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Gravure model NFT series wants to attract online investors, real-world visitors for hot springs
- Casey Baseel
Aug 13, 2022 - Tweet
Series pairs gravure models with onsen ryokan.
- Japan
- (beautiful women • COK • hot springs • hotels • NFTs • onsen • ryokan • travel)
Top coplayer Enako lingerie cosplays new line of One Piece intimate apparel【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Aug 11, 2022
One Piece Film: Red teams up with Peach John to create lingerie sets for Nami, Robin, and Uta, plus Shanks pajamas for guys and girls.
- Japan
- (anime • beautiful women • cosplay • cosplayers • Enako • fashion • lingerie • manga • One Piece • One Piece Film: Red • pajamas • Peach John • roomwear)
Asahi Beer abolishes “image girl” spokesmodel position, ending practice at big four brewers
- Casey Baseel
Jul 26, 2022
Position was suspended during the pandemic, and it won’t be coming back.
- Japan
- (alcohol • Asahi Beer • Asahi Super Dry • beautiful women • beer • COK)
Adult video mosaic destroyer’s trial ends with guilty verdict in Kyoto district court
- Casey Baseel
Jul 2, 2022
Machine-learning A.I. used to try to skirt Japanese censorship laws.
- Japan
- (A.I. • AI • beautiful women • censorship • crazy • crime • mosaic • technology • weird)
Top cosplayer Enako to dress as Inuyasha’s Kagome, Urusei Yatsura’s Lum in Takahashi cosplay book
- Casey Baseel
Jun 10, 2022
Manga legend Rumiko Takahashi is even designing a brand-new character just for Japan’s top cosplayer to pose as.
- Japan
- (anime • beautiful women • COK • cosplay • cosplayers • Enako • Inuyasha • Lum • Maison Ikkoku • manga • Ranma 1/2 • Rumiko Takahashi • Urusei Yatsura)
Why are almost all women you see riding rickshaws in Japan cute? We ask a pro, learn two reasons
- Casey Baseel
May 5, 2022
Our Japanese reporter has his impression confirmed.
The beautiful masked booth models of the Tokyo Motorcycle Show【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Mar 31, 2022
After a two-year pandemic break, Japan’s biggest motorcycle show makes its long-awaited, thoroughly masked return.
- Japan
- (beautiful women • cars • COK • motorcycles • SNJO • Tokyo Motorcycle Show)
Cosplay costume room tour by Japan’s number-one cosplayer Enako is an eye-opener【Video】
- Oona McGee
Feb 9, 2022
A look at the anime and manga character costumes that earn Enako millions of yen.
- Japan
- (anime • beautiful women • cosplay • cosplay costumes • cosplayers • Enako • gravure • gravure idol • magazines • modelling • models • photos • videos • YouTube)
Live action Attack on Titan actress Satomi Ishihara confirms pregnancy, due date in spring
- Katy Kelly
Jan 15, 2022
The star announced the happy news through her agency this month.
- Japan
- (Attack on Titan • beautiful women • celebrities • Godzilla • kids • movies • pregnancy • Satomi Ishihara • Shin Godzilla)
Japan’s number-one cosplayer Enako shows us her cosplay costume room【Video】
- Oona McGee
Jan 12, 2022
A room so huge it’s more like a warehouse.
- Japan
- (anime • beautiful women • cosplay • cosplay costumes • cosplayers • Enako • gravure • gravure idol • magazines • modelling • models • photos • videos)
2021’s top stories in cosplay and makeover news【SoraNews24 Year in Review】
- SoraNews24
Dec 31, 2021
Tokyo’s other Halloween hot spot, divisively skimpy maid cosplay, ladies who loo stunning in their 60s, and Seiji’s transformation into Leonardo DiCaprio.
- Japan
- (anime • beautiful women • cosplay • Enako • hairstyles • hairstyling • halloween • Handsome men • Ikebuuro Halloween • Leonardo DiCaprio • makeover • makeup • manga • McDonald's • movies • Titanic • year in review • Year in Review 2021)
The best cosplayers of Day 1 of Winter Comiket 2021【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Dec 31, 2021
Welcome back, Comiket cosplayers!
- Japan
- (anime • beautiful women • COK • Comiket • Comiket 99 • cosplay • cosplayers • SNJO • video games • Winter Comiket 2021)
Japan’s number-one cosplayer Enako makes jaws drop with ‘nude’ bath photo
- SoraNews24
Dec 24, 2021
Is it still cosplay if you can’t even see the costume anymore?
