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.

Japanese porn and adult parodies are apparently getting faster and faster.

The new Makoto Shinkai anime, Weathering with You, is still in movie theaters and dominating the Japanese box office.

Masturbation With You is an “ejaculation app” whose name and design shamelessly parodies the Shinkai film (天気の子 vs. 天気のマ●コ). The publicity image shows a porn star (can anyone help us identify her?) fingering herself furiously in the center, or preparing to munch on a dildo or squeeze her nipples in the other pictures.

As far as we can tell, this is currently just a concept, a mock-up made by someone with too much time on his hands during the rainy season, and now doing the rounds on a certain section of Japanese social media.

Given the anime’s original Japanese title — Tenki no Ko (literally, Weather Child) — perhaps a better parody is Tenga no Ko (Child of Tenga)? That title could certainly apply to a fair few people we know!

Shinkai’s previous film, Your Name., also inspired its own adult parodies: both an onahole (and even a second one!) and porn release.

We wrote earlier this week about gravure idol Yuka Ogura’s sad decision to stop doing magazine cover shoots, which she announced with the launch of her new photo book. Fans got excited about the prospect of seeing Yuka’s butt, which was glimpsed in the preview images.

Now more images from Ogura’s new photo book, “Jajauma” (Shueisha), have appeared online and they continue the trend: Ogura is nude in the shoots, happily showing off her pert buttocks for her fans.

Though famously busty, it doesn’t look like Yuka is ready to show off her full breasts to the world just yet. The most we seem to get is some side book.

Unfortunately only a few bad scans seem available at the time of writing. We might have to make a trip to the store to check out the actual book over the weekend.

The Kung Fu Nyan Nyan Onahole by Japanese adult toy giant Toy’s Heart has a fun name and an even funner design.

The awesome box art, as we would expect from Toy’s Heart, depicts a kung-fu-fighting Chinese idol who is also a catgirl. After all, anthropomorphic anime girls can also be Chinese and catgirls can also be feisty as well as cute.

Toy’s Heart signature Virgin Skin material makes this fantastic onahole feel great, whether you are stroking its textured exterior or sliding yourself into its intimate interior that spirals tighter and tighter. Moreover, the spunky girl will attack your manhood with three special pleasure zones along her snug love tunnel located near the entrance, center, and far end.

A session inside this lady’s kung fu dojo will certainly leave your cock exhausted, but very satisfied.

Get your own Kung Fu Nyan Nyan Onahole from our friends at Kanojo Toys, the number one online stop for all things adult about Japan.

And if you are really into furries and kemonomimi fetish, then you might also want to check out the popular Kemono Hime Animal Princess Sex Doll plush toy, which recently added a white rabbit version.

The sexual assault in December 2018 of Maho Yamaguchi shocked fans and the idol industry, exposing the mismanagement and abuse of the performers in Japan.

Yamaguchi was forced to apologise for the incident but, appalled at the treatment she received by her handlers, quit the Niigata idol group NGT48, which is part of the AKB48 network. The actual assault itself then received a very different kind of treatment: inspiring its own parody adult video release earlier this year starring a former NMB48 idol Risako Okada, who now performs porn under the name Miko Matsuda.

You might be forgiven for thinking that 23-year-old Mahohon (as she is known to fans) would avoid a further career as an idol (music or otherwise), especially one that called for her to sexualize her body.

Instead it seems she is determined now to take control over her flesh and physical appeal, if the preview image from her upcoming photo book is anything to go by. Some have expressed surprise that it is a quite provocative, sexy shot, considering Mahohon’s recent experiences.

Yamaguchi’s debut photo book, to be released on her 24th birthday in September, was announced in late July and is her first major professional activity since she graduated from NGT48 earlier in May of this year. Later that month she joined a major talent agency that has several famous actresses on its roster. She would appear intent on using the negative experience of the past few months as a platform to jump up to bigger and better things. Go girl!

The Japanese YouTuber Sakikichi has made her gravure idol shoot debut in the July 13th issue of Weekly Playboy.

Known for videos about food and fashion, Sakikichi has an alluring, almost otherworldly beauty that is well used in the five-page shoot.

