Regular readers may remember Yuka Kosaka, the former gravure idol who went on to work as a nursery teacher in Chiba. Kosaka had a turbulent career, hitting the big time in the mid-2000s but then ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...