Ruka Aida (愛田るか) is a 53-year-old porn star and former stripper who debuted in 1995 and worked in the industry initially until 2004. She then made a comeback in 2006 from 2010, before doing sex work in Tokyo and Osaka. She made another triumphant comeback in April this year.
Over the course of her long career, the Hokkaido native has seen many trends come and go. The tabloid Spa! recently interviewed her and we have translated and edited some of the highlights.
She explains that her 1995 debut came about for very practical reasons.
"I wanted to earn money to cover moving costs. I ...
Now 33, Mio Oichi (音市美音) worked in the Japanese adult video industry from 2011 to 2012, and then again from 2014 to 2015, and a final time in 2018.
In a long and wide-ranging interview with Spa! earlier this month, she talked about her career and the difficulties she has faced as a former porn star. We've translated some highlights.
Her JAV career began in a fairly typical way.
"I was scouted when I made my debut. I was walking down the street when someone called out to me, and I went for an interview at an agency. I was young and interested in working in the entertainment ...
Ria Shinba works at the soapland New Tiara in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki Prefecture. She is the main attraction of the soapland and has previously worked as a child actor and porn star.
In a recent two-part interview with Shueisha Online last month, the 23-year-old explained about her background, and how she came to the profession. We've translated some of the highlights.
Shinba was born in Tokyo's Suginami ward to a Japanese father and Filipino mother. When her mother became pregnant with her, their marriage became strained, and since she already had an older sister, her father told her mother ...
In January, the Japanese porn star Yuki Takeuchi had announced that she would retire from the adult video industry at the end of this year, but she has now said that she will delay her retirement by a further year.
Many fans had hoped she would do this because she wanted to keep making JAV productions due to audience demand, and while that may be true in part, Takeuchi recently revealed the real reason behind the extra 12 months.
Takeuchi was the victim of a financial scam that saw her lose her savings, she shared on an episode of Abema's Hyena of Love 4 (the same show on which ...
Top Japanese adult video performer Momona Koibuchi recently gave an interview to Japanese tabloid Spa!, discussing her career and her unusual background as originally a civil servant in Yamagata, northeast Japan.
Here are some highlights from the interview with the 26-year-old porn princess.
Q. You went from being a civil servant to being a porn actress, but did you originally want to become a civil servant?
Momona Koibuchi: Not at all. Actually, I like clothes, so I wanted to work in the apparel industry, or as a fashion designer. I like talking to people, so I wanted to work in ...
Regular readers will remember the porn star Riasu Mizutani, the translator who moonlights in adult video (or vice versa).
She was recently included in a book about intelligent JAV performers but also announced her pregnancy, which is likely to mean the end of her career (about 17 credits and counting).
Bunshun Online recently published a two-part interview with Mizutani, who was born in Boston, was raised partly in the UK (where her father was working), and made her debut in the industry in 2023.
In it, she talks about her comfortable upbringing and what she was like as a child, which ...
The porn star Ayumi Kuroki (黒木歩) made her debut in 2010. She hasn't had many credits in the past few years but has not officially retired. Her most recent release is a lesbian-themed production that comes out later this month.
The performer is now 43 and very much in the MILF/jukujo category. She also directs and sings in a band, and holds private events for fans.
She gave an interview to Spa! last month in which she described what it is like to raise a child while pursuing her line, similar to a interview that married porn star and mom Marina Shiraishi also gave the publication in ...
In a recent interview with Spa!, Japanese porn star Marina Shiraishi (白石茉莉奈) discussed some of the background to her highly successful career.
Shiraishi made her debut back in 2013 and is now 38 years old, making her a jukujo mature performer.
But many people are not perhaps aware that she is married and has a child, both from before her entry in the industry.
It's more common for JAV performers to marry after they retire and those who do marry during their careers can end in divorce. "I thought I was an unusual case," she admits.
Her son is now 15 years old -- and we truly ...
After they retire, most JAV porn stars disappear into obscurity, though a prominent handful have remained in the public eye in other roles, such as writers and photographers.
Yua Mikami is pursuing a career in modeling and apparel, though has faced some criticism over her association with other brands, and former adult video star Minami Aizawa recently announced she would no longer use her performer name in her post-JAV career.
Among the many things that porn stars have expertise at, understanding about hygiene, physical health, and STDs and STIs surely ranks near the top.
As regular ...
There are jukujo mature porn stars. And then there's Yuko Ogasawara (小笠原裕子).
The 88-year-old is probably the world's oldest porn performer.
We found a couple of recently published longish interviews with her on Shueisha Online.
The obvious questions to start with are: When and why did she begin performing?
Her husband died when she was 59 and she then entered the world of snack bars, working as a "mama" as one bar for seven years from the age of 61. Even after giving that up in 68, it was still several years until she entered the adult video industry.
She spent the ...
