The common snarky comment about Japanese idol singers is that their musical talents aren’t nearly strong enough to justify their fanbases, but it is true that the most successful idols have a media ...

Yuzuki Aikawa made her name as a pin-up model, appearing in glossies. The curvy bikini model also worked as a race queen, before joining an idol group and releasing a CD. Then she did something ...

In the show, run by Japan's Kandou TV, contestants apply to date members of a bikini-wearing girl group. The girl-group – known as Happening Girls – only ever appear in public wearing bikinis or ...

Studio Happy Chicken Pink is one of the leading producers of videos of Japanese gravure idols–models who pose in swimsuits, lingerie and schoolgirl uniforms and leave little to the imagination in ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Politicians with, let's say, interesting backgrounds are nothing new. People have entered politics from acting, modeling, and, yes, even hardcore ...