As the year draws to a close, it's natural to look back on the past months and get a little nostalgic. Present-day Japanese gravure idols dressed up and photographed in the style of vintage pinup models? Yes, please! That's the basic concept behind a new photo book called Pin-Up Girls Selection, which is attempting to conjure up the image of "American porn from 100 years ago," according to the promo spiel. There are nine participating models: Rin Takahashi, ENA, Hinano Ayakawa, Miku Oshima, Miyako Sono, Miyu Nakagawa, Aya Hazuki, Haruka Bando, and Saki Yanase. Bando and Oshima are ...

The busty gravure idol (gradol) Aya Hazuki is making something of a comeback with her first solo photo book in nearly five years. To cement its success (i.e., sales), she has stripped off and, while just about technically preserving her modesty in terms of visible nipples, is essentially nude. In "Bonn," 28-year-old Aya is practically naked on the very cover, with just some yellow tape covering her tits. In the other preview shots, her amazing breasts are almost bursting out of her clothes or hands... "Bonn" came out last week at a busy time for the market. Miyako Sono has gone ...

What's better than one gravure idol? Fifty gravure idols! In June, Weekly Playboy brought together fifty of Japan's top scantily clad bikini models for what must surely be the photo shoot of the year. How many do you recognise? Many of the hottest gravure ladies are present and correct, including Yuka Kuramochi, Nanoka, Saya Kataoka, Saki Suzuki, Hikaru Aoyama, Hitomi Yasueda, Miko Terada, Aya Hazuki, Rin Tachibana, Yuka Someya, Iroha Yanagi, Ayuka Terada, Ikumi Hisamatsu, Rina Toeda, Fumina Suzuki, and more. We've included a sampling of the resulting shoot. You can really see the range ...