With the girls ever younger and the pressure to appear wrinkle-free and with the softest of skin that can stand up to iPad zooms, how do once popular Gravure models maintain a career after they hit 30?
Mayumi Ono (小野真弓) was never a mega star in the idol world. Her D-cup and girl-next-door made her look like a sexy TV presenter. She had fans but not legions of them.
We liked her before and treated ourselves to a selection of images for an Idol of the Week a couple of years ago.
So now she's 31, how can she give her thirteen-year career a second boost now that it has started to ...
Our lady this week is the charming Yua Shinkawa (新川優愛), an actress and fashion model.
Born in 1993, Yua has a slinky body with the face of a girl you just might meet in a bar in Shibuya or Roppongi.
She was discovered while still a teenager and has been posing in lovely bikinis since a practically illegal age.
We expect great things from this young girl. Just don't let her loose on the streets of Tokyo any time soon. She won't last a ...
Japan spends 1% of its national budget on its army. Sorry, it's not an army, it's a "self-defense force." However, Japan's security treaty with America is supposed to guarantee US protection if attacked -- the ostensible reason for the tens of thousands of US soldiers based in Japan -- so the SDF is kind of pointless.
It mainly gets used for when there are earthquakes and other emergencies. Saying that, Japan spends more on its SDF than, say, the UK does on its armed forces -- even though the latter's are active around the whole world.
Where does the money go? Equipment. The SDF has some ...
Born in 1989, Sayumi Michichige (道重さゆみ) is one of the most popular members of J-Pop band Morning Musume. She has been part of the ever-changing ranks of the girl group since 2003, even though her singing is frankly nothing special.
Where Sayumi does excel at is looking alluring while still maintaining a Girl-Next-Door innocence.
She is the longest-serving member of Morning Musume. Most of the girls have trouble creating a real solo career after they leave, so let's enjoy Sayumi's fame while it lasts -- and the countless excuses for bikini-clad photo shoots it ...
We like slightly larger girls. Girls with a little bit of curve to them. The recent naked butt of Ayaka Sayama was enough to get our blood racing.
A new Japanese idol group called Chubbiness showcases girls who are, not surprisingly, a little larger. The ten ladies will be making their professional debut in March.
What do you think? Will these idols be a hit?
There has been a bit of a surge in interest in large ladies of late, including popular comediennes and even a fashion magazine devoted to pocchari women.
While Chubbiness are a little too, well, chubby for our ...
Ayaka Sayama, one of our favorite gravure idols, not least because she's nice and shapely, has gone all wintry with this nude photo shoot.
While Ayaka Sayama is no stranger to posing in just a bikini that barely holds in her charmingly curvy frame, this is a whole new level for her.
Still only twenty years old, what is next for Ayaka?
A "hair nude" full frontal at twenty-one?!
Well, enough blabber. Here's the spread... and what a voluptuous feast for the ...
We love selfies. Correction: we love to look at cute girls' selfies. In Korea there are plenty of lingerie selfies out there.
What about Japanese girls? Well, there Jigadoribu, or "selfie club", which features a stunning array of a Japanese Gravure models posing for selfies.
The images are drawn from the models' own Twitter accounts as they take behind-the-scenes snaps (of varying quality) from their latest photo shoots or just showing off their bodies at home, whether in lingerie, cosplay or just ordinary wardrobes.
The models co-operate in the scheme by tagging their ...
The lovely Hinako Sano is one of the most up-and-coming gravure idols in Japan today.
Her exquisite cuteness, coupled with a great body, have seen her rise to fame in almost no time.
Still just 19, her career may be about to come to a premature stumbling block.
A photo has recently leaked online *seemingly* showing Hinako in an embrace with a young guy.
Is this Hinako?
We can't tell. Either way, we CAN imagine doing what he's doing to Hinako.
There's a way to find out. Track down the university that Hinako attends and go get her into bed to compare the shots!
Whether or not this ...
Saeko. The cute little minx was famous for being famous a while back. Then she was famous being a famous baseball player's wife. Then she was famous for divorcing the famous baseball player. Then she was just famous. Kind of.
Now she is reinventing herself. She has just released a "semi-nude" sexy photo book this month, Episode 1, which comes after Saeko Snap! last year. Both feature a lot of flesh, confirming our suspicions that Saeko is not just a gold-digging ditzy tarento who may or may not have had plastic surgery.
She married Yu Darvish in 2007; it was of course a shotgun ...
The girls are falling thick and fast.
We were sad enough when SDN48 -- the "sexy" version of AKB48 -- disbanded in 2012.
Then came news at the end of that year that Megumi Ohori, one of it's members, had married a man 12 years older.
Now is the bombshell. Megumi is pregnant.
People, including us, all speculated that Megumi's marriage was of the shotgun variety and that she was already pregnant. Those rumors turned out to be false but Megumi and her husband were just biding their time, it seems.
Now the ripe age of 30, Megumi is way past idoldom and this pregnancy confirms it. Even ...
