Those authority figures may have much more colorful pasts than you realize.

An amateur porn performer credited as “Ayaka” who appeared in a Siro-Hame.net release a few years ago is now happily working as an elementary school teacher in Sapporo, Hokkaido.

We won’t write her real name here because we don’t want to get sued. But netizens have tracked the story down, and also the repercussions when it first leaked after the story got out shortly before the AV was released. An attempt was then apparently made to stop Siro Hame from releasing the video, to no avail. The producers simply exploited the scandal by marketing the release as a must-see because it might be taken down at any time.

Ayaka ended up getting married and changing her surname, hoping to avoid some of the scandal.

For these shiroto “amateur” performers in adult video who play the uncredited roles in those porn titles involving large numbers of women or who play main roles that are meant to be regular women off the street who get picked up, of course they have other jobs, because unlike a fully credited star they can’t guarantee getting another role and their fee is quite low. It is common for such women to be working as hostesses, call girls, bartenders in girls’ bars, and so on. And some are doing “ordinary” jobs, too.

It is not the first time we have seen a case like this.

Previous scandals involved a nurse exposed for her amateur porn moonlighting as well as a YouTuber and Miss Campus college girl.

Perhaps the biggest scandals, though, involved the alleged porn side careers of TV presenter Kayo Matsumoto and voice actress Emi Niita.

The illustrator and mangaka Seina Takeuchi has made a stunning swimwear gravure debut in the weekly magazine Shukan Young Jump.

The issue, which went on sale on July 4th, features the insanely cute-faced artist showing off her bust and incredible legs. And don’t even get us started on those lips…

Some of the shots are ostensibly nude with “drawn-on” clothes.

Though also a model and no stranger to posing for the camera, this is definitely a step-up in the career of Takeuchi, who is best known for the My Elementary School Student Younger Sister is a Bangya series.

Bangya, or bangyaru, is a type of female fan of visual kei music. Whatever your tastes in music, or manga, we think you’ll agree that Seina is a very welcome addition to the crowded gravure idol pantheon.

We recently shared the tale of the female elementary school teacher who was exposed for her amateur porn performer past.

This kind of things cuts both ways: male authority figures may also have their own secrets.

A male math high school teacher has apparently lost his job because former students found out that he had once appeared in a porn video with Mihono Sakaguchi (aka Mihono). It then spread like wildfire and resulted in his termination, according to unverified online reports.

In the 2015 release (WANZ00369) from WANZ, the unnamed teacher was one of the nameless lucky guys who gets jerked and sucked off by Mihono on a bus. The “game” she plays with them is that if they can hold back from climaxing for ten minutes, they can have full creampie sex with her. That’s quite a reward…

We haven’t seen the actual AV in question, so can’t confirm if our hardworking pedagogue was able to keep his juices in check for ten minutes.

The ranks of uncredited “amateurs” that appear in AV are filled by all sorts of types. One of the most chilling examples was the stalker who stabbed a music idol — he once appeared in an AV with top star Yui Hatano.

So take a good, hard look at your boss. Does he have something extra on his résumé that he wants hidden?

Weekly Spa! magazine has published a special “mook” featuring five gravure idols.

The concept for each shoot is that the viewer is on a date with the lovely women — something which is not impossible, the rumors say, along as you have enough money to burn…

On sale locally since July 4th, the mook cover is graced by Tokyo Kinky favorite Mariya Nagao, formerly of AKB48.

The other four “dates” are with Mayu Koseta, Yuki Fujiki, Asuka Kishi, and Shiori Usui.

In her alluring shoot, Mariya Nagao is pictured drinking in a stylish bar before retreating to a hotel room to pull up her skirt and show off her sexy panties and stunning legs.

And for a different kind of scenario entirely, Mariya once again reveals a sportier side to herself with a nice shot on a climbing wall. She previously showed off her athletic talents during an idol “sports day” TV show.

Popular, long-running British game show Countdown has attracted an unusual flurry of headlines and online responses by allowing a “pornographic” concept to win a round.

In the long-running TV show, contestants try to find the longest words from a random selection of letters within 30 seconds.

On Monday’s episode, Marwan Riach managed to find “hentai” and beat out his opponent’s “patty.”

