Earlier this year twenty year old Rumi Koizumi 小泉瑠美 of Jpop idol group Idoling!!! アイドリング!!! announced her retirement from the group. Koizumi was one of Idoling!!!’s original nine members who made their TV debut in October 2006. Rumi Koizumi remains under the Watanabe Entertainment talent agency and will continue working in other areas of the entertainment business. Idoling!!! will continue on as a 16-member group.
Read more about Rumi at her blog here.
Rumi Koizumi Videos
Rumi at the beach
slideshow
Posted on Friday, November 6th, 2009
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Ai Iijima 饭岛爱 is a 34 year old media personality and former AV star. Her real name is Mitsuko Ishii and in her late teens, she appeared on late night adult TV game shows as a “T-Back girl”, one of the models wearing a skimpy thong. Her stage name was chosen by a fan survey.
She later entered into the Adult Video business and became a big star but quit by the age of 20. After this, she crossed over into mainstream television variety shows, one of the few “talent” so far to successfully make such a transition. She is now an established celebrity on Japanese television, appearing in travel, lifestyle, game shows, and quiz shows. Read more...
Posted on Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
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Ryoko Yonekura is a 31 year old former ballerina, fashion model and one of the most visible and popular actresses on TV and in magazines. This Kanagawa native started modelling at the age of 17 and worked steadily over the next seven years as a fashion model, campaign girl and in TV commercials. In 2000 she made her leap into acting starring in the TBS drama Koi no Kamisama (God of Love) and has since appeared in many TV dramas.
You can read more information about her here and here, photos of her here and here Read more...
Posted on Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
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It was 10 years ago that a hugely popular TV Drama called Long Vacation aired on Fuji TV, and launched the acting career of superstar Takuya Kimura 木村拓哉, (popularly known as “Kimu-taku”). The show also popularised the other actors Tomoko Yamaguchi, Yutaka Takenouchi, Takako Matsu, Ryoko Hirosue and Izumi Namori. The drama was about love and relationships and garnered very high ratings because of the compelling storylines. Monday nights became big TV nights as people rushed home to watch it. If you’re at all interested in Japanese pop culture, this is an enjoyable series worth watching.
Everyone who remembers the series will also instantly recognize the theme song “La La La Love Song” by soul singer Toshi Kubota.
Japan Sugoi Videos Read more...
Posted on Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
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Takashi Sorimachi (born NOGUCHI Takashi) is a 33 year old male celebrity/idol and singer from Saitama. He started his showbiz carreer by joining the famous, Johnny’s Jimusho agency, (home of mega group SMAP ) in the late 1980’s as back up dancer for boy band Hikaru Genji.
Not achieving much there, he got into modeling at the age of 16 and then branched into TV starring in Virgin Road in early 1997. Later that year it was the highly popular drama Beach Boys in which he played a macho charachter (and also starred Takenouchi Yutaka) that made him a star. Read more...
Posted on Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
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Miracle Hikaru ミラクルひかるの is a Japanese celebrity impersonator from Toyooka in Hyōgo prefecture. Although she has done impersonations of Mari Hamada, Ayumi Hamasaki, Paako Hayashiya, Shizuka Kudō, Seiko Matsuda, Yumi Matsutoya, Aya Matsūra, Chisato Moritaka, Tomoko Nakajima (of Othello), Yukie Nakama, Masami Nagasawa, Moe Oshikiri, Keiko Toda, Juri Ueno and You, she is best known for her amazing impressions of Jpop diva Utada Hikaru.
Miracle has one released one album Miracle 2008 but she does not cover any of Hikki’s songs
Read more information about Miracle Hikaru at her blog here. Read more...
Posted on Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
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Jessica Michibata is a half Japanese lingerie model for Japanese lingerie company Peach John. She has also appeared in TV commercials for Softbank, Elis, Evian and is currently the girlfriend of F1 driver Jenson Button.
Jessica Michibata videos
Softbank tv commercial
elis tv commercial
evian tv commercial
peach john tv commercial
walking around with Jessica 1
walking around with Jessica 2
walking around with Jessica 3
Posted on Sunday, October 25th, 2009
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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.
Nozomi Sasaki Videos
Nozomi Sasaki making faces in weekly young jump
Nozomi Sasaki taking a bath
Nozomi Sasaki slide show
Posted on Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
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