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Vanida

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Vanida is a lovely model that I noticed by accident while browsing some sites looking for a radio station, hoping it was playing a non-local baseball game. I found her here, but I think she’s given up modeling overall. Too bad. Pretty girl.Stats:

Age: 28
Height: 5’4
Ethnicity: ?
Located: Oregon

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Asian Sirens Is Looking For New Bloggers!

The title pretty much says it all: if you think you have what it takes to join our illustrious team, contact me. You can look at our other posts to see how we do things – this isn’t a site for just posting anonymous pictures, but first and foremost an information site. You can specialise in any area relating to Asian female models, celebrities or performers, although at this point in time I’m especially interested in someone who can cover JAV and Japanese models in general (as I feel we don’t have them as well covered as other areas at the moment). You don’t need a CV – just a sample article will do. I hope to hear from our next writer soon!

Naoko Tokuzawa

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It’s baseball season! Or it’s probably baseball season. To be honest with you I set some of these posts up in advance. For all I know baseball season is over. But let’s pretend it’s not. It’s baseball season maybe!

This is Naoko Tokuzawa. She doesn’t play baseball, but she did marry Nishioka Tsuyoshi, a former Japanese baseball player that is now a (former?) member of the New York Yankees, after they won a bid on him by accident.

Naoko Tokuzawa is also a fashion model, and a pretty one at that.Stats:

Age: 27
Height: ?
Ethnicity: Japanese
Located: Japan

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Saven Mi

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Saven is someone that I wanted to feature for a long time and is one of the first models that made me take notice of the social networking/microblogging site Tumblr as a source for finding about models and communicating with people. Even Asian-Sirens is now making use of the site.

Saven also took the time out to answer a few questions that I had for her, so make sure you check those out to find out a little more about her.Stats:
Height: 5’6″
Weight: 130 lbs
Measurements: 32-26-38
Ethnicity: Cambodian, 1/4 Chinese
Location: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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Me: I appreciate it when models reach out to us here on the site. What
made you decide to reach out to us at Asian-Sirens.com? Are you a
reader and or fan of the website?

Saven: I’ve heard great things about your website and decided to check it
out. I’m now a reader and big fan!

Me: How has your life changed since you became a model?

Saven: It has changed drastically! I was extremely shy and introverted which
made it hard to for me to have a social life. Growing up I was always
ignored and left out. Modeling has definitely brought me out of my
shell and I couldn’t be happier. I’m looked at and treated
differently. It has opened many doors for me and is basically a whole
new lifestyle but I love it!

Me: What would you be doing right now if you weren’t a model?

Saven: I would still be set on owning a business but really, I can’t even
imagine what it would be like if I weren’t a model.

Me: Where would you like your career to go in a few years from now?

Saven: To the top! Where else? I’d love to be well known internationally, be
the spokesmodel for various companies, land magazine covers, spreads,
and travel the world for photo shoots and events!

Me: Tumblr is how I first found out about you last year. For me, Tumblr
has been a great way to discover new models and reach new people. How
often do you use Tumblr? What do you think about the site?

Saven: I love Tumblr! At first I had no clue how to use it or what it was all
about so I actually found it weird when I saw my photos on random
people’s pages haha. Then after I discovered how awesome it is I
became so addicted. I love posting my pics and seeing how many likes
or reblogs they get.

Me: Are you planning to get anymore tattoos or piercings?

Saven: Yes I’m actually planning to get many more tattoos, as soon I come up
with the perfect designs and placement. I have them in mind but I want
them to be perfect! I’m not sure about piercings though, they always
end up closing anyway.

Me: I think most of the photos that I have seen you in have been of you
wearing some type of black lingerie. Do you prefer to do photoshoots
in black lingerie or just lingerie in general?

Saven: I love all lingerie in general, but black seems to be the most
flattering and sexiest color on me, or anyone really. All my
photographers seem to agree.

Me: I was reading one interview that you did where you talked about
changing your body. Are you happy with your body or do you still feel
like you want to change a part or parts of it? Have you felt any
pressure to make changes?

Saven: I accept my body but I would still love to change parts of it.
Everyone has their own insecurities. However, I don’t feel pressured
to make changes because of anyone else’s opinion but my own.

Me: Are there any models that you look up to or emulate?

Saven: I would say Tila Tequila because she has done so well for herself I
would love to be as famous as she is. Really though, I think all
models are amazing in their own way but I’ll always just be myself.

Me: Is there anything that you would like to share about yourself to
those who are reading this article and finding about you for the first
time?

