Now 33, Mio Oichi (音市美音) worked in the Japanese adult video industry from 2011 to 2012, and then again from 2014 to 2015, and a final time in 2018.
In a long and wide-ranging interview with Spa! earlier this month, she talked about her career and the difficulties she has faced as a former porn star. We've translated some highlights.
Her JAV career began in a fairly typical way.
"I was scouted when I made my debut. I was walking down the street when someone called out to me, and I went for an interview at an agency. I was young and interested in working in the entertainment ...
We all love Japanese porn stars. We all want to have sex with them.
But would you want to marry one?
Because of the nature of their profession, porn stars sometimes face discrimination when it comes to marriage, parenthood, and further career options.
Those who have tried to develop new careers in the public eye have suffered criticism, such as Yua Mikami for her modeling and fashion brand work, and those who have openly shared details about their marriages and children have also received abuse online.
On a recent episode of Abema's Hyena of Love, porn star Ai Sayama was shown discussing ...
Kanna Seto burst onto the Japanese adult video scene late last year and quickly made a huge impression with her girl-next-door face, pale skin, slim body, and huge breasts. It is a formidable combination and her debut attracted some of the biggest online attention we have seen in a long while.
Seto's career has gone from strength to strength, releasing 12 titles since then from S1 No. One Style and building a following both in Japan and in other parts of Asia.
The 21-year-old's first photo book came out from Shogakukan in January and she has at least three more AV titles scheduled ...
Many music idols have rules, explicit or implicit, that prevent them from having romantic or sexual relationships to keep up the pretense that fans have a chance of dating their favorite singer.
If you think music idols are not having sex, though, you've pretty naive, as the various dating "scandals" have demonstrated over the years.
Some idols are even more sexually active than you might suspect, including having secret porn careers.
Tsumugi Mugino was recently fired from the Hokkaido idol group Icecream Square after her alleged appearance in an "amateur" porn release came to ...
The backlash against former porn star Yua Mikami's attempts to build a mainstream career for herself in fashion has continued with viral and divisive criticism of her wearing a wedding dress.
Mikami was appearing as a guest at a public talk that was part of a boat racing event in Yamaguchi on July 27.
A twentysomething married woman who wanted to wear the same dress design for her bridal photos wrote a vitriolic post on X on July 27 about how her plans were no ruined by the ex-adult video performer. It got a surprising amount of attention (120.5 million views, 152,000 likes, and 3,3000 ...
The adult video star Tsukasa Aoi has announced her retirement.
One of the biggest names in Japanese porn, Tsukasa Aoi posted on Instagram on July 20 that she would retire on August 17.
The 34-year-old wrote that she would no longer work as Tsukasa Aoi and that her exhibition at Gallery Le Déco from August 5, would be her final work.
The wording of her announcement does leave open the possiblity that Aoi will continue to work in porn or make a comeback later under a different performer name, which often happens when performers switch agencies due to contractual restrictions on using ...
Yesterday we published an article about Neru Nagahama's comeback photo book, the Keyakizaka46 music idol's first such release in eight years.
Nagahama is a rare case of a music idol from an AKB or Sakamichi group who has maintained a career after graduating. Most of the more minor members disappear into obscurity -- to say nothing of the many, many other wannabe idols who audition but never even get into the minor ranks.
And some wind up doing porn.
Netizens have identified a former auditionee for Sakurazaka46 (as Keyakizaka46 is now known) as a new porn star Nagi Yasaka ...
In January, the Japanese porn star Yuki Takeuchi had announced that she would retire from the adult video industry at the end of this year, but she has now said that she will delay her retirement by a further year.
Many fans had hoped she would do this because she wanted to keep making JAV productions due to audience demand, and while that may be true in part, Takeuchi recently revealed the real reason behind the extra 12 months.
Takeuchi was the victim of a financial scam that saw her lose her savings, she shared on an episode of Abema's Hyena of Love 4 (the same show on which ...
The former porn star Emiri Okazaki has announced she is pregnant.
Now 36, Okazaki made her adult video debut via Muteki in 2011. She also worked under the name EMIRI and was a member of the JAV idol music group Pinkey, which was produced by the late Kishin Shinoyama, famed for his nude photography, and active from 2012 to 2015.
Prior to her porn career, she was gyaru-style model. Since her retirement in 2016, she has been a YouTuber and entrepreneur with a business selling supplements.
Okazaki's announcement was accompanied by some maternity photos (weirdly also featuring her dog, ...
Given the huge volume of porn produced in Japan and, thus, the large number of women involved, it is inevitably that many of the performers will have families after they retire from the industry. The question of former or current adult video stars raising families is one that occasionally appears in the media, often with a degree of sympathy (for the abuse they can suffer online) and curiosity.
Spa! recently featured an interview with AiRis, an up-and-coming gravure idol and singer who is also the daughter of 46-year-old former porn star Mariko Sata.
Single mom Sata was active in the ...
