The model, dancer, and rapper Karen Kimijima was recently arrested at Naha Airport on suspicion of smuggling synthetic drugs MDMA and ketamine from Thailand. Reported by Japanese news earlier this ...

This weekend is Comiket 106, the latest edition of Japan's largest cosplay and doujinshi event held at Tokyo Big Sight. But it's also mid-August in Tokyo, which is hot, humid, and very sweaty. ...

Right now, gravure feels a bit like a battle between the nearly 40-year-olds, all vying to outdo each other. Or it could be that for all the sweet charms of fresh-faced young newbies like Hina ...

Yuka Iguchi is Japan's hot jukujo of the moment. She went from relatively little-known voice actress and singer to a gravure star when she started showing off her sporty body in 2024. She released a ...

While much of the current police and media obsession with young female streetwalkers has focused on the Okubo-Kabukicho area of Tokyo, Osaka is also experiencing an apparent increase in visible ...

Many music idols have rules, explicit or implicit, that prevent them from having romantic or sexual relationships to keep up the pretense that fans have a chance of dating their favorite singer. If ...

Until a few days ago, Saori Araki (荒木佐保里) was little known even in Japan, to say nothing of outside the country. But that all changed this week. That Nagasaki-born idol with cute cheeks ...

She might be in her mid-fifties. She might be a nearly forgotten star from the 1990s. But Reiko Kato is proving that age is no obstacle as she continues her gravure comeback. After a shoot for ...

The backlash against former porn star Yua Mikami's attempts to build a mainstream career for herself in fashion has continued with viral and divisive criticism of her wearing a wedding ...

The moral panic about young prostitutes in Okubo Park near Kabukicho in Shinjuku, Tokyo, just took a new twist with the arrest of four women for defrauding men, especially foreign tourists. Ongoing ...