One to watch: Azusa Higa, smoking hot Japanese model

Today international model Azusa Higa joins our ever-growing list of sexy and talented ladies we’ve featured who are hands-down women you need to keep an eye on.

A small island girl from Okinawa, Japan, this Japanese/Latin beauty is known for her exotic look which has led to her appearing on the covers of and inside many publications such as Esquire, Maxim, FHM, and Men’s Health, as well as in advertising all over the world. She has also been featured in several music videos and commercials (and this hot new video she made this month).

Related: More gorgeous, talented women we’ve deemed “One to Watch”

But that’s not all. Azusa is also an avid writer, having studied journalism in college. She writes a popular blog on her Web site covering such subjects as relationships and the human condition, while chronicling her travels around the world.

Keep up with her on Facebook and her fan page on Facebook.

Photo credit: Berry Tokyo, Cassio Photo