The resident judge in the “Dictionary Corner” confirmed the validity of Riach’s somewhat sheepishly offered word: “Hentai is brilliant,” she said in a widely shared clip.

Well, quite.

With its customary subtlety, the mainstream media has reported that hentai is “a genre of sexually explicit or pornographic anime or manga.” Countdown did not mention the sexual nature of hentai, which is not a big surprise given its afternoon broadcast time slot.

According to the Oxford Dictionary, the definition, media explained, goes further:

…”a subgenre of the Japanese genres of manga and anime, characterised by overtly sexualised characters and sexually explicit images and plots.”

It originates from the Japanese words hentai seiyoku sha, which means someone who is perverted, and came into its current use in the 1990s.

Despite his knowledge of Japanese words, Riach nonetheless went on to lose the game overall.

We are delighted to see that hentai is winning props overseas, though as always the focus is a little off.

The word is a much more common one in Japan that many people realize.

In fact, according to the prominent queer studies scholar Mark McLelland, who has provided a very useful short history of hentai, the use of “hentai” to refer to a specific “genre” is essentially restricted to the English-speaking discourse.

Hentai is, says McLelland, a “Sino-Japanese compound term widely used in modern Japanese to designate a person, action or state that is considered queer or perverse, particularly in a sexual sense.”

A Yahoo search for “hentai,” for instance, produces over 7 million hits — more than twice that of better-known loanwords such as samurai, geisha or sushi. This astonishing number is evidence of the popularity of a genre of erotic manga and anime referred to as hentai or sometimes the abbreviation “H” (pronounced etchi in Japanese) by western fans. However, despite the popularity of the genre and its massive presence on the internet, the category hentai is not discussed in English-language studies of manga and anime. […]

Why is this so? The reason is not prudishness but rather the fact that use of the term hentai to refer to erotic or sexual manga and anime in general is not a Japanese but an English innovation. In Japanese hentai can reference sexual material but only of an extreme, “abnormal” or “perverse” kind; it is not a general category. The Japanese use of hentai refers to both same-sex and heterosexual activities which are considered unusual but also extreme. While in Japanese both “H”/etchi and ero [erotic] can be used to refer to manga and anime with sexual content, hentai is only used to refer to unusual or perverse sexual situations — this might be number of partners as in gang rape, or bizarre partners as in aliens or monsters or illicit partners as in children (rorikon and shotakon). Hence in the Japanese case, hentai manga/anime is a subdivision of the much broader category of ero manga whereas in English hentai has come to signify the genre of ero manga as a whole.

He concludes that hentai is, “in the context of western manga and anime fandom, no longer a ‘Japanese’ word but has become a loanword with its own specific meaning and nuance.”

McLelland continues his detailed yet accessible study, including a discussion on the idea of “hentai” in the Meiji and Taisho prewar periods. Though it is quite a few years old now and would probably need updating to reflect more recent shifts, his article is very recommended for readers!

Naturally we have similar issues when it comes to words like “otaku” and “lolicon” that are complicated and problematic enough locally, but which have taken on different lives after leaving purely Japanese-language discourse.

It’s election season in Japan, which means posters of candidates everywhere as well as election broadcasts on TV. Pretty soon the streets will be filled with the soundscape of the trucks trundling around, calling out the local candidates’ names to all and sundry.

As always, though, it’s the more unusual candidates vying for a well-paid position in the House of Councillors that make the most impact in a gray field.

Takashi Tachibana is standing for election as a member of the Party to Protect the People from NHK (NHKから国民を守る党) — a long-running libertarian-esque stance that opposes NHK for legally compelling people to pay for it.

In his recent party political broadcast, he went on a rant condemning the national public broadcasting organization NHK.

Incredibly, this was shown on NHK itself, which has to allow these political broadcasts to go out uncensored and unedited.

One reason for Tachibana’s hatred of the broadcaster, though, seemed a bit out of the blue. “NHK’s presenters have car sex!” he declared. Huh?

No one was named in Tachibana’s speech but a little online research revealed that he was talking about Mina Hayakawa (早川美奈), who was snapped having sex in a car with Takanobu Saito, a fellow “announcer” from a local branch of NHK in Kofu. Photos emerged in the tabloid Shukan Friday in July 2016. They both lost their jobs over the affair, not least because Saito was married.

