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Japan raises national age of consent to 16, criminalizes voyeurism
It has long been common to see claims that Japan’s age of consent was just 13, which would lead to lazy generalizations that this was why there was so much loli porn. Of course, in practice, this was...
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Morning Musume’s Maria Makino charms internet with skimpy swimsuit
Morning Musume idol Maria Makino is promoting her ninth (!) photo book, the aptly named Dear Maria, which came out in Japan earlier this month. That’s quite a career and she’s still only 22! The...
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Adultery, scandal, divorce: Are Japan’s Best Mother Awards cursed?
We recently wrote about the Ryoko Hirosue adultery scandal, which has effectively meant her immediate disappearance from public life (no more TV ads, no more fashion magazine covers, no more acting...
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Toy Salon with Osada Steve: Demonstrations of top-quality Japanese sex toys...
As regular readers will know, Osada Steve is a true rope master who practices the Osada-ryu school of shibari (kinbaku) bondage and is something of a legend in the Japanese BDSM scene. We interviewed...
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Meet Riasu Mizutani, the translator who moonlights as a porn star
Frequent porn crossovers, where female celebrities from other walks of life (music, acting, sports, etc.) move into adult video, mean the JAV industry is populated by quite a varied roster of talent....
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Miri Hanai celebrates a 20-year career in gravure
Miri Hanai (花井美里) turns 39 this October but these recent photos prove that she’s as alluring as ever. The mature gravure idol and musician has firmly entered jukujo territory, and though she’s no...
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Reni Takagi (Momoiro Clover Z) surprises fans with sexy first photo book to...
Unlike the members of AKB48 and Nogizaka46 and all their sister groups, the fine young ladies of the somewhat tamer Momoiro Clover Z have not indulged in gravure shoots during their long careers as...
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Mion Mukaichi (AKB48) debut photo book is semi-nude
With music sales down, fewer meet-and-greet events like before, and far less general public interest in its current members (which means fewer TV appearances and fewer lucrative advertising campaign...
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Japan approves access to morning-after pill without doctor’s prescription
Everything changes, except the avant-garde, or so the saying goes. Now in Japan, perhaps it’s rather nothing changes, except for sexual mores. For years, Japan seemed to lag behind other major nations...
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Ex-AKB48 idol and nude model Satomi Kaneko to retire
We recently wrote about AKB48 idol Mion Mukaichi’s somewhat surprising decision to do a semi-nude photo book while still a member of the supergroup. As we mentioned in our post, most music idols wait...
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Twitter users arrested for selling uncensored selfies and videos
Japan’s obscenity laws about not showing genitalia apply to you, even if you are supposedly an amateur and not a professional porn production company churning out DVDs and streaming releases. On June...
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Fictosexuals in Japan band together fight discrimination
Over four years ago, the media in Japan and globally went bananas about a Japanese man who “married” a virtual character. These stories are catnip to editors who love “sexless Japan” and “wacky Japan”...
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Ex-porn star Ai Uehara releases AI photo book with digitally generated...
Last month, we reported on the controversy over a new gravure idol who was supposedly AI-generated but seemed to be just a slightly different version of a flesh-and-blood gradol. The publisher...
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Riko Matsudaira hopes to cement post-Keyakizaka46 career with semi-nude first...
We recently wrote about ex-AKB48 idol Satomi Kaneko’s retirement, noting how she had carved out quite a striking career as a sexploitation actress and nude model after her brief stint with the group....
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2000s gravure and TV star Yinling makes comeback at age 47
There are blasts from the past, and then there are blasts from the past. If you are long-term fan of gravure, then you will know of Yinling (Yan Yinling), a major force in the industry in the late...
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Summer full-frontal photo books suggest return of the hair nude shoot
The photo book market in Japan can sometimes seem like a tame one. Sure, we harp on about the latest semi-nude shoots featuring various music idols, actresses, models, and so on, but, as lovely those...
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Tenga makes summer masturbation cooler with new toys
The Japanese summer is long and brutal: once the cooler, somewhat sticky rainy season ends in July, the weather is scorching through September, coupled with intense humidity. The temperatures mean that...
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Takako Uehara flees alleged domestic violence after husband discovers latest...
Takako Uehara is back in the news again over another alleged adultery scandal. The beautiful former member of pop group SPEED has experienced some real highs and lows since the group disbanded in 2000....
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Former Morning Musume singer Haruka Kudo touches herself in around 1/4
Former pop singer, Haruka Kudo these days focuses on her acting after leaving Morning Musume in 2017. She joined the long-running idol group as a preteen. The 23-year-old is currently starring in the...
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Mariya Nagao is dating former Kabukicho host
It’s no secret that the Tokyo Kinky team has a thing for Mariya Nagao. The former AKB48 hottie now works as a model, actress, and general TV celebrity. And though it’s hardly a surprise that a woman of...
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