Celebrating the fortieth anniversary of top gravure magazine Weekly Friday, the Grademy Award was announced last autumn and votes collected online to find what was billed as Asia's top ...

Here's some very good news for fans of gravure idol and actress Yuno Ohara, and we know that there are hundreds of thousands of them out there. The 25-year-old gradol has just released her fourth ...

Yuumi (sometimes spelled Yumi) Kawai has made her nude debut in last year's Desert of Namibia. Kawai is 24 years old and one of the most acclaimed young actresses in Japan right now, known for her ...

Aging like a fine red wine, the former Japanese TV announcer Mariko Seyama has proven year by year that older is not only better, but more provocative. The mature gravure star has continued to ...

Police have raided a brothel that offered services to foreign tourists, arresting seven for violating the prostitution law. The establishment in Kabukicho, central Tokyo, provided Japanese sex ...

A month ago, we wrote about the trial of former House of Representatives member Tamotsu Shiiki underway at Tokyo District Court, accused of sexually assaulting a junior high school first grader in a ...

Shortly after the allegations of Masahiro Nakai brought the career of one of TV's top stars to a screeching halt, and ruined the credibility of one of the biggest broadcasters, now come allegations ...

The new photo book by Yuki Kashiwagi has reminded us that a bunch of idols and models have made similar comebacks of late, some doing it just for kicks and others hoping to ride nostalgia to a quick ...

Former AKB48 idol Yuki Kashiwagi appears on the cover of the current issue of Weekly Young Jump, making a striking gravure comeback as she launches her latest photo book, Time Capsule. The book went ...

The gravure idol and actress Ayano Sumida has released a statement about inappropriate physical contact at a launch event she recently held. On January 27, Sumida posted on social media about ...