The gravure idol Jun Amaki has announced her marriage to keirin track cyclist Yuki Sasaki.
On August 23, Jun posted a statement with a picture of her and Sasaki in which she wears a wedding dress, posing next to the groom and his bike at a track.
"I am deeply grateful to have reached this important milestone, thanks to the people I have worked with, the fans who have always supported me, and everyone else who has stood by me. I want us to be a happy couple who can still hold hands even when we’re old and gray. While supporting him from right by his side, I will continue to walk my path ...
Foreign news outlets are going wild with disgust over an underground idol's fan service in which she lets men sniff her armpits.
Hari Matsumoto, formerly a member of Miracle for Z, offers a service in which her male fans can get up close and personal with her armpits, instead of the usual handshaking fan service at events.
Outlets like the South China Morning Post, the Times of India, and Vice have published somewhat sensational and clickbaity articles claiming that the idol has sparked "outrage" in some corners.
And now, as often the case, things have come full circle, with ...
She is now in her thirties and, despite being still one of the most famous gravure idols in Japan, it was inevitable that this day would come: Jun Amaki is to retire this summer.
Yes, it's sadly time to say sayonara to one of the cutest and bustiest of gradols in Japan.
She announced this a few days ago to accompany her appearance in the current issue of Weekly Playboy. There is also a tie-in digital photo book, appropriately called Retirement, now on release. The resulting storm of publicity Amaki's announcement has generated has helped send the book up the Kindle charts.
Amaki was at ...
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 ...
Last year was full of gravure comebacks big and small. One of the more minor ones that nonetheless made us happy was Mayumi Yamanaka, now a mother of two and a mature, sensual 32.
In July 2025, she made a return to gravure after a few years away, appearing in a Weekly Playboy shoot and releasing a digital photo book. Mayumi has been in the industry for over two decades, having started as a junior idol when a teen. Her comeback proved once again that jukujo are the best.
She's also got a 30-year-old sister, Tomoe, who ostensibly retired in 2020.
That seems to have changed, though, since the ...
Former AKB48 idol Rina Hirata has announced that she will no longer release image videos. Her latest DVD, My Girl's Weird Sense of Distance, which came out on September 23.
The DVD, her first in over a year, is an incredible 190 minutes and features Hirata barely clothed throughout. The tiny bikini she wears in the cover image is stretched to the max to cover her nipples and crotch.
The 27-year-old Hirata was a member of AKB48 from 2011 to 2016. Among the legions of young women who have passed through the ranks of AKB48 and its sister groups over the years, Hirata stands out for at least ...
The former gravure idol Saaya has made a comeback to the industry at the age of 31.
In recent years Saaya (whose full name is Saaya Irie) has worked outside gravure, but this years marks her 20th anniversary in the entertainment industry (she started modeling when she was just 11!) and she is commemorating the milestone with an appearance in the current issues of Weekly Playboy, which went on sale on October 6.
An industry staple for many years, Saaya is known for her sweet girl-next-door looks, though a semi-nude shoot she did in the mid-2010s did a lot to increase her mature allure.
She ...
Former Keyakizaka46 music idol Neru Nagahama is back with a new photo book, a self-titled release from major publication Kodansha on July 15.
The 26-year-old has not published a photo book in eight years.
The Nagasaki native was seen as a rising star in the idol world in the late 2010s, with her first photo book going through a reprint. The alluring shower pics surely helped.
Recent years have been leaner ones for Nagahama since leaving Keyakizaka46 in 2019, though she remains connected to the idol industry though a position with Tokyo Idol Festival, and her first photo book was ...
Mayumi Yamanaka has made a gravure comeback following marriage and motherhood.
Now aged 32 and the mother of two, Mayumi Yamanaka appears in the current issue of Weekly Playboy. The lingerie shoot also marks 20 years since her industry debut -- she began in 2005 as a junior idol and child actor.
She released her first print photo book soon after, and appeared in Weekly Playboy at the age of 14 (eww!), though hit her career peak in the late 2000s and early 2010s.
In late 2019, she announced she was married and pregnant, though continued to release image videos (her last came out in ...
Regular readers may remember Yuka Kosaka, the former gravure idol who went on to work as a nursery teacher in Chiba.
Kosaka had a turbulent career, hitting the big time in the mid-2000s but then scuppering her future in the industry by gaining a lot of weight. She made a nude comeback in the early 2010s before retiring and changing careers to running her own nursery school (though she does not have children herself).
She makes occasional TV appearances these days. The 40-year-old former gradol is now married (to a former actor several years her junior) and runs a consultancy ...
