This story has been doing the rounds of the foreign press and we have our doubts about its authenticity, given the overseas media’s penchant for “wacky Japan” stories. But if it’s even just a bit true, it’s pretty incredible.

After all, we all have to go some day. What better way than Death by Porn?

An unnamed 50-year-old Japanese man was recently found dead “partially buried” underneath a pile of erotic magazines. The story apparently came from one of those people whose unfortunate job it is to clean up after so-called “lonely deaths” (where people die but no one finds them for a long time because they have no family).

The man had a 6-ton collection of porn in his tiny two-bedroom flat. Quite if this qualifies as being “crushed” by a pile of porn mags like some foreign media outlets have spun the story is very debatable.

The name “Joji” is also reiterated in the copies of this story but was not originally used by Japanese tabloid Nikkan Spa!, but was used as a John Doe-style filler by Rocket News 24 because the victim was anonymous. Fake news is alive!

He actually had a heart attack, it seems, and then passed away after falling over and taking some of his massive collection with him to the ground. The magazines that fell on him allegedly had a protective effect on Joji or whatever his name was, seeping up his bodily fluids as they were released from him over the course of the several weeks before he was discovered.

It took a month until he was found but if he really had such a pronounced porn habit, perhaps he wouldn’t have minded the way he went. Surrounded by friends, so to speak.

So is this an amusing anecdote or a cautionary tale?

She’s finally done it. Miyako Akane has answered our prayers by making the next logical step in her career and becoming a porn star this spring.

Miyako Akane is a gravure idol and chakuero idol — i.e., a busty idol who keeps her clothes on but barely (as opposed to AV idols, who do fully nude photo shoots all the time).

After wowing the nation with her amazing H-cup bust in what may be the most incredible and revealing swimsuit in Japan as well as 360-degree virtual reality softcore porn, things must have been drying up for Miyako Akane… or she just wanted to take her career to the next level, given the fan base she had built up.

Chakuero and gravure idol? Not quite. She has already appeared nude before with her paipan pussy covered by a patch as well as a memorable zentai body suit fetish shoot. Her Hestia cosplay shoot also left almost nothing to the imagination.

So we’ve seen her tits and ass. But never her having sex. Until this spring, that is.

Here is a first look at Miyako Akane’s porn debut.

Now the 26-year old Tokyo native has switched to AV and naturally with the studio Muteki, which specializes in gravure models and other mainstream stars changing careers into porn. Past successes include Momona Kito (Yua Mikami), Shoko Takasaki (Shoko Takahashi) and, more recently, Anri Sakaguchi.

As is often the case due to contracts with previous agencies, she has been forced to change her name too. Now she is Ema Yumekawa.

Her first release is the aptly titled Perfect Body, a 170-minute epic out on April 1st (no joke).

She has also just released a new rope bondage-themed photo book (with several other idols and models) by the acclaimed shibari master Kinoko Hajime.

Yesterday we blogged about the very welcome news that busty H-cup model Miyako Akane is making her porn debut this spring.

Here’s another busty gravure idol who could certainly have a very successful AV career if she chose to take that path.

We previously wrote about Jun Amaki after she posted a funny “breasts” (oppai) version of the Pikotaro song Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen. Sadly (and inexplicably), that video is no longer on YouTube but still available on Twitter.

The I-cup (yes, that’s right!) model was once a member of the idol group Kamen Joshi (Masked Girls). She’s no longer covering her cute face, you’ll be pleased to learn.

She recently shared via Twitter and Instagram these amazing images of her wearing an alluring item of clothing. Cue thousands of retweets and likes from horny and very impressed followers.

We know this is basically a whole article about two posts on social media but we think you’ll agree that the images are worth it.

Apparently the particular garb Amaki is sporting is a “virgin-killing sweater”, so named for its ability to fell even the most resilient of men. It shows off most of the back and some side boob. And with Jun Amaki, there’s plenty of side book to show.

