Himeji Castle
Posted on September 1, 2010 - Filed Under Japan Travel
Himeji is most famous for its magnificent castle, Himeji Castle, widely considered to be Japan’s most beautiful surviving feudal castle. The castle is designated both a national treasure and a UNESCO world heritage site.
With half a million inhabitants, Himeji is the second largest city of Hyogo Prefecture after Kobe. It can be reached in less than one hour from Osaka or Kyoto and is also a popular stopover on journeys along the Sanyo Shinkansen.
Singer Tomomi Kahara (36) was taken to the hospital
Posted on August 29, 2010 - Filed Under Japanese Actress
Tomomi Kahara taken to the hospital
Sun, August 29, 2010 (8:58am EDT)
Singer Tomomi Kahara (36) was taken to the hospital on Saturday night, it has been learned.
At about 1:00am, she got into a auto in Kabukicho, but she was alone vaguely acquainted and was clumsy to speak. The disciplinarian took her to the badge base for assistance, and she was again taken to the hospital for medical attention. According to police, Kahara was accustomed sleeping pills at the time.
Kahara, whose bouldered career has been on authority back 2007, has been in the account several times for claimed problems. She was ailing in 1999 afterwards an credible suicide attack by gas contagion in her own home, and a few months after was begin anesthetized alfresco her house. In January 2009, she was advised for ammunition overdose. Just endure month, she had addition adventure in Kabukicho agnate to endure night’s, admitting she did not charge to be taken to the hospital.
Miho Kanno seeks animus in Fuji TV ball
Posted on August 7, 2010 - Filed Under Japan News
Miho Kanno (32) is set to brilliant in a new ball alternation this abatement on Fuji TV. The currently untitled appearance will accept Kanno arena her aboriginal “wicked woman” role back “Koi no Kiseki” in 1999. It is getting declared as a abstruseness with some aspect of romance, and Hiroshi Tamaki (30) has been casting as the macho lead.
Kanno plays the allotment of Meiko Nogami, a woman with a admirable and affectionate heart. But 13 years ago, if she was 19 years old, her earlier sister’s bedmate and son were killed, and Meiko was falsely answerable with the crime. She is appear from bastille 12 years later, and she resumes activity as a pet groomer, but central she is afire for revenge. As she searches out the accuracy abaft the aboriginal murders, she leads the men about her to their abolition and death.
Tamaki is demography on the role of a badge detective who becomes admiring to Meiko even as he is investigating her as a suspect. Michiko Kichise (35) plays addition detective who is Tamaki’s ex-girlfriend, and Toshiaki Karasawa (47) plays a biographer who originally appear on the murders. Kensei Mikami (26) and Kotaro Yoshida (51) accept aswell been cast.
The alternation will premiere on October 12 in Fuji TV’s Tuesday 10:00pm time slot.
ORANGE RANGE to authority concert tour
Posted on August 3, 2010 - Filed Under ORANGE RANGE
Rock accumulation ORANGE RANGE will be captivation a civic bout in November.
This advertisement comes anon afterwards they created their own absolute characterization for the absolution of their new individual “Utourusanu.” The individual will alone accept a bound absolution and rental distribution, but the bout will be absolutely extensive. Last year they did collective reside abode and anteroom tours, so this time they are acceptable to go to venues of all altered sizes about Japan.
Tour dates and data will be acquaint on the official ORANGE RANGE website later, so admirers should be cat-and-mouse for the announcement!
Glay will launch New Album with his own Label
Posted on August 3, 2010 - Filed Under Glay
GLAY has appear that they will absolution their aboriginal album, Glay, from their own characterization loversoul music п associates on October 13th.
It has been a accomplished three years back their endure album, LOVE IS BEAUTIFUL, on January 2007.
Below is the clue list:
1. Shikina
2. Yogorenaki SEASON
3. WASTED TIME
4. Haruka…
5. Apologize
6. Tsuki no yoru ni
7. Kaze ni hitori
8. Precious
9. Satellite of love
10. Chelsea
-Live video of “Otoko Night” on July 30th (Boys bound reside concert)
-Short anime blur “Je t’aime” (“Satellite of love” was the affair song for this anime film)
GLAY – Apologize
Source: GLAY official website
Moumoon be a Leader on Chaku-uta full monthly Chart on Recochoku
Posted on August 3, 2010 - Filed Under Japan News
moumoon s new single, Sunshine Girl, is #1 on Chaku-uta abounding account baronial on Recochoku (the better adaptable music download account in Japan) for July.
“Sunshine Girl” has been distributing on the website back April, and it was a simple 60th abode in June, however, afterwards they performed on MUSIC STATION for the aboriginal time on July 30th, it affective the hearts of listeners, and the amount of downloads added to 700,000.
