{"id":6428,"date":"2014-04-15T02:58:31","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T09:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kabukicho-girls.com\/blog\/?p=6428"},"modified":"2017-03-23T08:27:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T12:27:28","slug":"former-av-idol-yuma-asami-writes-her-life-story-in-restart-believe-in-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kabukicho-girls.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/former-av-idol-yuma-asami-writes-her-life-story-in-restart-believe-in-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Former AV Idol Yuma Asami writes her life story in &#8220;Restart: Believe in Yourself&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO (TR) \u2013 Early last year, former <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tokyoreporter.com\/category\/adult-video\/\">adult video<\/a> (AV) star <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tokyoreporter.com\/2013\/06\/07\/av-actress-yuma-asami-has-ovarian-cancer\/\">Yuma Asami<\/a> shocked the industry and her fans with revelations that she was battling ovarian cancer.<\/p>\n<p>[ed. Kam Kitano, Kabukicho-Girls.com] Asami Yuma is one of the most loved AV idols of the last 15 years. Her warm beauty, fantastic figure and oral skills keep her in the hearts, minds and cocks of fans worldwide. It is wonderful to hear she is on the road to healing and is kickstarting the next phase of her amazing life with her autobiography, &#8220;Restart: Believe in Yourself&#8221; released this month through\u00a0 Kodansha Books.]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kabukicho-girls.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/asami_yuma.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6430\" title=\"asami_yuma\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kabukicho-girls.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/asami_yuma.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kabukicho-girls.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/asami_yuma.jpg 296w, https:\/\/www.kabukicho-girls.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/asami_yuma-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.kabukicho-girls.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/asami_yuma-98x150.jpg 98w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now on the road to recovery, the ex-starlet announced on Tuesday that she has written an autobiography, reports <a href=\"http:\/\/sankei.jp.msn.com\/entertainments\/news\/140409\/ent14040911320005-n1.htm\"><em>Sankei Sports<\/em><\/a> (Apr. 9).<\/p>\n<p>Scheduled to be released on May 8 by publisher Kodansha, \u201cRestart: Believe In Yourself\u201d includes the reasons for why she became an AV star, some family secrets and insights into the struggles she faced following surgery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though I hit a roadblock in my life I didn\u2019t want to give in,\u201d the former actress is quoted.<\/p>\n<p>Asami began suffering from stomach problems in January of last year. Ovarian cancer was discovered following a subsequent MRI exam.<\/p>\n<p>The following month, Asami had surgery to remove a tumor \u2014 classified as being between malignant and benign \u2014 in one of her ovaries. Doctors also removed her uterus and ovaries.<\/p>\n<p>Asami, a native of Gunma Prefecture, was a member of Ebisu Muscats, a pop group of gravure (pin-up) models and AV idols which ended activities following a farewell tour in April of last year.<\/p>\n<p>In 2005, Asami made her AV debut for label Alice Japan with \u201cInnocent Hard-Core\u201d and \u201cNew Face Risky Mosaic\u201d for S1. Three years later, she took the Most Appearances title at the Sky PerfecTV! AV awards.<\/p>\n<p>Last August, Asami announced that she had completed six cancer treatments for ovarian cancer.<\/p>\n<p>She resumed her career as a gravure (pin-up) model in the fall. In a clip <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tokyoreporter.com\/2013\/10\/09\/av-star-yuma-asami-announces-youtube-clip-cancer-treatment-finished\/\">posted on YouTube<\/a>, she said that her prognosis going forward was favorable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a new me,\u201d she said in referring to the title of the book. \u201cThere is no \u2018reset\u2019 in life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kabukicho-Girls.com &#8211; Asami Yuma is is kick-starting the next phase of her amazing life with her autobiography, &#8220;Restart: Believe in Yourself&#8221; released this month through  Kodansha Books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[405,955,511,1812,589,749,4,333,1809],"tags":[1881,1823,1882],"class_list":["post-6428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asami","category-av-idols","category-big-tits-2","category-books-e-books","category-ex-model-2","category-gravure","category-jav-idols","category-kabukicho-news","category-kabukicho-girl-2","tag-asami-yuma","tag-kabukicho-girls","tag-kodansha"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabukicho-girls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabukicho-girls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabukicho-girls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabukicho-girls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabukicho-girls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabukicho-girls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabukicho-girls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabukicho-girls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabukicho-girls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}