Having already attracted over 17 million YouTube video views and 125,000 subscribers, Sakikichi is hoping to attract a new kind of fandom with this somewhat unexpected career shift.

She even made a video for her channel showing some of behind-the-scenes footage from the shoot.

Research regularly shows that Japanese women’s breasts are getting larger. And now we have data to prove it over a 40-year period.

Bra maker Triumph — known for its rather silly concept bras — nonetheless takes mammaries seriously, as you’d expect, and knowing the size of its customers’ boobs are inevitably top of its list of priorities.

It recently made public the results of a survey it did. Here are the key findings.

The subjects of the survey were Japanese females between the ages of 20 through 60 years. And when the data was confirmed, Triumph found that while only 4.5% of its customers had required a D-cup size bra or larger back in 1980, that percentage had expanded to 17.6% by 1990. By 2018, the percentage had swelled impressively to 53.1%. Or in other words, a remarkable twelve-fold increase over 40 years.

Interestingly, the 17.5 centimeter average measurement from the underside of the breast to the top had not shown any appreciable change during those four decades. Which means the size of the breasts themselves had definitely become larger.

A press report tried to figure out why and got this juicy quote.

“There are two reasons for this,” said Shuko Sakata, manager of brand marketing at Triumph. “The first is changes in the diet, such as increased meat consumption and westernization in general. The other is because we manufacturers have become better at teaching customers the correct way to select a brassiere. When putting on their bras, women tend to lean forward and by so doing gravity collects fleshy parts on the sides of their torso to fill up the cup. That alone can increase cup size by as much as two sizes.”

Fewer and fewer women wear kimonos, which means their breasts are not flattened down. Given room to breath under western clothing, the results are beautiful. The dietary changes are also apparently important for around 20% of the size of a breast; the rest is determined by genetics.

Whatever the particulars of the science, though, this is a trend that we support wholeheartedly.

We frequently follow news of Japanese porn debuts and there always seems to be something novel in the announcements, from college girls to hostesses, gravure idols, actresses, and so on.

But we think this is the first time we’ve heard of a professional mahjong player making the switch to adult video.

With a face like gradol Eimi Matsushima and the slinky body of an angel, Minami Nakanishi (中西南) has opted for a mahjong-themed, 131-minute JAV debut release (1SDMU00939), which came out in July from SOD Request and is directed by ANZO. Naturally it involves sex on top of a mahjong board.

Her breasts are, by porn standards, modest, but she makes up for that with her height and commitments to her craft.

Some assiduous porn fans have done some investigating and claim that Nakanishi has already previously appeared in AV under the name Sara Haneda (羽田サラ) — though it’s true that she was a mahjong player, known as Nana Miura (三浦奈々).

We’re not sure anymore what’s marketing, truth, or rumor. But we love what we see of the results.

Tenga has produced some of Japan’s, if not the world’s, best sex toys. As a brand, it already has its own stores. And now Tenga finally has its own vending machines. (The Tenga Egg vending machine once spotted in Nakano Broadway, Tokyo, was apparently not an official vendor.)

Anyone now with an urge to buy a Tenga product 24 hours a day and get it right away can do so.

The only catch is that these vending machines are in Sapporo, Hokkaido — in the far north of Japan.

For reasons known only to the sales team at Tenga, the Apple of the Adult Industry has opted for a regional city rather than Tokyo. Surely these vending machines would be a big hit and viral success in Akihabara or Shinjuku? Perhaps there are local ordinances that we don’t know about, making it harder to sell adult products from unmanned facilities in Tokyo. Or perhaps the Sapporo Tenga shop has been particularly successful.

The vending machines opened on August 1st in Chuo ward, Sapporo. There are three machines, discreetly housed inside. You have to be 18 or older to make a purchase, which you proof by scanning your driver’s license.

Products on sale at the branded red vending machines include the Tenga Cup series of onacups, the Tenga Spinner, and Tenga Men’s Charge sexual energy drink. Of course, these are all available from regular drug stores in Japan or online, but sometimes you just need your Tenga ASAP.

We previously introduced the legendary porn impressario Toru Muranishi when a documentary about him came out in Japan — specifically, the last gasp of his major releases when he tried to create one of the most ambitious porn films ever shot.

