Miu Nakamura 仲村みう is a 19 year old gravure idol and Jpop singer. She started as a teenage gravure idol and won the 2006  “Miss Young Magazine” award.   In 2007 she took a short break and upon returning she  focused more on music, acting and voice-acting.

Miu Nakamura Videos

FINAL 2/3 DVD

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.

K-ON! けいおん! pronunced “Keion” is a fun to read Japanese four-panel comic strip manga  by Kakifly serialized in manga magazines Manga Time Kirara and Manga Time Kirara Carat. The anime version by Kyoto Animation began airing in Japan on TBS  in March earlier this year.

The story is bout four cute  Japanese  school girls who join their school’s music club in order to save it from being abolished due to the lack of members.  The four girls are Yui Hirasawa 平沢 唯 – the new energetic but clumsy lead guitar player,  Mio Akiyama 秋山 澪, –  shy, dark haired left hander who plays bass guitar, Ritsu Tainaka 田井中 律 – the club’s self proclaimed president who plays the drums and Tsumugi  Kotobuki 琴吹 紬– a rich blonde  (nicknamed Mugi) who cooks very well and plays the keyboard.  Read more...

Attention all otaku, there is huge otaku cosplay party to be held in Roppongi (not Akihabara) on October 25th.  The Charapa キャラパッ event includes performances, anime , Jpop music, live talk show and appearances from Team Jyunjo, all maid group atGumi from Akihabara’s biggest Maid Cafe “@homecafe”,  idol celebrity Ami Tokito,  Motsu (瀬川素公 Segawa Mototaka)  rapper for the 3 member Japanese  group M.O.V.E, and comedy duo Harikenzu (Noboru Maeda and Yoshiyuki Ara).

Also appearing are comedy duo Kyabetsu Kakunin Chu ((Captain Zako (Tomohiro Sasamori) and Shimazou (Yoshihiro Shima)), comedian Osamu Waka, entrepreneur and LiveDoor founder Horiemon, EGG gyaru magazine models Kanako Kawabata and Hiromi Hosoi (Rohimi) and MMA K1 fighter Youichiro Nagashima.  Read more...

Earlier this year, Japanese av idol Maria Ozawa travelled to Taiwan to promote her appearance in horror film Invitation only.  While she was there, she did a photo shoot for magazine FHM.  Check out the video where she speaks in English.

Maria Ozawa FHM video shoot

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

Karina Nose 能瀬香里奈 (or just Karina ,香里奈) is a top Japanese actress and model from Nagoya in Aichi prefecture.  This pretty 25 year old has two sisters Anna and Erena who are also actresses.

Karina has been a fashion model for Japanese fashion magazines JJ, Ray and CanCam and appeared in TV commercials forPepsi, Shiseido, Lotte,  Bausch and Long, Big Globe, Subaru, Honda, Suntory, Toyota, ShaMaison and JAL.

Karina has also appeared in several movies including, Bandage (2008) , Koizora (2007), Shaberedomo Shaberedomo (2007), Rinne / Reincarnation (2006), Umizaru (2005)
Tengoku no Honya ~Koibi~ / Heaven’s Bookstore – The Light of Love (2004) and Shinkokyuu no Hitsuyou (2004).  She has one upcoming movie next year “Parade”.  Read more...

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.

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.

Naoko Tokuzawa Videos

Naoko Tokuzawa Nissan TV commercial
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