Talk about interrupting the action. We hope that never happens to us just when we are getting going.

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The Otome Chiniku Shameful Flesh Virgin Sujiman Kupa Evolution is the latest development in the bestselling, stunning Sujiman Kupa tight pocket pussy series of premier onaholes by Magic Eyes.

This is a torso-type masturbator with a pair of mini breasts, a stomach and waist, and — best of all — hidden, large inner labia.

If you like big labia or smaller folds, you can transform the toy to match your tastes. Want a meatier pussy? Then spread this innocent maiden’s pussy lips apart and you’ll find her large beef curtains hidden inside and waiting for your attention.

Besides these brilliantly adjustable labia, the maiden’s inner canal has an unusual shape forming an awesome X shape that squeezes your member from all sides.

And, of course, this being the Sujiman Kupa series, the vacuum design creates a suction-style sensation that enhances the pleasure your johnson gets with each and every thrust.

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