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: ...
A new Japanese porn release appears to parody the 2024 Masahiro Nakai scandal, in which the former SMAP member and TV staple was accused of sexually assaulting a female colleague. The woman is generally assumed to be Nagisa Watanabe, though this has never been officially confirmed.
The controversy stemmed not just over the allegation but over whether or not Fuji TV had allowed a years-long system to develop in which female TV presenters were treated like "rewards" to be given to powerful men in the industry. It abruptly ended the career of Nakai, one of the most visible presences on TV ...
The days are chilly, the nights are long. We need something -- or someone -- to cheer up our lives. And that someone might just be Mei Hayashi.
The slender beauty has made her adult video debut in a 147-minute release from Ideapocket. First Impression 190: A Mysterious Beautiful Girl Seemingly out of a Fairy Tale (IPZZ780) came out January 9.
Mei is a tender 161 centimeters (5.3 feet) and 40 kilograms (88 pounds), making her a perfect choice of porn performer for guys who like petite Japanese or fun-sized Asians. Her very pale skin and body further accentuates her alluring charm. She ...
A major part of the appeal of events like the Tokyo Game Show and various car events is getting to see the slinkily dressed booth babes, known collectively as "companions" in Japanese. They stand at the promotional area, handing out flyers or otherwise attracting attention to the display with their bodies.
Sure, it's a deeply dated and sexist marketing technique, but it works, and the booth babes have developed their own fandom, with many attendees coming just for them. A small minority of companions even manage to move into gravure modeling, like Kanami Takasaki.
But like with cosplayers ...
And she's back. Just weeks after she was forced to resign over a sex scandal, Akira Ogawa has won re-election as mayor of Maebashi in Gunma.
Ogawa resigned in late November after a series of love hotel trysts with an older, married city worker were exposed by a tabloid scoop.
The 42-year-old Ogawa tried to claim the hotel meetings with the 54-year-old subordinate were just that, meetings related to work, but the public was unconvinced, and both she and the unnamed senior male civil servant resigned their positions. We speculated at the time that her career was then over, but she clearly had ...
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 ...
Tokyo Metropolitan Police has announced the arrest of Akira Awazu, a 51-year-old executive at an entertainment company based in Tokyo's Shinjuku ward, on suspicion of non-consensual sexual intercourse and violation of the Child Prostitution and Child Pornography Prohibition Act, for allegedly filming himself engaging in obscene acts with a 15-year-old junior high school girl and selling the footage as an adult video.
Awazu partially denies the charges, saying: "I though the girl was 18 years old." This was revealed in an interview with investigators, reports the Asahi Shimbun.
Awazu was ...
Ex-E-girls member Anna Ishii has a sex scene in the TV show Saint Love Survivors. She is shown having sex on all fours with her lover pounding her from behind as she grips the bed sheets. She is also shown enjoying her partner's embrace from behind while lying on her side.
This being mainstream Japanese TV, though, both actors are fully clothed throughout, which is about as realistic as it sounds. Nonetheless, the lingering closeups of Ishii's face as she feels her lover's thrusts into her body are very, very nice to watch. She has to cover her mouth to muffle her moans. Oh, we can imagine. ...
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 ...
The former AKB48 music idol Miki Nishino has announced her second pregnancy.
Nishino shocked fans by marrying the comedian Keiichi Yamamoto in 2022 when she was 23 years old. Yamamoto is 31 years older than her. She gave birth to their first child in October 2024. Their second is due in May.
Yamamoto looks particularly smug in a YouTube announcement video, though we guess you would do if you were 57 and your much-younger wife was still happy to let you impregnate her.
Further proof, if any were needed, that if you're funny, it doesn't matter what you look like, because you can always ...
