What happens to those sexy, leggy race queens (grid girls) when their careers dry up? Well, in the case of Chisato Morishita, they might go into politics. A lucky few switch to grave. Others run bars.
And possibly get arrested for doing so.
Last week, people went crazy about the beautiful, chatty bar manager who was among five arrested in a police crackdown in Kabukicho, Akihabara, and Ikebukuro, and now some details and rumors about her background have emerged.
Tomoko Nagata is accused of operating Wisteria as an unlicensed girls bar in Kabukicho because her female staff were not just ...
That cutie on social media may have a dark side.
It's one of the most sensational crimes in recent days, made even more sensational by the woman allegedly behind it.
The 28-year-old Kaito Takemae and his 25-year-old wife, Miyu (sometimes Miyuu), are suspected of hiring four high school students to break into a house in Tochigi, where they stabbed and killed the 69-year-old resident. All four students were quickly apprehended by police. Kaito and Miyu are accused of directing the students during the crime.
Kaito was arrested at Haneda Airport while trying to flee the country. Miyu was ...
The content creator platform Fantia has announced sweeping changes that will greatly impact its use by adult content creators by forcing them to censor their uploads.
Fantia is popular with models as well as adult illustrators and doujinshi creators, but that may be set to change with the announcement on May 19 that all content on Fantia needs blurring, pixellation (mosaic), or covering by a solid color to full hide images of genitalia and penetration. This also applies to past uploads, so creators will need to fix past content or remove it.
It relates to Article 175 of the Japanese Penal ...
This is your perennial reminder that Japan's Minister of State for Special Missions (Child Policy, Youth Empowerment, Declining Birth Rate, Gender Equality) looked like this.
Alright, she did when she was much younger. Today, she's 61 years old and has a penchant for the pants suit.
She became a politician in 2010. Despite having no children of her own (though she's had some practice -- she's on her third husband, who is 24 years her junior, since 2016), she was tasked with reversing Japan's chronically declining birth rate.
Mihara started off her career as a singer. When she was an ...
The tabloid weekly Friday has published a story about a pregnant woman in Japan who did papakatsu sugar dating, earning around ¥8 million in 10 months.
Eriko (a pseudonym) explained to the magazine that she and her older husband dated for 10 years and have been married now for seven. Now at age 36, she is finally pregnant with their first child.
"I work as an office lady, but I've actually been doing sugar dating [compensated dating with a sugar daddy] since before I got pregnant. The regular allowances I received were the main source of my income. So, while I was happy to be pregnant, I ...
The Devil wears . . . not much at all?
Ayaka Miyoshi turned up for the Japanese premiere of The Devil Wears Prada 2 wearing a revealing something.
The 29-year-old was dressed in a kind of suit with a black jacket, white shirt, and black tie, except that the shirt only came halfway down, with the result that she left much of her under-boob on show for all the world to see.
Miyoshi is not the bustiest of ladies, so the resulting bulge was quite modest, but there was no mistaking what was visible under the shirt. She seems to be channeling more Marlene Dietrich than Andy Sachs or Miranda ...
Nozomi Sasaki is celebrating 20 years in the industry with a new calendar out on June 9.
The Akita native was a favorite of the late 2000s. She made her debut in 2006 and established herself in gravure as well as acting roles. With her pure-looking face and waif-like body, she was one of the most eligible women in entertainment, and ultimately married comedian Ken Watabe in 2017. They have two kids together, though their marriage was rocked by scandal when Watabe's affair hit the headlines with lots of salacious detail about toilet sex in Roppongi. The scandal even inspired its own adult ...
Many gravure idols struggle to reinvent themselves when their modeling career starts to wan, but Rin Takahashi has demonstrated that you can do this with aplomb -- and completely transform your body at the same time!
The 35-year-old formerly curvy gradol has shifted careers by becoming a personal trainer, toning herself in the process into a muscular, athletic, and tanned beauty.
A recent before-and-after viral photo shared by Garen Takizawa really brings home the extent of her physical journey, which she herself announced at the start of 2026. She lost around 17 kilograms in two years by ...
Everyone wants to be the next Minami Tanaka. While there have been plenty of past examples of Japanese TV announcers (newsreaders) shifting into modeling, both fashion and gravure modeling, Tanaka pioneered a successful style of shifting her career into a whole other stratosphere by releasing a sexy photo book in her early thirties, and earning a strong fandom among both men and similarly aged women.
But Tanaka is now about to turn 40 and focused on her new career as an actor, so there's a gap in market for a newbie.
We've seen a clutch of ladies recently try to assume the mantle: Anna ...
The hugely popular model and actor Ayaka Miyoshi has revealed a whole new side to herself with a series of pictures that showcase what seems to be a permanent back tattoo.
The tattoo features a plant running alluringly down her back, culminating in a number on her lower spine. The image resembles a Chinese ink drawing and instantly draws attention to the sensual curve of Miyoshi's back. She displayed her ravishing new look in a photo shoot for Harper's Bazaar and Boucheron.
She posted the images on Instagram to her 2.6 million followers with a long message in English
As I go through life, ...