The Japanese are relatively tame in public. Though times are changing, it’s still less common to see couples holding hands or kissing outside.

But there are always exceptions — and perhaps inevitably these occur in places where there is such a flow of people that the participants presume or hope they won’t be noticed.

From the woman fellating her driver on a highway to the couple having full sex in a corner of a electronic dance music event, look hard enough and you will find examples of nudity and sexual activity.

But even we were a little shocked by this one.

Someone spotted a young couple having a very intimate moment in central Shibuya at night. As in, right in front of the famous Scramble Crossing.

Apparently after having consumed a fair bit of alcohol, the youngsters are embracing up against the entrance to the subway.

The man is seemingly unable to control himself and starts fingering his female partner, his hand visibly jabbing with furious energy inside her clothes. He seems to stop, perhaps at her urging.

Instead they kiss, with some tenderness.

He is then overcome with horniness and reaches into his own pants to jerk himself off for a few desperate seconds. Whether or not those handful of fast strokes are enough to climax is unsure but he stops abruptly.

The people walking by do double-takes but continue essentially walking over the crossing, whether out of politeness, incomprehension, or shock is unknown.

One person, though, was watching and filming the whole episode.

Hey, guys, next time — get a room. You could have been having great, full and uninterrupted (and unobserved) sex in a love hotel if you had just walked a few minutes up Dogenzaka.

The whole video, which lasts around 45 seconds, can be viewed here.

Pleats in Japan are probably most famous in the Pleats Please series of clothing by Issey Miyake.

But how about inside a masturbator toy?

While you might not see it on the catwalk at the Paris Fashion Week any time soon, the Nure Nure Pleat Pussy Girl Onahole nonetheless seems set to win wide recognition among masturbator fans for its novel and effective design.

The soft material offers realistically textured stimulation that combines a host of nubs and an inner cave packed with “string pleats.” Not only will these special features entangle and wrap themselves around your horny shaft, they will also provide stroking tickles to your glans with each penetrating thrust.

So who needs tentacles when you can have pleats?

The special string pleats come initially with a plastic tube inside, keeping the pleats from entangling during transit. Take it out — and then lube up and slide in your own “tube” to enjoy…

The Nure Nure Pleat Pussy Girl Onahole is available now from our hardworking friends at Kanojo Toys.

Tenga won’t be new to regular readers of this humble blog. Just in case, know that Tenga is the top adult brand in Japan in terms of mainstream exposure, quality, and sophistication of design. It is the only adult brand to have made it big in markets globally and its amazing toys are now sold worldwide, though some are only available in Japan.

It has changed over the years, though, and is now a subsidiary of Soft on Demand, affecting the internal freedom — or so we have heard down the grapevine.

Nonetheless, it continues to release great items that continue the sex and masturbation revolution Tenga started with the Tenga Egg, Tenga Onacup, and Tenga Flip Hole series well over a decade ago. Its marketing campaigns are also still very novel, always trying new kinds of campaigns and promotions.

In short, Tenga is a legend in the industry. And now we can go inside its headquarters.

The always-reliable Asian Boss published this video report from a visit to the company, which includes an interview with Tenga boss Koichi Matsumoto.

“Our vision is to make everyone have a bigger sexual appetite, more fun,” Matsumoto shares. He explains why Tenga made a break from the standard for sex toys in Japan, not least in its chic and minimalist packaging that does not carry images of nude women: the toy aim to look “cool, positive, and safe.”

He also introduces some of the toys that were designed to help people with fertility issues and premature ejaculation.

Matsumoto doesn’t hog the limelight. The video interviews Tenga’s female employees who are part of the brand’s very successful push into the women’s toys market with the bestselling Iroha series.

The last word, though, belongs to Matsumoto. “We’re pursuing our philosophy of making people’s lives happy, and these are the products we’ve developed.”

The former AKB48 idol and now gravure model Rina Hirata (平田梨奈) releases her first DVD and Blu-ray, “Hirari Time,” on July 20th. To promote it, Rina has posed semi-nude, covering her F-cup breasts with her hands.

