Fans of early period AKB48 idols are in for a treat right now with the recent photo shoots of Haruna Kojima, who looks ravishing at 37, and the new photo book by Atsuko Maeda.
Maeda has established herself as a serious actress since leaving the idol group in 2012, having been with it since the very beginning. She also got married, had a child, and then divorced. Today, she's a 34-year-old single mom.
Japanese idol groups are often premised on members with girl-next-door looks and whose fandom emphasizes their normality. This was very much the case with AKB48 too, so much so that it's ...
The former music idol Haruna Kojima still looks amazing at 37, as these recent pictures from a photo shoot demonstrate. They show her in a figure-hugging black swimsuit that reveals her trim body, flat stomach, and slender legs.
Kojiharu, as she is nicknamed, turns 38 in April and is one of the hottest jukujo in Japan, up there with Sayaka Isoyama and Kyoko Fukada.
The Saitama native was part of the early period of AKB48 history, when the supergroup was ubiquitous and produced several mainstream stars. She was a member of the group from 2005 to 2017, after which she worked as a fashion ...
Former gravure model Chisato Morishita has won her seat in the snap election called by Sanae Takaichi, which saw the ruling Liberal Democratic Party secured a big majority and wipe out much of the opposition.
After some years of campaigning and failing to win a seat, Morishita finally became a member of the lower house in the 2024 election (and thus, Japan's hottest lawmaker) through the LDP's proportional representation allocation. She was then given a minor Cabinet position in 2025, like other prominent women in the Takaichi government.
This time, she won her seat outright, comfortably ...
She promised us more with her nipples, and she delivered.
The leading gravure idol Kisumi Amau recently wowed fans with wet pics from her new photo book. In the pool-themed shots, her nipples are clearly visible through her soaking swimsuit.
The 29-year-old former music idol's third photo book, Bonus, came out January 7 from Shueisha.
Even better, more images from the photo book showed that the gradol has really let rip this time with some nude shots. Perhaps conscious that the clock is ticking down on her career now that she's leaving her twenties, she has opted to do some very ...
The gravure idol Kisumi Amau has delighted fans with a wet shoot in which she poses in a skin-tight one-piece swimsuit, with her nipples clearly visible through the fabric.
Amau started off her career as a music idol in the early 2010s. The 29-year-old has now established herself as one of the top gradols at the moment.
She has just released her third print photo book, Bonus, which came out on January 7 from Shueisha.
We are having trouble confirming the source the new images of Kisumi Amau, though presume they are from Bonus, as Amau doesn't seem to appear in any of the weekly ...
Ever wondered what a chest X-ray looks like if you have a G-cup bust?
Coroco Toyoshima gave us an intimate glimpse into her body -- literally inside her body. The leading gravure idol posted a picture of her chest X-ray on social media on January 23, which soon went viral. At the time of writing, it's been viewed a whopping 43.2 million times! That's a lot more than how many look at our X-rays whenever we have a medical checkup.
The apparently innocuous post was even reported in the mainstream media.
The X-ray shows the shape of the ribs on her small chest, with the huge mounds of her ...
A few years ago, we were delighted to see the return of Hiroko Sato, making big splash with a full-frontal nude photo book. She was then in her early thirties and a single mom, having carved out a career in gravure and acting since her teens, and becoming better known in the 2000s for her roles in sexploitation movies.
The most famous is the R18-rated A Night in Nude — Salvation (2010) with Naoto Takenaka, in which Sato appears nude in numerous scenes.
We were in awe of this gorgeous single mom's natural and slinky body, and that fine bush of hair downstairs.
Well, the plot thickens: ...
We are very sad to report the death of gravure idol Aoi Fujino from cancer at the age of 27.
Fujino officially retired on New Year's Eve with a handwritten note posted to social media. "Given my current condition, I'm in no position to say that I am fine or OK, even if I had to lie," she admitted. "Everything is getting worse, and it feels like anything could happen at any time. I'm fighting a daily battle with my body, which is at its limit."
After a fight against parapharyngeal cancer for several years, she died on January 5, according to an announcement made by her family four days ...
Nagisa Watanabe has bounced back from personal hardship to achieve major gravure success with her debut photo book, Horizon, which has now won the top prize at the Weekly Playboy Gravure japan Award 2025.
Watanabe commented: "When I received the offer to do the photo book, I remember repeatedly telling my editor, 'Are you sure you want me? It won't sell, you know?' I was filled with anxiety from my first overseas shoot to the release date, but I am filled with gratitude to all the staff who worked with me to create Horizon."
Watanabe is a former TV announcer who is generally assumed to be ...
Last year was full of gravure comebacks big and small. One of the more minor ones that nonetheless made us happy was Mayumi Yamanaka, now a mother of two and a mature, sensual 32.
In July 2025, she made a return to gravure after a few years away, appearing in a Weekly Playboy shoot and releasing a digital photo book. Mayumi has been in the industry for over two decades, having started as a junior idol when a teen. Her comeback proved once again that jukujo are the best.
She's also got a 30-year-old sister, Tomoe, who ostensibly retired in 2020.
That seems to have changed, though, since the ...
