Why do all the Japanese hotties go with sports stars?
From news readers to pop singers, everyone seems to want a sportsman for a husband. Cute ex-Morning Musume member Rika Ishikawa is no different.
After it was reported in some tabloids she has confirmed the rumors on her blog, and crushed our fantasies. She is indeed dating Seibu Lions pitcher Ryoma Nogami.
Nogami is a mere 27 to Rika's 29 -- the dangerous age when girls get serious about you-know-what.
These day the former Musume is named as a tarento rather than singer or idol. Sadly, with her career on the wane, Rika ...
As spotted by Kotaku and now doing the rounds on the Internet to much hilarity, ex-Morning Musume idol cutie Ai Takahashi has been photographed posing innocently with a t-shirt that says boldly "I am a whore".
Another Morning Musume graduate, Yuko Nakasawa, had the offending image of Ai Takahashi taken when the 27-year-old Takahashi visited Fukuoka for some filming. After it was then uploaded to her blog it quickly went viral and Ai Takahashi's reputation as a sweet girl-next-door-type immediately went out the window.
Takahashi also uploaded it to her blog (both posts now long ...
Born in 1989, Sayumi Michichige (道重さゆみ) is one of the most popular members of J-Pop band Morning Musume. She has been part of the ever-changing ranks of the girl group since 2003, even though her singing is frankly nothing special.
Where Sayumi does excel at is looking alluring while still maintaining a Girl-Next-Door innocence.
She is the longest-serving member of Morning Musume. Most of the girls have trouble creating a real solo career after they leave, so let's enjoy Sayumi's fame while it lasts -- and the countless excuses for bikini-clad photo shoots it ...
Morning Musume, the long-running ever-cheerful girl group whose changing line-up over the years has frequently encountered scandals.
Maki Goto is likely the most famous former member, though she recently "retired" from her career in the entertainment world.
But now the rumor is that she's back -- though in a very different capacity. Japanese porn!
Shukan Jitsuwa, a Japanese weekly tabloid, has published a story claiming she has signed for two porn titles.
Apparently landing a salary of 80 million yen ($1 million) for her performances, needless to say, if the story is true -- and we ...
Maki Goto is proof that you can have a life after being part of a multi-member pop band. A former Morning Musume starlet, Maki is one of the few who has made that transition to soledom with some degree of success.
Around a year ago, though, sadly she basically retired from showbiz, but not before posing for some nice risque ...
The former Morning Musume leader Miki Fujimoto finally gets the hot meat she's been craving.
Aside from wanting the hot meat I would be more than happy to give her, I'm talking about her beloved yakiniku, a type of delicious cook it yourself barbecue made popular in Korea with pork and brought to Japan in beef form. On February 26th, which also happens to be her birthday, the leggy pop idol opened up her very own yakiniku restaurant Mikitei.
The name being a play on words on her own nickname, Mikkity, which is also a play on words of her name. Very witty indeed. Some wonder why her ...
Nostalgia is a powerful tool and Yahoo reports that super popular idol group Morning Musume is calling back all of our favorite graduates to form a Dream Team to battle the young whipper snappers from groups like AKB48.
Dream Morning Musume's roster includes Nakazawa Yuko, Iida Kaori, Abe Natsumi, Yasuda Kei, Yaguchi Mari, Ishikawa Rika, Yoshizawa Hitomi, Ogawa Makoto, Fujimoto Miki and Kusumi Koharu. Tsuji Nozomi, another former member, was slated to join but after the birth of her second child she's taking some child care leave. While the currently active Morning Musume has an ...
For all those European fans of Morning Musume (モーニング娘), the moment you have all been waiting for has finally arrived!
The ever-changing all-girl idol pop group will be appearing at the Japan Expo 2010 in Paris, France this July.
[Image via Yeinjee.com. All right, I know it's a bit old -- there are now only eight girls, of course!]
It's never been a secret how many otaku and anime fans there are in Le Republic, so it didn't surprise us that Momusu choose it as their launch pad into Europe. The Expo is expected to attract 180,000 fans!
It's not their first foray ...
