Weekly Playboy showcases sexy older Japanese women

Older Japanese women are proving that age is just a number with sexy photo shoots for the latest issue of Weekly Playboy.

The November 23 issue of Weekly Playboy features a cover shoot with 46-year-old Akiko Yoshii, who is the oldest model to grave the cover of the magazine. The former NHK weather forecaster poses in a hot spring with a towel wrapped around her body.

Other pics feature the Keio graduate Yoshii in her underwear, teasing generous glimpses of her impressive bust. She made her gravure debut back in June with a shoot for Weekly Playboy, when she was still working for NHK.

The same issue features various other hot older Japanese woman.

The former CoCo member Maki Miyamae has done her first such shoot in about a decade, showing off her slim body, including her toned buttocks and naked back. Her shoot is accompanied by a digital photo book.

Miyamae is now 53 years old and was active as a music idol in the early 1990s. She effectively retired from the entertainment industry at age 30 in 2004 to work in food research, though has recently worked as an idol group producer and YouTuber.

Other models in the issue include 38-year-old actress Yuki Mizuhara (pictured), 32-year-old actress Misao Ueda (pictured), and the stunning 38-year-old voice actress Yuka Iguchi (pictured). Late thirties is prime jukujo territory for Japanese ladies.

As Japan’s population ages, so do its idols and models. Part of this is pure nostalgia: we love to see comebacks by the babes we lusted after in our teens and twenties, especially when they still looks great. A case in point is the recent photo book by Kumiko Takeda, who is in her late fifties, or the comeback by Akiko Hinagawa in her late forties.

But this is also a new development, with what are essentially first forays into gravure by celebrities at a much later age than usual. Another recent example is Tomoko Takenaka, who is branching into gravure in her forties and finding success as a mature (and busty) beauty.