The Japanese music industry was rocked on Friday by the publication of a scoop by the tabloid Weekly Post alleging that singer and producer Mitsuhiro Hidaka has received nighttime visits from an underage idol to his home. The 39-year-old Hidaka is a rapper, actor, dancer, and member of the J-pop group AAA, and also works as a solo artist under the name Sky-Hi. He is also president of the entertainment production company BMSG, which represents many famous idols. Weekly Post has learned that Hidaka repeatedly "summoned" an underage idol to his home late at night. Sadly, it should come as a ...

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The manga artist and cosplayer Ami Honami has made a spectacular professional gravure debut in the latest issue of Weekly Flash, which went on sale on December 16. Acclaimed as too beautiful and already enjoying a large online fandom, this is the model's first appearance in a gravure magazine. She has gone with a classic white lingerie shoot, showing off her slim body as she lounges on a pristine bed. On December 26, Honami will also release a 90-page digital photo book called First Love. From the looks of things, Christmas has come early. Slink, sexy Honami has also released a ...

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The popular YouTuber Ikechan has launched her photo book Afterglow, which is advertised as her final gravure release following her adultery scandal in July. Published by Kodansha, the book came out on December 10. To promote it, Ikechan has made her first public appearance since her scandal in July, when it emerged that she was having a relationship with a married man, Kosuke Minowa, a prominent editor at publisher Gentosha. They were pictured by a tabloid photographed after a Korean BBQ date. The images of Ikechan, puffing out her cheeks and looking cute and happy with a belly full of ...

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The curvy, comely Sayaka Isoyama has demonstrated her ageless allure yet again with the release of her latest photo book Yoin (translating as “afterglow” or “resonance”). It was released by major publisher Kodansha on October 22, marking Isoyama’s 25th anniversary in the entertainment industry. Kodansha quickly released a follow-up digital edition, afterglow, on December 5 with further images. Both books were shot in Cairns when Isoyama was 41 years old, though she has since turned 42. Isoyama is famously unmarried and perpetually single. Images of a voluptuously, ...

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Former actor Takahisa Maeyama updated his Instagram on December 12, revealing that he's now working at a men's lounge in Roppongi. He shared a video of himself smiling as he strolls through Roppongi at night. He also attached a link to the TikTok account for Century Tokyo, the club where he works. In a TikTok video, he revealed his new professional name of Manato and the name of the host club where he is now employed. This is the latest chapter in a roller-coaster period for Maeyama, who was originally scheduled to make an acting comeback in a play in November last year. The production ...

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A member of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly came out as pansexual during a speech asking Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike about improvements to the partnership system for LGBTQ+ couples. Yuki Higashi has previously worked as a nurse and now serves in the assembly for the Constitutional Democratic Party, having won her seat in June. She previously served in the Shinagawa ward assembly. The 36-year-old made the speech at the assembly on December 10, explaining that "I am a member of the sexual minority community." A pansexual is attracted to regardless of their gender (this is treated as distinct ...

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In November, Bunshun published a two-part report about an elderly female prostitute, based on a book by Mizuho Takagi about street prostitution in the Kabukicho district of Shinjuku, Tokyo. The same book included an interview with a teen prostitute in Kabukicho, previously introduced in October. One morning in Kabukicho, Takagi called out to an elderly woman crouching on the asphalt and got to know her. Kumi (not her real name) was standing on the street, working as an elderly streetwalker for ¥3,000 a session. She looked to be over 60 years old. He gradually came to learn her story. Born ...

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One of the biggest media stories in the autumn was the salacious scoop about the female mayor of Maebashi, a small city just outside Tokyo, and her love hotel trysts with an older male staffer. After admitting the meetings and in the inappropriateness of them, but continuing to denying she was having an affair with the married man, 42-year-old Akira Ogawa eventually resigned as mayor in late November. Most voters interviewed by the media found Ogawa's explanations unconvincing and it was clear that her position was untenable. The city set up a special hot line and received over 12,000 phone ...

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On December 5, Tokushima Prefectural Assembly approved the resignation of assemblymember Hiroshi Furukawa, who was arrested at a Tokyo hotel on suspicion of secretly filming a woman working at a delivery health (outcall) adult entertainment establishment. He is a representative of the prefectural headquarters for Komeito, known as the "clean government" party and affiliated with the Buddhist religious movement Soka Gakkai. He was arrested on the night of November 28 at a hotel in Akasaka, Tokyo, on suspicion of violating the Act on Punishment of Sexual Photography, for secretly filming the ...

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Does regular sex with a prostitute count as adultery? It's not just a moral question, but a legal one, because it could be grounds for divorce and a lawsuit, since an aggrieved spouse can sue the lover in Japan for damages if it can be proved they knew the man or woman was married. FNN recently reported on a father of four married for 24 years who had a secret. He was secretly meeting a woman he met at a brothel at a love hotel once a month, paying her ¥30,000 each time. Upon learning of his betrayal, his wife directed her anger at the other woman, and sued her for ¥3.3 million. All three ...

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