One of the more unusual stories swirling around J-pop right now is the identify of the mystery singer with whom Elon Musk claims to have fathered a child.
Ashley St. Clair, a conservative influencer and mother of Musk's fourteenth known child, told the New York Times that Musk has "fathered children around the world, including one with a Japanese pop star."
Of course, this is a second-hand report and not from Musk directly, but people have taken it seriously.
Who could it be? Suspicions quickly centered on Ayumi Hamasaki, the veteran "Empress of Pop" who has two children (one born at the ...
Given the huge volume of porn produced in Japan and, thus, the large number of women involved, it is inevitably that many of the performers will have families after they retire from the industry. The question of former or current adult video stars raising families is one that occasionally appears in the media, often with a degree of sympathy (for the abuse they can suffer online) and curiosity.
Spa! recently featured an interview with AiRis, an up-and-coming gravure idol and singer who is also the daughter of 46-year-old former porn star Mariko Sata.
Single mom Sata was active in the ...
The Nogizaka46 music idol Nagi Inoue (井上和) released her debut photo book on April 22 and as scans are now appearing online, fans are delighted that the slinky 20-year-old has opted to do a semi-nude shoot so early in her career.
Published by Kodansha, Monologue features Inoue naked except for a thin, short towel, or nude from the waist up with her breasts hidden only by her arms wrapped around her chest in the "hand bra" (tebura) pose so common in gravure. In another shot, she's sitting down, seemingly fully nude and her modesty preserved only by elbows placed on her ...
Yuki Arai was an idol with the music group SKE48 from November 2013 until the end of March 2025.
That's a very long run in a very competitive, crowded industry, but she's not done yet.
The 26-year-old Kyoto native will now focus on her a second career as a professional wrestler, which she launched while still a member of SKE48's Team KII, in May 2021, after a brief appearance in 2018 in a match against another SKE48 member.
She currently competes in both Tokyo Joshi Pro-Wrestling and DDT Pro-Wrestling.
Female wrestling in Japan is experiencing a boost right now, with several prominent ...
Yui Imaizumi has announced that she is returning to the entertainment industry.
At the height of her fame and popularity in early 2021, the former Keyakizaka46 cutie announced she was pregnant and married to YouTuber Mahoto Watanabe. She was just 22 and he several years older.
But then the problems started, with revelations the Watanabe had been grooming a 15-year-old and that he was arrested in 2019 for allegedly beating up a previous girlfriend.
In March 2021, Watanabe was arrested on suspicion of violating the child prostitution and pornography law (because he had asked the ...
The former STU48 idol Yuka (sometimes Yuuka) Oki shows off her naked butt in her second photo book, which came out February 26 from Kadokawa.
Swimming Allowed is the latest release from this slinky idol and features her in sensual lingerie and several shots in a milky bath. The best shot of all features her on her front in the bath, with her cute little butt poking up through the water.
Another shot features the idol naked under a sheer dress.
We think this is the most 25-year-old Oki has ever shown in a gravure shoot.
To promote the book, she also appeared in a recent issue ...
Nogizaka46 has announced that Renka Iwamoto will be suspending her activities with the group after "private photos" leaked online.
Those photos show the 20-year-old, a member of Nogizaka46 since 2016 (when she was all of 12), posing with and hugging a man who is presumed to be a boyfriend. Nogizaka46 and such Sakamichi Series groups, like those in the AKB48 Group, have a quasi-official no-boyfriends policy for their members, because it destroys the illusion for their fans that they could date the idol one day. It is not clear at this point how the photos leaked.
Instead of publicly ...
What happens to former gravure, music, and porn idols after they retire is a question that often crops up on this blog. We've often written about the different kinds of jobs they do and what it is like to raise a family with that kind of past.
But what about the pictures and videos they made during their idol career? On the whole, these remain available and, unless you were working before the 2000s (and even if before), it's still online for anyone to search and find.
Former Idoling!!! member Mai Endo, though, wants that to end. She left the idol group in 2014 to pursue a solo career. She ...
Former Morning Musume music idol Maki Goto has caused a sensation with her new photo book, flos
Many years ago, she did some great semi-nudes shoots (one on a bed showing off her naked side and barely hiding her tits, and another where she lies naked on a sandy beach).
Gomaki, as she is known to fans, married in 2014 and has two kids, but her image was hit by allegations of adultery with her former boyfriend, leading to a public apology in 2019. Her husband sued the boyfriend for several million yen.
She has subsequently made a comeback as a singer and model.
Part of this comeback was her ...
Yuka Oki has just graduated STU48, the Setouchi-based version of AKB48, and seems determined to make a name for herself.
And as past members of the AKB and Nogizaka sister groups have demonstrated (most recently Miku Tanaka and Ruka Kitano), stripping off is a surefire way to get attention.
She hasn't done quite that, but Oki has done probably her sexist shoot yet.
Aptly titled "Breaking Compliance," Oki's shoot for Flash sees her switch from music idol to gravure idol with aplomb, wearing a figure-hugging leotard or swimsuit that buttons up along the middle.
The high-cut item really ...
