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Japanese justice?

Last week saw a married couple from Fukui Prefecture in western Japan detained for public indecency; their saucy website falling foul of the censors as it contained footage of 38-year-old Fumio Hisano and his 32-year-old wife Reiko indulging in rather rigorous marital relations.

Called Aya’s Room, the enterprise was certainly more than a mere hobby, as due to membership fees the pair had netted over 200 million yen (840,000 pound) since the site’s inception over 7 years ago. Yet in the land where practically every family focused video shop has a lot more to offer than Disney and Doraemon.

Japanese video shop

As well as vending machines that contain stuff a little stronger than cigarettes and 7 Up.

Japanese DVD vending machine

The Japanese censorship system could well be seen as somewhat sanctimonious.

And then some.

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Tokyo taboo

When advertising their resting places on roadside hoardings, Japanese love hotels can apparently only allude to the lewdness that takes place on their premises. A cheeky ‘Fornicate at La Festae’ or even ‘Get your leg over at La Festae’ seemingly a little on the saucy side.

A rigid set of restrictions that has perhaps pushed this hotel in western Tokyo into producing a sign that is arguably much more sinister than sexy.

Japanese love hotel

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Big in Japan

Some Japanese claim that they enjoy speaking English as they can be more direct, enabling them to cut through the occasionally cryptic content of a Japanese conversation. An approach that is also adopted by some manufacturers — and especially makers of condoms it seems — in order to create products that clearly state their content and consumer base; the possible addition of an image further reducing the risk of confusion.

Japanese condoms

Presumably the inability to find an animal more suitable than a horse leading the other maker of colossal condoms to simply stick with just English. The size of the text alone a tell-tale sign for the product’s target audience.

Japanese condoms

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Tokyo Torpor

Whilst Japan does appear to have an inordinately high percentage of panty pilferers and public transport perverts, the number of those actually indulging in more civilised and reciprocal sexual practices appears to be rapidly decreasing. A situation highlighted a couple of years ago with the ‘how much other nationalities are getting it’ global sex survey, an investigation that saw Japan come bottom with an average of only 45 bouts of fornication a year — way behind the table topping Greeks grand tally of 138.

japan sex survey

Yet since then things have actually got worse, as a national sex survey last year found that the number had drooped even further, with an annual average of only 17 sessions between the sheets. A figure that makes the hardly salacious second to last place Singaporeans seem positively sex mad.

To make matters worse however, a report released earlier this week appears to paint an even gloomier picture, with many couples apparently now even foregoing the odd furtive fumble, as a staggering 34.6 percent of married couples (aged between 16 and 49) have sex less than once a month. Such relationships classed by the Japan Society of Sexual Science as ‘sexless‘. A figure that unlike other things has risen from a slightly lower but still less than lustful 31.9 percent in 2002.

So all in all it’s not exactly a rosy picture, and one that Kunio Kitamura, a member of the panel that carried out the latest poll and a director of the Japan Family Planning Association, is clearly worried about. The high ranking and presumably highly paid official justifying his substantial salary and social standing by insightfully stating, “The ratio of sexless couples has been increasing in recent polls. I think we have to make a connection between the increasing sexless rate and declining birthrates.”

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Latex look-alikes

With Japan boasting readily available rental services, and magazines devoted to the topic, the silicone sex doll would appear to be here to stay.

So much so in fact that one cosmetic maker has took the unusual approach of tackling the trend head on – its new make-up range magically mimicking the man-made mates.

Japanese latex doll look-alikes

All the way from the vacant eyes,

like a Japanese love doll

to the composite complexion and latex-like lips.

like Japanese latex doll

An effect that it has to be said is almost as convincing as the real thing. Even though the real thing isn’t actually the real thing – rather the real thing is reacting the unreal thing and trying to replicate its rubbery realness.

latex doll face

Or at least something along those lines.

(click images for larger latex look-alikes)

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Humongous hooters

The news that busty beach-themed restaurant chain Hooters is set to open for business in Japan this year has led to lots of speculation in regards to possible costumes and the curvaceousness of company staff.

Yet whilst the hugely popular race queen look is a distinct possibility, the smart money appears to be on the operator aiming for the ever-growing anime/otaku crowd — the leaked picture below an apparent gland guideline for would-be waitresses.

huge breasts

For more figures with unfeasibly large features you can simply click here, with how carefree your company is in regards to massive man-made mammaries dictating how safe for work it is.