- Japan
- (anime • beautiful women • COK • cosplay • cosplayers • Enako • gravure • gravure idol • magazines • modelling • models • photos • twitter)
Instagram ideals vs reality: “Boyfriend buys me Pocari Sweat” photo isn’t what it seems
- Oona McGee
Dec 10, 2021
Fashion model reveals the reality behind this image isn’t as romantic as it looks.
- Japan
- (beautiful women • boyfriend • cosplay • funny • girlfriend • ideal vs. reality • Instagram • photos • pocari sweat • social media)
Model Nana Suzuki declared ‘The Best Gyozanist 2021’, Mr. Sato and the gang robbed
- Katie Pask
Dec 2, 2021
The ceremony even included a gyoza cooking battle between models, because of course it did.
- Japan
- (awards • beautiful women • COK • food • gyoza • karina nose • nana suzuki • Osaka Osho • Osho • tarento)
Size, shape, or suppleness – What does Japan want in a pair of breasts?【Survey】
- Casey Baseel
Nov 15, 2021
Survey also asks respondents for their favorite color of women’s lingerie.
The best cosplayers from Day Two of the Ikebukuro Halloween Cosplay Festival
- Oona McGee
Nov 3, 2021
Meet the characters who braved the weather to represent some of Japan’s most popular anime and manga.
- Japan
- (anime • beautiful women • COK • cosplay • cosplayers • halloween • Ikebukuro • Ikebukuro Halloween Cosplay Festival • SNJO • video games)
The best cosplayers from Day One of the Ikebukuro Halloween Cosplay Festival
- Oona McGee
Nov 1, 2021
These cosplaying queens waited two years to step out as their favourite manga and anime characters, and the wait was definitely worth it.
- Japan
- (anime • beautiful women • COK • cosplay • cosplayers • halloween • Ikebukuro • Ikebukuro Halloween Cosplay Festival kebukuro Halloween Cosplay Festival • SNJO • video games)
Man uses AI to “destroy” censor mosaics in Japanese adult videos, gets arrested by Kyoto police
- Casey Baseel
Oct 22, 2021
It’s debatable whether or not what he did was actually destruction, but the police say there’s no question it was a crime.
- Japan
- (AI • beautiful women • censorship • crazy • crime • mosaic • technology • weird)
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Make-your-own-Totoro plushie workshop event coming to Ghibli Park park this fall
Foreign tourist numbers drop in Osaka, despite record-setting highs from U.S. and Korea
Viral Yokohama cafe tops teas with mini teapots with a clever smoldering secret [Photos]
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Family Mart releases 47 convenience store socks and stickers, one for every prefecture in Japan
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- Japan announces new permanent residency guidelines, foreigners must earn more than average Japanese person
- Studio Ghibli’s Calcifer is ready to light up your home as a magical-looking candle lamp [Photos]
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Foreign tourists get free Shinkansen tickets in Japan, and here’s how to claim them
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Toys R Us is leaving Japan after 35 years in the country
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- Japan announces new permanent residency guidelines, foreigners must earn more than average Japanese person
- Family Mart releases 47 convenience store socks and stickers, one for every prefecture in Japan
Starbucks Japan unveils new Pokémon collaboration with Pikachu Latte and exclusive goods- Studio Ghibli’s Calcifer is ready to light up your home as a magical-looking candle lamp [Photos]
Lady Gaga and Family Mart team up for a Japanese convenience store work video [Video]
New Gundam Base superstores coming soon in the U.S., with one opening this month
Studio Ghibli releases new plush mascot character collection with a focus on friendship
Studio Ghibli releases new onigiri rice ball-shaped lunch bag for Kiki’s Delivery Service fans
Do Japan’s new single-minded convenience store bento show depressing poverty or satisfying focus?
How to watch Studio Ghibli’s new anime in Japan, with a special after-dark outdoor screening for Halloween
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Japan announces sudden 400-percent increase in visa fees for foreigners entering the country
Japan’s human washing machines will go on sale to general public, demos to be held in Tokyo
Studio Ghibli has a new anime out, and there’s only one place in the world where you can see it
Starbucks Japan releases new drinkware and goods for Valentine’s Day
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Japan’s newest Shinkansen has no seats…or passengers [Video]
Tokyo subway installing new ticket gates that don’t accept payment through Suica or other IC cards
Japanese ninja certification exam attracts 131 candidates from Japan and abroad
Salomon releases Japan-exclusive Mt. Fuji hiking gear that doubles as an amazing souvenir
Japan reportedly adding Japanese language skill requirement to most common foreigner work visa
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Studio Ghibli’s Calcifer is ready to light up your home as a magical-looking candle lamp [Photos]
McDonald’s Japan officially changes its mascot’s name…to Ronald McDonald
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“We’d heard Japan’s sentences are light” say foreign travelers arrested for Tokyo robberies
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