Jun Amaki is getting some real mainstream exposure (no pun) these days, leading to regular television appearances. Her “talents” seem to consist just of her assets, however, so she is reduced to having other TV stars grope her on air.

To, er, celebrate International Women’s Day, Al Jazeera ran this long and detailed story about sexual assault in Japan, claiming “every girl was a victim” but now more schoolgirls are speaking out about groping on public transportation.

Tamaka Ogawa was about 10 years old when she was sexually assaulted for the first time. It was a public holiday and she was on the subway. A man standing behind her pulled down the band of her culottes and underwear, touched her bare bottom, then pressed himself against her. She recalls feeling shocked and physically sickened. When she reached home, she repeatedly washed the spot where he had pressed himself against her, although she was conscious of not spending too long in the toilet, in case her family noticed that something was wrong.

Some years later, on her first day of senior high school, she was groped on the commute home. After that, the groping and sexual assaults — men would often stick their hands inside her underwear – became a regular occurrence as she made her way to or from school in her uniform. Each time, she would run away, unsure of what to do.

As a child Ogawa was confused by this all. Why were adults excited by her? Why were they trying to touch inside her underwear on the train?

Ogawa is today a founder of a small digital content production company but has written about this issue in Japan. She says that all her peers at high school were victims.

Not all people are happy about this, though. Activists have come up with solutions to the problem of train chikan such as badges that try to shame would-be gropers or posters in trains encouraging victims to confront their assaulters and report the crimes (there are no real statistics on groping because relatively few victims come forward). Another is the women-only carriages that are common at rush hour.

One former victim notes that she started wearing her school skirt shorter and was actually assaulted less frequently, which perhaps says something about the psychology of the gropers.

As the 2020 Olympics approaches, Tokyo and Japan don’t want this problem to tarnish the image of itself presented to the world, so expect to see more strategies launched by authorities albeit arguably as publicity stunts rather than effective means to tackle the heart of the problem.

However, activists say that groping is downplayed as a “nuisance” (meikaku) rather than a sexual crime — and not tackled as strongly as it should be in a culture where schoolgirls are commonly depicted as sexualized kawaii idols. (Incidentally, the Cabinet has only just approved plans to toughen rape laws in Japan, raising the maximum prison sentence for perpetrators from three years to five as well as expanding the scope of people who count as victims and no longer requiring a public complaint from the victim in order to prosecute.)

One key problem when it comes to talking about “groping” is that people have very different ideas about what that entails; the term itself fails to adequately describe the range of violations. The widely held assumption is that groping is non-consensual touching over clothing, something deemed a minor crime and punishable under Japan’s prefecture-level Anti-Nuisance Ordinance. Under the ordinance, the sentence is usually six months in jail or a 500,000 yen ($4,500) fine.

“I hear many girls telling me that they have experienced men’s hands under their skirt, and the groper’s fingers in their vagina,” [activist Yayoi] Matsunaga says. “It is rape.”

Men ejaculated on Ogawa’s friends. Often, she says, the perpetrators put their hands inside her underwear. Many times, the abuse involved being penetrated by men’s fingers.

Police officers usually decide whether more serious groping-related cases, where the violations include penetration, should be filed under Article 176 of the Penal Code, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. But just a tiny proportion of the total reported cases get filed under this article. Article 177, which pertains to rape, carries harsher penalties, but its legal definition is extremely narrow and only considers rape to be forced sexual intercourse.

One example of the uphill struggle activists and women face is that the media tends to over-report cases where men are falsely accused of groping.

Ultimately, the article concludes, the sexual assault is endemic and rooted in Japanese male ideals about dominating young women.

“One reason to do groping is to show their power to women and the younger girls,” [Professor Hiroko] Goto says. She believes offenders carefully target vulnerable-looking schoolgirls. She worries that as older schoolgirls begin to speak up, perpetrators will begin to target even younger girls.

Ogawa says many people believe men target schoolgirls because they are child molesters. “I think that’s true, too,” she says. But she also believes: “People want to target these kids and girls because they haven’t been touched; because no one has conquered them.”

