Our favorite Korean sexy ladies, the indubitable and undefeatable Girls’ Generation (aka Shojo Jidai or SNSD) are going to perform tonight on the CBS talkshow, “The Late Show with David Letterman”. It’s apparently the first Korean music act to appear on mainstream American television! Their five-minute set will feature “The Boys” (in English!), the title…

Up-and-coming model and actress Arisa Komiya stars in Yumeji: Ai no tobashiri (2015), sometimes known in English as Yumeji: A Spurt of Love. It is a period drama about the affair between the famous painter Yumeji Takehisa and a girl called Hikono Kasai, who died young. It’s all rather arty as you would expect from…

As much as we love Korea, K-Pop, Korean food and Korean girls, the continuing furore over the island of jagged rocks that is Takeshima/Dokdo has been causing some upsetting silliness over on the peninsular. Now an internet has put up a sign in Korean and (bizarrely) English stating its refusal to allow Japanese would-be netizens…

We are used to Japanese politicians, both male and female, having affairs with hostesses, party workers, foreign musicians, and even other lawmakers. But what about gravure idols? In a case that recalls Kensuke Miyazaki, who had advocated for fathers to take paternity leave but was caught having an affair with a gravure model while his…

Marriage Is a Crazy Thing is a 2002 Korean comedy film about a college professor’s relationship with a girl, played by the lovely Uhm Jung-hwa (sometimes romanized as Jeong-hwa Eom). Uhm Jung-hwa is a singer, actress and lingerie designer. Born in 1969, she is now in her forties but still looks mighty fine judging by…

The Korean single, actress, and model Sulli (aka Choi Jin-ri) was once a member of the idol music group f(x) from 2009 to 2015. The 23-year-old has also been venturing into acting of late. Her big breakthrough probably should have been the recent action noir film Real, though it wasn’t such a hit. Released earlier…

K-Pop girl group KARA were asked at a recent press conference what they thought about Takeshima/Dokdo. Naturally, not being politicians, it is unfair to call on them in this way… but journalists are cruel and cannot resist stirring up a hornet’s nest. KARA are on of several K-Pop bands who are active in Japan and…

The Japanese actress Nae Yuuki has appeared naked in Showtime’s revival of Twin Peaks, though don’t get too turned on just yet. The scene is, as might expect from David Lynch, pretty strange. Nae Yuuki plays Naido, shown nude on a forest floor with her face and eyes sealed up. The character appears in two…

One of the biggest international rows right now is the Senkaku Islands dispute between Japan and China. The Chinese have been rioting and protesting Japan’s claims to the rocks in their usual unrestrained way, while over her the occasional person has spoke out, notably right-wing Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara, who at one point bizarrely tried…

Every fan of the top gravure idol Anna Konno is rejoicing in the streets today: The opulently chested, ravishlingly bodied veteran has finally gone a step further and dropped her clothes — all in the name of her career. Konno wants to be taken seriously as an actress as well, and she has a role…