Just when you thought the AKB franchise couldn't get any bigger, along comes another sister group.
The AKB empire has stretched its tentacles all over the Japanese archipelago and even to Jakarta in Indonesia.
And now the "idols you can meet" concept finally arrives up in the colder climes of Hokkaido, Japan's large northern island. Next spring there will be SPR48, the new sister group in Sapporo, Hokkaido's capital city.
This is according to the AKB boss, Yasushi Akimoto, the 56-year-old honcho who the government wants to represent everything "Cool Japan" can offer to the ...
Now 41 but still alluring as ever, Ryoko Shinohara has loosened her shirt buttons again to show off her bust for a new Triumph bra ad to hit the small screen in Japan in September.
Here is the revealing ad for the new "Tenshi no Bra" (Angel's Bra).
Shinohara previously stripped off for the bra-makers spring ads, which boosted sales by 200%. That time the bra was a sultry red.
While not as sexy as its rivals Peach John and Ravijour, Triumph tends to focus on slightly odd publicity stunts with a biannual bra designed to reflected the motifs of the zeitgeist. Its use of Ryoko Shinohara ...
It's not easy being in an idol group. Constantly shuttling from photo shoot to TV appearance to recording studio to media interview. No real private life. Always under the watchful eye of your minders and agency controllers.
And now we have the sad news yesterday that Korean idol group Ladies' Code has lost one of its members in a traffic accident on a drive from Busan to Seoul.
EunB was killed and Sojung and Rise hurt, the latter critically, when a vehicle carrying all five members of the idol group crashed into a guardrail at 1.30 in the morning on Wednesday.
Other ...
Sony has bizarrely chosen to show off its virtual reality headset Project Morpheus with this creepy demo Summer Lesson, to be exhibited at Tokyo Game Show later this month.
Sony, perhaps with an eye on its dismal sales of late, seems to want to attract the otaku dollar, since the demo, in contrast to previous ones that involved such exciting scenarios as a shark cage, is about leering at a loosely-dressed schoolgirl as she hangs around at home.
Here's the demo, though you'll have to wait until TGS to test it out.
Directed and produced by Katsuhiro ("Tekken") Harada -- who ...
Let this be a warning to everyone: Don't snap pictures of hot Japanese girls you don't know. Anywhere.
Sure, we know we shouldn't do this in the office when a cutie goes by. And we also know there are plenty of cases of people being arrested for taking photos under girls' skirts.
But just an innocent snap of a pretty girl on the train. Surely this wouldn't be a police matter, right?
Wrong.
On the evening of August 28th, a 40-year-old Kawasaki City employee was riding the Denentoshin Line, a major suburban train line between Tokyo and Yokohama. He glanced at a cute 21-year-old ...
There has been some mild panic in the local media after reports of school kids catching Dengue fever from mosquitos in Yoyogi Park in central Tokyo on August 21st.
The cases have been increasing since then, with 22 confirmed victims so far. On August 27th the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare announced they were the first recorded domestic cases of Dengue fever in Japan in around 70 years.
A rather unlikely scenario has manifested itself, though, in that two tarento have also contracted the illness, it was announced today.
Eri Aoki (25) and Saaya (20) were doing a TV shoot ...
There you have it. Proof at last that porn is good for the world.
As reported a few days ago, this weekend saw the 24-Hour TV: Eroticism Saves the Earth event in Kabukicho, part of which was a breast squeeze-a-thon, where nine hot Japanese porn stars allowed their chests to be groped by random men... all for a good cause, honest!
Well, these gals helped raised ¥5 million (around $50,000) for a charitable foundation fighting AIDS in Japan!
The girls had 6,000 pairs of hands on their assets, groping for a grand total of over 15 hours spread over Saturday and Sunday.
Apparently ...
Breaking news just in. Japanese teenaged girls are cute.
Take this 17-year-old idol, Mizuki Kimoto. Born in 1996, this year she has started to appear in magazines like Young Jump in various states of undress.
Is this wrong? Should we be even looking at these young girls dressed like this?
Well, the powers that be in the world of Japanese idols and Gravure seem to disagree -- as do the girls' legal guardians -- since they have them disrobe for these kinds of photo shoots.
Here's another 17-year-old hottie.
The good news is that Mizuki ...
Korean-born model Youn-a (28) is marrying again this autumn, just over a year after divorcing a Korean businessman.
Her new partner and future husband is a Kotaro Shiba (40), head of office48, an agency connected to the company behind AKB48, AKS.
So far, not so Tokyo Kinky, you might think, though Youn-a is a bit of a hottie. Perhaps she will be appearing in the idol group in the future? That would be a real reason to listen to their "music" at last...
However, Kotaro Shiba is rumored to be connected to the Japanese mafia, the Yakuza, as we previously ...
As everyone knows, Japan is the world of technology.
Sometimes that engineering gets applies to home electronics, sometimes to automobiles, sometimes to nuclear reactors. And sometimes to sex toys.
And the result is you get the sex machine.
The pioneer was the Hitachi Magic Wand back in the 1970's, one of many electronic massagers that swiftly found extra unofficial uses. There have been a whole line of "wands" since, not least the Fairy.
But it's a few years ago when the genre really evolved.
The Rends A10 Cyclone has long been the most sophisticated and satisfactory sex ...
