Japanese gravure idols are mostly famous for one thing: their busts.

Sure, not all of them have giant breasts but the proportion of busty models is pretty high. There are all kinds of things you can do with such breasts, from groping them to raise money for charity to keeping various objects balanced on them.

If you want a way to accurately check and compare gravure idols’ various chest sizes, we recommend the Oppai Zukan, or Full-Sized Breasts Reference Book.

This hefty book features such gravure idols as Nanoka, Eimi Matsushima, Saki Funaoka, Nonoko, Sayaka Onuki, Mayumi Yamanaka, Rin Tachibana, Maria Usa, Mai Tsukamoto, and Yume Hazuki.

All in all, there are 30 models included in the 64-page book, which has been created by photographer Yuji Susaki. The cover highlights the busty delights of Nanoka, which should help it shift a few extra copies.

All the ladies have different bust sizes and you can turn the pages to see the scale from A to K. Best of all, the photographs are 1:1 scale. So you can really get to see how an A cup compares with a E and so on.

Yuji Susaki is known for such previous work as the “Wrap the Books” photo book, his work with idol group Dempagumi.inc (who recently announced that the most popular member, Moga Mogami, was leaving), and erotic cosplay portraits.

Now that’s what we call a retirement.

When Rin Sakuragi announced she was leaving her career in adult video at the age of 28, she (and her managers) decided to do so with a bang.

In the time since we’ve seen not one but three sex toys dedicated to the goddess.

Fans can sample the Rin Sakuragi AV Retirement Special Clone Onahole, a regular masturbator toy from Nippori Gift based on AV idol’s pussy.

Then there’s the Geki-fera Vacuum Rin Sakuragi Blowjob Onahole, an awesome entry in the bestselling series of oral sex masturbator toys.

And if that’s still not enough, you can splash out several thousand dollars to get the Real Doll Rin Sakuragi Porn Star Doll. This luxury doll replicates not only Rin’s face but also her breasts and body.

Rin Sakuragi made her AV debut under the KUKI label in 2007. In addition to her porn work, she has done regular films and regular tarento gigs. She was even a member of the AV music group Ebisu Muscats, whose previous members include Yuma Asami.

She officially retired in April 2017. Of course, it may all be a marketing ruse and Rin Sakuragi, who has taken temporary breaks from the industry before, will possibly turn up again with a different agency and a different name — as is typical in Japanese AV.

It’s no secret how wildly popular the gravure model Miyako Akane is, so much so that she seems to be inspiring her own mini fetish sub-genres.

She has a big following, not least because she rewards her fans with such things as making her porn debut (under the name Ema Yumekawa), wearing insanely sexy swimwear, and sparking a new street fashion trend for extreme body painting. In the past she has also posed nude and in a zentai body suit.

But what if your obsession with the angelic-faced, big-chested model was more than just her body? What if you wanted her to be, well, missing something?

It seems that is enough demand for acrotomophilia fetish (sexual interest in amputees) in Japan to merit Miyako Akane getting involved.

If amputee paraphilia is your thing, then the Cybergirl 01 postcard set is for you.

It features three unique fetish images created by Miyako Akane with a Taiwanese video artist.

In the images, Akane is also depicted as a sexy female cyborg with her inner mechanics exposed — and she is wearing her Realise swimsuit that is such a tribute to her amazing chest. She waits longingly in a dark workshop for you to come and fix her. Get your tools ready.

Do we predict a Japanese remake of Boxing Helena with Miyako Akane in the title role?

Another day, another fetish. This is Japan, where things never cease to inspire and surprise us.

Yesterday it was amputee cyborg fantasies. A while ago it was zentai full-body tights. Or up-skirt photography. Or licking door knobs.

Photography shows about thighs have proved a massive hit in recent years, so others are trying to jump on the band wagon with a new gimmick.

This time it’s soles. Yuki Yuzawa currently has an exhibition at Yellow House gallery until August 20th that focuses on the naked soles of tender-looking Japanese girls, from schoolgirls to office ladies, maids and more.

As is appropriate, visitors are asked to remove their shoes before entering the central Tokyo venue — so you can probably sneak a few looks at other people’s feet while you peruse the photographs.

Admission to the exhibition costs a ¥500, which is surely nothing if you love foot jobs. If it’s a hit, we expect there will be a photo book or two to follow.

In addition to buying up all the CDs and merchandise they can get their hands on, otaku fans like to send their favorite idols various personal gifts, from handmade art to flowers and toys.

Given that the line between fans and stalkers is quite thin sometimes, the idols and their management agencies need to take precautions.

