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Idol group manager arrested for years of alleged abuse of underage member
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: the idol world is dodgy. Let’s be loud and clear: we hope the young women (well, girls — they are usually young teenagers) know about these potential risks...
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Gravure photographer Seiichi Nomura looks back on his career
Gravure photographer Seiichi Nomura recently sat down for an interview with Aera.dot in which he looked back on his five-decade-long career, during which he has photographed countless numbers of idols,...
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Crime in 2022: Stalking and revenge porn on the rise in Japan
Japan is famous for its low crime, but it depends on what kind of crime and how you measure things. And it doesn’t mean that crime is not on the rise in certain areas. According to recent media...
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Get 20% off all adult toys for International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day is celebrated in all kinds of ways and you often see marches in Japan, where women certainly need more advocates. Our friends at Kanojo Toys, the biggest online Japanese adult...
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Kasumi Arimura nude sex scene in Netflix movie Call Me Chihiro
The Japanese actress Kasumi Arimura is best known for her sweet, gentle looks. She is usually seen with a smile on her face while advertising tea or something similarly innocuous (though she did do...
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Aya Takanashi, a former porn star turned scriptwriter and columnist
As regular readers will know, one of our preoccupations is the afterlives of idols: what happens to music, gravure, and adult video idols after they retire? Aya Takanashi is a freelance columnist and...
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Lawyer fighting sexual harassment gets sued for sexual harassment
Well, isn’t this just the pot calling the kettle black? A prominent lawyer known for his work to stamp out sexual harassment is himself now being sued by an actress he represented for, you’ve guessed...
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70% of Japanese flight attendants report experience of illicit photographing
The flight attendant is, of course, a much-fetishized occupation. They rank highly among male fantasies, whether that’s joining the mile high club mid-flight while receiving some extra service, or...
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Cha Joo-young seduces with nude scenes in Netflix Korean drama series The Glory
The new Netflix Korean drama series The Glory is getting some traction, with the first season’s second and final batch of episodes recently released. It’s a fun revenge tale about Moon Dong-eun, who...
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Japanese porn legend Yua Mikami to retire after eight years of AV releases
On Monday came news that Yua Mikami is to retire from porn after a stunning eight-year run in the industry. The announcement isn’t a huge surprise, given her age (she turns 30 in August) and length of...
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Akari Fukunaga’s nude scene in literary pink film Hand
The beautiful Akari Fukunaga (福永朱梨) is a relatively unknown, 28-year-old Japanese actress whose credits include The Real Thing (2019) and She Is Alone (2021). In 2022, she had a starring role in the...
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Fringe anti-NHK party rebrands as Politician Girls 48 Party featuring ex-idols
People bemoan the lack of women in Japanese politics but we suspect this is not the solution. The NHK Party, a fringe people whose aim is to “protect” the Japanese population again the titular public...
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SOD Land porn theme park bar closes after arrest of Soft on Demand president
You would think that a company as large and successful as Soft on Demand would have an army of lawyers and legal advisors on retainer, and that they would consult them carefully when launching a major...
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Recently married gravure stunner Kazusa Okuyama is pregnant
Kazusa Okuyama is one of the top gravure idols in Japan right now, though she went quiet for a while from the end of last year with few social media updates. The last major gravure-related thing she...
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Jessica Michibata arrested for possession of MMDA in Tokyo hotel
The travails of the Michibata family are set to continue, it seems. After Angelica Michibata’s husband was arrested for extortion, her career and reputation were left in tatters (not least because her...
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Umi Shinonome tells us how she got into gravure
In the current issue of Weekly Playboy, busty Japanese model, cosplayer, YouTuber, and plastic modeler Umi Shinonome discusses how she got into gravure. When in her third year at university, she was...
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Spring sale: 20% off Japanese adult toys
Ah, springtime. A season for the sakura cherry blossom. For those debauched hanami picnics in parks that are great opportunities for hooking up and meeting friends of friends who become lovers. Well,...
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After adultery and child custody dispute, ex-AKB48 idol Mariko Shinoda...
Once one of the most famous idols in Japan, Mariko Shinoda has divorced her husband of four years. The 37-year-old announced the news on Instagram. A former AKB48 singer who later branched out into...
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Local council election candidate is former nurse, sex worker, and porn star
Last week, we wrote about the Politician Girls 48 Party, the latest incarnation of an anti-NHK fringe right-wing populist party. The candidates are all female and feature many former idols, models, and...
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Noisy sex in Japan leads to notes from angry neighbors
Many moons ago, we used to live in a “gaijin house” — one of those guest houses that cater specifically to foreign residents of Tokyo. It wasn’t as bad as some of the horror stories we have heard about...
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