The New Year period in Japan is traditionally a time when celebrities announce marriages. Despite being overshadowed by tragic events in Noto and Haneda, this year proved to be business as usual in that respect: the actress Aya Hirano announced her marriage, and gravure idol Tomomi Morisaki confirmed her long-rumored coupling with baseball player Shota Hiranuma (and the fact that she was pregnant to boot). And another celebrity story emerged: that the former TV announcer Minami Tanaka, who has made a wildly successful transition into modeling and acting, is dating the KAT-TUN singer Kazuya ...

We previously blogged about sexy haafu Meisa Kuroki's shotgun wedding (dekichatta kekkon) to singer Jin Akanishi. Now it has been announced that Meisa (24) has given birth. So congratulations to Meisa and Jin on starting their family! He's one lucky guy... After mostly being out of the limelight since her marriage, here's hoping Meisa returns to our lives soon. Admittedly her singer career was floundering and her acting was hardly winning her awards, but she still has plenty of aesthetic talents that we certainly ...

Well, surprise, surprise... What we always suspected! Sexy haafu Meisa Kuroki has officially said she is pregnant, ending weeks of tabloid rumors. So singer Jin Akanishi doesn't like to use condoms, it seems. We speculated as much when the celebrity pair announced their sudden marriage. I guess this means we will be seeing a lot less of the half-Latin American, half-Japanese goddess, but then her singing or acting careers have not taken off so she was basically stuck doing half-baked modeling work these days anyway. There is one remaining hope. She goes the way of Hitomi ...

Well, the big news in the Japanese celebrity world has been the sudden announcement by Meisa Kuroki and Jin Akanishi, formerly of boyband KAT-TUN, that they were married! Yep, you've guessed it, yet another example of the now customary celebrity dekikon, or shotgun wedding. Meisa is said to be two months pregnant! I don't know, I think this kinda embarrassing. I wouldn't want the world to know that my boyfriend doesn't use condoms when he screws me or that I don't have the intelligence to know that nakadashi ain't too sensible for the working woman! I'm sure their respective ...

Sometimes it seems that every TV show and every advertisement in Japan features a haafu (half-Japanese, half something else person). Well, yes, but a lot of these are fairly banal, plain people whose only real talent is having slightly larger eyes and more ambiguous skin. However, I want to introduce you to the haafu who put the "sex" back into "sexy". Drum roll please. We now present The Sexiest Haafu Ladies! Melody Yoko Reilly (b. 1988) Half Irish American. She seems to be a lingerie model among other things. Not sure about much else, but she looks damned ...