What happens to the literally thousands of gravure idols, music idols, and minor porn stars when their careers dry up? Some go into prostitution, some get married. Still others become writers, like Nayuka Mine, or politicians, like Ayaka Shiomura or Renho. Well, some switch tracks completely, like Yuka Kosaka. She burst into the idol big time in 2004 when she won the Miss Young Magazine, and at her height was appearing on TV variety shows and in gravure shoots. Then in 2009 she retired and became something of a media joke due to her sudden weight gain. Her glory ...

Nippon.com, normally a fairly austere and academic online publication, has published an article by sociologist Suzumi Suzuki, in which she discusses her fieldwork about adult video and role play in the porn world. Suzuki starts out with a very positive view of her subject matter: AV actresses are surprisingly articulate when asked to talk about themselves. In the videos by which they make a living, as well as in magazines and other media, they calmly field personal questions of all kinds and narrate their personal stories smoothly and eloquently. To a large extent, this is a skill they ...

Nayuka Mine (峰なゆか) is a former porn star turned manga-ka. She is famous for having an alluring, curvy beauty similar to Mitsu Dan. Born in 1984, she made her AV debut in 2005 but left the porn industry in 2009, except for a brief comeback in 2011 for a lesbian title from MOODYZ. These days her appearances are tamer, though she's not averse to posting some very sexy selfies! But personally we love seeing her in all her glory. Like Manami Hashimoto and Mitsu Dan, Nayuka is definitely a lady who is getting hotter with ...

Japanese politics is not a pretty sight. Lots of wrinkly men from powerful dynasties arguing over their factions and minor policies while ignoring the bigger issues. At night they take off to the expensive hostess clubs of Ginza and spend time with their younger mistresses. But there are a few lights in this world of darkness. One of them is the rather attractive Ayaka Shiomura, a 35-year-old politician for Setagaya in the Tokyo Assembly, one of the members of the left-leaning Your Party. Yesterday she was giving a speech to the Tokyo Assembly on improving government support for women ...