Maya Koizumi expelled from high school for bikini photo shoot

To see Maya's Koizumi's risqué video on YouTube, which I refrained from putting directly into this blog, click here.

Wikipedia, Japanese edition, informs us that Maya Koizumi is a gurabia aidoru. This basically translates as gravure idol or print idol. Numerous blogs refer to her as a G-cup idol.

If you watch the video linked to above, she basically poses in a bikini and does various risqué poses. Apparently, jealous classmates complained to their parents, and their parents complained to the school. Maya was ultimately expelled, six months before graduating. Her parents are fighting the school's decision.

The specific complaint was not in regards to any of her three modeling DVDs but instead focused on a book with photos of her, half of which showed her in swim wear.

Here's part of what the Asahi reports:

Expelled model files suit against school An 18-year-old girl has taken her former high school to court after being expelled for modeling swimwear. Maya Koizumi filed suit in December asking the Tokyo District Court's Hachioji branch to nullify the school's decision so she can return to classes and graduate. Maya was expelled from the the Toho Gakuen girls' school in Chofu, western Tokyo, after the photo collection titled "Geneki Joshikosei" (High school girl student) hit stores last summer. In expelling her, the private school said publication of the photos had violated its regulations.

I suppose this needs to be taken in the context of the growing problem of pre-teens posing in thongs, but I believe Maya would have been about 17 when the photo shoot took place.

As the school didn't have any official policy, they should have just left Maya alone. If they'd like to have a policy about this going into the future, they should put one into writing.

I was curious about this issue and tried to look around for more information in Japanese, what I came across was a mixture of soft porn sites and blogs discussing Maya's bust size. So while whatever she is doing might be lucrative, it isn't exactly ... wholesome.

One blog stated that schools generally win in cases like this.

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