Rio Hirai 平井理央 is an cute Japanese 27 year old TV announcer with Fuji TV.  She started off as an actress in the TV show in 2003 Animal Doctor Dobutsu no Oisha-san 動物のお医者さん (TV Asahi) but has since done more announcing and modeling than acting.   She has also appeared in TV commercials for Asahi diet drink Slat 88 with fellow announcer Tomoko Honda, commercials for Hot Fantasy Odaiba ホット ファンタジー オダイバ, Fuji Golden Week Super and Shiseido.  Read more...

Here is a video of the beautiful Japanese actress and model Misaki Ito 伊東 美咲 as a young 21 year old Asahi Beer campaign girl.  This lovely Japanese lady gets prettier the older she gets.

1998 Asahi Beer Girl

Shiseido TV CM 2007

Shiseido TV CM 2008

Like Japanese TV commercials? especially Christmas ones?  See what’s showing right now in Japan including commercials from PARCO, Lotte, Tokyo Disneyland, Meiji, Haagan-Dazs, Muji,  Suntory Boss, Shiseido, KFC and Tokyo Metro.

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...

Emi Suzuki 鈴木 えみ is a pretty Japanese fashion model who was born in Shanghai China.  She was a regular model for Japanese fashion magazine Seventeen from 1999- 2005.

She also appeared in the music video for Jpop group Ketsumeishi’s 2005 mega-hit song Sakura

In 2006 she became an exclusive model for Japanese fashion magazine PINKY,  and also appeared in  TV commercials for  Shiseido, Suntory, OPC (Calorie Mate). Aside from modeling, she has appeared in many TV series, such as The Long Love Letter, The Queen of the Lunch, Water Boys 2,  Yukan Club and Ryokiteki na Kanojo.  Read more...

Yuri Ebihara 蛯原 友里 is a 30 year old top Japanese model and actress from Miyazaki prefecture known as “ebi-chan”. She is a graduate of Kyushu Sangyo University, where she studied fine arts but became an exclusive fashion model for popular Japanese girls magazine CanCam.

She has since appeared in several TV dramas, Busu no Hitomi ni Koi shiteru (KTV, 2006) and “Tokumei Kakarichō Tadano Hitoshi” (tv asahi, 2007).  She also works as a model for advertising campaigns including Zespri, MacDonalds, Shiseido and  Fujifilm FinePix.

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