The former music idol Haruna Kojima still looks amazing at 37, as these recent pictures from a photo shoot demonstrate. They show her in a figure-hugging black swimsuit that reveals her trim body, flat stomach, and slender legs.
Kojiharu, as she is nicknamed, turns 38 in April and is one of the hottest jukujo in Japan, up there with Sayaka Isoyama and Kyoko Fukada.
The Saitama native was part of the early period of AKB48 history, when the supergroup was ubiquitous and produced several mainstream stars. She was a member of the group from 2005 to 2017, after which she worked as a fashion ...
Former gravure model Chisato Morishita has won her seat in the snap election called by Sanae Takaichi, which saw the ruling Liberal Democratic Party secured a big majority and wipe out much of the opposition.
After some years of campaigning and failing to win a seat, Morishita finally became a member of the lower house in the 2024 election (and thus, Japan's hottest lawmaker) through the LDP's proportional representation allocation. She was then given a minor Cabinet position in 2025, like other prominent women in the Takaichi government.
This time, she won her seat outright, comfortably ...
Chisato Morishita's trajectory from gravure favorite of the late 2000s to mainstream politics is now complete. After the former model won her first election last October, the 44-year-old with the winning smile has now been appointed to new prime minister Sanae Takaichi's Cabinet as Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Environment.
It's a junior role, of course, under the main environment minister (a man, of course -- though Takaichi is Japan's first female prime minister, her ministers are always all male), but it represents a major vote of confidence in the one-time race queen (grid girl), ...
Regular readers may remember Yuka Kosaka, the former gravure idol who went on to work as a nursery teacher in Chiba.
Kosaka had a turbulent career, hitting the big time in the mid-2000s but then scuppering her future in the industry by gaining a lot of weight. She made a nude comeback in the early 2010s before retiring and changing careers to running her own nursery school (though she does not have children herself).
She makes occasional TV appearances these days. The 40-year-old former gradol is now married (to a former actor several years her junior) and runs a consultancy ...
Former HKT48 idol Miku Tanaka has delighted and teased fans with a sex scene in her new TV drama.
The slinky hottie features in a sex scene that sees her ride her lover in the cowgirl position, bouncing up and down rigorously, arching her back, and sensually moving her hair out of her face. Her pale skin, throat, shoulders look positively good enough to eat.
The show is the recently premiered Shinu Hodo Aishite (I Love You to Death) on streamer Abema. It is an adaption of a manga.
You can watch a clip of it here via NudeAsianFilm.
Sadly, like most TV drama sex scenes with the ...
Yuki Arai was an idol with the music group SKE48 from November 2013 until the end of March 2025.
That's a very long run in a very competitive, crowded industry, but she's not done yet.
The 26-year-old Kyoto native will now focus on her a second career as a professional wrestler, which she launched while still a member of SKE48's Team KII, in May 2021, after a brief appearance in 2018 in a match against another SKE48 member.
She currently competes in both Tokyo Joshi Pro-Wrestling and DDT Pro-Wrestling.
Female wrestling in Japan is experiencing a boost right now, with several prominent ...
Beloved for her slinky body, boyish looks, and short hair, the Japanese porn star Riasu Mizutani has announced her pregnancy on social media.
We had noted Mizutani's recent social media absence and lack of releases, after making a bit of a splash with her debut in 2023. She broke her silence on March 1 with the announcement, accompanied by a picture of her cradling her pregnant belly.
Mizutani has carved out a very unusual presence in the adult video industry, mainly because she is a highly educated young woman who also works an English-Japanese translator.
Since emerging on the scene, ...
A few years ago, we reported on the career of gravure idol Yuka Kosaka, who abruptly quit the industry in 2009, gained a lot of weight, made a brief comeback (with a semi-nude shoot), and then settled into a quieter life as a nursery school teacher from the age of 24.
She did that for around a decade now, though the 39-year-old has also restarted some activities in the entertainment industry since last year. It seems she no longer works as a teacher due to health issues and instead focuses on entrepreneurial projects launching new schools, consulting for schools, and doing counseling. She ...
What happens to former gravure, music, and porn idols after they retire is a question that often crops up on this blog. We've often written about the different kinds of jobs they do and what it is like to raise a family with that kind of past.
But what about the pictures and videos they made during their idol career? On the whole, these remain available and, unless you were working before the 2000s (and even if before), it's still online for anyone to search and find.
Former Idoling!!! member Mai Endo, though, wants that to end. She left the idol group in 2014 to pursue a solo career. She ...
How many idols find true happiness? Of course, the majority who do tend to retire and live the rest of their lives in quiet obscurity.
The ones who remain in the news often do so because their post-idol lives are filled with hiccups, personal or professional. If you just read the celebrity news, you might be forgiven for thinking that all former music and gravure idols were divorced or rocked by one scandal or other.
Nonetheless, we suspect that divorce rates among idols is a bit higher than the general populace, perhaps because their jobs and the closed nature of the idol industry means ...
