The mechanical dolls of the Edo period, called karakuri ningyō, were the starting point of Japan’s love affair with robots. The intricate clockwork motors inside dolls create playful, realistic ...

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, ...

TOKYO, JAPAN - APRIL 28: [test frame] A Love Doll is exhibited at Vanilla Gallery on April 28, 2016 in Tokyo, Japan. Japanese sex doll maker Orient Industry exhibited their life size Love Dolls in ...

Much like how Barbie is the must-have toy for doll-loving kids in the West, youngsters in Japan clamor en masse for little Licca-chan dolls. Licca-chan is fashionable, pretty, and comes with soft ...

Ever wondered where your sex and love dolls come from? The answer’s probably Japan. Over in Tokyo sits the oldest and largest maker of humanlike silicone love dolls, Orient Industry. It’s been around ...

As other people already said, this isn't only in Japan, but it's a worldwide phenomenon, and it's old news. But what apparently some people didn't say yet, is that sexless marriages are a lot common ...

Katsuo-ji Temple is known as the "Daruma temple" due to its large collection of the dolls. - Rebecca Cairns/CNN At Katsuo-ji Temple, Daruma dolls watch from every corner. They peer between tree ...

NEW super realistic high-end sex dolls that sell for nearly $10,000 are part of a new exhibit in a Tokyo art gallery. TOKYO, JAPAN - APRIL 28: [test frame] A Love Doll is exhibited at Vanilla Gallery ...

TOKYO—When the spark went out of Masayuki Ozaki’s marriage, he found an unusual outlet to plug the romantic void — a silicone sex doll he swears is the love of his life. The life-size dummy, called ...