The 21-year-old joined AKB48 in 2011 and graduated in 2016. She previously released two VR videos in February of this year, in one of which she was shown in alluringly red lingerie amply showing off her butt. It was enthusiastically compared to porn.

By AKB standards, Hirata has a curvier-than-average body and boy, are we not complaining about that. We have noticed, though, that the marketing now says she is an F-cup, whereas before she was meant to be a G-cup.

She’s also unusual in that she’s a haafu — kinda. Her mother is Japanese and her Japanese-American dad is from Arizona. She was born in America and grew up in Fukuoka, but initially her English was stronger than her Japanese when she first came to these shores. And we are eternally grateful to her for sticking through those tough times and becoming an idol.

It’s a job that apparently one in four Japanese women have some experience of doing, but how well do we know the role of the hostess?

Meet Kurumi Hoshino (星野くるみ), who is described as the “number 1 hostess in Japan.” The 28-year-old Hoshino is currently based at Club Lalah in Roppongi, where she is the biggest attraction and earner at the club where 50 women are working each night.

For 15 minutes, Hoshino talks about her life and work, going from the rural sticks in Kumamoto, toiling away at a local karaoke joint, to earning nearly $1,000 a day in Tokyo.

She helpfully starts by clarifying the general difference between a hostess club and hostess bar, and then runs through the particulars of her shifts.

And on her relationship with her clients? There is this frank admission. “Every client wants sex. What do you expect? We’re human.”

Here’s the video.

We’ve seen similar profiles like this before, such as a notable one back in 2014 and another looking at Canadian hostesses in Tokyo, though we think the grim life of being a less famous and success (and older) hostess is also worthy of attention.

Oh, Japanese porn and your parodic tendencies, is nothing safe from your tentacles?

From a real-life sexual assault on a peer to a wacky TV commercial and even a hit zombie movie, AV consistently finds new subject matters to parody and imitate.

But this is the first kids’ show that we’ve seen parodied in this way.

Out this month on the Million label, a new AV starring Kizuna Sakura (84mkmp00284) shamelessly parodies the NHK TV quiz show Chiko-chan ni shikarareru! (Chiko-chan will scold you).

The appeal of the latter is mostly down to the central character, a five-year-old girl who yells at people with a signature catchphrase: “Don’t sleep through life.” She also has a unique kind of voice that you can copy if you use this “voice changer” toy.

In the 150-minute porn version, the catchphrase is “Don’t orgasm through life.” One of the contestants on the fake quiz show in the AV is none other than the hardworking actor Shimiken.

Unfortunately the preview images are terrible but we think you get the general gist of the proceedings. This is most definitely not a kids’ show anymore!

Is this a lawsuit in the making?

The Japanese entertainment world has been shaken recently by a widespread scandal involving 11 comedians at leading agency Yoshimoto Kogyo who did side jobs for a criminal organization.

The initial scandal broke in June, when many comedians were found to have worked at a party in December 2014 by a criminal group engaged in fraud. To be fair, they apparently did not know the nature of the client who had hired them, but it once again highlighted the long-suspected connections between organized crime and comedy in Japan — a link encapsulated by the shock retirement of Shinsuke Shimada in 2011, a top comedian at the time.

Yoshimoto suspended the comedians but also ordered them not to speak to the press.

Since then, the most famous comedian at the heart of the scandal, Hiroyuki Miyasako, was accused of having further links to an individual convicted of gold theft. A photo appeared in the weekly tabloid magazine Shukan Friday. Yoshimoto then terminated Hiroyuki Miyasako’s contract, though apparently he had already offered to resign.

If you’re feeling sorry for the now out-of-work comedian, keep in mind that he has said he won’t retired from entertainment for good in spite of this scandal. And that he has had a pretty good 49 years of life up to this point. Here’s a case in point.

We particularly remember another small scandal from 2017 in which he was alleged to have had an affair with the gorgeous model and singer Hikaru Koyama (小山ひかる). They were spotted by a tabloid meeting at a high-end hotel, though the affair was denied.

Born in 1991, the slinky Aoyama also apparently had an affair with the wrestler and husband of celebrity Yu Abiru. So there would seem to be some kind of trend when it comes to Koyama’s taste in men.

