We talk a lot about idols and porn stars on this blog.
But there are plenty of sexy intelligent Japanese women too, you know! Here we introduce you to some of the very best.
Crystal Takigawa (b. 1977) is a former news reader, sadly now turned into a generic and ubiquitous model.
Mieko Kawakami (b. 1976) is an award-winning novelist, singer and actress. Born in Osaka, she recently got married for the second time to a fellow writer.
Mariko Asabuki (b. 1984) is another novelist from Kansai and very pretty as well!
Kasetsu (b. 1975) is a contemporary calligrapher. Not ...
Shock news of the week! Atsuko Maeda (前田敦子), probably the most popular and famous member of AKB48, has suddenly announced she is quitting the idol super group!
At a concert on Sunday she made the surprise announcement to thousands of fans, while choking back tears and being comforted by the other girls. It is apparently an individual decision, made in consultation with AKB48 supremo Yasushi Akimoto.
Atsuko entered AKB in 2005 when she was just 14 and now she is heading towards adulthood -- or age 20 -- she said she had to make a new. No doubt she will head onto other and ...
Adultery is often far more tolerated among couples in Japan than in other countries. Especially older women accept that their husbands will shop around occasionally.
When the shoe is on the other foot, though, things work out differently...
A Kanagawa public official, Gen Noda (47), recently suspected his wife was having an affair. No man to take this lying down, he began following his wife.
Soon enough he rumbled her entering a "hotel" with another man, a company employee. Despite the flagrant adulterer's younger age, the cuckold wouldn't stand for this effrontery -- and promptly ...
The makers of popular Japanese SNS Ameba Pigg decided recently to change the hit game's policy so that even the under fifteen could join.
However, this set off a storm of protest from current users, with some 30,000 comments being left on the staff blog post.
Well, anyone concerned about the new mood at Ameba Pigg might rather want to consider how it might spice things up, especially when you hear about the Ameba community fan site, Pigg H, which is basically a porn version!
In addition to making your avatars having twosomes and threesomes with others, the site includes "erotic ...
Now THIS is the reason why I have a smartphone!
We've just come across this fun and sexy app, WETTY by miniskirted police that lets you practice stripping girls' clothes off! You use a water gun to get the ladies wet and then make them lose their apparel.
Not quite as good as the famous rip "Mosatsu app", based on the photo book series, but this is in so many ways a kind of chikan practice game!
Sadly the real Japanese cops, on the rare occasion you see a woman police officer, never wear miniskirts. Nor do they look like ...
Shun Oguri, one of Japan's best-looking actors, is to marry his long-term girlfriend, the model, Yu Yamada.
They've been a famous celebrity couple for four years now, in spite of rumors in recent years of Shun's infidelities with other ladies. His career also took a hit recently when he turned his hand to directing a film, only for it turn out a massive flop at the local box office.
Yu is the always smiling and personality-less celebrity model, best known for her long legs and clean-cut image.
My prediction? Like other recent celebrity marriages, it won't ...
Let the otakus start salivating now. AKB48 and their taskmasters have demonstrated that, yes, there are further depths to be plumbed with their new TV ad for Puccho candy.
The ads feature the ladies passing candy to each other from, yes, from each other's mouth! I can hardly type this I can so excited by the prospect of fake lesbian kissing from child-like idols. Or not, as the case may ...
Just weeks after her divorce possibly over her husband's gay nude photo shoot, Ayumi Hamasaki is back with a new album out, something like her millionth release. And it deliberately seems to reveal a very sexy side to the doll-like princess.
Ayumi is no strange to tantalizing us, having previously done quite risque photos. But this new album cover flaunts her posterior like she's got nothing to lose. Well, actually, she almost doesn't. Her career is at a low and her love life is hardly a success.
So, she strips down and gets sticks her still-pert-after-all-these-years ass in the air ...
Fans of that strange and queasy world of Japanese kawaii -- part cute, part sexy, part kitsch -- will love the bizarre look of Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, a new singer with a growing fan base here.
Even her name is crazy -- full version: Caroline Charonplop Kyarypamyupamyu -- along with her "fashion", a mishmash of Harajuku on speed.
Following a short career firmly in the lolicon world as a junior idol when she was 12 years old. Then she went by the name of Kiriko Takemura. She emerged after appearing in a street fashion magazine and then becoming a dokusha "reader" model.
Now she ...
Much like the yaeba snaggletooth phenomenon, the Japanese trend of the duck face has both fascinated and revolted foreigners.
Japanese girls make the duck-face pout (ahiru-guchi) as they think it makes them look cute and attractive to men. You look "dumb" and submissive, and, since Japanese ladies don't usually have much in the way of busts or butts they have to make up for it by charming gentlemen with their faces.
Classic duck-face advocates include Tomomi Itano from AKB48, singer Yuki, and voice actress Aya Hirano, though it can look sexier in the context.
It was first used in the ...
