Angela Baby アンジェラベイビー (Angela Yeung Wing 杨颖, 楊穎 ) is a Chinese fashion model from Shanghai and Hong Kong who is making waves in Japan.  Like Jessica Cambensy, her sexy and cosmopolitan looks have earned her a modeling contract with Avex and she has since been operating from Japan over the few months.  Angelababy started modeling at the age of 17 when she was discovered in Hong Kong and been modeling for the past 7 years.

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Rin Takanashi 高梨臨 is a pretty 22 year old actress and gravure idol from Chiba prefecture who was scouted in trendy Harajuku district of Tokyo. In 2005-6 she was part of the idol group, Pink Jam Princess ピンクジャムプリンセス before appearing  in the 2007 film adaptation of the Japanese novel Goth as one of the lead characters, Yoru Morino.

She’s also appeared in 5 TV shows including Detective School Q 探偵学園Q, Drama – Emina Ogura (2007), Rookies ルーキーズ ,Drama – Yukino Inomata (2008),  Tetsudō Musume: Girls be ambitious! Drama – Raika Tachibana (2008) but she is probably best known among otaku for her role in 2009 Super Sentai series  Samurai Sentai Shinkenger 侍戦隊シンケンジャー, and Kamen Rider Deccade as Mako Shiraishi/Shinken Pink (2009)  Read more...

Ayumi Uehara 上原歩 is a pretty 27 year old fashion model and actress from Tokyo. She started acting in 2000 and has since appeared on 12 TV shows and is currently appearing in TV Asahi’s Eazy Sports and Otome音女 .

Despite her TV appearances, she has really been more popular as a fashion model regularly appearing in magazines such as S Cawaii and Puckish. She’s also modeled for lingerie maker Ravijour, MTV Pinks, Kobe Collection 2008 Autumn/Winter and appeared on MTV Japan and girlswalker’s Girls Collection vol1 and vol2.

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Earlier this month, the annual Kobe Girls Collection (神戸コレクション) was held at Kobe World Kinen Hall.   The Kobe Girls collection is a wildly popular 6 hour fashion show was hosted by Jun Natsukawa and Takatoshi Kaneko and featured about 70 top models (Marie, Lena Fujii, Alisa Urahama, Azusa Koizumi, Coco Kinoshita etc) and celebrities in Japan showcasing  over 30 fashion brands including those of  young and upcoming designers.

The Kobe Collection and its Tokyo counterpart  attract thousands of young Japanese womens with their ‘‘kawaii’’ (cute) fashions which are generally ordinary clothes that are on sale at shops in places such as Shibuya and Harajuku.  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...

Nanao Arai 菜々緒 is one pretty and popular Japanese model and 2009 was her year.  The 21 year old  (Height: 172 cm, bust 80 cm, waist 57 cm, 83 cm hips) from Saitama prefecture is a college student and race queen for SUPER GT  TEAM YOSHIKI ROCKSTAR Girl who last November became the San-Ai  三愛 Swimsuit image girl for 2010.

Last year Nanao Arai was also a 2009 Sengoku ring girl along with Yuki Aikawa (24) , Yui Sakuma (21), Azusa Nishigawa (24) and Sana Yuuki (20).  She was also in the finals of the 2009 Miss Flash in July and in August won a modeling contract to be a model for Japanese fashion magazine Pinky.  Read more...

Thinking of what to buy your Japanese girlfriend this Valentines Day? How about some sexy lingerie?   Ravijour is a Japanese lingerie brand similar to Victoria’s Secret.  Unlike Japan’s other popular lingerie brand, Peach John, Ravijour’s line sells in various outlet stores, boutiques and department Stores.

Ravijour was founded in the 1990s as a Japanese alternative to imported lingerie and the company has grown since then to become one of the largest lingerie and underwear producers for women in Japan and globally.

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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. Nozomi-chan started as a teen model when she won two modeling competitions Young Jump’s GYARUKON Grand Prix 2005 and Princess Pinky Grand Prix 2006. She has been featured many times as fashion model for Pinky magazine though she has also been featured Young Jump, Up To Boy, Weekly Playboy, Sabra, Bidan and some fashion catalogs .

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