The pioneer of POV shots and arrested several times over the years, Toru Muranishi is perhaps the most famous adult video director and producer from the 1980s and 1990s. That fame is set to reach new audiences with the release of a new Japanese Netflix drama starring Takayuki Yamada.

The Naked Director charts the rise of Muranishi’s porn production company and his relationship with industry peers, including the top star Kaoru Kuroki, and his development of unsimulated sex on camera.

In 1980s Japan, one determined man turned every crushing setback into opportunity. His name was Toru Muranishi, and he revolutionized his industry.

The eight-episode series also stars the nudity-friendly Ami Tomite and Misato Morita (as Kuroki).

“People have seen my asshole,” as Muranishi declares in the opening moments. “But I’m not embarrassed. To be human is to live as who you really are. In other words, adult videos show humanity itself.”

They, as the drama reveals, also showed women with hairy armpits.

Based on a nonfiction book, Muranishi also gave the series his blessing.

We hope to check in again once we’ve caught up and seen all the episodes.

Curvy (well, comparatively curvy) former AKB48 idol Nana Owada will release her debut photo book and it includes a semi-nude cover with a “hand bra” (tebura) shot.

This kind of shot, where the lady covers her breasts with her hands and reveals plenty of side boob, has become a standard trope in semi-nude idol photo shoots.

Past examples from the AKB stables alone include Minami Minegishi, Ayaka Umeda, Atsuko Maeda, Rina Hirata, Haruna Kojima, Yuko Oshima, and — most controversially — Tomomi Kasai, whose tebura effectively ended her career.

As Maho Yamaguchi is demonstrating, there is life after AKB or its sister groups — even if you leave the group under a cloud of scandal.

Anticipation is high for Owada’s photo book, “Risutaato” (Restart), as she has already posed for some nice shoots that show off her voluptuous body. The 19-year-old Owada (aka Naanya) joined AKB48 in 2013 and graduated in 2017.

Though only a couple of alternate cover shots have appeared as a preview so far, “Risutaato” comes out in mid-September and we look forward to seeing what’s inside.

Along with Tama Toys, Toy’s Heart is one of the most reliable Japanese adult toy brands in terms of producing quality toys with awesome box art and novel concepts or designs.

The My Tight Senpai Crush Onahole (aka Senpai who I look up to was a pretty barriered girl) is the latest masturbator to fit this description with aplomb.

The onahole recreates the pussy of a busty, tsundere character who will give you what you desire, though you might have to fight her a bit for it.

This reserved yet horny young lady from school will receive you with open legs and spoil your member with amazing vaginal stimulators, but halfway throughout her love tunnel you will encounter her standoffish character: an “iron wall” that really hugs and squeezes your member tight. After you break through this uterus zone ring, your member is rewarded with an incredible pleasure chamber deep inside.

And this being a Toy’s Heart offering, the onahole is crafted with its signature Real Skin material that offers a durable yet realistic texture.

The My Tight Senpai Crush Onahole (Senpai who I look up to was a pretty barriered girl) is available now for delivery worldwide from our friends at Kanojo Toys, your one stop for everything adult about Japan.

As we know, Comiket is less about comics and more about cosplay. Specifically, female cosplayers.

Stars like Enako can attract huge crowds (and money).

But even lesser-known female cosplayers can pull in a strong audience, though, as one example from the recent Comiket 96 showed, this phenomenon can have unpleasant consequences if you are not prepared or don’t have adequate minders.

In a video that has since gone viral (nearly 4 million views as of writing), a Chinese cosplayer found herself on August 11th surrounded by a mob of men with cameras who refused to make space for her. Instead they thronged ever closer, intent on getting panchira shots of her panties under her skirt.

Upskirting has become something of a tradition at events like Comiket and it’s one of the reasons you see guys with such big lenses on their cameras.

In this case, the men were asked to move back but did not comply. The situation became ugly and threatening for the Chinese cosplayer, known only as ALL, who started to cry. Despite her immense popularity (nearly 26,000 followers on Twitter), it seems she had no experience of this intense level of interest in her body.

Staff tried to intervene and announce the end of the photo session. ALL was reduced to sitting down and holding a notebook to cover her panties while men continued to snap away, oblivious to her distress.