pornmaps.: Japan

Number of pornstars : 1656
Currently active: 883 (50%)
Population : 127.3 M
Ratio: 12
Pornography legalized in : 1947

Japan has a long history with pornography (日本のポルノ). In the absence of Christian moral standards, a lot of forms of pornography developped in pre-modern Japan. Modern porn movies began to appear around the beginning of the 1960 and has since developped into a massive industry, generating billions of dollars every year. The geographical distribution of japanese porn stars, also called AV (Adult Video) actresses, is concentrated around the Kanto region, the most densely populated. Is is also in this region that you find the vast majority of japanese porn producers, most of them based in Tokyo. Hokkaido, home to famous Maria Ozawa, also produces a sturdy number of porn actresses in regards to its population size, as does Okinawa. This could be explained by a certain form of exodus, these girls coming in to the big cities and being unable to return home, thus turning themselves towards porn for a living. A similar phenomenon takes place in the USA with regards to Alaska and Hawaii.

CITY	PORNSTARS	POP.	RATIO
Naha(Okinawa)	31	0,3	103,3
Tokyo	813	8,9	91,3
Yamagata	23	0,3	76,7
Miyazaki	22	0,4	55,0
Yokohama	183	3,7	49,5
Saitama	57	1,2	47,5
Chiba	46	1	46,0
Niigaba	34	0,8	42,5
Osaka	103	2,7	38,1
Hiroshima	35	1,2	29,2
Fukuoka	32	1,5	21,3

The number of Japanese pornstars has increased in tremendous amounts over the last 6 years, as shown on the figure. Even Russia, who has also know a sturdy growth in her number of pornstars can't compete with the Japense growth. This could be due to the fact that Japan's market is quite closed to foreigners. There aren't really any serious competition from lower-wage countries in the region, as porn is illegal in South Korea, China and Taiwan, thus protecting a steady growth in the number of porn stars.

Japanese porn stars are, like the japanese society in a whole, very homogenous. 100% of all Japanese porn stars are of Japanese ethnicity.

Japanese porn is extremely diverse, with a extremely wide range of genres, producers and a sophisticated recruiting system, centered around AV Models. The anime version of porn, Hentai ("pervert" in Japanese) is also extremely well developped and features a large variety of sub-genres. Japanese porn producers is compelled by law to pixelate genitals, which has lead the country's porn producers to seek for other ways of showing male ejaculation, leading to the invention, in 1960s, of facial cumshots, body cumshots and most famously, bukkake. All these techniques have since been used by porn producers all over the world, because of its visual impact.

Here are some of the hottest Japanese pornstars:

Hitomi Tanaka (田中瞳) was born in 1988 in Kumamoto, Kyushu. She's most famous for her extraordinarily massive boobs, that she often oils up, push against the camera or slap male actors with, amongst other. She's stated that they're are a size J. She's done a few scenes for American companies (Score) but has mainly worked for the Japanese producers Moodyz and Oppai. She had her break-through in August 2009 with the Arashi-produced Super J. A part from basic boy-girl scenes, she has also done many bukkake scenes, after a long career of solo and soft-core porn. Her hair is generally ginger.

Maria Ozawa (小澤マリア), born 1986 in Sapporo, is maybe Japan's most famous actress. She's known outside of Japan mainly because she did several uncensored scenes, starting in 2008, which coincides with her mainstream break-through. Her mixed origins (Japanese/French-Canadian) have blessed with a unique face, that has lead to be considered a rather glmourous, top-model-type of actress. She's specialized in simulated rape porn, notably for companies like Attackers or Hokusai Porn. She also participated in a wide range of the kinkiest porn genres, including urophilia, interracial gangbang and gangbangs with shemales, as well as octopus-rape, a classic in Japanese Porn. She's received numerous awards in Japan, including several AV Grand Prix'.

Yui Hatano (波多野结衣) was born in Kyoto in 1988. She started her career in 2010. She's specialized in incest-related productions, such as Stepmother Incest, released in 2012 and starring also Yu Kamakami. She's starred in a rather narrow scope of porn genres, specializing mainly in lesbian and basic boy-girl scenes. She's worked mainly for the Moodyz and Madonna productions, both based in Japan. In spite of her young age, she's already done several MILF-genred scenes, including several where she acts as a teacher.

Japanese porn production is huge. It is estimated that around 14000 titles are produced every year, a massive figure compared to the USA's 3000. The estimated revenues solely from video porn (excluding hentai) is estimated to around $4 billion, the second largest market in the world after the American one, estimated at around $15 billion. Major porn producers include Tokyo-based Hokuto Corporation (株式会社北都), founded in 1990 and generating around $300 million a year with sub-companies like Moodyz, Cross (クロス), an upcoming company founded in 2005 in Tokyo and Wanz Factory (ワンズファクトリ), also based in Tokyo. Japan also benefits from a huge influence on neighbouring countries. As shown by PornMD's database, japanese porn is massively searched for all around the Asian Pacific countries.