Sociologist Kazue Muta agrees. Some men are aroused by schoolgirls because they “represent innocent and pure figures, to whom patriarchy should prohibit sexual access,” says Muta, a professor of sociology and gender studies at Osaka University, over email.

“However, the offenders are not always or necessarily sexually driven; rather, what drives them is the desire to control and dominate a target. The more she seems embarrassed, troubled, or perplexed, the [more the] offender would be satisfied, because it means he is controlling and dominating her. Schoolgirls are young and oftentimes docile and obedient to grown-up men,” Muta adds.

Lots of women marched around the world to mark International Women’s Day on March 8th, including at least one group in Tokyo.

But here is another protest by a different kind of feminist: sex workers.

A group of sex workers (male and female) marched while wearing masks and carrying red umbrellas. This was part of Red Umbrella March, which has emerged as a sex worker solidarity event around the world.

The sex workers started in Shibuya and then traveled to Kabukicho by train before finishing their march in Ueno. Along the way they kept their masks on and held signs indicating that they were sex workers for anyone to see. They also gave out information about their plight to passersby.

Some of the masks were quite funny (gorillas) and nuanced (a hannya demon demon).

Here is a video report about the event. It’s only in Japanese but you should be able to tell what’s going on.
　

One of the organizers was Yabami-chan, a 23-year-old college student who moonlights as a sex worker. She said that she wanted to show the public how sex workers are all around us and shouldn’t be ignored.

Sex workers have no real rights in Japan because they operate in a gray zone. The law does not allow for penetrative sex but prostitution is condoned for non-penetrative sex, and in reality a lot of prostitutes offer full service. In addition, large parts of the sex industry are Yakuza-controlled to some extent so are effectively off bounds to the law.

It’s from late December 2013 but we just stumbled upon this stimulating article on The Tokyo Files about Yoshiwara.

As regular readers will know, Yoshiwara was the licensed pleasure quarter in historical Tokyo (Edo). Today it doesn’t correspond to an official address (funny that!) but you can find it at Senzoku 4-chome in Taito-ku, which is in the east of the city and very far from the expensive brand stores or third-wave coffee shops of Shinjuku, Shibuya and Omotesando.

Its location from 1675 was moated with two entry points: the Japanese love to control everything, even sex.

As we’ve reported before, Yoshiwara is still a red-light district, though from one of the most glamorous or prominent in the capital. But if you want a quickie, you can find a lady willing to give you a tug for a reasonable price. The district’s soaplands are popular with male Chinese tourists, it seems.

However, the ladies are no longer displayed behind bars in “cages”.

It’s also making something of a comeback in other ways, courtesy of designer book and souvenir shops.

The author’s advice for how to get to Yoshiwara is: go to Minowa Station, then walk south.

The atmosphere changed immediately upon entering Yoshiwara. On both sides of the street were garish soaplands, their hourly prices clearly displayed. Virtually every storefront was a soapland or other business in the sex trade. The bouncers either ignored us or gave us mildly unwelcoming looks, and I felt sufficiently uncomfortable that I didn’t take any photographs…

It was fascinating to see that Yoshiwara performs the same function it did 350 years ago. Today, the women don’t face the street behind wooden cages, but the soaplands make themselves known with gaudy decor and terrifically funny names like Tinker Bell, Companion Club Part II, Cordon Blue, Candy Girl, and Picasso.

In contrast to these playful names, we saw a sobering reminder of the human impact of the sex-trade. At the southern border of Yoshiwara is Sasaki Clinic, which specializes in venereal disease, obstetrics and gynecology, and gynecology. In Japan, the first hospital for the treatment of venereal diseases of prostitutes was established in Yokohama in September 1867, and in 1873 in Yoshiwara. When first introduced, the prostitutes were so averse that brothel-keepers suspended the physical inspections. One hopes there is less debate on the matter today.

I think it’s time that the Tokyo Kinky team paid a visit to East Tokyo…

Today, we revisit a golden oldie.

