The former AKB48 idol Haruna Kojima has focused on fashion modeling and her own apparel brand since leaving the music group.
She has transformed herself into a savvy businesswomen by building a brand that puts her own popularity as a model at its center. Now aged 37, Kojiharu can claim business triumph with the sale this month of her apparel company heart relation for ¥3.5 billion ($22 million) to e-commerce company yutori.
She created heart relation in 2020 to run her (oddly named) brand Her lip to (which she founded in 2018) and Her lip to BEAUTY. She set to receive the payment in two ...
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 ...
In her new photo book, 36-year-old Haruna Kojima goes nude with some pics that are going to send her legions of fans' pulses racing.
We've been following Kojiharu's career ever since her AKB48 days and we are pretty sure this is perhaps her most explicit shoot yet, though it sadly stops short of actual nudity in terms of nipples or full butt (luckily Sayaka Nitori showed us how to do shoots with nipples well earlier this year).
Still doing lingerie modeling despite both her age (approaching 40) and success as an entrepreneur, Haruna's first photo book in nine years came out at the end of ...
On any other day, the only thing notable and newsworthy about Haruna Kojima's meet-and-greet event in Shibuya last night to promote her new photo book would have been the appearance of fellow AKB48 alum Minami Takahashi, who turned up to get a copy of the book and say hello to Kojiharu (and perhaps get away from her smelly husband).
The former music idol and model, who still looks stunning at age 36 and is now a successful fashion entrepreneur, met with fans eager to get their hands on her newly released latest photo book -- her first in nine years.
One fan, though, was eager to get his ...
Earlier this week, we wrote about Haruna Kojima's sexy body that the 36-year-old showed off for all the world to see on her social media (and also cleverly promoting her own brand of lingerie).
Now the head of her own fashion company and basking in the wealth that comes from selling a clutch of shares to a major retailer, the former AKB48 idol has also just announced a gravure comeback with her first photo book in nine years!
The as-yet-untitled book will come out in Japan via major publisher Takarajimasha on October 28.
Her previous photo book in 2015 sold 170,000 copies and Kojiharu ...
When we look back to those first generations of AKB48 in the late 2000s, it almost seems like carefree halcyon days when the nastiness of Japan's idol industry -- which we all knew was there -- was not the dominant talking point in the discourse, and everywhere we went we saw ads featuring the young ladies from the Akihabara supergroup.
Most of the members are now long gone from our lives, both those from the first "generation" and subsequent ones, with perhaps just a couple -- Atsuko Maeda and Yuko Oshima -- succeeding at establishing real acting careers.
We always had a soft spot for slinky ...
The former AKB48 idol Haruna Kojima has returned to gravure with her first shoot in six years.
She appears in a cover shoot for Young Magazine's May 1 issue, which went on sale this week.
As you might expect, the return of the model -- now aged 34, well into luscious jukujo territory -- known for her pale skin and slinky body has generated reams of media coverage. The magazine shoot, which was done in Okinawa, features Kojiharu in alluring, summery swimwear.
We've included some highlights here.
Her last bikini gravure shoot was for Young Magazine in 2017. The comeback is ...
The New Year (Oshogatsu) period in Japan is characterized by the various household decorations people put up, the special food that is cooked for consumption on January 1, and the TV marathons that people indulge in, largely for lack of anything else to do.
But there are rays of hope underneath the dregs: occasional shows that contain segments almost expressly designed to make the male members of the household sit up and take notice.
Former AKB48 idol and model Haruna Kojima, who we featured in our recent roundup of New Year tiger cosplay, was part of the cast of a January 1 nighttime show, ...
Happy New Year. We welcome in the Year of the Tiger by checking out a small sampling of the great tora-themed sexy cosplay posted on social media by Japanese cosplayers, gravure models, porn stars, and more.
We start with an obvious choice: Japan's top cosplayer, Enako, whose contribution looked both busty and cozy.
Former AKB48 idol and lingerie model Haruna Kojima, who seems to be visiting Paris at the moment, made do with a croissant pose and some cat cosplay (albeit it in colors/pattern that was more like a cow than a tiger).
Shibari model Cana achieved an intimacy and warmth with ...
Someone shared a behind-the-scenes video of Haruna Kojima at a photo shoot while she is getting ready. She's standing in her panties as members of her staff attend to her body and clothing. Though she's sadly wearing a top to preserve her modesty, her slinky panties reveal more than perhaps the people present expected.
Japanese netizens, perhaps with too much time on their hands, have paused the video and zoomed in to see that it might show Haruna Kojima's paipan (fully shaved) pussy.
To be fair, you don't seem much -- but that's the point. If she wasn't fully shaved or waxed down there, ...