We will address the data of the Recochoku account baronial as it s revealed.
Source: Sports Hochi
Norwegian Wood cine secures Beatles adaptation for affair song
Posted on July 15, 2010 - Filed Under Japan News
“Norwegian Wood” cine secures Beatles adjustment for affair song
The live-action cine adjustment of Haruki Murakami’s accepted atypical “Norwegian Wood” has in fact accustomed approval to use the aboriginal Beatles song of the aforementioned name as its affair song.
The song “Norwegian Wood,” aboriginal recorded on the 1965 Beatles anthology “Rubber Soul,” aggressive the appellation of Murakami’s atypical if he appear it in 1987. The song is a contemporary aspect of the story, and the blur will anxiously awning it in assorted scenes. Although administrator Tran Anh Hung acquainted it was abandoned accustomed to use “Norwegian Wood” as the movie’s affair song, negotiations were still abridged by the time filming captivated up endure August.
Apple Records, which owns the rights to the Beatles catalog, initially refused. The film’s ambassador advised accepting addition artisan awning the song, but Hung insisted that the aboriginal should be used. His backbone paid off, as he assuredly anchored approval in December. Apple had a action adjoin application the Beatles’ adjustment of the song in a bartering work, but the aggregation ultimately fabricated an barring for the “Norwegian Wood” adaptation, reportedly demography into annual the amazing acceptance of the Murakami novel. So far, it has been translated into 36 languages and has awash 10 actor copies in Japan alone.
The endure time a Beatles tune was the affair song for a Japanese blur was about 30 years ago in 1981, if “Let It Be” was acclimated in “Akuryou Tou.”
The “Norwegian Wood” movie, which stars Kenichi Matsuyama (25) and Rinko Kikuchi (29), opens in theaters this December.
Nintendo Wii Party With Arashi Member
Posted on June 30, 2010 - Filed Under Japan News
All Arashi associates came calm to blur a new CM for “Wii Party“.
In a antecedent CM, one of the members, Sakurai Sho, fabricated a account appearance (Mii) for the added members. The new CM is a assiduity of that, in which all of the associates appearance up and play their Mii’s.
According to the members, it has been a continued time back they endure played a bold together. Matsumoto Jun said, “We forgot it was work, and just enjoyed the bold together.”
The CMs will air on June 30th, and “Wii Party” will be appear on July 8th.
Nintendo already upped some of the CMs on its official website
Mika Nakashima dating with Yoshito Tanaka
Posted on June 28, 2010 - Filed Under JapanTopten
Singer Mika Nakashima (27) has begin a new boyfriend, says this week’s affair of Josei Seven. According to the magazine, she is now dating guitarist and ambassador Yoshito Tanaka (36).
Nakashima and Tanaka reside in abstracted apartments in the aforementioned building. Earlier this month, they were apparent bistro at a ambience restaurant with Nakashima’s mother. Nakashima and Tanaka larboard the restaurant at abstracted times, suggesting that they were alienated getting apparent together. At addition time, the three of them were apparent in the parking anatomy of the accommodation architecture as they alternate from arcade together.
As a producer, Tanaka has formed with artists such as Naotaro Moriyama, Suga Shikao, and CHEMISTRY. He has aswell formed as a recording and bout guitarist for artists such as Arashi, Ken Hirai, Miki Imai, and Nakashima herself.
Tanaka aswell produced for the accumulation wyolica, and he affiliated wyolica’s diva Azumi in 2006. However, they afar anon afterwards that. Nakashima, on the added hand, was anticipation to be headed for alliance with amateur Masatoshi Nagase (43), but they bankrupt up in 2008 afterwards 5 years of dating.
Singer Ai Otsuka Married with Rapper SU at june 25
Posted on June 28, 2010 - Filed Under Ai Otsuka
Singer Ai Otsuka (27) appear on Saturday that she is now affiliated to rapper SU (36) of the hip-hop accumulation RIP SLYME. On her official website, she wrote a bulletin absolute that they registered their alliance on June 25.
SU aswell fabricated an advertisement on RIP SLYME’s official website about the aforementioned time.
This accomplished February, Josei Seven appear an commodity claiming that the two were dating, but the adventure was neither accepted nor denied by their agencies at that time. Their accord reportedly started endure year, if they formed calm on the song “aisu x time” from Otsuka’s “LOVE is Best” anthology (released in November).
SU is the additional RIP SLYME affiliate to get affiliated recently. ILMARI (35) angry the bond with archetypal Yuri Ebihara (30), and they captivated their marriage in Paris beforehand this month.
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