AV star Kirara Asuka does not deny relationship with Yu Darvish

TOKYO (TR) – Adult video actress Kirara Asuka captivated a press corps on Sunday by not outright denying the existence of a relationship with pitcher Yu Darvish during an event held in Akihabara for the release of the film “Futari Ecchi the Movie 2 — Second Kiss,” reports Yukan Fuji (Feb. 6). Read more

Tokyo cops seize uncensored 3D porn DVDs in Internet-sale crackdown

TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police officers on Saturday raided an apartment building in Nerima Ward being used for the sale of uncensored adult video DVDs, reports the Sankei Shimbun (Jan. 30). Read more

Tokyo cops seize 100,000 uncensored porn DVDs in Kabukicho raid

TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police officers on Sunday raided three shops for the sale of uncensored adult video DVDs inside a building in the Kabukicho entertainment district, reports the Sankei Shimbun (Jan. 24). Read more

Tokyo times: Old boys still wanna have fun

“It was five or six years ago that I first began to notice more elderly men were going to soaplands,” the unnamed artist, a resident of Tokyo’s former licensed brothel quarters for over half a century, tells Sunday Mainichi (Jan. 29). “At one shop near Ueno, I’d say about 60 percent of the customers are seniors.

“Once reaching the age where their members go soft, men in their 60s can still enjoy stimulating gals with their fingers and tongues,” the artist adds. “They pray to the god of the vagina. Just according it worship is enough to give them peace of mind.”

Kazuo Hoshino, manager of a fashion health massage shop, says his oldest regular client is 85, and he gets plenty of business from men in their 60s and 70s.

“There are those who enjoy ejaculating, and others who are just content to have a drink with a gal or take a bath together,” he says. “Some just take a bath and go home. That’s enough to satisfy any sexual urges that’s built up.” Read more

AV producer: One in 200 Japanese women performed in porn

Shukan Post (Dec. 23) closes the year out with a bang, so to speak. Citing an adult video production company employee, the weekly tabloid says that it is common knowledge in the industry that one Japanese woman in 200 has performed in a porn film.

To establish its bearings, the magazine says that in days past one porn actress per 400 female high school and university students was a standard assumption — a figure that represents roughly one woman per graduating class.

To then make the jump to encompass all women, the tabloid breaks down some numbers provided by the production company employee.

“If one considers all AV productions, including those distributed on the Internet and underground DVDs, there are 35,000 productions released each year,” the explains.

That converts to approximately 100 films a day.

“In one year,” the source continues, “between 2,000 and 3,000 new actresses will debut in conventional AV films. All told (including amateurs), the industry has 150,000 experienced women. Now, if one considers that between the ages of 19 and 55 Japan has 30 million women then…” Read more

Minako Komukai’s porn debut a total bust

TOKYO (TR) – The much-discussed adult video debut of former stripper and gravure idol Minako Komukai does not disappoint, reports weekly tabloid Shukan Jitsuwa (Nov.3). Read more

Potential pitfalls in marrying a porn actress

Here comes the hooker, er, bride. Will she mend her mercenary ways, and make some man a good wife? Jitsuwa Taiho (Oct.) looks at several married women who still labor in the “ero” industry and rates their prospects.

The magazine first introduces a 34-year-old production manager who is married to an adult video (AV) actress he manages. His wife is 20, and still cavorting in front of the cameras. She shoots on the 20th of every month, so she’s never home that night.

“At age 20, even an AV actress is still an ordinary female,” he tells the magazine. But he adds that it’s a highly competitive field, and women in the trade need psychological support.

“Recently, an adult video in which she appears got broadcast via the private cable network beamed to love hotels,” he says. “Seeing her in action, I felt something snap inside me.”

It seems the sight of his wife having sex with a male performer — even though he represents her in business negotiations — was enough to bring him to tears. Read more

Former actress and stripper Minako Komukai to make porn debut

TOKYO (TR) – Former actress and stripper Minako Komukai will make her debut next month in the adult video business, reports Yukan Fuji (Sept. 10). Read more

Dateline Tokyo: Lesbian love services in demand by guyless gals game to get it on

“These days it’s not rare at all to see two women going into a room together,” a maid at a Tokyo love hotel tells Shukan Jitsuwa (Aug. 18). “I’ve been at this job for 15 years. About five years ago, I noticed that more women started coming here together. The numbers picked up after our management instituted a ‘ladies’ day,’ offering a 30 percent discount, which we do twice a month. On those days, from noon onwards the place is filled to capacity with paired off housewives or university students.”

But, the reporter wonders, how can you know if the women are using the rooms for sex?

“When I clean out the waste receptacles there are always some telltale signs,” the maid replies. “Things like discarded tissue paper with some clear fluid having a sweet and sour scent. Some have pubic hairs clinging to it. And from time to time I’m surprised when they leave behind a vibrator.

“These days, with men falling out of favor, I guess it’s expected that more women will want to pleasure one another. And unlike sex with men, which is over once they have ejaculated, women can keep going to enjoy themselves endlessly,” the maid says. Read more

Tokyo porn channel wraps ninth AIDS charity fund drive

(Photos by Tokyo Reporter, August 21, 2011)

TOKYO (TR) – In its typically provocative and uncompromising style, adult satellite channel Paradise TV on Sunday wrapped the ninth edition of its two-day AIDS fund drive.

The channel, which specializes in wacky porn programming that often features naked news broadcasts, “strip” mahjong exhibitions, and auctions of sex toys, holds its “24-Hour TV: Eroticism Saves the Earth” fund drive each year to raise money and awareness to assist in reducing the spread of AIDS, a condition that continues to be a worsening problem in Japan. Read more

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