In 2015, Nippon Television landed in hot water when it rescinded a job offer for a college graduate after it found out she had experience as a Ginza hostess. Rina Sasazaki took the broadcaster to court and won a settlement as well as her original job offer back again. Here's a similar cautionary tale. Kayo Matsumoto is a freelance TV presenter (called "announcers" in Japan). She was forced to leave TV Aichi in September 2014 after her dabbling in porn was exposed. As we know, the AV industry is absolutely huge and every year an army of women debut in porn. Most have short careers and an ...

For all their rabid consumption of Japanese porn, a large amount of men in the country actually fantasize about marrying a different sort of girl. The TV "announcer". These are the intelligent girls who graduated from such colleges as Sophie University, she kind of girl you can have a conversation with and not be bored, and who would cook you something that goes with wine. Women like Christel Takigawa, the thinking man's crumpet. Ryoko Mima was born in 1984. For many years the weather presenter on a TBS morning show, she has been a been a middle-class favorite for a while -- ...

Following reader Uego Munst's recent request, we've put together a collection of some Japanese "announcer" (TV presenter) hotties. First up, everyone's woman of the moment -- Yuko Aoki (b. 1983), who recently got married is rumored to be getting married. Yoshie Takeuchi (b. 1986) is apparently super popular in China right now and with her chipper, girl-next-door looks, we can see why. Tomoko Kogou was born in 1978 and works for NHK. She's more the thinking man's crumpet kind of lady. A younger lady is Mai Yamagishi (b. 1987), a TV presenter with a touch of the gyaru ...

After being snapped going home with her boyfriend recently (I love the smile on her face, is she thinking about the upcoming hanky-panky?), the hot haafu Japanese-French TV presenter Hélène Hayama has announced she is to marry. There's been lots of celebrity marriages announced in the past few weeks, including singer Takako Uehara, Korean actress Jun Ji-hyun, and model Miyuki Koizumi (pictured below). So, here's the big question: Does it mean you no longer find the girl or idol so hot? Or take a lovely actress like Yuka Itaya. She's just had a second child. Does that lessen ...

If you want a girl with looks and brains, so the thinking goes in Japan, get yourself a TV "announcer". These are the ladies who present the news or other TV shows that at least require some modicum of intelligence to understand. The cult of the TV announcer is so strong that it is said that the main reason boys try to attend Sophie University in central Tokyo is because it is the alma mater of many presenters, and they want to bag themselves a lady before she hits the big time. Popular with female viewers as an ideal to emulate, men enjoy imagining what it is like to have a ...