She's back.
We're delighted to welcome the return of Haruka Kodama, who has done her first gravure photo shoot in two years.
She appears on the cover of the October 15 issue of weekly magazine Flash. The swimwear-themed shoot features the model and actress lounging around a sunny pool and making us whistful about the hot summer that has just finished (though it's still T-shirt weather here in Tokyo).
Alongside her debut cover for the magazine, Flash has also released two digital photo books. Do you want Haruka Kodama in bed or by the pool?
Haruppi will apparently appear in ...
Eimi Fukada is one of the most successful performers in JAV, well known not just for her adult video output but also her social media prominence and huge following among fans.
She cultivates this by making regular video clips and posting them for her fans. But a couple of recent videos have got a lot of people talking -- and not in a good way.
In the short videos, Eimi Fukada dances around in skimpy swimwear, possibly imitating slinky DJ Soda's social media videos.
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As we've written before, plastic surgery is an open secret in Japanese entertainment. Almost no one talks about it but everyone knows that some celebrities get it done. Only a small minority come forward and admit to having submitted to the surgeon's knife, and sometimes face mockery for it.
One such is Minami Fukuoka, the 28-year-old Tokyo University of Science graduate and former gravure model who now seems to make a living from media appearances and endorsing products on her social media channels.
Having apparently made a small fortune from live streaming -- to such an extent that she ...
People in Japan sometimes look over the water at South Korea, where plastic surgery among women is relatively common, and tut in disapproval. But the truth is, plastic surgery also happens in Japan -- and is something of an open secret in the entertainment world, where models and actors have work done early in the career but keep it under wraps.
Only a few go public about it, though internet rumors persist over several other celebrities.
Former AKB48 idol Kana Kobayashi has admitted to having had plastic surgery.
The model Tenchim (Tenka Hashimoto) has confessed to a boob job (the results ...
Hot on the heels of the revelations over Mariko Shinoda's marital problems, allegedly caused by her infidelity, comes news of the nuptial dilemmas of another former AKB48 idol.
Kana Kobayashi is now aged 31 and seemed to have it all. Last March, she announced that she had married a famous investor and given birth to a child.
But then on January 16, she announced on social media that she was already divorced.
In fact, her husband had "another wife." If that wasn't bad enough, he was arrested in October on charges of investment fraud, sparking an online backlash against her.
Her husband ...
We love parody -- and so does both the Japanese adult toys industry and the porn industry.
But when does spoofing go too far?
The comedian/YouTuber Chikuwa, who has over 180,000 subscribers to her YouTube channel, was recently forced to apologize after she mocked the ex-porn star Kirara Asuka about having plastic surgery.
The controversy started on November 14, when Chikuwa posted a video in which she did an impression of Kirara Asuka. The former adult video idol, however, was less than amused, and tweeted that she was beginning legal action.
Chikuwa then responded with an apology video ...
Formerly known as Tenka Hashimoto (橋本甜歌), Tenchim (てんちむ) is a 27-year-old Chinese-Japanese tarento and model.
She has relaunched her career after more than a decade gracing people's TV screens and magazine pages -- and now she's raising things up a sexy notch (or several).
This has come about due to a scandal in 2020 with "bust-boosting" products she endorsed on her popular YouTube channel, which turned out to be fake -- since she had, in fact, has a boob job. She also admitted to taking marijuana on an overseas holiday.
With her income drying up, she started working last ...
What are the dark secrets of the entertainment industry in Japan? Here is our subjective list.
1: Sex
Despite the control exerted by talent agencies over idols' private lives (who they can and cannot date, or in the case of some groups, not letting them date or have sex at all), the truth is that there is plenty of sex happening -- it's just not all that pleasant or consensual.
Makura eigyo (sleeping with people to get ahead, like the casting couch) is rampant at many levels of the gravure and idol industry, with female models and entertainers frequently having sex with older male managers ...
We all know that Japanese girls have small busts. While, some say local breasts are getting larger, But for many guys that doesn't matter -- they prefer flat chests (hinnyu). (There are even bras that REDUCE bust so you can get that kawaii bust look.)
Japan's cute-but-hardly-there chests have previously inspired one female fashion designer to create a series of bras effective at making the most of a flat chest.
Well, what if you have that special date and want to make a good impression? Or just want to try out a large cup size?
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Korea's hottest female DJ (how many do you know?) has beguiled fans in Asia ever since a video of her DJing went viral earlier this year.
But now there's speculation that DJ Soda is one of the legions of Korean women whose beauty is not natural, but a result of the surgeons's knife.
We can't vouch for her DJ skills but DJ Soda certainly has a cute face and a might fine pair of legs. She works at top clubs and has posed for a sexy photo shoot for Maxim, not to mention tantalizing the world with her Instagram feed -- basically a stream of selfies in various states of ...