The Perfect Education is a series of pink eiga (soft-core porn films) that started in 1999 and has so far has produced eight films.

Directed by Ben Wada, the original 1999 film (called Kanzen naru shiiku in Japanese) stars Naoto Takenaka in the lead (and who allegedly directed the sex scenes himself).

Hijiri Kojima here shows off her 22-year-old charms even though she is playing a schoolgirl, who gets captured as a sex slave by an older man.

At the time of making film, Kojima had also just published a hair nude photo book by the legendary Kishin Shinoyama. We have provided a couple examples are below. Do schoolgirls have breasts like that?! Not in our experience.

Takenaka went on to appear in several of the other films in the series, the most recent of which was released in in Japan in 2010. (He also once made A Night in Nude — Salvation, which featured some great sex scenes with recently returned Hiroko Sato.)

Incidentally, the sixth film in the series was made by the cult pink film director Koji Wakamatsu, marking his return to the genre that he helped shape so fundamentally in the 1960s.

We all like a no-strings attached kind of arrangement. So where to find Japanese ladies keen on this?

We just spotted this amusing photo report on a visit to a dating telephone club, or terekura, which were once commonly located in city neighborhoods as places where men could go to ring up women for dates.

These days terekura have been more or less replaced by deai cafes and online alternatives, where you can be introduced to ladies willing to do the business with you — for some compensation, natch.

The blogger went to a terekura in Kabukicho, one which I’m sure many of our readers have walked by over the years. It must be one of the last few remaining in central Tokyo.

Terekura exist, ostensibly, to facilitate meetings between men and women. However, they only accept male customers, who pay a few based on how long they want access to one of the facility’s phone equipped booths, to which calls from women seeking a match are directed. The terekura P.K. decided to visit, Rinrin House, charges 1,900 yen (US$17) for one hour of time, while two hours will cost you 2,900 yen and three hours will set you back 3,900.

The explanatory poster also explains that there’s a shower booth that’s free of charge, for those men who get particularly sweaty, or otherwise moist, from the excitement of talking to a woman over the phone.

The blogger pays tribute to the system, whereby he was directed to a booth for a fee and immediately greeted by someone on the other end of the phone.

However, no more than 10 seconds after P.K. has stepped into the booth, the phone began to ring! He picked it up, and was greeted by a cheerful voice that lacked even a shred of self-consciousness.

“Hi there! I’m 27, but is that OK with you? I’m nearby, so if you’re down for something with no strings attached, I’d like to get together. What do you say?”

P.K. was flattered and impressed by the woman’s forthcomingness, especially considering that not only had she never laid eyes on him, he hadn’t yet said even a single word other than “Hello.” But he wasn’t sure that he had the sort of bold personality required to mesh well with what she seemed to be offering, and so he politely declined. What’s more, customers at the terekura who ask for only the one-hour package don’t have in-and-out privileges, in the sense that aren’t allowed to leave the premises for a face-to-face meeting and then come back in, even if there’s time left on their hour.

In other words, had P.K. accepted this speedy invitation, instead of paying ¥1,900 for 60 minutes, he’d have been paying that price for 10 seconds (which, come to think of it, would be a great way to pump up a terekura’s per-booth hourly earnings, since if P.K. was no longer in the booth, it could then be rented out to someone else).

So is it all just a con? (If you pay for 2 hours or more, you are allowed to leave and come back.)

The intrepid blogger puts the phone down and waits for some more calls. One is morose and cold, another is older and keen to fall in love.

But then he starts to suspect that he is just being kept on the phone by a fake caller (a “sakura”, as they say in Japanese). These scams are notorious at deai sites.

Given her dubious grasp on the layout of the town she claims to live in, and the nebulous details of her self-professed hobbies, it seems like there’s a pretty good chance that Sachiko isn’t actually looking for a serious relationship, but is instead rotating between terekura customers all-day long and slipping into a new persona each time. As such, we have to conclude that a terekura probably isn’t the best place to find love, and also that you shouldn’t give your phone number out to strangers.

