WA model is a person with a role either to promote, display or advertise commercial products or to serve as a visual aid for people who are creating works of art or to pose for photography. Though models are predominantly female, there are also male models, especially to model clothing. Models may work professionally or casually.
WJun Amaki is a Japanese gravure idol.
WHikaru Aoyama is a Japanese gravure idol and tarento. She is represented by the talent agency 01familia.
WNana Asakawa is a Japanese actress and former singer. She is a former member of Super Girls. Asakawa is represented with Avex Vanguard.
WKanako Urai is a Japanese professional wrestler currently signed to WWE, where she is a free agent performing under the ring name Asuka .
WKyoko Fukada is a Japanese actress and singer. She is represented by the agency Horipro. In Japan, her name is sometimes contracted to the nickname Fukakyon (深キョン). She won the award for Best Actress at the Yokohama Film Festival for Kamikaze Girls.
WMoeka Haruhi is a Japanese professional wrestler, gravure idol, voice actress and television and radio personality. Starting her career in the Gatokunyan promotion in 2005, Haruhi remained with the promotion for two years, before transferring over to Pro Wrestling Wave in 2008. While in the promotion, she has become a one-time holder of the Asia Pacific Women's, Garter Match and TLW World Young Women's Tag Team Championships and a three-time holder of the Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship, a title owned by the DDT Pro-Wrestling promotion. None of the three other titles are major titles, often remaining inactive for months or even years. She also works for Wave's sister promotion Osaka Joshi Pro Wrestling as Shitennouji Moeko . "Moeka Haruhi" is not her real name, but rather a stage name highlighting her cutesy, cosplaying persona.
WMarica Hase , also known as Marika is a Japanese gravure model, adult actress, and Penthouse Pet. Starting out her career as an erotic model in 2007, Hase transitioned into being an AV idol in 2009 before basing herself the United States in 2012. She appeared in more than 500 adult films and is one of the very few Japanese AV stars that have switched over to the American AV industry.
WManami Hosokawa , better known as Manami Hashimoto , is a Japanese gravure idol and actress represented by Irving and her business alliance is Harmony Promotion.
WAki Higashihara is a Japanese television personality, fashion model and gravure idol. She married Judo athlete Kosei Inoue in 2008. She is represented by Platinum Production.
WHamuko Hoshi is a Japanese professional wrestler, currently working for the Ice Ribbon promotion, where she is the current IW19 Champion in her third reign. She is also a former two-time ICE×∞ Champion and a four-time International Ribbon Tag Team Champion. She also makes regular appearances for the World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana promotion.
WRika Hoshimi is a Japanese former AV idol, gravure model and actress.
WAki Hoshino is a Japanese bikini idol. She has appeared in various men's magazines, such as Sabra and television shows. In 2010, she was named one of the "7 most irresistibly cute Japanese idols" by the Thailand version of the men's magazine FHM.
WVivian Hsu is a Taiwanese singer and actress.
WKazumi Kawai, was a Japanese actress. She committed suicide by jumping from an apartment building on May 9, 1997.
WMichiko Koga , known professionally as F Chopper Koga , is a Japanese bass player and leader of the rock band Gacharic Spin. She has released two DVD instructional videos for her signature slap-bass technique. Koga has also former model and a founding member of the bands The Pink Panda and Doll$Boxx.
WYuka Kuramochi is a Japanese gravure idol, tarento, and actress. She is represented with G.P.R. Her real name is Minako (未奈子).
WMakoto is a Japanese professional wrestler. Trained by Emi Sakura, Makoto made her debut for her Ice Ribbon promotion in July 2006. During the next five years, Makoto went on to win Ice Ribbon's top title, the ICE×60 Championship, once and the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship twice, before transferring over to the Smash promotion in August 2011. She remained with Smash until March 2012, when the promotion folded. The following month, Makoto was announced as part of the roster of the new Wrestling New Classic (WNC) promotion. In March 2013, Makoto became the second WNC Women's Champion. In January 2014, Makoto made Reina Joshi Puroresu her second home promotion in addition to WNC. Reina became her primary home promotion after WNC shut down in June 2014. She is a former one-time Reina World Women's Champion and a two-time Reina World Tag Team Champion.
WKaori Manabe is a Japanese talent, gravure idol and actress. She was born on May 31, 1980 in Ehime Prefecture, Japan.
WYoko Matsugane is a Japanese gravure idol from Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. She is known for her voluptuous figure.
WMiyako Matsumoto is a Japanese professional wrestler and actress. She is best known for her work in the Ice Ribbon promotion, where she is a former two-time ICE×60, three-time Triangle Ribbon Champion and a two-time International Ribbon Tag Team Champion, making her the promotion's second Triple Crown Champion. She also wrestles regularly for Oz Academy and Reina Joshi Puroresu and has also promoted her own shows under the Gake no Fuchi Puroresu banner.
