One of the most sensational stories over the summer was that of nude jukujo model Kazuko Iwamoto, who was arrested for stabbing her married, younger lover at a train station apparently after he spurned her for getting pregnant. The details of the adultery and the 43-year-old model's descent into what was possibly a kind of mental collapse are lurid yet also all too familiar. Now the dust has settled, we can take a look at the career that Iwamoto has more than likely destroyed with her act of vengeance. In the summer, just as fate was taking a strange turn for her, Iwamoto released her ...

A few weeks ago, Japanese netizens were fascinated by the bloody and cautionary tale of "too cute" Yuka Takaoka, who was arrested for allegedly stabbing her boyfriend with a kitchen knife in Shinjuku. The latest gruesome episode of romance gone very badly wrong is interesting to us at Tokyo Kinky because of who the alleged perpetrator is. Kazuko Iwamoto (岩本和子) was arrested for apparently attacking her married lover with a utility knife in the resort town of Atami, west of Tokyo. The 43-year-old Iwamoto was reportedly incensed when she found that her male lover was in fact married. ...