The meet-and-greet sessions, for example, at one time became notorious because fans were allegedly masturbating and leaving their spunk on their hands for idols to touch by accident. They called it the “semen handshake”. Yes, nice to meet you indeed!

Now Kaori Matsumura of SKE48 has revealed another unpleasant side to her job. The Nagoya AKB48 sister group idol recently shared how she gets stuffed animals from fans. She has to take care that there are no audio or visual recording devices hidden inside. Fans might place microphones or cameras in the toys in the hope of recording something secret.

To check, she said she hits the toys a few times so that any electronic device would be damaged. However, this means she has to touch the toys — and sometimes they are not new or clean, it seems.

In fact, she says that some creepy fans apparently ejaculate onto the toys and then send the jizz-laced items to her.

“Sometimes the stuffed animals have stains on them… Like, whitish-colored stains.”

Oh, the joy of being a music idol and the gift of free cum-stained stuffed animals. Such perks. Who wouldn’t want to do their job?

The Japanese actress Nae Yuuki has appeared naked in Showtime’s revival of Twin Peaks, though don’t get too turned on just yet. The scene is, as might expect from David Lynch, pretty strange.

Nae Yuuki plays Naido, shown nude on a forest floor with her face and eyes sealed up. The character appears in two episodes (3 and 14).

She has acted in a previous David Lynch project, appearing in Inland Empire in a small yet memorable role. Her other credits include Letters from Iwo Jima.

Nae Yuuki is also 46 years old, putting her firmly in the jukujo range and among other actresses of a certain age who are not afraid to shed their clothing for their art. Another awesome example is Saki Takaoka, who was famous for her full-frontal shoot and disrobing for roles many moons ago but also recently a href=”http://www.tokyokinky.com/saki-takaoka-reveals-first-nude-scene-in-17-years/”>jumped back in the saddle with a nude scene despite being past her so-called “prime”.

This is a heartening development, since most Japanese actresses are only prepared to do a quick nude scene at the start of their careers and then stay way clear of it after going fully mainstream (step forward Yuriko Yoshitaka and Sei Ashina, et al). Some, such as Yumi Adachi and Mugi Kadowaki, are happy continuing to do whatever the role requires and more power to them. And then you get someone like Rinko Kikuchi, who is perhaps too keen to strip off. Perhaps she has some issues.

We all loved stripped and exploring the bodies of Barbie dolls when we were young, but how about a doll that size or thereabouts that you can actually have sex with? Mini sex dolls — sex dolls the size of Volks Dollfie dolls or even smaller — have long enjoyed a cult reputation online. You can find all kinds of videos of people who have customized small dolls so that they can be penetrated.

When the Dollho came along, it was like the answer to people’s dreams. Not surprisingly, the doll set sold like crazy.

There have been others, not least the fantastic Libidoll and a great series of mini dolls produced by the adult toys retailer Manzoku.

Now Orient Industry, Japan’s biggest name in sex dolls, has added an entry to this growing market with the Berry. This ravishingly beautiful mini sex doll has silicone skin, like all of Orient Industry’s sex dolls, and is remarkably detailed and textured, from the movable eyes and finger joints to the posable skeleton and optional pubic hair.

Technically speaking, it’s not the very first endeavor by Orient Industry in this area. The Mitsu no Tsubo has some similar traits: a mini doll “cover” for a masturbator that creates an experience not unlike a mini doll.

The Berry does not have an actual hole or masturbator slot (this is an important point to consider), but her bust is just perfect and her cute face/head — available in three versions — adds to the anime-idol style that will delight fans of mini dolls.

We feel safe in predicting that the Berry doll is destined to be a classic of its genre.

The Berry is available now from Kanojo Toys.

Japanese condom makers love to do fun stuff like create fun concept products and do serious research into sexual habits.

All this and also producing arguably the thinnest condoms known to man (we say arguably, because there are Chinese challengers).

Well, we would now like to invite you to the Okamoto Condom Training Camp — ostensibly presented by the titular condom maker responsible for a 0.01mm condom for the benefit of all condom users out there (not so many in Japan, it seems, given the high number of shotgun weddings).

The bizarre promotional video purports to “train” you to wear condoms, all while getting turned on by hot girls. The exercise moves in the routine include how to hold the condom up and then open the packet more smoothly as well as how to make it glide over your erect member better. Just don’t hold up a condom by someone other than Okamoto or the trainer will knock you down!

