Last week, we reported on the arrest and deportation from Taiwan of porn star Mai Fujisaki, who had allegedly traveled there to engage in sex work.
Such cases are increasing (due to debts, the weak yen, and limited economic prospects in Japan), so much so that it is having serious repercussions for solo female travelers from East Asia, even if they are traveling for purely innocent purposes. Another story from last week was about porn star Yua Fukuda, who was detained at an airport in New Zealand, held for six hours, and then deported.
On June 12, Fukuda revealed on X how she was escorted ...
Ayame Misaki is back with a new digital photo book. Shot by ND Chow, wet moon came out via Shueisha and Weekly Playboy on May 18.
Living up to its title, it features a sweaty Misaki showing off her shapely body in a bikini.
Misaki is now 37 years old and seems set to replicate the success of Kyoko Fukada and continue such gravure beach shoots into her late thirties and even forties.
Like the voice actress Yuka Iguchi, Misaki reinvented her in her thirties with an athletic look boasting muscular curves and a sun-kissed body.
Beginning in 2021, her comeback has reaped dividends for ...
There's jukujo and then there's Yuka Iguchi.
The voice actress reinvented herself in her late thirties as an athletic, sexy idol, showing off her beach body in a dazzling series of photo shoots for gravure magazines. Now she's back with her glamorous figure.
Iguchi graces the cover of Weekly Playboy this month to promote her upcoming photo book, her third overall and her first in about two years following the hugely successful More More More. The as-yet-untitled book was lavishly shot in Vietnam and Japan, and comes out July 11 from Shueisha.
"I thought my previous photo book would be my ...
The veteran gravure idol Ayana Nishinaga is to retire from the industry after an 18-year career that began at the age of 12.
She released her fiftieth DVD in 2025, appropriately titled Bye-bye!, and appears in the current issue of Weekly Playboy, which has released a digital photo book called The Last to accompany her final shoot, suggestively featuring the model in a wedding dress.
The 30-year-old from Okayama describes in her interview in the magazine how she hopes to get married in her early thirties and start a family.
The magazine shoot features Nishinaga enjoying a "bath" with her ...
Two of our favorite ladies in gravure, together in one shoot.
Former AKB48 idol Mariya Nagao and model Yume Hayashi recently appeared together in an alluring lingerie shoot, which appeared in Friday just before Golden Week.
Such shoots with two gradols invariably have a lesbian undertone, even (or perhaps especially) when it's two sisters.
The 32-year-old Mariyagi has done these kinds of "joint" shoots before with her friend, Jun Amaki, who is set to retire from gravure this summer, sparking a million male fantasies of a threesome with them. Mariyagi also photographed one of ...
We do love the gravure comeback. Sure, it's sometimes just a marketing gimmick, a manufactured framing of a return in order to generate headlines. Other times, a comeback genuinely raises a nostalgic smile as we remember when the idol (and we) were younger, and marvel at how good they still are.
Recently, comebacks have been popular, with top stars from the 2000s returning to gravure for an anniversary or career boost: Nozomi Sasaki, Megumi Kagurazaka, Erika Sawajiri, and Atsuko Maeda.
But most of these ladies are still in their forties or even late thirties. What about those stunners from ...
In early March, we reported on Akari Yoshida's gravure comeback under a new name.
Now working as Akari Koda, she had just done her first shoot in about three years, appearing in the pages of Weekly Playboy.
It wasn't a one-off. Koda has leveraged that shoot to keep building momentum in the competitive world of gravure, which is always looking for the next talent as the major publications seek to keep readers interested at a time when other images are just a click or swipe away.
The 22-year-old Koda, who actually made her debut in the entertainment industry at the tender age of 13, has ...
We all have fantasies about the hot Asian nurses giving us very intimate medical checkups. Well, Nana Saejima (冴島なな) is the real deal: an actual nurse in Japan who moonlights as a gravure idol because she's got the assets for the job -- namely, a pair of G-cup breasts.
The 27-year-old Saejima is a newbie on the gravure scene, having debuted just last year, but is already set to release her first nude photo book on April 20.
Unfortunately, initial previews are censored so we don't get to see those lovely nipples, but we look forward to perusing the goodies after the book comes ...
The sisters Kei and Rei Jonishi have posed together for a sensual gravure photo shoot for Weekly Playboy featuring the two idols in alluring lingerie and swimwear.
Kei Jonishi is the older of the sisters, now 31 years and a member of Osaka music group NMB48 from 2010 to 2017. She has since done work as a model but has left a couple of agencies, and hasn't released a solo photo book (digital or print) for a few years.
Rei Jonishi is still just 24 years old and also a member of NMB48 since 2016. She released her most recent print photo book in March last year, and also features in the ...
Miku Ikuta debuted in the adult industry in 2017 and gained a following until she retired in February 2023. She then announced her marriage in April 2024.
The 28-year-old ex-performer recently sat down for an interview with Spa! about her post-porn life. We have translated some extracts.
Q. You debuted in June 2017. How did you end up on the path to becoming a JAV performer?
Originally, I was a huge fan of Ebisu Muscats (an idol group featuring porn stars). But when I was watching their show, I didn't know they were sexy actresses. I just saw them as pretty girls. I wondered who they were ...
