This is a story that's been bubbling along in the background for a while and has now come more fully to light.
Mariko Shinoda, the celebrity once one of the big original stars of AKB48, is locked in a legal battle with her estranged husband over the custody rights to their child.
Shinoda graduated AKB48 in 2013 and got married in autumn 2019 to a man she had been dating for just a few months. In April 2020, she gave birth. She became something of a model of motherhood, devoting her Instagram to pictures of her parenting. This all seemed to stop in summer this year amid a tranche of ...
The casting couch is one of the open secrets of the idol industry. Another one is the extra money that idols (music, gravure, AV), seiyu, models, and actors earn from compensated dating.
This gets exposed at regular intervals by tabloid scoops. One such scandal caused Shoko Takahashi to lose her agency as a gradol (when she worked as Shoko Takasaki) and launched her porn career.
The JAV star Yuria Satomi had trouble with the tax agency in 2016 over huge amounts of undeclared income from her "boyfriends," who compensated her financially for their relationship.
The latest scandal was broken ...
Well, 2018 has been a busy year.
We have published hundreds of posts in the past twelve months, though the year was capped off by tumblr's controversial decision to ban adult content. This has resulted in countless posts being flagged and hidden on the Tokyo Kinky tumblr page, which itself is now caught by a "safe mode" filter and (we think) no longer visible unless you have a tumblr account. At the moment, it seems, the non-nude images are still available, but for how long? The march of the morality police continues its relentless invasion into the Interwebs!
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Notorious man-eating idol Rino Sashihara has followed up her butt-revealing, semi-nude photo book release with a very sexy shoot for the magazine Anan.
The August 17th issue has some very revealing shots of the slinky, sexually aggressive HKT48 idol.
The long-running magazine has become something iconic for its "sex" issues as well as its semi-nude photo shoots with mainstream actresses and models. Past eyebrow-raising covers include Nanao, Ryoko Yonekura, and Maomi Yuuki.
We could say it's hair nude-lite: female celebrities who want to up their adult ...
Back when Mariya Nagao was one of the members of AKB48, we already took something of a liking to her.
But it is since leaving the (faltering) group that she has shined, stripping off to reveal her perfect bikini butt and body.
As we have discussed before, Japanese TV is a tame entity, though livened up by the occasional scene of Nanao in lingerie.
Nagao was recently gracing Japanese television screens to show us what it is like to kiss her in a swimming pool. Naturally, Nagao was wearing slinky swimwear.
The 22-year-old was kissed by Popteen model Koji Konishi on the aptly named ...
Has Rino Sashihara gone too far this time?
In her new photo book released on March 22nd, Sashihara is basically naked, showing off her ass.
So far, the reaction online has been mixed, with some excitement mixed with anger that another AKB idol has stepped over a line. The debate has centered on if she is wearing panties or not. Is there a thong between her buttocks?
The man-eater is already notorious for her exile from AKB to the HKT48 sister group for having sex with a fan.
Sashihara's new photo book doesn't yet have an official title but we expect it will break ...
She may well have only come second this year but she still has her die-hard fans.
Exiled former AKB48 idol Rino Sashihara finished runner-up in the AKB48 General Election last weekend but this was in spite of the best efforts of a farmer, who voted for her 4,600 times.
A strawberry farmer apparently with money to burn was personally responsible for over 3% of Sashihara's winning 150,570 votes last year.
He claimed he would get at least 4,600 votes for her this year, despite having a wife and two children of his own. Regardless, it didn't help as Mayu Watanabe beat Sashiko to the ...
AKB48 veteran Mayu Watanabe has snatched victory from the jaws of reigning champion and notorious man-eater Rino Sashihara in the AKB General Election.
It is Mayu Watanabe's first time to be number one and she was no doubt helped to her victory by being the main singer in the group's current single. By default she is now one of the most senior singers in the idol group, which has seen the departure of most of its popular girls graduate onto the outside world (Sashihara has not been an official member of the main group since she was sent into exile for her sexual proclivities).
After ...
The year is almost over. It's time to look back over the past twelve months at the ladies who made the biggest impression.
Here are our picks, in alphabetical order.
Haruka Ayase
The former idol is now a respected actress and one who confidently assured the country that she need not be typecast in the ditzy girl-next-door roles anymore when she took the lead in the year-long Taiga drama, "Yae no Sakura". We still love her curves, though.
Mitsu Dan
Another big year for the thirtysomething curvy lady. She seemed to be on everyone's lips, figuratively speaking. She even ...
The results of the AKB48 Senbatsu "general election" event are in -- and the participants for the band's 32nd single, as announced at an event on June 8th in Yokohama.
This year -- the fifth "general election" -- the AKB honchos changed the system slightly with "candidacies". 246 idols stood, the most of any of the elections since 2009, including girls from all the major AKB groups and the various teams within each group: AKB48, SKE48, NMB48, HKT48, JKT48 and SNH48. Six graduated members also stood, though not Tomomi Kasai.
The big surprise was the victory of "disgraced" former ...
