Yuri "Ebichan" Ebihara, Japan's most prominent model, has gone past her "use-by" date and finds her career at the crossroads, according to Shukan Gendai (8/18-25).

For only the second time in almost four years, Ebichan's countenance will not grace the cover of fashionable OL bible CanCam.

Ebichan's effect on young Japanese women can't be estimated. She has built up legions of fans -- called the Ebichan OLs -- and sparked incredible sales of magazines and clothes, especially among the hundreds of women who buy CanCam to see what she's wearing in the monthly and then promptly go out and pick up the complete kit.

But she'll no longer be the face of CanCam.

Source : Mainichi
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