A quite extraordinary scandal appeared in the Japanese media in the last few days. The model and celebrity Loveli (real name, Izumi Shirahama) is facing prosecution over an allegation of sexual assault on another woman in May 2019.
The Shukan Bunshun has published a sensational interview with the victim, named only as Ms. A.
According to the story, the Filipino-Japanese Loveli allegedly assaulted Ms. A while they were staying in Shirahama in Wakayama. After drinking, her accuser says, Loveli threw herself on the woman in the early hours of the morning, taking off her panties and going down ...
Another mainstream idol group has had to jettison one of its members after she was found to be pursuing a secret porn career.
Nijiiro no Hiko Shojo (虹色の飛行少女) is a seven-member group active since 2018.
Kana Usami (宇佐美花菜), who played the idol "character" Hana Midorisawa in the group, was fired on February 27 and replaced. This is after it came to light that she had performed in a porn release. She made her AV debut under the name Azu Kusunoki (楠木あず) for Soft on Demand Star with a release on January 17 (1stars00176). The publicity claimed she was 20 years old. ...
Yuuna Tanaka (田中優奈) is a Japanese TV announcer who was recently sacked over an alleged affair.
That might be bad enough for her career prospects, but now photos have appeared that allegedly show Tanaka nude during sex with her partner.
We should emphasize that we have no idea if these photos of Tanaka, who lost her job with Nagoya's CBC TV last summer after the year-long affair with a colleague emerged, are genuine, though that it was netizens are speculating.
We reported on a similar situation in 2018, when an affair effectively ended the career of TV announcer Yumi ...
In December 2019, it was reported that 61-year-old Japanese politician Yasuhiro Ozata (小里泰弘) was asked to pay a "break-up fee" (solatium) by a much-younger woman with whom he was having an affair.
The Liberal Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives and former Cabinet minister allegedly paid Yuno Morita (森田由乃) ¥100,000 per night during their relationship. They became acquainted through a members-only club where she worked in Roppongi three years ago. They would subsequently meet as often as three times a month at a hotel -- high-end, naturally, not some grubby ...
The tabloid, Otakara, claims that the unnamed former SKE48 idol is now working at Osaka's Tobita Shinchi red-light district as a prostitute.
According to the magazine, the idol offers blow jobs with a condom for ¥16,000, though kissing is not allowed. Full sex with a condom is also apparently possible.
The idol joined the group in 2009 but was an underdog in the elections. Hmm...we wonder who it could be.
We have no way of verifying the truth behind this short of visiting every establishment in Tobita Shinchi (sounds like a fun assignment!), nor have we yet seen the full article in the ...
Private photos have leaked online showing idol Yui Yokoyama of AKB48 in her underwear kissing and embracing her boyfriend.
Needless to say -- if the photos are genuine -- this scandal certainly breaks the no-dating rule in her contract with management, not to mention will both excite and disappoint fans.
The three images leaked online on the night of September 6th. We don't think the 18-year-old Yokoyama or her management have made a comment yet confirming or denying the photos. It isn't clear yet why the photos leaked, though they apparently date back to when she was still in junior ...
It's election season in Japan, which means posters of candidates everywhere as well as election broadcasts on TV. Pretty soon the streets will be filled with the soundscape of the trucks trundling around, calling out the local candidates' names to all and sundry.
As always, though, it's the more unusual candidates vying for a well-paid position in the House of Councillors that make the most impact in a gray field.
Takashi Tachibana is standing for election as a member of the Party to Protect the People from NHK (NHKから国民を守る党) -- a long-running libertarian-esque stance that ...
We recently shared the tale of the female elementary school teacher who was exposed for her amateur porn performer past.
This kind of things cuts both ways: male authority figures may also have their own secrets.
A male math high school teacher has apparently lost his job because former students found out that he had once appeared in a porn video with Mihono Sakaguchi (aka Mihono). It then spread like wildfire and resulted in his termination, according to unverified online reports.
In the 2015 release (WANZ00369) from WANZ, the unnamed teacher was one of the nameless lucky guys who gets ...
Those authority figures may have much more colorful pasts than you realize.
An amateur porn performer credited as "Ayaka" who appeared in a Siro-Hame.net release a few years ago is now happily working as an elementary school teacher in Sapporo, Hokkaido.
We won't write her real name here because we don't want to get sued. But netizens have tracked the story down, and also the repercussions when it first leaked after the story got out shortly before the AV was released. An attempt was then apparently made to stop Siro Hame from releasing the video, to no avail. The producers simply exploited ...
A scandal can derail any career but the world of idols (music or gravure) is particularly sensitive to such scandals, especially those involving sex or drugs. Heaven help you if it is revealed you have a boyfriend. You may have to shave your head or quit the industry.
Related to this, we stumbled upon an interesting example of what happens when an idol is "freed" from the shackles of an agency.
The minor idol Sayuri Madoka announced that she had left her management agency on April 7th, ostensibly because her "real job" had become too busy. Regardless of the truth behind this, what is ...