So just be careful. We reckon you are better off trying a deai cafe, which are sometimes foreigner-friendly and you are more likely to have a reasonable success rate.

We stumbled upon this fun story about condoms being distributed to teenagers in South Korea.

After reading so much about “sexless Japan” in recent years, it is heartening to see that our neighbor is also trying to combat similar issues of either not having enough sex or doing it in dangerous ways.

Instinctus is a Korean company that is run by a 26-year-old guy who is bisexual and sells “vegan condoms”. He has also installed a condom vending machine that is only for those aged 19 or younger.

Perhaps not surprisingly, this has attracted the attention of the police.

“Police wanted to inspect the machines, to see what kind of condoms we’re selling,” said Seong Min-hyun, Instinctus CEO. In South Korea, selling “special” condoms to teenagers is illegal, i.e. anything that sticks out with spikes, balls, bumps, etc. Suffice it to say, Instinctus has filled their vending machines with the most vanilla, regular, but still vegan condoms.

Every machine — placed in just four locations nationwide — has over a hundred condoms inside, each available at the incredibly generous price of 50 won (approximately 4 U.S cents). Seong says this is cheaper than the per condom production cost. “We’re losing money,” he admitted.

He predicted that on a daily basis, around twenty condoms were being sold at each machine, the first of which was installed less than two months ago. It’s hard to know if all the consumers are actually teenagers. The machines don’t have a reliable system that verifies age, and depends mostly on consumer conscience. “Some teenagers buy the condoms at the machines when nobody is around,” Seong said.

Perhaps Seong should switch to selling 0.01mm Japanese condoms? We reckon these would be very popular indeed with the Korean youngsters.

If you wonder why there is a need for such a scheme. remember that porn is banned in Korea and hard to access online. This also has a knock-on effect on sex education. The article notes that 75% of South Korean teenagers do not feel informed about contraception or safe sex, and 60% have sex without any protection. Sound familiar? Yes, Japan and Korea really are neighbors. The land of the rising sun has a rampant problem with sexually transmitted infections and diseases. Lots of babies — including many prominent celebrities — are conceived by accident and it also sparks many shotgun marriages.

Korea’s draconian-sounding Ministry of Gender and Family banned “special condoms” last year, saying: “Special condoms, when used by teenagers… can incite abnormal sexual curiosity and plunge them into too much sexual stimulation.”

If you ever gripe about Japan’s strange obscenity laws that mean porn is pixellated and women get arrested for making artworks out of their genitalia, then spare a thought for those poor souls in Korea, where in addition to the official ban on porn, even adultery was only recently legalized.

This has to be one the best film titles ever.

The 2000 Korean movie Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors features Eun-ju Lee in the main role. It is a kind of comedy-drama and is also known as Oh! Soo-jung.

We thought of this film today because of its director, Hong Sang-soo. He has been somewhat in the news due to his recent release, The Handmaiden, which had some very steamy lesbian sex scenes, and his affair with its leading actress, Kim Min-hee. This has caused quite a scandal in the Korean entertainment world.

In retrospect, Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors has a tragic undertone. It was one of the films she made that seemed to establish Eun-ju Lee as a real star to watch out for, but she then sadly committed suicide in 2005 at the age of just 24. This was apparently due to the stress caused by appearing in sex scenes in another film, The Scarlet Letter (2004). She also had a supporting role in Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War, which was a big hit.

Unlike the more graphic The Scarlet Letter, the sex scenes in Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors are not that explicit but you do get to see Eun-ju Lee giving a guy a handjob and also watch her nipples being sucked a couple of times. Nice.

Here is a scene from The Scarlet Letter.

How much do women working as prostitutes in Japan earn? Regardless of your nocturnal habits, it’s no doubt a question no doubt many of us have asked at various times.

Grow As People (GAP) is a nonprofit group that supports sex workers and it just released a new report.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, it found that wages decrease with the age of the workers (the opposite of the classic Japanese corporate model).

It based its report on an online survey conducted in 2015 with 377 women working at Kanto-area “delivery health” brothels (fuzoku), which dispatches call girls to love hotels.

