Archive for the 'Japan Art and Fashion' Category

Bald Japanese girls invade Harajuku and Shibuya

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Earlier this year, wanting to create some publicity,  Japanese hair fashion magazine HairMag.jp. hired some bald models to walk around Harajuku and Shibuya.  The Japanese girls with no hair (wearing bald wigs actually) created quite a stir everywhere they went.

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Posted on Friday, October 30th, 2009
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nozomi sasaki hot japanese fashion model and gravure idol

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Nozomi Sasaki 佐々木希 is a popular young Japanese fashion model who has appeared in Japanese fashion magazine Pinky and various gravure idol photo shoots. She is also an aspiring actress.

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Nozomi Sasaki Videos

Nozomi Sasaki making faces in weekly young jump
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Nozomi Sasaki taking a bath
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Nozomi Sasaki slide show
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Posted on Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
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Japanese model naoko tokuzawa 徳澤直子 videos

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Naoko Tokuzawa 徳澤直子 is a 22 year old Japanese fashion model from Kawasaki City in Kanagawa prefecture. She models for CanCam キャンキャン magazine as well as JJ and Seventeen fashion magazines.

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Naoko has appeared on TV commercials for Lotte, Kao,  Coca Cola, CanCam, Nissan and ABC Mart.  She’s also appeared on various TV shows on Fuji, NTV, TV Asahi, TV Tokyo and TBS.  She was probably seen most on Fuji TV’s morning TV show Mezamashi TV show.

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Naoko Tokuzawa Videos

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Posted on Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
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Alisa Urahama, new Japanese model

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Alisa Urahama 浦浜 アリサ is a half Japanese half American Japanese fashion model born in Hyogo prefecture who debuted as a model for JJ magazine at age 16.  The 172 cm (5′9″) 16 year old has also appeared in magazines 25ans, GINGER, その他雑誌 SWEET , GLAMOROUS, 流行通信 “Fashion communication” , 流行通信girl “Communication fashion girl”, S-cawaii, NYLON, Invitation, MEN’S NONNO, Anan, Tarzan and weekly SPA.

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She has appeared on TV commerciasl for Allie (Kanebo cosmetics) and Kirin Beverage  “Black Lemon Ginger” , Kanebo, Big Echo, Baskin Robbins, Disneyland and Disneysea.

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Posted on Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
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Maki Nishiyama top Japanese fashion model

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Maki Nishiyama 西山茉希 is a 23 year old Japanese fashion model from Niigata prefecture. She was scouted by a modeling agent in 2004 and became an exclusive CanCam model in 2005.

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In the last few year’s she’s become even more popular and has been the image girl for Daikin Industries and AngelHeat and appeared on TV commercials for for Dihatsu, NTT,  Kao Soap, Toho and JR East.

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In 2007 Maki Nishiyama unveiled her bridal dresses design called the Bon Visage Collection.

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Posted on Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
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Lena Fujii, top Japanese fashion model

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Lena Fujii (Lena Fuji or Rina Fuji) 藤井リナ is a 25 year old  top Japanese fashion and lingerie model from Tokyo who is Japanese(3/4) and American (1/4).  She is best known for her appearances for Japanese fashion magazines ViVi, sweetVOCE, Lip, spring, CUTIE and being one of the popular Peach John lingerie models.

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Lena Fujii is also currently the spokesmodel for CANMAKE Cosmetics and was featured on the covers of DJ Kawasaki’s albums “Beautiful” and “Beautiful Too”, where she was a vocalist in the song “BRIGHT LIKE LIGHT feat. LENA FUJII”.

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Posted on Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
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Meisa Kuroki, top Japanese fashion model, actress and Jpop singer

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Meisa Kuroki 黒木メイサ, is a pretty 21 year old  Japanese actress, model, and singer born in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.  She is a top fashion model for popular Japanese fashion magazine, JJ.

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Her father is half Japanese and half Panamanian and her mother is Okinawan.

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Meisaa has appeared in Japanese films Onaji Tsuki o Miteiru (同じ月を見ている, Seeing the Same Moon) (2005), Kamyu Nante Shiranai (カミュなんて知らない, Who’s Camus Anyway?) (2006), Chakushin Ari: Final (着信アリ Final, One Missed Call: Fainaru) (2006), Tada, Kimi o Aishiteru (ただ、君を愛してる, But, I love you) (2006), Taitei no Ken (大帝の剣, The Great Sword) (2007),  Crows Zero (クローズZERO, Kurōzu ZERO) (2007), Bekushiru 2077 Nihon Sakoku (ベクシル 2077日本鎖国, Bekushiru – 2077 Japan National Isolation) (2007), Subaru (2009) and Crows Zero 2 (2009).

Posted on Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
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Sayo Aizawa, top Japanese fashion model

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Sayo Aizawa 相沢紗世 is a popular Japanese model from Hokkaido. Her real name is Hiroko Ueda (上田寛子).

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Sayo Aizawa 相沢紗世 is best known for her appearances for Japanese fashion magazine  Classy,  TV commercials Melty Kiss Chocolate, Coca Cola Honda, Accuvue and KDD.

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Sayo has also acted in NHK’s morning dorama titled ‘”Dondo Bare” and Sapura (Fuji TV) and Haruka (Fuji TV)

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Read more about Sayo at her blog here.

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Sayo Aizawa Videos

Posted on Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
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Rika Tomita, top Japanese fashion model

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Can you guess how old the pretty model in the photos is? Her name is Rika Tomita 冨田リカ  is a pretty older a Tokyo Eiwa University graduate 東洋英和女学院大学, housewife and former kindergarten and cram school teacher turned Japanese fashion model and parenting counselor. She is also an incredibly beautiful 45 years old.

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Rika Tomita

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Although she had chances during her college days to do modeling she didn’t and only became a model at age 41 when she was featured as a magazine readers STORY who showed off her fashion style. With that success, she has been featured in her fashion books Tomita Style Book and Tomita Power Style and she has become a popular print model for magazines that target Japanese ladies over 40.

Posted on Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
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Yu Yamada top japanese fashion model, actress and Jpop singer

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Yu Yamada 山田 優, is a hot 29 year old Okinawa born model, actress and Jpop singer.  She is best known for her modeling work with CanCam magazine thought her first love in singing.

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Yu Yamada graduated from Okinawa Actor’s School and in 1999, while working as a model for the Japanese fashion magazine CanCam under an exclusive contract, she also worked as a singer in the group y’z factory (formed with two other students of the Okinawa Actor’s School) and released a total of six singles and one album, but in 2002 the group disbanded.

Posted on Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
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