Career
In 1997, the oldest sister Kyoko debuted in 25ans, an upscale women's fashion magazine, as one of its "supaa dokusha" (super readers). Her success led to both sisters appearing regularly on Japanese TV. Their main claim to fame is their outrageous sense of style, involving highly revealing clothes, flashy jewelry, and jet-set travel. Often wearing see-through dresses with deep V-necks, the sisters generously show off their full breasts and long legs.
Apart from frequent television appearances, they market a series of exercise videos, erotic calendars, collectible fashion cards and coffee-table pictorials, featuring the two preening mostly naked before a soft-focus lens. Japanese toy maker Takara Co. began to sell 30-centimeter-high dolls modeled after the Kano sisters, called Kano Sisters' Gorgeous Dolls, in March 2002. The dolls were priced at 19,800 yen a pair.
They are frequently invited to movie premieres, film festivals, and award ceremonies. Self-described "Lifestyle Consultants," Japanese women pay pounds 150 for a Kano seminar to hear their advice on how to get more from a relationship and how to apply a flawless face. Businessmen pay them as much as $30,000 to make appearances at parties. The sisters are each a former Miss Nippon.
In 3 April 2006, the Kano sisters published a collection of nude artistic photographs in a book entitled Sweet Goddess. Posing in a revealing style known in Japanese as "hea nuudo", or "hair nude," a term for nude photographs of women who display their pubic hair, the photographs were taken by Kyoko Kano with modeling by Mika Kano. Sweet Goddess was reported to be among the first path breaking collections that break this unwritten post-war publication rule.Sweet Goddess was listed as a bestseller for several months. The Kano sisters released a similar pictorial collection entitled Sweet Goddess 2 on 1 November 2006.
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