We love Yumi Sugimoto.
The slinky idol is one of the top Gravure models in Japan.
And the 26-year-old has finally answered our wishes and stripped off for her new photo-book "Chiamata", some highlights of which were recently published in FRIDAY and Shukan Playboy magazines.
Okay, let's not get too excited. This isn't true hair nude territory or even nude in the same way that Ayaka Sayama stripped off recently.
But it's by far the most explicit shoot Yumi Sugimoto has done. And it REALLY got us ...
Kamen Joshi have released a new semi-nude swimwear-themed photo book.
The Akihabara underground idol (chika aidoru) group famously wears hockey masks but in "Mizugi Kamen" (Swimwear Mask) there will be more flesh on display than usual.
The photo book features on the cover Anna Tachibana, Erina Kamiya (G-cup bust!) and Jun Amaki (I-cup!). The book features 105 sexy images of the girls, including semi-lesbian bed scenes.
Kamen Joshi has three sub-groups: Alice Juban, Steamgirls and Armorgirls. The Alice Project idol group is famous for being masked (their name means "masked girls") ...
Like that perennial stumper "Where do elephants go to die?", the question of what happens to all the scores of AKB48 idols once they "graduate" is often on our minds.
Sure, some go on to mildly successful acting careers. But for the most, there is only oblivion or a career in porn.
Faced with this dilemma, Anna Mori decided to go to the grassroots.
She launched this crowdfunding campaign to get her first photo book into publication. Why should only the "top" ladies get all the kudos and merchandise? She has her fans too!
As she turned 20 (and thus an adult -- yes!), she set a ...
A little while ago the gravure world was stunned by the sudden appearance of a gorgeous model called Rara Anzai. She made her debut in a nude shoot for Weekly Playboy magazine that fully showed off her incredible bust and body to the full.
The photos are "censored" but are actually highlights from a full-front "hair nude" photo-book called "Hello, Goodbye", published in June 2014. (It's common for photo-books, especially high-profile and raunchy ones, to have a promo spread in a weekly tabloid magazine at the same time as the release.)
In fact, a little bit of digging by those in ...
AKB48's Yuko Oshima like you've never seen her before, naked!
At least, that's what the publisher is (almost) promising.
While she has never been averse to risque shoots, Yuko's new photo book is particularly eyebrow-raising. By comparison, most AKB girls, even after graduating, remain fairly safe, though there are exceptions. Atsuko Maeda, for example, is attempting to forge a career in mainstream acting (good luck with that).
Over the summer the twenty-five-year-old Yuko has been stripping down for photographer Mika Ninagawa. The results are a photo book to be released in ...
Saeko. The cute little minx was famous for being famous a while back. Then she was famous being a famous baseball player's wife. Then she was famous for divorcing the famous baseball player. Then she was just famous. Kind of.
Now she is reinventing herself. She has just released a "semi-nude" sexy photo book this month, Episode 1, which comes after Saeko Snap! last year. Both feature a lot of flesh, confirming our suspicions that Saeko is not just a gold-digging ditzy tarento who may or may not have had plastic surgery.
She married Yu Darvish in 2007; it was of course a shotgun ...
Haruna Kojima, the 25-year-old AKB48 idol who we believe is the only major AKB girl with anything worth talking about, has released her first photo book "Kojiharu".
Just in time for Christmas, the book features a selection of hot images, not least one in which Haruna is doing her best to promote the AKB tradition of the te-bura -- or "hand bra".
AKB girls have a habit of doing this kind of shot, though at least this time there is no child involved.
Here are some luscious snaps from behind the scenes.
And just to prove how nice ...
In Japan, politicos have an average age of circa 82. There are few woman and the few that exist tend to be scarily "driven" types. It's rare you get the full charms of Japan's gentle sex walking the corridors of power.
But last February, Asuka Tachikawa stood as an independent in the Niiza City council elections in Saitama, and got elected at the sprightly age of 27.
This hottie soon gained the reputation as being "too beautiful" to be a councillor.
The knives were out, fueled no doubt by the green-eyed monster. She was then accused of not having lived long enough in the city and ...
AKB48's Asuka Kuramochi has grown up. She will release her first solo photo book on September 11th called "Mimi-tabu", which means "earlobe".
We're not sure if this has some sort of coded meaning or whether the photos will showcase Asuka's lovely ears. Saying that, Asuka is known as an "ear sommelier" and apparently has a liking for liking other girls' ears...
The release will coincide with her 24th birthday, though we think the present is more for us than her!
The shoot was done in Asuka's local town, Yokohama, and handled by photographer Tatsuo Watanabe.
While ...
These ladies look pretty hot, right?
Well, actually these are otoko no ko (男の娘), crossdressing males, photographed by Naoko Tachibana.
They feature nine crossdressers from the cafe and bar New Type, which opened in Akihabara in May 2009. Tachibana has put these together as a photo book, "Yuri Danshi", 10,000 copies of which have been printed -- that's quite a demand!
We think you'll agree that these ladies look lovely.
Otoko no ko culture -- a mixture of cosplay and crossdressing -- is huge in Japan, with its own magazines, shopping sites ...
