Chiharu Niiyama poses for first gravure shoot in 20 years with stunningly sexy results

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: it’s the older ladies who know how to sex things up.

The tarento and actress Chiharu Niiyama (新山千春) has released her first gravure shoots in — yes, this is quite a gap — 20 years!

Now aged 40, Niiyama last posed two decades ago. Last’s do a before-and-after.

Here is what she looks like now, featured in a recent issue of weekly magazine FLASH.

And here is what she looked like 20 years ago, in 1998.

This is her again in the magazine FLASH but in May last year.

Now that she is firmly in the jukujo “mature” stage of her life, we think Niiyama is actually much more alluring. Experience makes a lot of difference.

In the intervening years, Niiyama was married for eleven years to a basketball player, from whom she got divorced in 2014, and had a daughter. She started a comeback last year with the launch of an official YouTube channel.

We think she is trying to emulate the popularity of fortysomething hottie Asami Kumakiri.