Anyway even remotely interested in Japanese geinoujin or models can't have failed to see the big news this week: Erika Sawajiri has told her much-older husband that she wants a divorce. By email. Yes, apparently Tsuyoshi Takashiro is completely stumped as to why his beautiful wife has suddenly had a change of heart. He heard it first by email and since then has been getting updates through her website announcements and the press. We blogged here about Erika's comeback a few weeks ago. Half-French Erika had legions of fans until her pride got the better of her, most infamously at ...

One of our favorite idols, Erika Sawajiri, has returned to the world of Japanese entertainment (geinokai) after a oh-too-long absence of two and a half years! Ever since she made that rather sulky press conference in 2007 for the film Closed Note (we actually thought she was rather sexy!) and earned the animosity of the nation, her career has been on a disappointingly downward trajectory. Well, now the rebellious minx is back, with a new "taido" (attitude) and keen to get into what she did so brilliantly before: cute photos, TV commercials, the occasionally melodramatic TV drama series, ...