Bisexual idol Moga Mogami announces pregnancy, no plans to marry

On November 12, idol Moga Mogami announced that she is pregnant on her personal blog.

This should not be surprising, given that she is now 31 — an age when many women in Japan would be pleased to start a family.

But she’s not married, nor was a marriage announced at the same time.

Unlike a large number of prominent celebrities in Japan, she is not planning to marry the father of the child. Such shotgun weddings (or dekichatta kekkon) are common here, since the need for contraception is frequently ignored, though also because it is sometimes the only way to force the all-powerful agencies to let idols marry.

Whether or not Mogami, a former member of the idol group Dempagumi.inc, is not marrying the father because they are no longer together or because she doesn’t care for the institution of marriage — or both — is not immediately clear. (We suspect it’s the former: she got pregnant, they broke up either before or after, and she is going to keep the baby.)

Her announcement has attracted some consternation online, since single moms are not usually in the limelight in Japan. (Of course, though she won’t be marrying, it only makes her a single mother on paper: she could still have support from a partner, the father or otherwise.)

While carving out a career as an actress, idol, and model, Mogami has not been afraid of defining her own path. She left a popular group in 2017, officially for health reasons, and also previously made her bisexuality public.

As our readers surely know by now, we at Tokyo Kinky belief in the validity and value of all relationships and types of families, married or unmarried, nuclear or not so.

Congratulations, Moga, and good luck!