We recently wrote about Kana Kurashina's incredible semi-nude Anan magazine shoot. It reminded us yet again what a great magazine it is: nominally a fashion and lifestyle publication for women, it's regular sex-themed issues and provocative cover shoots with established models and female actors have continued to grab attention (and seriously boost the careers of the models) for years now. Here is a selection of some of the best covers from the past decade, featuring (in publication/chronological order): Kana Kurashima (2021), Ayaka Miyoshi (2020), Fumika Baba (2019), Rio Uchida (2018), ...

You might think that being married to the beautiful model and actress Nozomi Sasaki would be enough to satisfy a man. You'd be wrong. A scandal has broken out in the Japanese entertainment world after a tabloid scooped an interview with a mistress of popular comedian Ken Watabe. Apparently they met numerous times even after his marriage to have sex in public toilets. The 47-year-old Watabe would drive around in his car, according to the woman, scouting out a suitably quiet toilet in the basement of the Roppongi Hills complex in Tokyo, and then message his office lady lover to come. He ...

Japanese girls are world experts in make-up. Almost no girl leaves the house without at least a dab of blush or foundation, and women quite advanced in years can still look superb. Skin quality is praised above sexiness. Recently there has been a trend for celebrities posting pictures of themselves as suppin (no make-up) on blogs and so on. Nozomi Sasaki, the popular angelic actress, has found herself caught up in the "trend" when she took part in a promo for a cosmetic product in which she appeared without make-up. Here you can see a before-and-after. She did it to show ...

American film website TC Candler has issues its yearly list of "most beautiful faces". Japanese girls featured: Satomi Ishihara was at #32, followed by Nozomi Sasaki at #41, Mirei Kiritani at #46, Haruka Shimazaki (from AKB48) at #56, (recently married to yet another foreigner) Ayumi Hamasaki at #60, and finally Aya Ueto at #99. Despite the ubiquity on Japanese advertising of people like Atsuko Maeda, Emi Takei and Ayame Goriki, they were nowhere in sight and so can be presumed to have little to no global presence. So much for Dentsu. Kiritani was at #12 last year while ...