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I watched Jimmy Kimmel’s fantastically weird interview with Stormy Daniels the other day. Her real name is generally known since a long time. I think that is the case with most well-known US porn stars today.

The maybe too naïve Duke University student Belle Knox was outed by a classmate “friend” after just a few weeks in the industry. There’s no place to hide today.

On the other hand, the only Japanese example I can think of is the seriously hardcore and popular Yuka Osawa (aka Elly Akira) a few years ago. After retirement she launched a new career as artist/photographer under her real, very unusual name (just google her if you want to know).

How is it possible for leading Japanese porn stars to protect their identities? Take Maria Ozawa. She went to an international school in Tokyo and has been in the industry for ten years or more. She’s widely known and recognized. There must be hundreds of people out there who knows her.

How can she, and most other Japanese porn stars, remain anonymous? Japan is as full of trolls and morons as any other country, as far as I know.

Or is it out there? Is it just that I don’t know, because I don’t read Japanese?
 
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Lars Lust said:
How can she, and most other Japanese porn stars, remain anonymous?
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Quite simply - anti-defamation laws.

If any of the tabloid rags of troll bloggers were to publish that information, the starlet would be able to sue for damages, and in a case like that, the damages would be significant.

For something to be considered defamation, it does not have to be untrue - it has to be damaging to someone's reputation.

The legal tests for something to be defaming:

1) Is it irrevocably damaging to the person's reputation? If yes, it may be defamatory.

2) Is it false information? If yes, it may be defamatory.

3) If it is not false information, does publication of this information benefit society? If no, it may be defamatory.

Unlike the old Meat Loaf song, in this case, two out of three is bad.

In the case of publishing a porn starlet's real name: it would be irrevocably damaging to her reputation, and while true, it would generally not be information that would be of benefit to society, and would thus be defamatory.
 
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I know TR some times reveals real names but its only from court docs I guess. I wouldn't do it unless its already been revealed. Plus so many girls have so many names. lol.
 
Asa Akira (Asa Takigami) attended Seisen for four years starting from age nine. I wonder what her classmates think of he now?
 
AV stars who make it big do not remain anonymous. Read the tabloids. They'll post insider info about entertainers (AV, comedians, and others) regarding their real names, actual ages, family situation, real nationality, etc. Also, read 2ch. Boards dedicated to specific AV stars will have all sorts of personal info on there from people who knew them growing up. For instance, it's was published that Asami Yuma went from underground idol into AV because her family had a lot of debt that needed to be paid off.

I have also heard that being famous in Tokyo makes it impossible to walk around in public. That's why you see famous people wearing hats and masks all the time. Miki Sawaguchi, a busty AV star in the 90s, once said in an interview that even when she hides her face, fans recognize her in public because of her body and bust size.
 
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MikeH said:
Probably that she has one of the best bodies in the business but should try to tone down the screaming. :eek::p
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As much as I like her body, her face is showing the ravages of drug usage. Some of her tweets make reference to coke. It’s probably the tip of the iceberg.
 
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A self-proclaimed sociologist, Suzumi Suzuki, starred some dozens of JAV as Ruri Sato when she was a Keio student. Nobody didn't care about her part-time job. It came to light after her retirement from acting when she started her journalist career with Nikkei. My impression is that unless the actor is a real star or famous in anything else, people just don't care.

Btw, I guess it'd be so difficult to be anonymous in a college like Duke where most students live close together on campus in a boring town like Durham, NC.

https://www.tokyoreporter.com/2014/10/02/nookie-reporter-ex-av-actress-joined-nikkei-newspaper/
 
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Ken1988 said:
Nobody didn't care about her part-time job. It came to light after her retirement from acting when she started her journalist career with Nikkei. My impression is that unless the actor is a real star or famous in anything else, people just don't care.
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That's impressive and good news. I thought that the risk at being picked on or bullied at Keio was considerably high.
 
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Just my opinion but I think most Japanese think of porno as just another acting venue - I get the feeling they view the situation practically, that if so many people are viewing porn how can you say it's abnormal?
 
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ShowaJidai said:
Just my opinion but I think most Japanese think of porno as just another acting venue - I get the feeling they view the situation practically, that if so many people are viewing porn how can you say it's abnormal?
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Well, there is still the social stigma that if you're a sex worker (AV or otherwise), you're not respectable. There's a reason why you don't see a lot of girls in AV make the jump to normal celebrity status. It's because the big shot producers don't want to have them appearing on TV shows, etc., that're watched by families who might start complaining about why they're allowing current/former stars on the show and treating them like normal people.

