Regular readers will remember the cautionary tale of gravure idol Miyu Murashima, who was forced to apologize and put her burgeoning career on ice in mid-2024 after her affair with a married basketball player came to light. She was effectively sacked by her agency and announced later in 2024 she would no longer do gravure, instead focusing on producing her own content on YouTube and TikTok. The basketball player with whom she had an affair seemed to suffer no professional consequences. Over two years on from the scandal, what is Murashima doing? Now 27 years old, the former idol announced ...

One of Japan's current leading gravure idols, Miyu Murashima, has issued an apology after news broke that she has been having an affair with a married man. It came to light that the 25-year-old model has been seeing married Yuma Fujii, following a report on June 12 by the tabloid Bunshun. The 32-year-old Fujii is a professional basketball player who once played on the national team. Of course, it takes two to tango, and the man is surely as much to blame, if not more so than Murashima. There are two issues here. While not as severely policed as with music idols, where dating is ...