Can you imagine the surprise if a 40-year-old female model were dating a 20-year-old male idol? But the other way round, it's just another day in the urban jungle. Especially if you're a celebrity.
Weekly tabloid Shukan Bunshun has scored a minor scoop with an article claiming that singer You (or Yu) Yokoyama of Kanjani Eight is sleeping with Sumire Yokono of NMB48.
Yokoyama, who is 39, was in Kyoto to perform in a play in early March. After the show was over one day, he returned to his hotel -- where he was soon apparently joined by a young woman.
This lady is, Shukan Bunshun reckons, ...
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 ...
Spare a thought for Yui Imaizumi.
The former Keyakizaka46 cutie seemed to have found love and happiness with a man, albeit one who does not use condoms and presumes there are no consequences to ejaculating inside her.
After a tough time last year when she contracted the coronavirus, but also showed us how busty she is on Zoom, Imaizumi recently announced her marriage to 28-year-old YouTuber Mahoto Watanabe.
The 22-year-old, who left Keyakizaka46 in 2018, also announced that she was pregnant, so in other words -- this is yet another celebrity shotgun wedding.
A moment for fans to ...
A quite extraordinary scandal appeared in the Japanese media in the last few days. The model and celebrity Loveli (real name, Izumi Shirahama) is facing prosecution over an allegation of sexual assault on another woman in May 2019.
The Shukan Bunshun has published a sensational interview with the victim, named only as Ms. A.
According to the story, the Filipino-Japanese Loveli allegedly assaulted Ms. A while they were staying in Shirahama in Wakayama. After drinking, her accuser says, Loveli threw herself on the woman in the early hours of the morning, taking off her panties and going down ...
Another mainstream idol group has had to jettison one of its members after she was found to be pursuing a secret porn career.
Nijiiro no Hiko Shojo (虹色の飛行少女) is a seven-member group active since 2018.
Kana Usami (宇佐美花菜), who played the idol "character" Hana Midorisawa in the group, was fired on February 27 and replaced. This is after it came to light that she had performed in a porn release. She made her AV debut under the name Azu Kusunoki (楠木あず) for Soft on Demand Star with a release on January 17 (1stars00176). The publicity claimed she was 20 years old. ...
Yuuna Tanaka (田中優奈) is a Japanese TV announcer who was recently sacked over an alleged affair.
That might be bad enough for her career prospects, but now photos have appeared that allegedly show Tanaka nude during sex with her partner.
We should emphasize that we have no idea if these photos of Tanaka, who lost her job with Nagoya's CBC TV last summer after the year-long affair with a colleague emerged, are genuine, though that it was netizens are speculating.
We reported on a similar situation in 2018, when an affair effectively ended the career of TV announcer Yumi ...
In December 2019, it was reported that 61-year-old Japanese politician Yasuhiro Ozata (小里泰弘) was asked to pay a "break-up fee" (solatium) by a much-younger woman with whom he was having an affair.
The Liberal Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives and former Cabinet minister allegedly paid Yuno Morita (森田由乃) ¥100,000 per night during their relationship. They became acquainted through a members-only club where she worked in Roppongi three years ago. They would subsequently meet as often as three times a month at a hotel -- high-end, naturally, not some grubby ...
The tabloid, Otakara, claims that the unnamed former SKE48 idol is now working at Osaka's Tobita Shinchi red-light district as a prostitute.
According to the magazine, the idol offers blow jobs with a condom for ¥16,000, though kissing is not allowed. Full sex with a condom is also apparently possible.
The idol joined the group in 2009 but was an underdog in the elections. Hmm...we wonder who it could be.
We have no way of verifying the truth behind this short of visiting every establishment in Tobita Shinchi (sounds like a fun assignment!), nor have we yet seen the full article in the ...
Private photos have leaked online showing idol Yui Yokoyama of AKB48 in her underwear kissing and embracing her boyfriend.
Needless to say -- if the photos are genuine -- this scandal certainly breaks the no-dating rule in her contract with management, not to mention will both excite and disappoint fans.
The three images leaked online on the night of September 6th. We don't think the 18-year-old Yokoyama or her management have made a comment yet confirming or denying the photos. It isn't clear yet why the photos leaked, though they apparently date back to when she was still in junior ...
It's election season in Japan, which means posters of candidates everywhere as well as election broadcasts on TV. Pretty soon the streets will be filled with the soundscape of the trucks trundling around, calling out the local candidates' names to all and sundry.
As always, though, it's the more unusual candidates vying for a well-paid position in the House of Councillors that make the most impact in a gray field.
Takashi Tachibana is standing for election as a member of the Party to Protect the People from NHK (NHKから国民を守る党) -- a long-running libertarian-esque stance that ...
