Until a few days ago, Saori Araki (荒木佐保里) was little known even in Japan, to say nothing of outside the country. But that all changed this week.
That Nagasaki-born idol with cute cheeks has now hundreds of followers on social media. (She had a mere 7,000 followers on X and 100,000 on Instagram in June.)
And it all began with a photo of herself in suit and holding a laptop that she posted on July 25 with a simple "good morning" message. That post on X currently has 76 million views, the majority of which are from the United States and Britain. So what gives?
Her post had ...