All right, it doesn’t take a genius to work out that this is a parody — Billy’s Bootcamp comes to mind, ironically Billy Blanks is these days based in Japan — but as marketing goes, this has viral written all over it.

Aki Takajo is the latest former AKB48 idol to strip off.

The 25-year-old, who also appeared with spin-off groups JKT48 and French Kiss, has made her debut as a gravure idol in an alluring semi-nude shoot. She left the AKB empire in 2016.

These ravishing photos are a taster of an upcoming photo book release in October.

AKB and its various sister groups not only mean there is a small army of music idols competing to make a name for themselves, but also an increasingly large army of ex-idols, who have fallen by the wayside and now have no public life other than a page on a fan-built Wiki.

A small number of major idols carve out a career for themselves after they leave, but even some big names have floundered (or have seemed content just to enjoy having boyfriends). So the minor ones don’t really have a chance.

A few have made high-profile entries into porn — and that’s just the ones we know about. No doubt many more idols, like gravure idols, quietly segue into work as hostesses, prostitutes and so on.

Some have opted for a kind of third way: not AV but also not a “mainstream” career either.

Satomi Kaneko, for example, graduated AKB48 and started a second life as a sexy gravure idol.

Ayaka Morikawa has worked enthusiastically as an actress, happy to film a semi-nude scene.

Former SKE48 idol Seira Sato has become a gravure model and tarento unafraid to show some naked flesh. Natsumi Hirajima, previously of AKB48, is another example of an idol who has made a post-AKB name for herself by provocatively stripping

SDN48’s Machiko Tezuka went fully nude, as did Ami Tomite, in both photo shoots and a film.

Well, here is an new addition to our mental list of crazy yet amazing Japanese sex toys. After all, how can you say no to a sweet corn cob dildo?!

Yes, the Sweet Corn Cock Dildo is as awesome as it name makes it sound.

Japanese dildos certainly come in all shapes and sizes, and there are plenty of arguably pointless gimmicks out there (a kendama dildo, anyone?). From uncircumcised phimosis dildos to ones with cute character faces on them, there really is something for everyone, if you care to look hard enough.

But rarely does visual flair combine with functionality quite so brilliantly as this.

The large, erect cock is shaped like sweet corn cob, meaning there is a slender and attractive glans followed by a nubbed and uniquely textured shaft with “kernels” to enjoy. The base also has a strong suction cup so the toy can be used in a variety of locations and scenarios.

If you think the color is about as un-erotic as you can get, wait till you glide in over the kernels and experience the sensation of your or your partner being stimulated.

Of course, aficionados may spot that this kind of sex toy has actually existed for centuries, including in Japan. The Higo Zuiki series of dildos are modern replicas of traditional pleasure items, made from the colocasia gigantea, or giant elephant ear taro, which has a prominent stalk.

The Sweet Corn Cock Dildo is available now from Kanojo Toys.

Japan, the land that prizes the wonders of soine — or snuggling up. So much so, in fact, that they had “cuddle cafes” in Akihabara and there are, somewhat inevitably, pillows and cushions made in the shape of girl’s laps. (If this sounds sexist, keep in mind there are cuddle services for women, too.)

There has been a crackdown on cuddle and snuggle joints of late, it seems, since they were seen as fronts for so-called JK businesses and JK reflexology places. In other words, they were employing underaged girls and possibly offering more than just snuggles.

But don’t worry: now you can sleep your precious head on the crotch of a Japanese girl every single night of the week.

Ligre has generously come up with Japanese Panty Pillowcase, a cover for your pillow that looks like a large pair of panties.

You no longer need an actual girl, just this pillowcase and a pillow.

The design — in white with cute pink trim and a little bow in the middle — is intended to replicate pretty typical underwear worn by young Japanese girls.

While it doesn’t come with a stain or smell per se, Ligre suggests that you simply use the pillowcase a lot without washing it, thereby adding aromas and realism to it as time goes by.

And if you are the kind of guy or gal who needs a smell immediately, then just use a spray from the more than ample selection of fetish items already out there.

Shocked? Amused? Excited? Novel as this is, we are not too surprised, since Ligre previously gave us the Chintama Mini Penis Panties, a mini pair of underwear for your glans and balls.

The Japanese Panty Pillowcase is available now from Kanojo Toys.

The gravure idol Mai Hakase gave viewers more than expected when she appeared on a recent Japanese television show.

The slinky model was wearing a white bikini and was required to complete a task in very hot water. This was hardly HBO standards. Fortunately for us, there was so very, very nearly a nip slip when one of her nicely sized cups started to come out of her wet bikini top.

