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Jun Natsukawa

Japanese gravure idol

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJun 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ6311526 ↗
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Jun Natsukawa (夏川 純, Jun Natsukawa; born 19 September 1980) is a Japanese gravure idol from Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.

Career

The spectacle society debuts with "Weekly young jump" gravure in 1999. In 2003 started work with Pyramid Art House. Photography collection Believe is the first work. In 2004 become a member of TV Asahi corporation project Angel Eye. KYOURAKU image girl "Miss surprise" in 2006.

In October 2005, she released a CD titled Himetra Trance in which she covered the theme song from the anime Cat's Eye. She made an appearance on the Japanese television show Pink no Idenshi, as a schoolgirl who falls in love with her teacher; and as herself on the reality show Geirinji. She has also been featured in a commercial for Kantan Kirei-na Fudeo.

Although she announced that she was born in 1983 until March 2007, she confessed in her blog that she was actually born on September 19, 1980.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980, 1999, 2003, 2004—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1980-09-19. The account is most persuasive where Natsukawa, Japanese and gravure can be independently traced.
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