Now 33, Mio Oichi (音市美音) worked in the Japanese adult video industry from 2011 to 2012, and then again from 2014 to 2015, and a final time in 2018.
In a long and wide-ranging interview with Spa! earlier this month, she talked about her career and the difficulties she has faced as a former porn star. We've translated some highlights.
Her JAV career began in a fairly typical way.
"I was scouted when I made my debut. I was walking down the street when someone called out to me, and I went for an interview at an agency. I was young and interested in working in the entertainment ...
Hikaru is one of Japan's most popular YouTubers but the 34-year-old has hit a blip in his career after publicly declaring that he was in an open marriage in a video posted on September 14.
Within 24 hours of posting the video, his channel had bled thousands of followers, dropping to below 5 million. In a single day, he lost around 120,000 subscribers. Comments on the video total over 56,000 at the time of writing and views over 4 million.
In the video, Hikaru appears with his 30-year-old wife, Shingeki no Noa (Minori Maeda), a former hostess turned businesswoman in Osaka.
She once made ...
With the yen so cheap and inflation relatively low, the hordes of tourists flocking to Japan today enjoy a great time in the country. On the other hand, many people able to work abroad are doing so to earn more money than they can get in Japan. This includes sex workers, who have recently turned to places like Hong Kong, South Korea, China, Dubai, the United States, and Southeast Asia.
Legal website Bengoshi JP recently focused on the phenomenon of Japanese migrant sex workers, interviewing two examples of women with experience of working overseas.
One woman has been to Manila twice, Taiwan ...
Friday has published an interview with a teenager who is a tachinbo streetwalker in Okubo Park to pay for her host club addiction.
"I've become addicted to host clubs and now I'm working in Kabukicho," the teenager confesses, saying she has sex with three men a day for ¥20,000 a pop.
"My day and night cycle is reversed. I sleep until the afternoon and head to Kabukicho in the evening. I stand in front of a hotel until dawn, waiting for a man to approach me."
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department arrested 35 women in their 20s to 40s on suspicion of violating the Anti-Prostitution Act ...
According to a spot on a recent TV show, personal self-defense sprays like mace are selling well in Japan among young woman as people begin to feel unsafe in their lives.
"I keep reading people online talk about how it's getting more dangerous, so I'm thinking about getting one," remarks one teenaged girl who was interviewed.
"I think just carrying it will give you peace of mind," said another female teenager.
Such sprays, known variously as mace or pepper spray, contain a type of tear gas that temporarily blinds an assailant.
The TV report was hardly scientific and did not give any ...
In August, a "sexually explicit" event featuring an adult video filming vehicle was held in and around a municipal park in front of JR Nakano Station in Nakano ward, west Tokyo.
The event was the "Pink Bon Odori," held on August 1 at Nakano Central Park. It was sponsored by the ward.
At a press conference on September 8, Mayor Naoto Sakai apologized. "It was inappropriate, as it took place in a public space frequented by children," reports the Sankei Shimbun and Asahi Shimbun.
Sakai clarified that no sexual content was mentioned in the sponsorship application.
The "Pink Bon Odori" was a ...
One of the most prominent members of NMB48, the Osaka-based iteration of AKB48, Miru Shiroma graduated the group in 2021 after an 11-year tenure. Since then, she has continued to work as a singer, releasing a couple of music singles in 2022, and also does some acting and YouTube content.
She already stunned fans by graduating with a second photo book, Reborn, which featured the idol in very skimpy lingerie and some very revealing poses.
She followed this up with a third book in 2023, Aventure, but while her past NMB48 peers have been getting married and having kids (Yuka Hagino, a year ...
We all love Japanese porn stars. We all want to have sex with them.
But would you want to marry one?
Because of the nature of their profession, porn stars sometimes face discrimination when it comes to marriage, parenthood, and further career options.
Those who have tried to develop new careers in the public eye have suffered criticism, such as Yua Mikami for her modeling and fashion brand work, and those who have openly shared details about their marriages and children have also received abuse online.
On a recent episode of Abema's Hyena of Love, porn star Ai Sayama was shown discussing ...
In Japan, porn is everywhere but thou shalt not see genitals.
Due to the wonders of the internet and mobile devices, people in Japan enjoy instant access to hardcore pornography, just like most other places in the world today.
But unless the producers want to incur the wrath of police and courts, domestically made porn still abides by the obscenity law in Japan, whose conventional interpretation is that you cannot show actual genitalia, hence all those cocks and vaginas are blurred out.
And it's also the case with foreign porn if you are a Japanese business selling it to Japanese customers ...
We love a good gravure comeback.
After 37-year-old Ami Tokito's return to gravure, Reiko Kato's reappearance after many years away, and Mayumi Yamanaka's comeback after marrying and having two kids, now comes Mari Okamoto.
Best known as an impersonator who could do a good impression of Ryoko Hirosue (whom she resembles quite strikingly) and who also made past forays into gravure, Okamoto married a music producer in 2015 and had a child, but they divorced in 2018. She remarried a Saitama politician in December 2023, though divorced again the following year.
What is it about divorced models ...
