{"id":49289,"date":"2025-06-20T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=49289"},"modified":"2025-06-20T17:52:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T08:52:27","slug":"japanese-sex-doll-museum-bans-major-vtuber-agency-from-visits-in-furious-public-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/japanese-sex-doll-museum-bans-major-vtuber-agency-from-visits-in-furious-public-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese sex doll museum bans major VTuber agency from visits in furious public announcement\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Yashio Hihokan <\/strong>\u2013 Japan\u2019s only dedicated love doll museum \u2013 has published a scalding letter<\/a> in which it calls major VTuber agency Nijisanji \u201ca bunch of scumbags\u201d and \u201ca lawless organization,\u201d barring all of its VTubers from visiting for interviews and other forms of content. The museum owner accuses Nijisanji of visiting without an appointment, recording without permission and sending him rude emails. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yashio Hihokan is a privately held museum that showcases the personal love doll collection of Japanese photographer Yoshitaka Hyodo. The building doubles as Hyodo\u2019s home, so even regular visitors are required to make an appointment via email beforehand. It seems that a Nijisanji-affiliated VTuber visited the premises without prior notice, and after being turned down made a reservation while concealing the fact that they were there to record monetized content. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Screenshot
Nijisanji has since delisted the video in question<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The VTuber released a video (now delisted<\/a>) including some audio recordings that Hyodo alleges were taken in secret and without permission. This included explanations of the dolls by a third party who didn\u2019t consent to being recorded. Hyodo explains that to avoid such complications, he always schedules interviews on special days, but that Nijisanji disregarded this in an attempt to take advantage of the museum for profit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hyodo says that given the VTuber\u2019s young age, he initially intended to brush off what happened and move on, but that he ultimately decided to speak out after a manager at Nijisanji started sending him emails he describes as disgusting. \u201cIf you want to do an interview, there\u2019s a proper way to go about it. You people didn\u2019t follow any of that, and then had the nerve to act rude toward someone who was being tolerant. I will never deal with you again,\u201d reads the museum\u2019s official blog entry. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a bizarre case, Japan’s major VTuber agency Nijisanji has been banned from making visits to a sex doll museum,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":49292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,65],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-49289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-nongaming-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"\nJapanese sex doll museum bans major VTuber agency from visits in furious public announcement\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In a bizarre case, Japan's major VTuber agency Nijisanji has been banned from making visits to a sex doll museum,\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/japanese-sex-doll-museum-bans-major-vtuber-agency-from-visits-in-furious-public-announcement\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Japanese sex doll museum bans major VTuber agency from visits in furious public announcement\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In a bizarre case, Japan's major VTuber agency Nijisanji has been banned from making visits to a sex doll museum,\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/japanese-sex-doll-museum-bans-major-vtuber-agency-from-visits-in-furious-public-announcement\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"AUTOMATON WEST\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-06-20T13:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250620-49289-header.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1113\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"617\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Amber V\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@AUTOMATON_ENG\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@AUTOMATON_ENG\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Amber V\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Japanese sex doll museum bans major VTuber agency from visits in furious public announcement\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST","description":"In a bizarre case, Japan's major VTuber agency Nijisanji has been banned from making visits to a sex doll museum,","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/japanese-sex-doll-museum-bans-major-vtuber-agency-from-visits-in-furious-public-announcement\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Japanese sex doll museum bans major VTuber agency from visits in furious public announcement\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST","og_description":"In a bizarre case, Japan's major VTuber agency Nijisanji has been banned from making visits to a sex doll museum,","og_url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/japanese-sex-doll-museum-bans-major-vtuber-agency-from-visits-in-furious-public-announcement\/","og_site_name":"AUTOMATON WEST","article_published_time":"2025-06-20T13:00:00+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1113,"height":617,"url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250620-49289-header.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Amber V","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@AUTOMATON_ENG","twitter_site":"@AUTOMATON_ENG","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Amber V","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/japanese-sex-doll-museum-bans-major-vtuber-agency-from-visits-in-furious-public-announcement\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/japanese-sex-doll-museum-bans-major-vtuber-agency-from-visits-in-furious-public-announcement\/"},"author":{"name":"Amber V","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/fdc6517a00e35b6917ffdb02e8b574d9"},"headline":"Japanese sex doll museum bans major VTuber agency from visits in furious public announcement\u00a0","datePublished":"2025-06-20T13:00:00+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/japanese-sex-doll-museum-bans-major-vtuber-agency-from-visits-in-furious-public-announcement\/"},"wordCount":323,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/japanese-sex-doll-museum-bans-major-vtuber-agency-from-visits-in-furious-public-announcement\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250620-49289-header.jpg","keywords":["News (Japan-related)"],"articleSection":["News","Non-Gaming News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/japanese-sex-doll-museum-bans-major-vtuber-agency-from-visits-in-furious-public-announcement\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/japanese-sex-doll-museum-bans-major-vtuber-agency-from-visits-in-furious-public-announcement\/","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/japanese-sex-doll-museum-bans-major-vtuber-agency-from-visits-in-furious-public-announcement\/","name":"Japanese sex doll museum bans major VTuber agency from visits in furious public announcement\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/japanese-sex-doll-museum-bans-major-vtuber-agency-from-visits-in-furious-public-announcement\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/japanese-sex-doll-museum-bans-major-vtuber-agency-from-visits-in-furious-public-announcement\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250620-49289-header.jpg","datePublished":"2025-06-20T13:00:00+00:00","description":"In a bizarre case, Japan's major VTuber agency Nijisanji has been banned from making visits to a sex doll museum,","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/japanese-sex-doll-museum-bans-major-vtuber-agency-from-visits-in-furious-public-announcement\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/japanese-sex-doll-museum-bans-major-vtuber-agency-from-visits-in-furious-public-announcement\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/japanese-sex-doll-museum-bans-major-vtuber-agency-from-visits-in-furious-public-announcement\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250620-49289-header.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250620-49289-header.jpg","width":1113,"height":617,"caption":"Image Credit: Yashio Hihokan"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/japanese-sex-doll-museum-bans-major-vtuber-agency-from-visits-in-furious-public-announcement\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"\u30db\u30fc\u30e0","item":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Japanese sex doll museum bans major VTuber agency from visits in furious public announcement\u00a0"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/","name":"AUTOMATON WEST","description":"AUTOMATON is a website that covers the Japanese gaming world. We bring you the news on video games from Osaka and Tokyo.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#organization","name":"\u682a\u5f0f\u4f1a\u793e\u30a2\u30af\u30c6\u30a3\u30d6\u30b2\u30fc\u30df\u30f3\u30b0\u30e1\u30c7\u30a3\u30a2","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/activegamingmedia_logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/activegamingmedia_logo.png","width":374,"height":190,"caption":"\u682a\u5f0f\u4f1a\u793e\u30a2\u30af\u30c6\u30a3\u30d6\u30b2\u30fc\u30df\u30f3\u30b0\u30e1\u30c7\u30a3\u30a2"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/AUTOMATON_ENG","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCabvYnvuUUbbGUrxkaFRgSA"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/fdc6517a00e35b6917ffdb02e8b574d9","name":"Amber V","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/12252024-100x100.jpg","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/12252024-100x100.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/12252024-100x100.jpg","caption":"Amber V"},"description":"Editor-in-Chief since October 2023. She grew up playing Duke Nukem and Wolfenstein with her dad, and is now enamored with obscure Japanese video games and internet culture. Currently devoted to growing Automaton West to the size of its Japanese sister-site, while making sure to keep news concise and developer stories deep and stimulating.","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/author\/amber-vjestica\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49289"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49295,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49289\/revisions\/49295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}