On average, it found that the women worked 11.8 days a month and earned ¥430,995. Women aged between 18 and 22 were the highest and hardest workers, working 16 days and taking home ¥819,200. However, women aged 43 or over only worked 7 days and earned just ¥182,000.

Of the women, 215 said they worked as prostitutes in order to pay living costs, school fees, or pay back debts. This was the most common reason given for working in the industry. 60 women said it was because they had no job, though over 60% of these were aged 33 or older. The majority of the women who said they had no particular reason for engaging in sex work were aged 27 or younger.

Many said that they did not want people to know what they did for a living, and some said that they did not go out much when not working and instead stayed at home.

An economist once calculated that 1 in 20 women in Japan have worked as a prostitute in some form.

Sex workers in Tokyo recently held a protest to raise awareness of their plight.

Also check out our Guide to Foreigner-Friendly Sex Services in Tokyo.

The world media has once again taken an interest in Japanese pornography — in particular, porn made for and starring seniors.

We previously noted the press attention lavished on silver porn star Yasue Tomita and veteran male performer Shigeo Tokuda.

Doing the rounds of various overseas media outlets this time is an Associated Foreign Press article about the retirement of Maori Tezuka.

After a decade of peeling off for X-rated movies, a Japanese porn actress famous for being the country’s oldest has called it quits — at the ripe old age of 80.

Maori Tezuka, a former opera singer who made her debut in Japan’s flourishing “silver porn” industry at a sprightly 71, blamed her decision partly on a lack of red-blooded Lotharios able to keep up with her.

“Once the lights go on, you just do your best,” she told local media.

Here is Maori Tezuka, looking sultry.

“I have no regrets, but shooting became difficult when the actor wasn’t my type,” added Tezuka, who in true showbiz fashion left the door open for a possible return.

“It was never about the money for me. I’ve already been asked about returning in two or three years — I said I’d think about it.”

It’s curious that Tezuka cites the lack of male performers as a cause for her retirement. It’s certainly true that while there are tens of thousands of female performers, there is a chronic shortage of male porn performers in Japan.

Geronto-porn is not for the faint-hearted but is big business in Japan where around 34 million people — or a quarter of the population — are over 65.

Japan’s porn industry rakes in about $20 billion a year, with movies featuring rambunctious geriatrics accounting for around a quarter of that market, industry insiders say.

In recent years sales have soared as more of the country’s perky seniors celebrate their mojo.

The article claims that silver porn in Japan “took off thanks largely to the exploits of Shigeo Tokuda,” though we have our doubts about the veracity of this. Not to dispute Tokuda’s achievements, we are not sure he can be given sole credit for the rise of the genre. Surely it is just an inevitable result of the aging population.

One thing’s for sure: it will only get bigger as the baby boomers get older.

If you want to perv over scantily clad girls posing for anyone to take their picture, then head to Akihabara at the weekends where the main strip, Chuo-dori, is pedestrianized. You should find plenty of cosplayers happy for you to snap away.

This has led to some issues in the past, though, when police and the local Chiyoda government have become alarmed that some ladies are effectively putting on mini stripteases for the benefits of the male audiences. Flasher idol Asuka Sawamoto even got arrested in 2008 for letting guys photograph her underwear.

Some say that the street massacre in Akihabara in 2008 was used as a pretext to close the street and put a stop to a practice that had got out of hand.

Thankfully it has reopened again, though there are stricter rules now and we believe the atmosphere is more subdued than it was before. In Shinjuku and Ginza, too, other large roads turned into pedestrianized zones over the weekends, but performances of any kind are strictly banned.

If you happen to live in Osaka, you should be sure to head to Nipponbashi’s Denden Town, which is the local equivalent of Akihabara.

One cosplayer who has attracted attention recently in Denden Town is the 22-year-old Akira Itsuki. With her cute hair and duck-face pout, combined with a very tight swimsuit and generous bust, it’s easy to see why. Here are some photos from the Nipponbashi Street Festa on March 19th that attest to this.

