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Yuko Ogura Wins Japan’s 1st Gravure Idol Award

Yuko Ogura Wins Japan’s 1st Gravure Idol Award(2)

July 17, 2008

Our favorite gravure idol Yuko Ogura 小倉優子 has won Japan’s 1st Gravure Idol Award.

The competition looked at the idol’s over sales in photobook, DVD, popularity with internet votes and other factors.
In addition, 23-year-old Mina Fukui 福井未菜 was chosen for the Newcomer Award.
Source: Tokyograph
I think if the award was started a few years earlier, Aki Hoshino [...]

Yuko Ogura Wins Japan’s 1st Gravure Idol Award
Japan’s Hottest Celebrity Bloggers

Japan’s Hottest Celebrity Bloggers

Wired.com has an interesting article that introduces 11 of Japan’s Hottest Celebrity Bloggers.

Right up there on top of the charts is of course our favorite idol Shokotan!
The 11 of them are pretty interesting though I’m unfamiliar with most of them.
But nontheless, this articles brings to mind a question:
Which Japanese celebrities’ blogs do you read frequently?
There’s [...]

Shokotan’s Limited-Run English Blog

Shokotan’s Limited-Run English Blog

Those of you that are following Shokotan’s blog would see that she is enjoying herself plenty at Anime Expo in Los Angeles.

Well for those that folks that are unable to read Japanese, do not fret. Because Shokotan now has a blog that is being translated into English that will be running for a limited period [...]

Nozomi Sasaki 佐々木希

Nozomi Sasaki 佐々木希

Been a really long time since I’ve posted any update for my weekly gravure feature. This week is the really cute idol Nozomi Sasaki [佐々木希].

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 [...]


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