Yes, a lot of the extremely hot AV stars have become mainstream celebrities, but it's because their beauty is unresistible to the guys holding power. Very few have had long careers as celebrities, the most notable one being Iijima Ai, who ironically died of symptoms stemming from her HIV status. (A dark secret that not many even now about because the media buried it)

My favorite AV star from the 90s, Miki Sawaguchi, tried to become a celebrity after a few films since her debut because she was so sexy and cute. Unfortunately, they only gave her late night show topless appearances and other sexy features, and she eventually was forced to return to AV because producers would only give her more work if she had sex with them. It was even reported that the big shot comedians would drop by her dressing rooms after taping to ask her to let them feel her boobs, and even the staff members got into the action sometimes because she couldn't draw the line on where to say no.

One of my favorite busty idols, Hitomi Aizawa, was basically banned from show business because a video surfaced from her past were she appeared in an AV video and showed off her boobs and pussy hair and gave a fake BJ.

I will give Japan props for having a lot of hot models go into AV because it's become a lucrative option when their modelling careers are going no where. This is how we got hot beauties like Hitomi Tanaka, Takahashi Shoko, Haruna Hana, Asami Yuma, etc.
 
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Then there was the big Porn Wikileaks in 2011. A list of real names of more than 12,000 porn actors and actresses was leaked and posted on Internet: http://www.pornwikileaks.com/wiki/Category:Porn_Stars_By_Real_Name

The information came from a hacked database of patients from one of the clinics in LA specializing in testing porn performers.

The list includes many Japanese actresses. The only AV actress I remember now is Chihiro Hara, a favorite of mine at the time - tall, slender and very hardcore. Now I know her real name, but it doesn’t make me a much wiser man. BTW, I think she’s still active, but under a different name today. I can’t recall which.
 
On the other hand I find it interesting how Johny Kitagawa has managed to keep his photo and most of his identity out of the press after being an entertainment kingpin for decades.

I've only seen one grainy photo of him and still can't figure out if he was USNavy or Marine - the Japanese press says he was 海軍.
 
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Lars Lust said:
Then there was the big Porn Wikileaks in 2011. A list of real names of more than 12,000 porn actors and actresses was leaked and posted on Internet: http://www.pornwikileaks.com/wiki/Category:Porn_Stars_By_Real_Name

The information came from a hacked database of patients from one of the clinics in LA specializing in testing porn performers.

The list includes many Japanese actresses. The only AV actress I remember now is Chihiro Hara, a favorite of mine at the time - tall, slender and very hardcore. Now I know her real name, but it doesn’t make me a much wiser man. BTW, I think she’s still active, but under a different name today. I can’t recall which.
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Thats really horrible and uncalled for. Like you said, how does it make anyone wiser except giving those women a harder time in their life and gaining them stalkers?
 
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RIDER 00 said:
Well, there is still the social stigma that if you're a sex worker (AV or otherwise), you're not respectable. There's a reason why you don't see a lot of girls in AV make the jump to normal celebrity status.
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This may simply be another case of me being out of touch with what's happening in the US but I don't think any porn starlet has ever been given a chance in mainstream American film or TV after her porn career was establshed. Of course a few establshed TV actresses have done a "sex tape" - generally as a one-off - but jumping from porn to "acceptable" acting is even less probable in the US than in Japan.
 
ShowaJidai said:
This may simply be another case of me being out of touch with what's happening in the US but I don't think any porn starlet has ever been given a chance in mainstream American film or TV after her porn career was establshed. Of course a few establshed TV actresses have done a "sex tape" - generally as a one-off - but jumping from porn to "acceptable" acting is even less probable in the US than in Japan.
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Sasha Grey comes to mind..
 
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ShowaJidai said:
This may simply be another case of me being out of touch with what's happening in the US but I don't think any porn starlet has ever been given a chance in mainstream American film or TV after her porn career was establshed. Of course a few establshed TV actresses have done a "sex tape" - generally as a one-off - but jumping from porn to "acceptable" acting is even less probable in the US than in Japan.
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Jenna Jameson practically had her on show on E! and other cable channels back when she was super popular in the 2000s. Of course, there is stigma in the U.S. as well, but it's not like it hasn't happened for specific stars the same way as in Japan. I would also posit the hypothesis that there aren't just that many "attractive" porno stars in the U.S. The U.S. caters more to the curvy and buxom look with less emphasis on facial features. Also, you see a lot of tattoos and piercings, which again come with a lot of social stigma.

In Japan, you get a lot of cute, sexy, and/or slim girls who could make it as bikini and fashion models if they had chosen a different career path. All the top idols at AV agencies have been given that status after very strict checking by the producers to make sure that their physical attributes guarantee a large fan base.
 
Yeah like I was saying, I haven't lived in the US for about a quarter century so I'm not up to date on this kind of information. The only name I recognize out of the ones mentioned here is Tracy Lords - and she's probably close to my age.
 
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