Aya Sugimoto

Yes, I would also rather you go naked.

BOOOONNNNNGGGGG!!!! Dang she is hot for 40.

I rarely comment on this picture section, but this picture is mega nice and kudos go out to JT.

completely agree with DBC

She is not even air brushed yet and she still looks good.

No fur? Unfortunately we can't tell from this shot.

We need more PETA activists like this. Protest this way and we will watch...I mean listen.

40 ? Oh, man !

O my gawwd!! I knew I should have been a photographer!

I could get used to these kind of ads....

Have I died and gone to Heaven?

best bum-ist? :D

I always liked Aya Sugimoto, she's a very sexy woman.

As the copper said... "Hands up!"

Japanese women age so gracefully. Aya's great, but not that much different from many (most?) Japanese women in their 40s.

Whatever she is selling I am buying!

SHAZZAZIM!

But, can she cook and does her father own a brewery? I'm sure this ad will receive a lot of attention, although I fear the point of the advertising will be replaced by another point.

Good to see a nice-looking lady who doesn't think she looks better draped in tortured dead bodies.

Go Aya!

Yes, if more people would rather be naked.... then MORE FUR!!!

more photos please JT :)

Bring that placard little down to make this campaign look more realistic.

Wow she's going on the list for "Hottest women over 40" for sure! Good Job Girl!

No fur? Unfortunately we can't tell from this shot.

Haha! I was thinking the very same thang! And she's got a nice rack to boot!! Or should I say "bootie!" She was one of those "Japanese Boobie talents" in her younger days.

Down boy!!

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I fear the point of the advertising will be replaced by another point.

We can only hope.

Advertisement of the YEAR! Thanks JT for this one!!

And look at those lips!... The upper set.

She give great ad!

Thanks Japan Today!

Damn it... 10th visit to this page. I'm gonna get caught at work today!!

This is one click of the mouse I don't regret.

I have two comments.

40 is beautiful.

Taro Fujimoto has a great job.

I have a question. Is Aya also a vegetarian?

I have to say I'd rather fur than go naked.

Oh man - check this out -> http://www.petaasiapacific.com/newsreleasesitem.asp?id=10245 We could have posed as foreign press and taken our own piccies!

Where's a stiff breeze when you need one?

Thanks ^^!

Card size is a little generous. Could have used a business card and it would have covered everything.

I don't know why I didn't succeed in the photography career. Damn. She's 40... I wanna hear her message.

Too old; leave it to the 20's girls...

She certainly looks better at 40 than any of the other PETA babes will at that age!

I am not sure Sugimoto Aya is the right choice for this type of advertisment. I mean I love her and think she is one of the sexiest women alive, but who has not seen her naked?

For me they should use somebody who people would not expect to go naked, for example, any one of the myriad of talento that have an ultra cute, squeaky clean image. If they had done that they would got even moe people talking.

Though I must admit that right now Aya seems to be doing alright on that front, so what do I know?

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The human body is truly beautiful!

She doesn't look 40....

Not many 40 year old Japanese women do look 40. Viva Japan. I adore women, not girls.

Is she really into PETA? I think she just likes going naked.

ha ha I just put her name into a search engine & after a couple clicks there she is like today minus the card BUT covering her lower regions with a big piece of FUR!!!!

it might have been fake but I doubt it, shes a hypocrite but a very attractive one

but who has not seen her naked?

I have not. Somebody please help me :D

too skinny, she should eat a bit more

Looks like my ex-girlfriend -- minus the card of course.

If she looks this skinny in this photo this means she is even skinnier in person.

Man is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man :p

IIRC she divorced her husband because he wasn't stoking the fires enough, the term sexless divorce was coined. One has to ask the question, what was her husband thinking?

Triple888: "The human body is truly beautiful"

You haven't seen my body.

"woman is the glory of man"

According to a famous book, the first woman came from the rib of this guy... I dunno...

That does it, I'm not wearing fur! But I'm still wearing my (motorcycle) leathers.

