A 31-year-old man has been arrested for pretending to be a comedy duo's manager in early March and approaching gravure model Momoko Tani (28) in a department store.
There she tried on some clothes and he put on a show of being helpful.
"It's dangerous so I'll carry your bag for you," he told her, whereupon he then stole her bag and went off.
The comedy duo, Bananaman, is now very popular in Japan and no doubt the suspect believed that claiming to be their manager would be a ticket to all sorts of fun activities he normally could not do.
Ironically, Bananaman's actual manager is a woman ...
Last autumn a sensual ad for Glico's sweet Dororich drink with five Gravure idols was a big hit.
Glico had such a good time with the curvy ladies that they made a new one!
This time the five lovely ladies are...
Anna Konno (b. 1989)
Ayaka Sayama (b. 1993)
Asuka Kishi (b. 1991)
Mitsuki Hoshina (b. 1996)
Arisa (b. 1989)
It's great to see Gravure idols getting mainstream exposure like this. More of this ...
Boys, time to despair. The pages of your tabloids won't be filled with images of sexy Gravure model Yumi Sugimoto for a while.
The top sexpot has come down with acute pyelonephritis, meaning she has to take a few weeks off work and recover.
Recently Yumi has been working more in the mainstream, including a role in a musical till earlier this month and even a supporting part in a NHK period drama in 2012. She also appears in the tokusatsu TV show, Engine Sentai Go-onger.
Get well soon, ...
Sorry, it's been a while since we did a photographic profile of a idol but we've been wanting to do Ruriko Kojima (小島瑠璃子) for a long time now!
Ruriko was born in 1993 and is more of a TV tarento than straight-out gravure idol, but boy, does she look nice in a bikini.
What a cutie. We love her big rabbit-like ...
With fame and sudden popularity comes unwanted side-effects.
Curvy over-thirty sexpot Mitsu Dan is not afraid of stripping off and revealing all, but she has acquired some undesirable fans among her legions of admirers.
After her home was shown on a TV program, she has had men apparently hanging around in her neighborhood.
Most celebrities and idols move to luxury condos when they hit the big time, but Dan (32) has continued to live in her modest apartment since her break happened almost over night and she hasn't had time to catch up with her new-found lifestyle.
She ...
Former sweet and innocent Gravure idol Risa (aka Lisa) Goto has graduated to the big time at last.
After a career that began with drink commercials when still a teenager, Risa has since then had an up-and-down professional life, with bits of acting and prematurely retiring at least once.
So far that most spectacular thing was the "hair nude" shoot she did in 2012. This alone raised many an eyebrow for the former cute girl-next-door idol's fans (and no doubt raised a few other body parts as well). We love the mole on her body, just above her bush.
Now she's thrown in her towel on the ...
Sad news, folks. Tarento Jun Natsukawa (32), who has been gracing our screens and fantasies for years, has announced she is five months pregnant.
Jun married a man one year younger than her on January 1st, 2011.
The former Gravure idol graduated to television tarento, though remains probably best known for lying about her age in her official profile (or at least, her agency did, in efforts to elongate her career, no doubt).
Since we are unlikely to be seeing it ever again, here's a tribute to her gorgeous ...
Feast your eyes on Yuki Mogami (最上ゆき), aka Yuki Mamiya.
Born in March 1991, the Nagoya-bred lady blends a perfect mixture of "Japanese beauty" with the genuinely sexy.
It's rare for an idol like this to succeed, not succumbing to the whole "cute" fetish nor just surrendering to total sluttiness.
She looks just a girl you might see on the train any day. And yet she is utterly, heart-renderingly hot.
She has recently also done that odd idol thing of "re-launching" her "brand" by changing her name from Yuki Mogami to Yuki Mamiya ...
2013 might already be into March already but some people are still making calendars for the forthcoming year.
Buttah, a curry restaurant in central Osaka, has made this Bijin Curry Calendar, a series of alluring shots of "semi-nude" girls and, well, curry.
Formerly a photo series that featured in a Kansai fashion magazine that finished in 2010, the calendars by Buttah have been going since 2011 and increasing every year (though, to be fair, even for 2013 there are just 200 copies, so we're talking esoteric tastes here).
Food and the erotic. That's our kinda ...
The idol of the moment is Mitsu Dan, who just appears to be in every magazine and also a lot of mainstream TV shows as well. Could she stand a chance of breaking out into the regular tarento world?
She is being presented as a jukujo with a curvy, erotic body. In fact, she is barely in her thirties so this is a bit misleading.
Anyway, her popularity is creating some bizarre appearances and collaborations, including this music video she has made SoulJax and Maiko Nakamura.
While it's hardly a work of genius, it does show Dan Mitsu's "talents" to their full -- lounging around in ...
