Yuka Kosaka is making a gravure comeback at the age of 40.
Kosaka is releasing her first print photo book in 17 years. until the end: Naked Wash comes out on November 19 from Futabasha. As we might expect from someone who is now a businessperson, she took charge of the concept and production of the book.
It features a nude Kosaka on the cover in a version of the classic tebura (arm/hand bra) pose. Preview images already appeared in the October 20/27 issue of Weekly Taishu.
Kosaka was briefly a biggie in gravure in the 2000s before gaining a lot of weight and retiring in 2009. She then ...
Pity the police officer in "no crime" Japan. Of course, there is plenty of crime in Japan, at both the highest level of government and the lowest level of society (we wrote about a horrible case just yesterday). But in terms of petty crime, it's generally felt that Japan has less than other countries.
As such, cops sitting their police boxes or substations (known as a koban) have relatively little to do much of the time. Instead of twiddling their thumbs, though, some cops are up to mischief, it seems. With each other.
Two police officers in Kanagawa, the large prefecture that neighors ...
Here's a story so horrible that it made us practically spit our coffee out when we first read it in the Japanese-language media last Friday.
On November 6, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police announced the arrest of a 51-year-old male owner of a massage parlor on suspicion of violating the Labor Standards Act by employing a 12-year-old Thai girl.
The girl first came to Japan with her mother and police believe she was a victim of human trafficking. She was forced to provide sexual services to male customers at the parlor.
According to the announcement that was widely reported by media outlets, ...
In August, an influencer provoked a small scandal by posting selfies of herself at Tokyo Disneyland in an unbuttoned shirt and clearly intending to show off her bra and cleavage.
The backlash and attention got so much that Uta had to delete her original posts.
We didn't write about it at the time because we were traveling and the excitement seemed to die down quite quickly. These little "outrages" come and go, like the waxing and waning of the interwebs' lunar cycle. It was also the latest in a series of small scandals about influencers and others wearing provocative clothing to theme ...
The disgraced actor Mei Nagano is to take her first real steps toward a comeback with the release of a 2026 calendar on December 21.
The 26-year-old Nagano's career suffered a catastrophic collapse when her alleged affair with 41-year-old married actor Kei Tanaka was reported by the tabloids in April.
At the time, she was also supposedly in a relationship with a Korean actor, Kim Moo-jun, with whom she costarred in a TV drama.
Both she and father-of-two Kei Tanaka denied an affair, though admitted they were close and that he had stayed over at her apartment. Various damning photos ...
The veteran gravure idol Miho Abe has said that she has twice turned down lucrative offers to appear in porn.
The model and actor shared on X on November 3 some information about the past offers in response to an impertinent fan (whose original post has been deleted).
I turned down offers of an adult contract for ¥100 million two years ago and ¥30 million 10 years ago, but I do what I do because I love it. Of course, it's a job that's for the money, but please don't be rude to adult actresses. It's a very difficult job, and it's completely different from what I do. Leave me alone.
When ...
According to an article in Weekly Women Prime, Japan is seeing a rapid rise in the number of establishments offering sexual services to women from male "therapists."
The claim is based on extensive research by a manga artist, Yachinatsu (pictured), who has published on the topic of sexual services for women. Her manga Do Women Need Sex Entertainment Prostitution? has sold over 300,000 in Japan and been translated into English.
While the industry has become accessible enough that married people and those even in their sixties and seventies are using the services she says various risks must ...
The tabloid Spa! recently ran an interview with a 33-year-old, heavily tattooed employee in the construction industry who goes by the online name Cyber Lisapi.
Lisapi did compensated dating from junior high school and has also worked at a brothel (fuzoku). Her colorful past also includes addiction to illegal drugs.
In the interview, she shares more about her turbulent life. We've shared some edited highlights below.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, her childhood was unsettled.
"My parents divorced when I was about six years old. My mother worked as a hostess at a club, so I don't think she had ...
Just yesterday we posted about the gang of eight thieves who allegedly beat and robbed a foreign man who had picked up a streetwalker. The issue of young streetwalkers, known as tachinbo in Japanese, in the Kabukicho area of Shinjuku, especially around Okubo Park, has become a huge social panic, with media reports and police crackdowns appearing almost weekly, along with the Toyoko kids delinquency problem.
To help explain the tachinbo issue, the manga artist Sugimura (also known as Sugiyan) created a short comic in English as part of the This Is Japan! series. It was published online on ...
A gang has been arrested for robbing and assaulting a foreign man as he exited a love hotel with a prostitute he had picked up in Shinjuku, Tokyo.
The eight people allegedly surrounded the man in his fifties, taunted him for his actions and threatened to tell others, and then beat and robbed him of the cash he was carrying -- ¥1.1 million -- in a rucksack. With that much cash on his person, he was either a bit naive or planning to have a lot of fun in Kabukicho.
The incident took place back in February this year and the victim required a month to recover from his injuries. Earlier in ...
