Former office48 (part of the AKS group) executive Takashi Nodera has been arrested and imprisoned for filming illicit naked videos of the young idols under his charge.
There has been total silence on this so far in the mainstream media, as well as, needless to say, from the powers that be at AKS, the company that runs the juggernaut that is AKB48.
But the tabloids have fortunately broken the story.
Takashi Nodera hid secret cameras in bathrooms, dressing rooms and hotel rooms between 2009 and 2010 to film the girls, possibly under age, while they relaxed without clothes ...
In September last year we wrote about the attempted comeback of the model Karina, after her notorious leaked sex photo scandal.
The word that was used a lot to describe this was nyan-nyan. It has come to mean both having sex, and more specifically, sex photos (nyan-nyan shashin).
Of course, scandals of leaked nude photos is a problem even more of the digital age and is perhaps even more notorious in America (Jennifer Lawrence et al).
However, in Japan is all goes back to the 1983 and a magazine called Focus.
Nyan-nyan starts with Tomoko Takabe, an actress and tarento TV celebrity in the ...
It just goes to prove: being an middle-aged otaku does not mean you stop being attractive to the opposite sex.
Toshio Okada, the famous anime producer and writer, and co-founder of Gainax (Evangelion), has been exposed as a mass philander.
The 56-year-old chubby otaku had his cat let out of the bag when a picture of a smooch with a younger lady was leaked online.
The 21-year-old girl posted the purikura (photo booth) pic on Facebook on December 31st, along with screen captures of her exchanges with Okada on Line where he says he loves her.
The girl did it because she claimed ...
We love a scandal and we love a woman who knows what she wants.
Megumi Okina married the CEO of Cyber Agent in 2004 but divorced him the following year. She went through a dry period in her career and then got hitched again in 2009 to a businessman in a shotgun married. She had a second child in 2011.
A famous nikushoku-joshi (man-eater), in the past she has been linked to many famous men, including Takumi Saito and "bad boy" actor Manabu Oshio and nude pictures (called nyan-nyan photos) of their coupling were leaked. Oshio would later be sent to prison for his part in the death of a ...
At last, the first major Nogizaka46 scandal!
The idol group's Sayuri Matsumura has been snapped kissing a man. But unlike her peers in AKB48 who tend to have affairs with their managers or with their otaku fans, Sayuri has opted for a guy in his thirties already married with a kid!
The tabloid Shukan Bungei ran the photos this week showing Sayuri on the street in the arms of the man.
Way to piss off your management, "betray" your fans, AND play up to the fantasies of older male admirers all at the same time, Sayuri!
The 22-year-old Sayuri has tearfully apologized but we ...
We've all fantasized about having sex with idols. Sometimes the idols break the rules imposed (probably illegally) by their management and have relationships, including with fans. Usually what then happens is they get found out and fire. They are left "shamed" for daring to have sex while the partner in question is the envy of men around the land.
But perhaps these guys would think twice about where they stick their wick next time.
Because they might just get sued.
Yes, in what might be the most incredulous flaunting of human rights in the history of the idol industry in Japan, a ...
Japanese model and actress Karina (30) has made her first appearance after disappearing from public view since spring this year, when the weekly tabloid magazine Friday ran a picture of her in a supposedly post-coital passed-out state.
The world was shocked when Karina, mostly known as a fashion model and innocuous TV actress, was pictured partly naked with her legs spread wide open. Not just unflattering, it was overtly sexual and dirty -- not Karina's usual clean image. Friday published the image in March this year, though it actually dates back to a party in Hawaii in summer two years ago ...
Japan has been shocked and amused by a scandal in the popular world of ice skating.
Daisuke Takahashi, the 28-year-old male figure skating star and much loved by female fans as a heartthrob as well as Olympian, has been sexually assaulted (kind of) by his old boss, a 49-year-old Seiko Hashimoto, a former skater herself and now politician.
Takahashi has long been rumored to be in a relationship with Japan's other most famous figure skater, Mao Asada.
However, it seems that at least at a drunken party in February after the end of the Sochi Olympics, Asada had a rival in an unlikely ...
The lovely Hinako Sano is one of the most up-and-coming gravure idols in Japan today.
Her exquisite cuteness, coupled with a great body, have seen her rise to fame in almost no time.
Still just 19, her career may be about to come to a premature stumbling block.
A photo has recently leaked online *seemingly* showing Hinako in an embrace with a young guy.
Is this Hinako?
We can't tell. Either way, we CAN imagine doing what he's doing to Hinako.
There's a way to find out. Track down the university that Hinako attends and go get her into bed to compare the shots!
Whether or not this ...
It's election time for the AKB48 idols. But lurking under the surface right now are several unsavory rumors.
For a start, the alleged connections between AKB48 executives and the yakuza. These have emerged again even after AKB48 big wig Yasushi Kubota sued the Shukan Bunshun last year for such remarks.
Now there are also suggestions that Kubota and former AKB48 hottie Tomomi Kasai (21) -- and no stranger to her own sex-related scandals -- are conducting an affair.
Images have been published supposedly showing the pair returning late at night to a luxury condo.
Kasai is also ...
