The Bachelorette Japan
バチェロレッテ・ジャパン
Storyline
The whole story, ending included.
A woman holds the roses. Each season becomes a public referendum on how a career woman is allowed to choose.
The Bachelorette Japan is Prime Video's gender-reversed version of The Bachelor Japan. One accomplished single woman meets a group of men and, over a journey of dates, keeps them or sends them home at rose ceremonies, until she gives a final rose to the one she wants. Takumi Bando runs each ceremony on location, and a panel led in the later seasons by Koji Imada comments from the studio. The first season streamed in October 2020; the fourth, in May 2026, is the latest.
Its Bachelorette, Rina Hiramatsu, is a model of twenty-six who grew up in Singapore, New York and Britain, speaks three languages and has never had a boyfriend; she is the youngest in the series. Fourteen men meet her in Bangkok and Pattaya, among them an opera singer, a sculptor, a sushi chef and a professional wrestler. She asks for what she needs: dates before the first cocktail party, and more time alone with each man. Even so, only nine roses are offered that first night, and five men go home. The theme of the trip is trust. Her first-impression rose goes to a man who arrives with a perfume he made himself; the letters some men write for her move her; when her sister visits, she says there are already several men she can imagine a future with. In the end two remain. Yuma Anzai, a shy wrestler of twenty-six with whom she smiles most, waits too long to show what he feels. Itaru Yamazaki, thirty-two, who runs a golf business, falls hard and says so. She gives Yamazaki the final rose, choosing, she says, someone who offers both excitement and a sense of safety.
In a studio epilogue they are dating long-distance, he in Ishikawa and she in Tokyo, a little unsure how often to message. He gives her lisianthus, a flower for thoughtfulness, and tells her he loves her. In June 2026 they announced they had parted after more than half a year together. She wrote that if she could make the journey again, she would still choose him.
Starring
Rina HiramatsuHerself
The fourth Bachelorette, a trilingual model of 26 who has never had a boyfriend and reshapes the format to get time with each man.
Itaru YamazakiParticipant
A golf-business owner of 32 who falls hard, says so from the start, and receives the final rose.
Yuma AnzaiParticipant
A shy professional wrestler of 26 who reaches the final two but shows his feelings too slowly.
Takumi BandoHost
The on-location host who runs every rose ceremony, making his last appearance in the fourth season.
Koji ImadaPanel
Leads the studio panel in the third and fourth seasons and questions the couple in the epilogue.
Why it matters
The Bachelorette Japan puts a woman in the seat the original format gave a man: the one who chooses, publicly, among many. Across four seasons that seat has gone to a woman who founded a cosmetics company, a University of Tokyo aerospace graduate who had joined the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and, most recently, a model of twenty-six who had never had a boyfriend. Rina Hiramatsu used the position to reshape the format, asking for time alone with each man instead of group dates. Afterwards she said that self-reliant women who can do everything themselves risk carrying everything alone, and that a lasting partnership needs the wish to lean on someone. The season also shows what a choice cannot promise. The man she chose told her he loved her; half a year later they parted, and she wrote that she would choose him again. Whether a choice is measured by how long it lasts is left open.