The beautiful Japanese actress Rin Asuka (飛鳥凛) graduated from Kamen Rider W to wild lesbian and threesome sex scenes in White Lily in 2017.

Now she’s gone even further — with a foursome scene in the film The Woman Who Keeps a Murderer (Satsujinki o kau onna, 殺人鬼を飼う女), which was released in Japan in April 2019 and directed by famed horror maestro Hideo Tanaka, who also made White Lily. In the movie’s explicit sex scenes, Asuka’s nipples are shown in closeup sucked by a fellow woman who also fingers Rin.

A sex scene on a bed with a man descends into a three-way session and then mutual cunnilingus, before culminating in a foursome whereby the lucky man has sex with three women.

The other women in the cast include Shoka Oshima (大島正華), Airi Matsuyama (松山愛里), and Hitomi Nakatani (中谷仁美).

The story revolves around Kyoko, played by Asuka, who was sexually abused by her stepfather as a child. As a defense mechanism, she has developed a mental world of fantasy and multiple personalities.

Here’s the trailer.

So what’s next for Rin Asuka’s burgeoning career? A fivesome?

Searching out the finest examples of Japanese female asses is one of our ongoing obsessions, as regular readers will no doubt know, and here we share the latest fruits of this intensive and noble research project.

Risa Nito (仁藤りさ) is an up-and-coming gravure model who presents herself as a “mystery OL model.” Whether or not she is a genuine office lady or not is hardly the point, since a recent photo shoot has revealed what we should really be paying attention to about this young lady. In both black or white lingerie, this starlet is a real fox.

Slinky and perky, Risa Nito has a butt that could almost cut glass. Sure, Aya Kawasaki et al have also demonstrated the charms of this kind of derrière, but surely Nito’s thong photo shoot is in a whole class of its own?

If you don’t fancy the curvy likes of Aya Hazuki or Yuka Kuramochi, this kind of tight and sharp rear is going to be right up your alley. Or let’s be frank, regardless of your butt preferences, you don’t have a pulse if you don’t find Risa Nito’s body attractive.

The My Sunburned Niece Meiki Onahole is the perfect masturbator toy for the summer.

After a longer-than-usual rainy season, things are finally getting hot and sweaty here in Tokyo. We can’t wait for all the skirts and dresses and flesh on display in the streets of the city.

And this new onahole by Tama Toys is recreating one of those fantasies that linger in the mind during this season: steaming sex with a cute, incredibly tight loli girl character who has just spent a long day at the beach. As such, her skin is tanned to the point of sunburned, which looks incredible on her petite and slender body where the outline of her swimsuit is still visible.

The high-quality onahole features a very snug love tunnel, yet its high-stretch, flexible material still lets you glide in easily. The inside has large protrusions with small ribs to give your manhood amazing stimulation from top to bottom.

Tama Toys is consistently one of Japan’s most impressive adult brands in terms of tapping into different fetishes and supplying awesome toys that meet the demands of different sexual preferences. We reckon it has another hit on its hands with this summer-themed release.

The My Sunburned Niece Meiki Onahole is available now from our friends at Kanojo Toys, your one-stop store for all things adult about Japan.

Back in the bad old days before smartphones, we remember our early days in Japan and having to visit Internet cafes to check stuff online or write emails to friends and family.

This was pretty much the same situation as back home, but one key difference was that the Internet cafes were also rigged up as manga libraries. And there were private booths.

These were useful if you rolled out of a club at 3 a.m. but didn’t want to hang around two hours until the first trains started.

But during the other times of the day and night, these booths were mostly used by patrons to watch porn. The sound of their rigorous jerking off could be heard while we typed out innocent emails to our friends and loved ones. Even worse, for them at least, was that the booths are not fully private — the separating wall only goes up to just above eye level. It is perfectly possible to peer over and observe men masturbating.

Or couples having sex.

We never saw this ourselves but we heard that it happened, especially at night.

Hiring out a booth in an Internet cafe is much cheaper than a short stay at a love hotel, though decidedly less private and comfortable, so presumably the couples who do it are very poor or kinky. Or both.

