In the latest example of how the "sex ban" on AKB-affiliated idol groups does not work in practice (er, these are young women with legions of male admirers) and is just a ruse to appease certain otaku, images have leaked showing Keyakizaka46's Mayu Harada apparently kissing a man.
The much older male is shown kissing Mayu Harada on the lips and groping her breasts in what appears to be Puri Kura photo-booth images.
The 17-year-old Mayu may be in a relationship with the older man, who some suspect is her former junior high teacher. If true, a physical courtship between the two ...
Remember when we reported on two former idols in Aoyama Saint Hachamecha High School (Mechahai) in 2014, who were being sued by their managers for dating fans?
Well, now the sorry state of Japan's idol industry gets worse.
When a 17-year-old girl who was a member of an unnamed idol group (allegedly Dokidoki) was found to have "breached" her group's rules against dating, it meant the management apparently was forced to disband the entire idol group.
The management then sued the teenager and her family for around ¥5.1 million (over $40,000) in damages.
The courts ruled on the suit on ...
Mero Imai is a woman of many talents: a former snowboard half-pipe Olympic competitor, a one-time hostess and call girl, a nude model, and a bondage slave (photographically, at least).
Born in 1987, Imai has posed for a hair nude shoot for her 2013 photo book "Mellow Style", as well as a series of provocative bondage images for a weekly tabloid.
Alas, the images of the 2013 BDSM-inspired shoot only seem to be online as scans of the magazine.
She revealed in 2012 that after her failure at the 2006 Winter Olympics, she became a ...
Takaya Muto has already been forced to resign over a money scandal.
Now he might have to contend with a sex scandal too.
The 36-year-old Lower House member of the conservative Liberal Democratic Party already made a lot of enemies when he took to Twitter to brand activists protesting against the government's immensely controversial state security bills as "selfish" and "fooled" by "propaganda and false information".
That was late July.
Fast-forward a few weeks and Muto is not looking so smug now.
He has been forced to quit his party after tabloid Shukan Bunshun exposed ...
A Japanese tabloid has published a photo of AKB48 idol Yuki Kashiwagi in an embrace in a yukata with Yuya Tegoshi, the 27-year-old member of male idol agency Johnny's.
According to Shukan Bunshun, it was taken between autumn 2013 and the start of 2014 at an exclusive Japanese inn in Hakone, a venue popular for celebrities to sneak off for some private time away from the prying eyes of the tabloids.
Lying down on the floor together after or before a bath, the couple seem very comfortable with each other's bodies.
A "friend" of Yuki said that the pair are still very close and ...
Former office48 (part of the AKS group) executive Takashi Nodera has been arrested and imprisoned for filming illicit naked videos of the young idols under his charge.
There has been total silence on this so far in the mainstream media, as well as, needless to say, from the powers that be at AKS, the company that runs the juggernaut that is AKB48.
But the tabloids have fortunately broken the story.
Takashi Nodera hid secret cameras in bathrooms, dressing rooms and hotel rooms between 2009 and 2010 to film the girls, possibly under age, while they relaxed without clothes ...
In September last year we wrote about the attempted comeback of the model Karina, after her notorious leaked sex photo scandal.
The word that was used a lot to describe this was nyan-nyan. It has come to mean both having sex, and more specifically, sex photos (nyan-nyan shashin).
Of course, scandals of leaked nude photos is a problem even more of the digital age and is perhaps even more notorious in America (Jennifer Lawrence et al).
However, in Japan is all goes back to the 1983 and a magazine called Focus.
Nyan-nyan starts with Tomoko Takabe, an actress and tarento TV celebrity in the ...
It just goes to prove: being an middle-aged otaku does not mean you stop being attractive to the opposite sex.
Toshio Okada, the famous anime producer and writer, and co-founder of Gainax (Evangelion), has been exposed as a mass philander.
The 56-year-old chubby otaku had his cat let out of the bag when a picture of a smooch with a younger lady was leaked online.
The 21-year-old girl posted the purikura (photo booth) pic on Facebook on December 31st, along with screen captures of her exchanges with Okada on Line where he says he loves her.
The girl did it because she claimed ...
We love a scandal and we love a woman who knows what she wants.
Megumi Okina married the CEO of Cyber Agent in 2004 but divorced him the following year. She went through a dry period in her career and then got hitched again in 2009 to a businessman in a shotgun married. She had a second child in 2011.
A famous nikushoku-joshi (man-eater), in the past she has been linked to many famous men, including Takumi Saito and "bad boy" actor Manabu Oshio and nude pictures (called nyan-nyan photos) of their coupling were leaked. Oshio would later be sent to prison for his part in the death of a ...
At last, the first major Nogizaka46 scandal!
The idol group's Sayuri Matsumura has been snapped kissing a man. But unlike her peers in AKB48 who tend to have affairs with their managers or with their otaku fans, Sayuri has opted for a guy in his thirties already married with a kid!
The tabloid Shukan Bungei ran the photos this week showing Sayuri on the street in the arms of the man.
Way to piss off your management, "betray" your fans, AND play up to the fantasies of older male admirers all at the same time, Sayuri!
The 22-year-old Sayuri has tearfully apologized but we ...
