Yuka Kosaka is making a gravure comeback at the age of 40. Kosaka is releasing her first print photo book in 17 years. until the end: Naked Wash comes out on November 19 from Futabasha. As we might expect from someone who is now a businessperson, she took charge of the concept and production of the book. It features a nude Kosaka on the cover in a version of the classic tebura (arm/hand bra) pose. Preview images already appeared in the October 20/27 issue of Weekly Taishu. Kosaka was briefly a biggie in gravure in the 2000s before gaining a lot of weight and retiring in 2009. She then ...

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 ...

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 the literally thousands of gravure idols, music idols, and minor porn stars when their careers dry up? Some go into prostitution, some get married. Still others become writers, like Nayuka Mine, or politicians, like Ayaka Shiomura or Renho. Well, some switch tracks completely, like Yuka Kosaka. She burst into the idol big time in 2004 when she won the Miss Young Magazine, and at her height was appearing on TV variety shows and in gravure shoots. Then in 2009 she retired and became something of a media joke due to her sudden weight gain. Her glory days seemed long ...