JAV (Japanese Porn)
Minamo Used to Hate Kissing. Then She Became One of Japan’s Biggest AV Stars.
Minamo is retiring from adult video in December. Before she goes, she’s been talking about what she was like before […]
Dating in Japan
Paying Someone to Dump Your Partner Is Now a Thing in Japan
Paying Someone to Dump Your Partner Is Now a Thing in Japan Breakups suck. Saying the words out loud sucks […]
Idol / Gravure Idol
Miku Kanemura’s New Photo Book Previews Have Fans Zooming In on One Detail
Hinatazaka46’s Miku Kanemura just dropped preview shots from her second photo book, and one image is doing most of the […]
Crime & Legal
Pro Basketball Player Arrested in Kumamoto After Bar Staff Says He Groped Her and Took Her Underwear
A 42-year-old pro basketball player has been arrested in Kumamoto City after a female bar employee accused him of sexually […]
Crime & Legal
Nagano Police Officer Arrested After Meeting Underage Girl Online
A 34-year-old police officer in Nagano has been arrested on suspicion of statutory rape involving a teenage girl he met […]
Food in Japan
Starbucks Japan’s New Pokémon Collab Has a Pikachu Latte and a Mountain of Merch
Starbucks Japan just announced a pretty massive Pokémon collaboration, and the headline item is exactly what you’d expect: a Pikachu […]
Food in Japan
Lawson’s New “Single-Minded” Bentos: Depressing Poverty Lunch or Genius Focus Mode?
Lawson just dropped a new bento line that’s so stripped-down it feels like a dare. They’re calling it Ittentoppasugi — […]
JAV (Japanese Porn)
Kaoru Oshima Went From Japan’s First “Male Porn Actress” to Writer — and He’s Not Sugarcoating Any of It
Kaoru Oshima made a lot of noise in 2014 when he debuted as the first big otokonoko star in mainstream […]
Crime & Legal
Vietnamese Man in Tochigi Grew 200+ Weed Plants at Home — Says He Had No Idea What They Were
Tochigi police have re-arrested a 33-year-old Vietnamese guy for allegedly running a pretty serious grow-op out of his house. Pham […]
Crime & Legal
Police Just Grabbed the “Collector” in That Brutal ¥53 Million Gold Street Heist
Tokyo police have locked up another name in that ugly gold robbery from earlier this year. Akira Nakao, 31, got […]
Crime & Legal
He Broke Into Her Place 100 Times, Swapped Her Underwear, and Installed a Spy Cam — Then Told the Court He Just Wanted to “Be of Use”
Tokyo just wrapped one of those cases that makes you want to check every window lock twice. A 33-year-old guy […]
Crime & Legal
Roppongi’s nightlife scene just got another messy headline.
Rino Tazawa, 27, better known online as Yama Torino, was one of the biggest names at JUNGLE, the well-known hostess […]
Prostitution in Japan
Obsessed clients and the risks soapland workers say they live with
A murder-suicide at a soapland in Kobe’s Fukuhara district this June has people in Tokyo’s Yoshiwara talking about something they […]
Japanese Adult Toys
Unidentified body found in a burned-out van on a Saitama riverbank
Late Wednesday night in Yashio City, Saitama, a passerby spotted a vehicle fully on fire along a riverbank in the […]
Japan News / Japanese Society
What happens if you get sick in Japan as a tourist?
What happens if you get sick in Japan as a tourist? Nobody plans to spend part of their Japan trip […]
JAV (Japanese Porn)
Tokyo Station Work Booths Were Meant for Quick Meetings. Someone Used Them to Film Porn Instead.
You’ve probably walked past those little glass-walled work pods inside big Tokyo stations. The ones that look like a cross […]