Small (just under 5'2", 1.57m and 48kg) but buxom (32c) and shapely brunette Asa Akira was born Asa Takigami on January 2, 1986, in Tokyo, Japan. She lived in Japan between the ages of six and 13. Asa attended Washington Irving High School in New York City from 2001-02 and graduated high school in 2004. She was a regular on the radio show "Bubba the Love Sponge" for about a year. Asa got her star as a dominatrix before getting into stripping, modeling and porn.