In mid-January, we wrote about the pleasant surprise that was actress and model Haruka Ayase's return to gravure. Well, this seems to be a bit of a trend right now: actresses and models who were huge in the 2000s and 2010s are going back to their gravure roots. Aya Ueto has done a cover shoot for the February 27 issue of Flash, which is now on sale. Though she made her debut as an actress in the year 2000, Ueto worked in gravure before she became a big mainstream star, including as a junior idol. Ueto now has three children, having giving birth to her most recent one last year, and while ...

Oh, no. The moment we all dreaded was coming... has finally arrived. Super cute girl-next-door Aya Ueto (27) has got hitched to HIRO (42), of boyband EXILE. Despite the age gap the pair have been an item for some time now and tabloids have speculated regularly that marriage was on the cards. While we mop the bitter tears from our eyes, we have created this visual tribute to one of the sweetest-looking gals in Japanese showbiz ...

2011 ends and 2012 starts with a bang as two marital-related events came to a head. Sweet actress Aoi Miyazaki (26) has long been the apple of many a man's eye. Her cad of a hubby, pop singer and actor Sousuke Takaoka (29), though, knows full well that he is regarded as a "ikemen" hunk. So much so that he reportedly had an affair a while back with a gravure idol called Asuka Kinbara, and they have been living separately. Rumors of a split in the celebrity couple have floated for months and months, but finally the two confirmed their divorce just before the end of the year. The pair ...