Top model and actress Haruka Ayase is reportedly dating a much younger male singer and actor.
According to tabloid reports, Ayase (39) is in a relationship with Jesse Lewis (28), who, despite the name, is a Japanese singer with the group SixTones.
The pair reportedly visited Las Vegas together this month. Lewis's father is from Las Vegas and the tabloids have interpreted this as meaning he took Ayase "home" to introduce her to his parents.
News about the relationship has had a mixed reaction from the public, some of whom are surprised at the age gap. However, we rarely blink twice if a male ...
Haruka Ayase is one of the most famous models and actors in Japan.
Before she made the transition into mainstream acting and modeling, and seemed to appear in almost every TV commercial or brand campaign, Ayase was briefly a gravure idol. She's got the looks for it: a cute, girl-next-door face, slim body, and (by most Japanese standards) large breasts.
This shoot in which she stands alluringly against a window, her body on display except for skimpy swimwear, is one of our all-time favorite gravure pics.
She even once shot some sort of video in a bath, and you can find nude grainy ...
Despite recently marrying (or perhaps because she recently married) Japan's most eligible bachelor, Masaharu Fukuyama, Japanese women have chosen Kazue Fukiishi as the celebrity with the best breasts.
Fukuiishi has a nice slender body but she certainly wouldn't be most people's initial choice. She hardly has much of a bust to speak of anyway, though what she has was shown off in a series of UNIQLO ads.
She also posed semi-naked for women's magazine Anan a few years ago.
Second was Ryoko Shinohara, who raised some eyebrows with her tantalizing bra ad for Triumph.
Less ...
No, it's not AV idols or even Gravure idols. Nor is it exotic or glamorous fashion models.
It's very mainstream actresses with charming personalities.
Almost all the ladies have "cute" girl-next-door faces rather than sensual, "beautiful" looks.
The number one lady that Japanese men said they most wanted to date was... Haruka Ayase, who also came out top of last year's survey. Local guys like ditzy girls, it seems.
Second was Satomi Ishihara, up from fourth place. It might be all those Aeon English school ads she has been doing. A girl who can speak English (albeit with a ...
Charlie Hebdo got itself into tragic trouble over its depictions of Islam.
In Japan, an equivalent would be if you tried to fictionalize the Imperial Family. People have tried it and have ended up dead.
But only slightly less powerful is the yakuza-connected entertainment world, which holds a massive sway over the press.
Only the weekly tabloid press, for all their smut, do a fine job in defying the control freaks that are the jimusho agencies. These magazines almost invariably feature a gravure idol on the cover but inside cannot use official press photos of the idols and ...
We like slightly larger girls. Girls with a little bit of curve to them. The recent naked butt of Ayaka Sayama was enough to get our blood racing.
A new Japanese idol group called Chubbiness showcases girls who are, not surprisingly, a little larger. The ten ladies will be making their professional debut in March.
What do you think? Will these idols be a hit?
There has been a bit of a surge in interest in large ladies of late, including popular comediennes and even a fashion magazine devoted to pocchari women.
While Chubbiness are a little too, well, chubby for our ...
The year is almost over. It's time to look back over the past twelve months at the ladies who made the biggest impression.
Here are our picks, in alphabetical order.
Haruka Ayase
The former idol is now a respected actress and one who confidently assured the country that she need not be typecast in the ditzy girl-next-door roles anymore when she took the lead in the year-long Taiga drama, "Yae no Sakura". We still love her curves, though.
Mitsu Dan
Another big year for the thirtysomething curvy lady. She seemed to be on everyone's lips, figuratively speaking. She even ...
Another day, another fetish.
This time it's cute girls with twin ponytails -- particularly useful for grabbing hold of!
Photographer Kan Furuya seems to like young girls with this kind of haircut, so much so that he's made a whole photo book out of it, Harenochi Twin Tail, which went on sale in late October. In Japan, pigtails is called the "twin tail".
We guess he likes the bright and bubbly look of the girls, coy and cute -- but still sexy.
The book is part of a whole website called the Twin Tail Project Japan, which seeks to promote minor idols with the double hair look.
I ...