Saven: Now that you know I’m the coolest chick ever I’m hoping you’ll keep
showing love and support because I would do the same for you! I
encourage everyone to follow their dreams and keep working hard at
doing what you love doing! Thanks so much for taking the time to get
to know me. Be sure to check out my website at www.savenmi.net and
like my Facebook fan page where I always post my latest photos, events
and updates at www.facebook.com/savenmi

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Japanese Celebs’ Final Acts

Miyu Uehara

In the almost four years since I wrote this piece, I’ve been asked how the celebrity (more specifically female celebrity) suicide rate in Japan compares with that of Korea. I’m, in no way, going to present any analogies or official statistics of this, but since it’s news whenever a famous person dies (by whatever means), all it took for me to find out how female celeb suicide rates compare between Korea and Japan, was some Internet research. In short, Korean female celebs have been more prone to take their own lives in recent years (the “trend” beginning in Feburary, 2005 with actress Lee Eun-joo’s death) but the suicides of Japanese female celebs started two decades earlier. Also, the Japanese ladies seem to be a bit more creative than their Korean counterparts when it comes to the method to end it all, sometimes employing the use of toxic chemicals while the Koreans overwhelmingly favor hanging as the preferred means.

In my search for Japanese female celeb suicides in recent decades, I came up with six names. Of those names, the suicide of the one who was best-known occurred 26 years ago and the ones since weren’t all exactly household names in Japan (as Choi Jin-sil was in Korea). The most recent being gravure idol Miyu Uehara (above), who was found hanged in her apartment on May 12, 2011. She left no note but was apparently unhappy with her chosen career, despite becoming quite popular in her field, with over 400 television appearances to her credit.

Yukiko Okada - Birth of Venus
According to news reports that left several unanswered questions, on April 8, 1986, 18 year-old singer Yukiko Okada was found by the manager of the Sun Music agency (her record label) crying and crouched down in the closet of her gas-filled Tokyo apartment, with her wrists slashed (but apparently not deep enough to cause her to bleed to death). It wasn’t reported why she was taken from there to the Sun Music building, instead of a hospital, but if attempts were made to console and discourage her from making another suicide attempt, they were in vain. Seemingly determined to end it all, just two hours after being found at her apartment and presumably left unattended, Yukiko jumped to her death from the seventh floor of the Sun Music building. There were reporters present when she jumped, as they had heard about the earlier incident at her apartment and that she had been taken to the Sun Music building afterwards. Wanting the story, they sure got it and a lot more, when they witnessed Yukiko jump to the pavement below. A couple of death scene photos were taken before police arrived, and were subsequently published. (View them here and here if you must.) The wave of copycat suicides in Japan that soon followed was dubbed the “Yukiko Syndrome.” An excellent article on that, as well as more details on Yukiko’s life and death, is here. Above is the cover from her January 1986 album, The Birth of Venus, her last one released before her death.

Kazumi Kawai
Actress, model, and singer Kazumi Kawai began her career by appearing in Nikkatsu “roman porn” films after being discovered by director Mamoru Watanabe at the age of 18. She had two failed suicide attempts by cutting her wrists in December, 1996 and again in January, 1997. However, she succeeded on May 9, 1997 by jumping to her death from the apartment window of the man she was allegedly having an affair with; baseball player Kenjiro Kawasaki. (He was not home at the time.) She was also engaged to be married to another man at the time of her death at the age of 32. Ironically, Kawasaki’s apartment was on the seventh floor, as was the office of the Sun Music building that Yukiko Okada jumped from 11 years earlier.

Kyoko Togawa
Actress Kyoko Togawa, sister of singer Jun Togawa, was found hanged in her apartment on July 18, 2002 by a member of her agency after she didn’t show up for a shoot. She left no note and the reason for her suicide was unclear. She was 37.

Miyuki Asou
Miyuki Asou was a gravure idol who crossed over to AV and the harsh (mostly online) criticism she received after making that transition was rumored to be the reason she took her own life on March 18, 2008. She was found dead in her bathroom after inhaling the poisonous gas from the household chemicals she had mixed together. Known as “detergent suicide,” it’s a fairly popular method of ending one’s own life in Japan. She was 22.

Ako Kawada
TV announcer Ako Kawada committed suicide by burning charcoal briquettes inside her car and inhaling the lethal carbon monoxide gas they emitted. Her body was found slumped in the front seat of her car, which was parked (here) just a short distance from her home on the morning of May 26, 2008. In her last blog entry she wrote that she felt mentally and physically exhausted and needed a break. She was 29.

EDIT: All updates will be made at the original article at Idol Features.