The concept of The Boyfriend, Japan’s first same-sex reality show, is not unfamiliar: a group of nine gay men live in a house together for a month. The goal? To forge lifelong friendships and to find ...

Recruit Bridal Research Institute may sound like a clearinghouse for mail order brides, but it is, in fact, a research division of Japanese human resources company Recruit, whose diverse divisions ...

Socially-conservative Japan seems to be in no rush to follow its neighbors in East Asia and roll out the pink carpet to the LGBTQ community or recognize same-sex marriages. But where the Japanese ...

The Japanese language takes a lot of cues from English when it comes to talking about romance. For example, “kisu”, the corrupted pronunciation of “kiss,” is about 100 times more common than ...

The first season of the series — which featured nine men living together in a luxury house outside Tokyo — won fans around the world with its relaxed and non-exploitative approach to the dating show ...

Some of you here may remember Yuka Takaoka, the Japanese hostess known for stabbing her 20-year-old gigolo boyfriend Phoenix Luna with a kitchen knife in their apartment in Shinjuku Tokyo in 2019. The ...

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Boyfriend will begin their four days long debut premium showcase “First Date with Boyfriend in Japan” at the Budokan, Tokyo, Japan. The Budokan can hold up to 10,000 people in the audience ...

More is in store for fans of Japan's hit gay dating show The Boyfriend. On Monday morning in Tokyo, Netflix revealed that it has ordered a second season of the title, which is famously Japan's very ...