Here is one example of a couple recently caught by someone having sex in an Internet cafe.

The girl was seen sitting in her male partner’s lap, reaching down probably to jerk him off. She is apparently naked as they kiss, while he still has his shirt on.

Now wearing only a t-shirt, he was then snapped or filmed turning her around for some doggy action before he finally spotted that they were being watched. Needless to say, he didn’t look too happy about it.

Come on, guys, get a room (not a booth)! Still, at least they were more discreet than another young couple recently snapped on the verge of having very public sex at Shibuya’s Scramble Crossing.

After developing a gravure idol career for some time, slinky yet busty 20-year-old Yuka Ogura (小倉優香) is set to take things to the next level with a nude shoot for the latest issue of Weekly Playboy.

It’s not especially explicit, as is typical for the weekly tabloid, but Yuka shows off her pert butt by lying down flat. This is perfectly timed just as the weather in Tokyo has really heated up and everyone wants to spend their days lounging around naked.

Yuka Ogura is one of those iyashi-kei idols — “healing” idols whose gentle smiles and girl-next-door looks have universal appeal.

The photo shoot is a promo/preview for her new photo book “Jajauma” (Shueisha). After the shoot, Yuka announced that she would no longer do swimsuit shoots for weeklies and manga magazines — which some people have interpreted as a retirement from gravure altogether. She has since clarified at a launch event for the photo book over the weekend that she will no longer do cover shoots in swimsuits but won’t be turning her back on the industry that made her famous.

So hopefully this won’t actually be her final gravure shoot and we can look forward to more photos of Yuka looking her usual stunning self…

Print publishing is in dire straits, so people have said for years now, and magazines and newspapers have particularly struggled. Titles large and small have folded or seriously downsized.

Even Japan’s mammoth adult video and porn industry — often said to be the largest of its kind in the world — is not immune to this downward trend, even though DVD sales are still relatively healthy.

The eponymous magazine put out by porn giant Soft on Demand will end with the September issue. Issue 99 features a suitably commemorative cover featuring multiple eleven top Japanese porn stars in revealing swimwear — perfect for the summer. How many do you recognize?

Fine ladies featured in the issue include Mana Sakura, Asumi Yoshioka, Meru Ishihara, and recent debutant Chiharu Minagawa. It is the end of an era: the massively popular Sakura herself has appeared in the magazine 13 previous times.

The last issue also includes a “history” of all the previous covers, from June 2011 to this current and final one.

The monthly SOD DVD Magazine comes/came with a DVD for a very affordable ¥580 — the economics of this might be one reason that SOD decided it didn’t make financial sense to keep it going — and this final issue is already being snapped up quick by fans — who are mourning the loss of this AV institution.

The increasingly anti-porn situation at convenience stores may also be another factor responsible for the demise of SOD DVD Magazine. We may look back on this as a veritable golden age in which we could buy porn mags and DVDs in the local conbini. If the 2020 Olympics organizers get their way, this will all be hidden in the near future.

Otsukare and RIP, Soft on Demand DVD Magazine. You had a fine run.

Some women are so lonely they need a man’s comforting arms around them all the time — even when they listen to music.

Or so it would seem if you believe the latest clickbait.

This time, the purveyor of the headline-screaming story is a Japanese company called Otome Yusha, which literally means “Hero of Maidens.”

It has come up with a concept audio device called the Boyfriend Hug Speakers, which may be the most arresting way to listen to music ever — especially if you do it outside in public.

The Bluetooth-enabled speakers are integrated into a pair of “arms” that the user wears around her shoulders for a particularly intimate and personal audio experience.

The arms, which are decidedly muscular, also come with a “head” that has a typically pretty boy otome game character face on it.

The speakers can also be set up so that they are “sit” by themselves, as if the man is sitting there in front of you.

Before we start shouting “wacky Japan” again, keep in mind these speakers are not actually available and are likely just a marketing stunt. Indeed, Otome Yusha is the company behind an eponymous otome RPG and naturally this is all good publicity for the game.

The producers are running a Twitter campaign, though, to give away the prototype device to one lucky person, presumably a lady. So there is a genuine chance that we might see these speakers in use around Tokyo.