WMikiho Niwa is a Japanese television presenter, and formerly an actress, model, and member of the Japanese idol group Canary Club. She played the role of Moune/GoseiYellow in the thirty-fourth Super Sentai series Tensou Sentai Goseiger, and appeared in the 2011 film Cheerfu11y. From 2011 to 2013 Niwa was a regular model for the magazine SEDA. In 2013 she became a weather presenter on the Nippon TV morning programme Zip!.
WMisaki Ohata is a retired Japanese professional wrestler, best known for her work while signed to the Zabun production company and its two promotions; Pro Wrestling Wave and Osaka Joshi Pro Wrestling. She is a former one-time Wave Single Champion and a three-time Wave Tag Team Champion. She also works behind the scenes as Zabun's human resources director. She also made regular appearances for Michinoku Pro Wrestling, where she performed under a mask and the ring name Yapper Man #3 . In the past, she has also made appearances for American promotion Shimmer Women Athletes, where she is a former Shimmer Tag Team Champion.
WMana Sakura is a Japanese AV idol, gravure model and novelist. Originally debuting as a model, she transitioned to AV in 2012, becoming an exclusive performer for Soft On Demand and starred over 140 adult films since her debut. Sakura is considered one of the most popular and recognizable contemporary AV idols as she managed to crossover into mainstream entertainment with regular appearances in television, films and even video games as well. She also became an accomplished author, publishing several novels, magazine essays and running columns.
WHikaru Shida is a Japanese professional wrestler, martial artist, actress, and model, currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where she is a former and the longest-reigning AEW Women's World Champion. On February 25, 2021, she became the longest reigning overall champion in AEW history, breaking the previous record of 277 days set by former AEW World Champion Jon Moxley. Her women's championship reign currently stands as the longest championship reign in AEW at 372 days.
WYuko Shimizu is a Japanese actress and former gravure idol. She is represented with YMN. Her husband is professional baseball player Kyohei Nakamura of the Hiroshima Toyo Carps.
WAi Shinozaki is a Japanese gravure idol, singer, and a former member of "AeLL.", a musical idol group.
WMasami Odate is a Japanese professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Io Shirai . She is currently signed to WWE and performs on the NXT brand, where she is a former NXT Women's Champion and a former NXT Women's Tag Team Champion.
WMio Shirai is a Japanese former professional wrestler and current professional wrestling referee. She started her career in March 2007, working alongside her sister Io Shirai on the Japanese independent circuit for promotions such as Ice Ribbon, JWP Joshi Puroresu and Pro Wrestling Wave. In June 2010, the Shirais came together with fellow freelancer Kana to form the Triple Tails stable as part of which they began working most notably for Smash. After Io left the stable the following year, Mio and Kana continued working together as the tag team Triple Tails.S. Shirai remained a freelancer until January 2014, when she signed a four-way contract with Ice Ribbon, Oz Academy, Pro Wrestling Wave and Union Pro Wrestling. She retired from professional wrestling due to neck injuries in September 2015 at the age of 27, after which she started working as a referee.
WAnri Sugihara Is a Japanese gravure idol who is represented by the talent agency, Stardust Promotion, then Arimax, and later Fitone. She finished from Hiroshima Prefectural Fukuyama Reed Positive High School.
WAsami Sugiura , who, in the early part of her career performed under the name Asami (亜紗美), is a Japanese actress, model, former gravure idol and AV idol.
WSyuri Kondo is a Japanese professional wrestler, shoot boxer, kickboxer and mixed martial artist, better known simply as Syuri . Syuri formerly competed in Ultimate Fighting Championship. Syuri is currently working for World Wonder Ring Stardom, where she is the current World of Stardom and former SWA World Champion and with Giulia one half of the Goddesses of Stardom Champions in her first reign.
WRio Teramoto is a Japanese Gravure idol and actress from Hiroshima. She is represented by Les Pros Entertainment.
WMutsumi Fujisaki , better known as Miyu Uehara , was a Japanese gravure idol and TV personality who gained popularity as a "poverty idol". She was represented by Platinum Production.
WErika Yazawa is a Japanese gravure idol. She is from Tokyo, and was a first year member (#7) of the idol group Idoling!!!. On December 11, 2011 it was announced that she would graduate from Idoling!!! on December 31 together with Fonchi (#8). Her nickname is 'Yaza-pai'.
WYan Yinling is a Taiwanese-born, Japan-based swimsuit model, race queen, singer and former professional wrestler. She is called also Yinling of Joytoy (インリン・オブ・ジョイトイ), when she appears on television.
WAimi Yoshikawa is a Japanese gravure idol, actress, and former AV idol. Active between 2012 and 2018, she starred in over 200 adult films during her career and was known for her short height and large breast.
WAkiho Yoshizawa , often known simply as Acky (あっきー), is a Japanese former adult video actress (AV), who also appeared in pink film and mainstream (non-erotic) film, as well as television. With a career spanning over more than 15 years and over 1000 adult film appearances, Yoshizawa was widely renowned as one of the most famous and recognizable faces in Japanese adult entertainment, with an appeal that managed to cross over into mainstream entertainment as well.