Itsuki also looks great in Peach John Sailor Moon cosplay lingerie.

Up-and-coming model and actress Arisa Komiya stars in Yumeji: Ai no tobashiri (2015), sometimes known in English Yumeji: A Spurt of Love.

It is a period drama about the affair between the painter Yumeji Takehisa and a girl called Hikono Kasai, who died young. It’s all rather arty as you would expect from a biopic about a painter but we love the portrayed early twentieth-century sex that involved seductively slipping off a woman’s kimono. Romance!

While we are hardly in Ami Tomite territory here, the 23-year-old known for her acting in the Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters and Kamen Rider franchises does get steamy. Sadly there is no nudity per se but it’s still a step up from her usual lingerie shoots.

Saying that, those are also pretty nice too. A couple of examples are below to keep your appetite sated.

Let’s hope Komiya continues to act in these kinds of serious roles — particularly if they involve her taking her clothes off.

Dokujo, an online magazine in Japan for single women, recently introduced the results of a survey of its female Japanese readers about dating foreign men.

It asked readers around Japan about their experiences of dating foreigners. It collected the results of 404 readers and published the results. What do they reveal?

209 women (51%) said that they had never dated a foreigner.

82 women (20%) said that they had dated a foreigner in the past.

72 women (17%) said they were dating a foreigner at present.

And 41 (10%) said that they had never dated a Japanese man.

While this is hardly a large sample, if we put the final three figures together (the article explaining the survey results does not presume overlap or multiple answers, which may well be an error, but it’s hard to know without seeing the original questionnaire), then potentially 195 out of the 404 have had some sort of sort of relationship with a non-Japanese man. That’s just under 50% of the women.

Does this sound too high? Or is it just high when we consider the metropolitan single women likely to be readers of Dokujo? Probably these are the kind of women who will have experience living and traveling abroad, and also dating widely in their search for Mr Perfect (whatever the color of his skin).

Of course, this is just a “relationship” or “dating”. It doesn’t include one-night stands and the like. Surely this would bump up the numbers even more.

So all this must mean that those English teachers are keeping themselves pretty busy with extra-curricular activities.

The latest goddess of Twitter in Japan is a 19-year-old with a G-cup bakunyu chest to die for, not to mention pale white skin that looks as pure and innocent as they come.

But don’t be fooled. Her penchant for sharing nude selfies of herself reveals very explicitly that this young lady is certainly not shy and certainly not innocent — even if she does ostensibly mask her face.

And for some videos of the nameless angel touching herself in the shower and demonstrating the potential for paizuri her mega bust has, see Minkch.com (a regular source for these kinds of nude selfies).

See previous Japanese nude selfies.

The legendary erotic photographer Kishin Shinoyama’s latest project is a series of portraits of luxury Japanese sex dolls.

The “Love Doll x Shinoyama Kishin” exhibition will run at the Shibuya art space Atsukobarouh Arts Drinks Talk from April 29th until May 14th.

Shinoyama is best known for his full-frontal “hair nude” shoots, including Rie Miyazawa’s iconic one in the early 1990s. He also recently released a nude photo book with Haruna Yabuki (Mari Abe).

As we know, high-grade silicone Japanese sex dolls by the likes of Orient Industry are famous the world over and have fairly mainstream acceptance in Japan as both works of art as well as companions for life.

For this exhibition and accompanying photo book, Shinoyama worked with students from Tokyo University of the Arts to make new love dolls (sex dolls) that could create a series of images located somewhere between the dream world and reality.

“When I encounter beauty beyond imagination, I feel anxiety,” Shinoyama says, “as if I am inside a labyrinth from the near future. It seems that this agitation of the mind pushes me to take photographs.”

