Once one of the most famous idols in Japan, Mariko Shinoda has divorced her husband of four years. The 37-year-old announced the news on Instagram. A former AKB48 singer who later branched out into ...

Ah, springtime. A season for the sakura cherry blossom. For those debauched hanami picnics in parks that are great opportunities for hooking up and meeting friends of friends who become ...

In the current issue of Weekly Playboy, busty Japanese model, cosplayer, YouTuber, and plastic model maker Umi Shinonome discusses how she got into gravure. When in her third year at university, she ...

The travails of the Michibata family are set to continue, it seems. After Angelica Michibata's husband was arrested for extortion, her career and reputation were left in tatters (not least because ...

Kazusa Okuyama is one of the top gravure idols in Japan right now, though she went quiet for a while from the end of last year with few social media updates. The last major gravure-related thing she ...

You would think that a company as large and successful as Soft on Demand would have an army of lawyers and legal advisors on retainer, and that they would consult them carefully when launching a ...

People bemoan the lack of women in Japanese politics but we suspect this is not the solution. The NHK Party, a fringe people whose aim is to "protect" the Japanese population again the titular ...

The beautiful Akari Fukunaga (福永朱梨) is a relatively unknown, 28-year-old Japanese actress whose credits include The Real Thing (2019) and She Is Alone (2021). In 2022, she had a starring ...

On Monday came news that Yua Mikami is to retire from porn after a stunning eight-year run in the industry. The announcement isn't a huge surprise, given her age (she turns 30 in August) and length ...

The new Netflix Korean drama series The Glory is getting some traction, with the first season's second and final batch of episodes recently released. It's a fun revenge tale about Moon Dong-eun, who ...