The show was part of an annual charity telethon on NTV that continues for 24 hours. Clearly not all of the content is family-friendly!

Previous guests on the show include the gravure idol Tomomi Morisaki, who wore a black outfit that was cut to reveal most of her stunning bust.

Quality TV, indeed, but there are no complaints from this blog’s armchair critic.

Still, if the ladies in question are embarrassed, it could be worse. Anna Konno once volunteered to have her lovely breasts groped on television.

If the long-running and immensely popular Bandai and Peach John Sailor Moon lingerie was not sexy enough for you, take a gander at these new Street Fighter cosplay underwear costumes!

The limited-edition underwear is on sale from the online retailer SuperGroupies, which specializes in apparel with a gaming and anime theme, from August 28th. Don’t get too excited just yet, though. It’s reservations only for now: the lingerie isn’t actually available until January next year! Reservations are taken up till September 18th and we predict this will immediately sell out.

Naturally, the Street Fighter cosplay lingerie is sporty, so these two sets are ideal for wearing at the gym as well as in the bedroom. (We can think of a few sporty models and idols who would like awesome in these, not least Bae Doo-na, though the models they choose are also mighty fine.)

Bring out the female fighter in you — or, even better, give to a partner or doll to wear.

You can choose between Chun-Li and Cammy White versions in blue or green, respectively. The Cammy underwear, though, has attracted some ire for being a two-piece set.

It’s time to take another trip down the rabbit hole of vintage Japanese porn, back to the Summer of Love and more.

Today we indulge in some fantastically retro images of nude Japanese models (unfortunately censored) showing us their curvy bodies in the vibrant surroundings of what look like love hotels.

The source tells us the date is some point between 1965 and 1975 — very far from an “innocent” time.

We could spend all day looking at these kinds of images, just like we would happily lust over the exotic charms of Sayoko Yamaguchi rather than the cutesy smiles of AKB48’s latest minions.

As summer comes to its humid, sticky end, let’s also remember what swimwear was like back in the good ol’ days of 1971.

If this is your kind of thing, also check out these old images of the insides of Japanese love hotels and this vintage sex guide.

Gravure idol Yuka Someya has the body of a goddess: curvy, sultry and powerful.

Blessed with a height of 175cm (5.7 ft) and a G-cup bust, Yuka Someya is an almost Amazonian specimen of a Japanese gravure idol.

Now starting to approach 30, she has the eyes of a lady who has experienced more than her fair share of fun in the bedroom. Sadly, she hasn’t become the superstar we had hoped, which is possibly why she has made the next move in her career of posing nude.

This isn’t complete hair nude territory (yet), to be fair, so don’t expect full-frontal goodies from this photo shoot, but Yuka is clearly naked and showing us more flesh than ever. Man, to have been a fly on the wall during this shoot.

Happy Friday, folks!

In case you have ever wondered where your taxes went, take a peep into the lurid world of politicians’ “travel expenses.”

In the case of Ken Namikawa, the young mayor of Tenri City in Nara Prefecture, he made two trips to Tokyo in February and June. The provincial politico was determined to make the most out of his time in the capital, it seems, since he procured the services of delivery health call girls at his hotel room for intimate nude “massages”.

He has since apologized at a press conference on August 31st after Shunkan Shincho made allegations about the 38-year-old’s spending habits in an issue published that same day. Namikawa, a graduate from the prestigious University of Tokyo, claims that he paid for the prostitutes’ services out of his own pocket, according to reports.

He also said that, though he thinks what he did was morally wrong, there was nothing illegal about his actions and he made use only of “prescribed services”. In other words, he is saying that he didn’t have penetrative sex with the women, which is ostensibly not allowed in Japan. The article claimed that he did “honban” (full service) with the ladies.

Namikawa is married with a son and daughter.

Tenri is a small city in Nara Prefecture and the center of the religious sect of Tenrikyo.

That cute nurse in that mundane clinic may not be only a nurse. She may also moonlight as a porn star.

It’s a fantasy that’s also a cliche — except that is, sometimes, a spark of truth in it.

Japanese AV is built upon the hard work not only of the top performers, whose numbers are too many to start counting. There are also thousands upon thousands of uncredited “amateur” performers — women who also work as call girls and hookers, hostesses or just regular jobs. They provide the fodder for those crazy AV titles that feature dozens of women in massive gang bangs (one example here) or those amateur-themed AV, where a lucky guy is shown seducing apparently random women on the street.

In this age of beady-eyed web users with arguably too much time on their hands, it’s always possible that someone will find you out. Someone will spot your Instagram account and recall that AV they watched the other day.