Love dolls, photographed by Kishin Shinoyama, are lifelike which is actually unnerving. They also resemble stuffed animals. They are humanlike, but are not humans. They look alive, but they are not. We doubt our eyes as we are almost deceived, and we are partly seduced but also partly repulsed. What is more, photographs can depict something fake as real, and depict something real as fake. Photographic truth is not the same as reality. This mysterious property of photography is what Kishin Shinoyama continues to explore. And he is amazed, thrilled and moved each time he does so. Through the lens of his camera, we are taken on an extraordinary journey. From bewilderment to enchantment, eroticism to repulsion, romance to robots, from life to non-life, we are taken on a roller coaster ride, hurtling through space, which is beyond the realm of reason.

Born in 1940, Shinoyama is apparently not slowing down with age! Here’s a trailer for the new project.

Marriage Is a Crazy Thing is a 2002 Korean comedy film about a college professor’s relationship with a girl, played by the lovely Uhm Jung-hwa (sometimes romanized as Jeong-hwa Eom).

Uhm Jung-hwa is a singer, actress and lingerie designer. Born in 1969, she is now in her forties but still looks mighty fine judging by some recent photos we found online.

Marriage Is a Crazy Thing has three nice sex scenes with nudity. It’s not wild stuff compared to some of the films coming out of South Korea in the past couple of years, but the realism of the domestic setting has its appeal — especially if you are in a relationship with an Asian girl.

The director, Yoo Ha, also made A Frozen Flower, which featured some very explicit sex scenes with Song Ji-hyo.

We’ve been following the “World of Thighs” series of photography exhibitions by Yuria ever since it started in 2015 and just got bigger and bigger with each new iteration.

Focused just on the glorious wonder of slender Japanese girls’ thighs and legs, previous versions of the smash-hit show (known as “Futomomo-ten” in Japanese) include a hot spring theme.

As we once noted, this is basically zettai ryouiki (forbidden zone) fetish with some artistic trappings. One version of the show in Golden Week 2016 was attended by some 16,000 people.

There is now a new version, once again held at Todays Gallery Studio in Asakusabashi from April 21st to May 14th, along with dates at Art Space A1 in Nagoya from May 1st to May 7th. Yuria’s theme this time is on “tropical” settings, so get ready for plenty of slender thighs at the beach. In fact, since there are over 500 photographs on display, that means visitors can enjoy the sight of 1,000 legs! There is also going to be a new photo book.

Perfect for getting us ready for the summer!

After the media controversy comes the government crackdown.

The biggest story in the adult industry last year was when the widespread coercion in the porn industry was finally exposed after several famous performers came forward, in addition to multiple arrests and prosecutions.

It led to an official apology from the industry, though can we really hope that things will really improve when the industry is so large and its needs so rampant? (After all, such coercion is also endemic for gravure idols, music idols and the general entertainment world.)

Kyodo now reports that the government wants to take action on the issue.

The Japanese government decided Friday to crack down on scouts who force women to appear in pornographic videos, part of a series of emergency measures to combat sexual exploitation.

The plan involves punishing coercive scouts through an application of the charge of rape in Japan’s Penal Code.

The government panel on the issue also decided to designate April as awareness month. April marks the start of the new school and business year in Japan, when changes in young people’s living circumstances may make them particularly vulnerable to exploitation.

Katsunobu Kato, minister in charge of gender equality, told a meeting of the panel that longer term measures will be compiled in addition to the urgent crackdown.

Also included in the panel’s measures are awareness initiatives at high school and university orientations and a commitment to raise awareness of consultation services for people forced into the porn industry.

The panel also has “JK businesses” (dating and sex services with high school girls) in its sights, which are the current target of a concerted government and police crackdown as the nation prepares for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and cleaning up its image.

Earlier in the year the Komeito party formed a project team to address the problem.

Coercion has been an open secret for far too long and the industry needs to reform for the well-being of all the performers. If this means there are a few less debutants out of the thousands every year and a few less films made with the dozens of uncredited performers (kikaku joyu) whose job it is just to be screwed for a few thousand yen, then so be it.

However, we are not sure if government intervention is the answer to the problem. It may just push the scouts and operators underground, as is surely going to happen with JK businesses. And then it may be even harder to help the women in need.