Sad news. Azusa Yamamoto, one of our favorite slinky gravure idols, has announced she is pregnant.
She plans to have the baby in Singapore. She must have kept it pretty hidden since she is due in December!
The 33-year-old gravure star married a businessman in January this year, so this news was inevitable. After idols get married they almost always disappear from the industry or "upgrade" to being anodyne TV celebrities.
Well, let's bid goodbye to Azusa's lovely body! Likely we won't ever be seeing it ...
While some idol groups make a lot of money, the idols themselves are not getting rich per se. The management companies keep them on salaries representing their worth and this is a policy reflected across the Japanese entertainment industry.
That said, this is the first time we've heard of a Japanese idol group deliberately launched in poverty.
Japanese idol culture has been accused of moral bankruptcy in the past but The Margarines have a combined debt of ¥127.7 million (over $1 million). Aged from 19 to 30, these ladies are floundering in financial woes due to student debts, a failed ...
Our exquisite sexpot this week is slinky Akane Suzuki, born 1984.
The Gravure idol has been absent from our lives for a while now after a career of gradually increasingly revealing photo shoots.
She went out with a bang, ending by stripping complete nude in 2010. Since then we have seen no appearances by Akane but we can still hope for a (suitably scantily clad) comeback one ...
The luscious Miho Kinouchi is a Japanese actress, born in 1975.
She made her acting debut in 1990 and also worked as an idol singer. She stripped off in some dramas.
Marrying in the late 1990's, she divorced in 2005. Her nude photo books include "Uramado" (Back Window) in 1998.
Sadly absent from our lives now, let's remember how beautiful she looked in these ...
We've all fantasized about having sex with idols. Sometimes the idols break the rules imposed (probably illegally) by their management and have relationships, including with fans. Usually what then happens is they get found out and fire. They are left "shamed" for daring to have sex while the partner in question is the envy of men around the land.
But perhaps these guys would think twice about where they stick their wick next time.
Because they might just get sued.
Yes, in what might be the most incredulous flaunting of human rights in the history of the idol industry in Japan, a ...
Our lady this week is strictly speaking not a gravure idol, having retired from gravure a while ago, but she has certainly done some very revealing photo shoots in her time.
Chinatsu Wakatsuki is these days a fashion model and tarento/talent (generic TV celebrity).
In early 2012, she announced she was pregnant and getting married -- big surprise, the usual celebrity shotgun wedding style -- and now she is presenting herself as a cool young mama in her thirties with good fashion tastes.
Born in 1984, she was scouted in Shibuya while still a teenager. Her slinky charms have been on our ...
Ex-AKB48 member and now prolific model Kaoru Mitsumune has made a shocking annoucement.
Despite being one of the cutest of Japanese girls with boyish haircuts active at the moment, she claims she has never had a boyfriend.
While that wouldn't shock us for an AKB48 member, given that the girls in the group are banned from having sex or relationships (except of course with the AKB management).
However, she left the mega idol group in 2012. Since she must meet a lot of people in her work and with her fame and looks, must surely have guys lining up to get more personal, can she ...
Our scrumptious specimen this week is the slinky gravure model Rei Toda (戸田れい).
Born in 1987, Rei is now approaching 30 and so likely to reach the end of her career, though she continues to release DVDs and even pop up in mainstream TV commercials sometimes.
Rei, we hope to see as much of you as we can! Keep on working even after you hit the bit ...
As promised to an enthusiast last week, here is a run-down of some hot Japanese girls with boyish haircuts!
Yu Aoi
Moe Arai
Maki Horikita
Rina Ikoma
Aki Kondo
Okay, you probably don't know this girl (she's an artist) -- but she's super cute!
Kaoru Mitsumune
Mao Miyaji
Natsuna
Yurika Narahara (aka Yurika Kubo)
Nocchi
Rena Nounen
Nanami Sakuraba
Mikako Tabe
Do you have any other ...
Last week we went for the young, thin and slinky Rina Koike. Here's a different kind of Japanese beauty.
Our sumptuous specimen of Japanese femininity is the curvy and busty Asami Sakanoue (坂ノ上 朝美). Born in 1988, she officially retired at the end of December. Along the way she tried her hand at being a gravure idol, actress, and TV presenter.
While sadly she never reached the heights of some of the other girls we have featured on these pages over the years, she is still in our humble opinions quite a special lady...for obvious reasons!
Asami Sakanoue also did a hair nude ...
