Minase Yashiro was born on February 3, 1985, in
Gifu Prefecture, Japan. She debuted as a
gravure (swimsuit) model in 2006, releasing her first DVD
MINASE Minakuru! February 17, 2006 just after her 21st birthday, and by mid-2009 she had issued 10 solo DVDs. Yashiro has appeared on several TV programs including
Sports eye ESPN on
SkyPerfecTV,
Idol Star (アイドルの星) on ENTA!371,
Pao Pao on
BS NHK, Sabadol! (サバドル!) on
TV Tokyo and
Ranking Kingdom (ランク王国) from
TBS. In addition, she has been featured in such magazines as
Weekly Young Jump,
Flash Exciting,
Monthly Gon and
Weekly Asahi Geinō. Yashiro made her film debut in
Noboru Iguchi's gore-fest
The Machine Girl in 2008 playing the lead role of Ami, the girl who goes on a revenge spree with a machine gun for a left arm. The movie was released theatrically and on DVD in both Japan and the United States. According to the Nippon Cinema reviewer, "she plays Ami with 100% conviction - and that really helps sell some of the funny lines she has to deliver with a snarl". In 2010, Yashiro appeared in
Kamen Rider Double Forever: A to Z/The Gaia Memories of Fate as one of the antagonists, Reika Hanehara the
Heat Dopant. She reprised her role as Reika Hanehara in the 2011
V-Cinema spinoff
Kamen Rider W Returns: Kamen Rider Eternal. In 2018, Yashiro appeared in
Kamen Rider Zi-O as Kaoru Kinoshita. ==DVD appearances==