And that’s what has seemingly happened to a young lady in this cautionary tale of over-exposure online.

This Japanese woman works by day as a nurse in Osaka and, judging by what she shared on social media, seemed to have a carefree life spent having fun with her friends.

Except she was also earning some extra cash on the side by appearing in porn, and someone noticed.

She has since very sensibly deleted her Instagram account and we will not write her actual name to protect what little privacy she has left (it’s not difficult to find if you search).

We can’t verify if she really was the same woman in the AV, nor do we think this is a “bad” thing. But the very fact that people are searching for this kind of phenomenon is curious in its own right, and shows the following that porn has in Japan.

A recent Japanese television show spent a segment measuring and “verifying” naked breasts… because Japan.

In a land where TV is known for basically inventing random ways to waste time, is this a new low? A new high?

Women with giant breasts (kyonyu) were stripped off — with patches over their nipples to maintain their modesty and, for some of the more shy ladies, masks over their faces — so that a female presenter could then grope their cups and even put her head underneath the breasts to experience their heft (a new kind of paizuri?).

The lovely busts on display ranged from F to G and even H cups. If the list of guests is to be trusted, at least some of the women were call girls and porn stars working at various delivery health joints in the Tokyo area.

The presenters of the show, Midnight Joshikai (Midnight Girls’ Party), also used a ruler to measure the exact size of the nipples. Because you can’t be precise enough when it comes to these important points, right?

This tasteful show follows such classics as the one where failed gravure idols were humiliated and made to wear strange underwear, gravure model Anna Konno had her breasts groped, and a children’s TV show where a presenter wore a costume that said “I love cock” on it.

What kind of female body do Japanese men and women find most attractive?

It’s a big question and a popular common one. Judging by what we tend to see all around us every day in advertising and in the media, “slim and slender” would seem the obvious answer.

But is it?

There is currently something of a trend for sporty and active-looking women.

Certain “strong” and muscular women have also attracted a following, not least baseball gravure idol Ami Imamura.

And we’ve been saying for years that curvy ladies are hotter. Our favorites include Haruka Ayase, Saaya, Ayaka Sayama, and Kumiko Takeda.

Now in an online survey, 7,033 people have given their response to this question and the results were as follows:

6. Fat (less than 1%)
5. Plump (3%)
4. Thin (4%)
3. Slightly thin (15%)
2. Medium build (37%)
1. Slightly plump (39%)

Apparently, this is also not weighted by sympathetic female voters wanting to cast extra votes for larger ladies, since men also nominated “slightly plump” as their top pick.

However, this begs the question of how to define “medium build” and “slightly plump”, which in Japan may be anything “bigger” than willowy and 50kg.

So we don’t think debusen and pocchari chubby girl fetishes are going to explode any time soon, even if there is plenty of porn and specialist adult toys for fans. (Heck, they even have their own idol groups and call girl services.)

Still, our recent crush has been the delightfully athletic charms of Moeko Fukuda. Sultry and sporty is a combination we would take any day of the week. Roll on the Olympics!

We’ve written before about the growing speculation on the fate of Japanese convenience store’s typically ample selection of adult magazines. With the 2020 Tokyo Olympics fast approaching, some have noted the possible demise or at least temporary concealment of this corner of liberty in a straitened society.

Schemes are underway to make this a reality, though with mixed success.

Chiba City attempted to carry out a test with convenience stores, asking them to cover up their porn mags with covers and see what happened to sales. Unfortunately the 12 brands of 7-Eleven that the city had planned to use for the scheme have all turned it down, meaning the authorities are desperately hunting for alternative candidates to get their pilot project going.

According to surveys, some 70% of people support the idea in principle but no one wants to or seems able to implement it.

Firstly, there is the cost of the “censorship”: all those covers cost tax-payers’ money, you know, with Chiba City spending some ¥390,000 on 4,200 paper files (which seems extremely expensive per file).

Secondly, there is the issue of free speech, which is constitutionally protected. No one wants to be seen to be clamping down on publishers. While the media refrains from talking bad about the emperor, sex remains a relatively liberated zone. Governmentes are treading very carefully.

Another pilot scheme was tried in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture, at Family Mart stores last March, but without conclusive effects. The possibility of it being adopted nationwide or in Tokyo are still some ways off, it appears.

An online survey by Chiba City found that over 74% of citizens approved of its project and just 4.8% opposed and 20.5% could not say either way. However, this was a small-scale survey and we wonder what the results would be if you asked 1,000 random people using a convenience store.