Is there something in the air? Is it something about the glitz and glisten of summer?
We just shared the joyful news that slinky goddess Yuka Ogura has made a triumphant gravure comeback after an absence of about five years.
And now comes the tidings that Riho Takada has also returned to the fray.
Now aged 30, Takada has been focusing on her acting in recent years, including roles in tokusatsu series. In terms of comebacks, she has previous, making a glorious mini comeback in 2022 after many years away from gravure with a semi-nude photo book that showed off her athletic body.
She ...
More details are emerging about the prostitution ring that preyed on young women in Osaka.
As reported widely last month, police arrested Yusuke Kimura (34) and Koki Hideshima (24) for recruiting teenaged girls, violating the Anti-Prostitution Law and Child Welfare Law.
The girls were recruited from the Gurishita area of downtown Osaka (a district known as Minami). Gurishita is the spot near the Dotombori canal under the famous Glico Man billboard. It has become a notorious gathering place for underage delinquents and runaways, and a hotbed of prostitution and crime. Commentators have ...
Way back in 2019, in those pre-pandemic halcyon days, we lamented the departure of Yuka Ogura from gravure magazines. With the release of a hugely successful nude photo book, she announced she would no longer do swimsuit cover shoots for gravure magazines.
Well, now she's back -- older, wiser, and just as sexy.
The iyashi-kei "healing" idols with the gentle smile and girl-next-door looks has triumphantly returned to the world of gravure magazines for the first time in about five years with a cover shoot for the current issue of Kodansha's Young Magazine, which went on sale on Monday.
The ...
Have you ever wanted to date a gravure idol? Of course, how hasn't?! But how would that actually be possible?
Well, the easiest way is to be either rich or famous, it seems.
And how do such guys hook up with gravure models? Fellow celebrities presumably meet a lot at various kinds of events or through work gigs. But for others, it may not differ so much from us mere mortals: dating apps.
Sena Natsuki recently revealed in an interview on a TV Tokyo show that she is on the hunt for a new boyfriend and she is using a dating app specifically for celebrities.
"There's like a special access ...
The Osaka expo has proved controversial for a number of reasons, not least the huge budget overruns, the infestation of bugs, the unfinished pavilions, and the overpriced food.
But what about panchira (panties flash)? The latest issue involves a young Japanese woman who has posed for photos deliberately showing off her panties, and then posted those pics on social media for likes and views.
She certainly succeeded in getting a lot of attention.
The OL-themed cosplayer yuu_OLdays posed against the expo's famous wooden ring structure (the largest wooden structure in the world), wearing expo ...
Ahn So-hee is a former Korean singer who used to perform with the girl group Wonder Girls from 2007 to 2013. As an actress, her biggest credit to date is probably a role in the horror movie Train to Busan in 2016.
We discovered that Ahn So-hee may have also done nude sex scenes in low-budget erotic movies. Or did she?
This is complicated because the actress gets credited under different names, which include Ahn So-hee and Hanna, suggesting they are not the same person as the singer. (But do they kind of look alike? Or is this just wishful thinking on our part?)
At any rate, this ...
Eros and Thanatos are closely intertwined, Freud taught. And Asuka Watanabe embodies that curious entanglement.
The 30-year-old works as an occasional nude model but also had a former career as an embalmer -- specifically, the type of embalmer called a yukanshi, who specializes in the ritual washing of a dead body, as made famous in the Oscar-winning movie Departures (2008).
In a recent interview with the tabloid magazine Spa!, Watanabe explained more about her two professions. Here are some highlights.
Watanabe Asuka: When I researched about makeup, which I was interested in doing as a ...
Some women age well. And then there's Kyoko Fukuda.
The eternally youthful (and single) Fukada has appeared on the cover of Weekly Playboy, making her one of the oldest idols to earn the honor.
Now aged 42 (and turning 43 in November) and as comely as ever, Fukada appears on the cover of the latest issue of the magazine, which came out on June 30, wearing a figure-hugging swimsuit. She is fine company: the same issue features such gradols as Erika and Marina Momose, and various other young ladies two decades or more her junior. We'd take Fukada over them any day of the week, ...
Three years on from the passing of the controversial porn law, the situation for the Japanese adult video industry remains complex.
Prompted by a desire to curb the issue of coercion in porn that had led to numerous scandals and arrests, as well as fears that the lowering of the age of adulthood to 18 needed safeguards to protect teenagers from exploitation, the porn law gave performers much stronger rights, including cooling-off periods after a contract is signed and a production is filmed.
It seemed to usher in a real shift in the discourse, to such an extent that some pushed to end ...
Crime doesn't pay, they say, but it seems that's not true if you're in the recruitment racket for prostitutes.
According to multiple media reports, a scouting group called Access introduced 78,000 women to sex work at around 1,800 establishments nationwide over a five-year period from 2019. Let those numbers sink in: 78,000 women and 1,800 brothels.
Access earned ¥6 billion in commission, police estimate.
The scout group had contracts with adult entertainment establishments nationwide, and recruited women via social media. They expanded their influence by sending women's profiles, such ...
