Tea Leaf Nation has this amusing story of former Japanese AV star Sola Aoi, who has more than 13 million followers on Sina Weibo, trying to placate fans on both sides of the sea: Ms. Aoi recently tweeted two images via iPhone from her account (@苍井空)... the first reads “Japanese-Chinese Friendship,” with Ms. Aoi commenting in broken Chinese, “I hope there are good relations between we common people…I am [liv ...

As sometimes happens when the prigs over at the State Administration of Radio Film and Television (SARFT) get bored, they make an announcement. The recent one was a reiteration that vulgarity and scandal are not to be allowed on television, and just to prove they're serious, they more or less singled out former AV star Sora Aoi, as Sina reports. (A Tencent poll -- about as trustworthy as a dog driving -- pu ...