Azusa Yamamoto 山本梓 has that pretty girl next door look that has earned her a legion of fans.  The 29 year old gravure idol and actress is from Chiba prefecture debuted in 2001 as a model for teen fashion magazine Cawaii.

Azusa is a talented pianist and ballet dancer which helps explain how she keeps so fit. She has appeared in 9 photobooks and 16 DVDs, TV commercials for Suzuki, DoCoMo, Lawson, Mazda and J-pop station. Otaku fans will reconize her from her TV and sentai films like GoGo Sentai Boukenger vs Super Sentai, Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger, Bakuryuu sentai Abaranger vs Hurricanger and Ninpuu sentai Hurricanger vs Gaoranger.  Read more...

Satoko Miyata 宮田聡子 (aka Akiko Miyata) is a 21 year old Japanese fashion model from Fukuoka prefecture.  She has modelled for – Tokyo Collection, 東京ガールズコレクション Tokyo Girls Collection , 神戸コレクション Kobe Collection, SHIMA SHIMA, 伊勢丹ブライダルショー Isetan Bridal Show , Sancta Carina ウェディングショー Sancta Carina Wedding Show and FUKUOKA LOVE COLLECTION.

Satoko-chan was also chosen as the 2009 San-Ai Swimsuit model campaign girl which has always been a step to stardom. Former San-Ai models include Azusa Yamamoto, Yukina Kinoshita and Yumi Sugimoto.

Saotoko threw the ceremonial first pitch at Tokyo Dome last summer during a softbank baseball game.  Read more...

The different drawing styles of sexy anime character Lum from Urusei Yatsura うる星やつら

If you’re a regular reader of Japansugoi, you will know we post a lot of sexy Japanese bikini gravure グラビアアイドル models like  Yukie Kawamura, Sayuki Matsumoto and Kana Tsugihara.  All these models have been featured on Japan’s most popular and established gravure idol magazine Sabra サブラ (like FMH, Loaded, Stuff in western countries)

Sabra was published by Shogakukan as a bi-weekly from June 2000 to October 2007 but since then the magazine became a monthly (coming out on the 25th of every month).  There are also several Sabra web sites  Read more...

One of our favorite Japanese gravure idols is Azusa Yamamoto 山本 梓,.  Last year she also cosplayed as Lum from one of our favorite anime Urusei Yatsura うる星やつら where she also sang the series song Lum no Love Song.

Azusa Yamamoto Videos

Azusa Yamamoto Lum cosplay interview

Azusa Yamamoto lum cosplay photo shoot

Azusa Yamamoto Lum no Love Song

Urusei Yatsura anime op

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This is a comprehensive (but incomplete) list of Jpop artists. If we’ve missed any big names, let us know by adding the artist name in the comment box.
source: ThePPN.org

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L’Arc~en~Ciel
LISA
Little by little
Lady Marmalade
Lead
Leah Dizon
Lee Jung Hyun
Lena Park
Lyrico

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Hisayo Inamori 稲森寿世 is a 16 year old model for Japanese fashion magazine Cawaii!. Cawaii magazine is popular with Japanese girls aged 15-20 years old. Past models for the magazine include gravure idol and actress Azusa Yamamoto 山本梓, Jpop singer Rina Aiuchi 愛内里菜 and Ana Suzuki 鈴木杏奈.

Hisayo Inamori hopes to be a successful model and singer and after she won the Nippon Broadcasting System’s “Dreamgirls Audition” last year she was awarded a recording contract with Avex’s rhythm zone label. She released her debut single last month called “GIRLS STYLE” with 2 versions of the music video, with the Shibuya girls video featuring Inamori in outfits from popular brands in Shibuya.  Read more...