Last week, it was revealed that attractive 21-year-old female golfer Reika Miyako was dating a man 30 years her senior. That nugget of info was enough to merit a flood of articles in the tabloids, but more details have since emerged about the 51-year-old lucky gent who is her boyfriend. It's none other than her married coach, Shinobu Ishii. She has since apologized on December 1 with a handwritten letter posted on social media that confirmed that she was breaking up with Ishii and ending their professional relationship. "I have been dating my coach, Shinobu Ishii, since last year. ...

The Japan Ladies Professional Golf Association has banned 30-year-old male caddy Ryo Kurinaga from the tour for nine years. The ban follows Bunshun reports published in March that the married Kurinaga had affairs with three separate pro players (24-year-old Miyu Abe, 22-year-old Haruka Kawasaki, and 21-year-old Yumeka Kobayashi). It is unclear if Kurinaga carried out his philandering with the women at the same time and how long each affair continued. His ban extends to attending any JLPGA event too. You might think that this was a private matter and unrelated to the sport. Nonetheless, ...

Attractive female sports athletes are a universal thing, of course, and such women can earn big bucks for sponsorship and modeling. But there's a kind of culture in Japan of such female athletes of going the extra mile (especially if they are retired or not necessarily at the top of their field). And so you get lots of nude photo books by female athletes, from wrestlers to boxers, gymnasts, and swimmers. The figure skater Mai Asada has pursued a lucrative side line in gravure, while the swimmer Miku Kojima and snowboarder Mero Imai went from nude shoots into porn. The golfer Minase Ozawa ...

Golf has long been big in Japan, though it's still mainly a man's sport. The recent rise of female golfers have leveled the playing field somewhat -- not to mention made stars (and sex symbols) of certain players like Hinako Shibuno. Following swiftly on from the sexy shoot by fellow golfer (and thirtysomething jukujo) Makoto Takemura, 22-year-old Sumire Noda (野田すみれ) has recently posed for lavish gravure shoots that really show off her incredible body. Born in Tokyo in 1999, the comely Sumire has been playing golf since age three. She represented Japan at the World Junior Golf ...

Japanese female golfer Makoto Takemura (竹村真琴) has posed for a gravure shoot. The 31-year-old, who has been professional since 2009, put down her clubs for a session with Shukan Post, a weekly tabloid. The shoot was done at the beach town of Kujukuri in Chiba. It was her first bikini and lingerie shoot, though various Japanese female sports athletes have made the move into gravure and nude photography. Recent examples include an Olympic swimmer. Because she's also in her thirties, Makoto Takemura also qualifies as an alluring jukujo. After all, you can tell she knows how to grip a ...