Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Customers are asked to keep conversation to a minimum upon entering Leiya Arata’s home studio in Osaka. By the time make-up and ...

Photographs taken inside Japan's oldest 'love doll' factory show the frighteningly realistic extremes the makers have made to create a life-like product. The largest sex doll factory in the country, ...

It’s nice to believe that, in this world, the supply of love is infinite and eternal, produced in the hearts of those who’ve found someone to care for. However, the supply of love dolls is limited, ...

Crouching on the floor, a worker tenderly cleans the fingertips of a 'love doll'. While today there are numerous producers of shockingly realistic sex dolls around the world, the Orient Love Doll ...

From as early as the 7th century, dolls have become an integral part of Japanese culture for rites, fortune, abundance, blessing, entertainment, and even communication. According to Japanese belief, ...