"Viva Japan." Indeed!

Just ask the teacher walking in the park about the ramifications - so which is hypocrisy? Is it against the law to go naked or wear fur?

Asked about leather products, she said she still continues to buy them because “leather production is different from fur production.”

Looks like she isn't really into PETA.

Shes 40???? Wow, what a hottie!

I'm sure it has everything to do with her ethics and nothing at all to do with attention-seeking. she seems to have done well judging from all the slavering, mundane drool from this lot of voyeuristic slobs

It sure is a shame about her face. She does not even resemble the Aya Sugimoto of her early bikini idol days.

It sure is a shame about her face. She does not even resemble the Aya >Sugimoto of her early bikini idol days.

I'd cut her a break. We all age dude.

She looks very good for her age but she isn't a vegan or even a vegetarian. Strange choice for a PETA campaign.

Ossan-I am talking about all the plastic surgery she has had done. Her face is not the result of the normal aging process. The rest of her body-regardless of what is real and what is not-still looks hot.

Ossan: take a look at Aya Sugimoto, circa 1990: Like many of the celebrities we see in the Pic of the Day, she just ain`t natural at all, so I feel little need to cut her slack.

I'll cut her some slack. She'd sure have to cut us some slack. Probably a lot of it....

There's no "i" in "teamwork," but there sure is "t&a" in "PETA."

At least she's holding the sign right-side-up.

I don't see any fur any where, nice!

she needs to gain some weight. do all j-girls have to be skinny??

PETA members go beyond Liberals. http://www.petakillsanimals.com/

teaabe she needs to gain some weight. do all j-girls have to be skinny??

Skinny...No way... She's probably a few kg up on most models her age...or most models for that matter... Definitely not fat, but certainly not skinny...Nice....

But the younger generation JN's have been putting on some weight...You never see too many of the older one's being obese...

Thats it, im dumping my girl and getting me an old bag!

I wonder if she drank a lot of prune juice before this pic?

So, when is she going to shave her head?

Like a caption under a photo I once saw under a beautiful woman once said: "No matter how fine she looks, some man, some where, is tired of her c**p."

In other words, all that glitters is not gold.

She is pretty though I must admit.

She's pretty but - eat please! A tofu burger, bean salad, something. Those arms look like pins and her shoulders are non-existent. It's good that she's not overweight but a little more bulk and muscle wouldn't do anything to deter from her looks, in fact they would help them and help prevent osteoporosis.

mindovermatter: Yes, you do see more overweight young Japanese nowadays but you also see more of the other extreme. In fact Japan is considered to have some of the highest rates of eating disorders in the world. Not a day goes by that I don't see at least two or three girls who look to be on the verge of death as well as any number of young men who don't appear to have an ounce of fat -or muscle- on them. Obviously Ms. Sugimoto doesn't fall into that category but I still say she could stand another 5 kilos at least. The pose is making her look curvy but standing up straight a woman that skinny is not going to have any natural curves.

Actually I was surprised to see comments about how skinny she is because...my first reaction to the picture was that she looks healthy and not all skinny, Her legs aren't stick thin, she has some stomach and a full behind. Shes average for a japanese woman her age!

she's 40 years old and in fabulous shape with a beautiful face she's in better shape than most young women (japanese and american) between the ages of 16 - 24 she's a fabulous dancer and enjoys her independence although she's a "tarento" she feels none of the restrictions often imposed by japanese production companies befor you attempt to judge/misjudge her, her motives and her actions; brush up on your japanese & go to: http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=ja-JP&vid=5280531a-3fea-4e77-be74-b6c437952bdb ... to watch the post-photo shoot interview note that the j-media/quasi-journalist that had been sent by the usual suspect "media" outlets were grossly unqualified to discuss/ask questions about PETA or anything vaguely political/social and instead chose to focus on the nudity, much to ms sugimoto's annoyance she's 40 years old and in fabulous shape with a beautiful face

not bad for 40!

Does she have a skin problem? Her skin does not look so great to me.