Design Festa at Tokyo Harajuku
Design Festa Gallery will be holding Creative Live! from Jan. 23-29. The event will feature art, music, workshops and live graffiti shows both inside and out. Design Festa Gallery, hidden in a back alley of Tokyo’s Harajuku district, has become a mecca for aspiring young artists in Japan. The building itself is an old apartment complex renovated to provide exhibition spaces. The gallery provides affordable spaces ranging from a 1 1/2-sq. meter-bathroom to a larger tatami room. Artist applications are still being accepted.
Creative Live! will be held from 11 a.m. till 8 p.m. Admission is free. For more information, call (03) 3479-1433 or visit the Web site at
Nana Mizuki Phantom Minds
29-year-old Nana Mizuki has become the first voice actor (voice of characters) with a CD single # 1 hit single in Japan Oricon weekly. Mizuki 21st single, “Phantom Minds,” sold 54,000 copies in its debut week last week. No other voice actor has ranked as high as Oricon began to place their cards in January 1968. “Minds ghost” is the theme song for Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha The Movie 1st Anime, where Mizuki reprises the character Fate Testarossa. This remake of the film Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha anime television will open in Japan on Jan. 23.
Mizuki Diamond Ultimate # 1 arrived in June this year – another record for a voice actor – but in the Oricon weekly album charts. With “The Phantom Minds’” # 1 ranking, beat Mizuki own previous record high # 2, she earned her first “song Eternal Blaze” in 2005. His “Shinai” song debuted at # 2 on the weekly singles chart with 42,630 copies in January, and 2008’s “Trickster” Similarly only reached # 2 with a high staff 57,201 copies. Last month, Mizuki debuted on Kohaku Uta Gassen (Red and White Song Battle), the year-end contest singing that is Japan’s most watched television program of music. Read more
Kill bill actress Chiaki Kuriyama make debut Single
Kill Bill Cute Japanese Actress Chiaki Kuriyama (25 years old) has released a new debut single “Ryusei no Namida” “Ryusei no Namida” will be used as the theme song animation “Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn,” the latest in the “Gundam” franchise. “Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn” which was published as a collection of six OVAs began in March.
Kuriyama single will be sold in three versions: a regular edition, limited edition CD + DVD, and time limited-edition Gundam
Kuroki Meisa New L’Oreal SpokesPerson
Kuroki Meisa Becomes Spokesperson For L’Oreal , the 21 years Old Japanese Rising Star Kuroki Meisa get a New Major World Wide Commercial Contract with L’Oreal ,and now she has just sign on as spokesPerson for L’Oreal Commercial Paris that server with all over the world
Kuroki has built his career in Japan since 2004, but he finally got a big international break last year when he starred with Japanese-Chinese films “Subaru,” based on a manga about a ballet dancer. His performance caught the eyes of the international L’Oréal’s Derville Vianney general manager, who praised Kuroki’s elegance, beauty, and natural talent.
L’Oréal Kuroki will display in the ad around the world, starting with Japan in early March for the release of a new hair care products PRO EX Damaged Care. Company spokesmen now includes a list of names of celebrities such as Penelope Cruz, Beyonce, and Eva Longoria.
AKB48 Group come Abroad
The Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper reported that the site Yasushi Akimoto, producer and songwriter of the group AKB48 idol Japanese woman, is a spinoff entertaining offers for a group of seven television stations and production companies in six countries. Six countries, including Thailand, Singapore, China, and Italy.
According to the website, Akimoto believe that “the era of Western copying done. Now we export Japanese culture.” Seven companies want to license the rights to localize AKB48 concepts and formats in their respective countries. In particular, spin-offs proposed would each have their own theater (similar to the AKB48 been in Tokyo’s Akihabara otaku shopping), 48 members and a name that ends with “48,” imitating the high school uniform costumes, and songs written by Akimoto .
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Tokyo Joshiryu or Tokyo Girls Style
Tokyo Joshiryu or Tokyo Girls Style Avex has Launch a new five-member Cute Girls Japanese idol group called Tokyo Joshiryu (also known as Tokyo Girls’ Style). This is the first girl group created by Avex since SweetS in 2003. All five members of one per day is derived, starting on January 1. On Wednesday, Avex officially launch the site, which in turn includes a picture of them together. Group consists of leaders Miyu Yamabe, Konishi Ayano, Hitomi Arai, Yuri Nakae, and May Shoji, who was reported between the ages of 11 and 13.
Joshiryu Tokyo aims to be active not only in Japan, but in all other Asian countries as well. They do not have a CD release is planned, but their first official live performance will be on February 7 at Shibuya O-Nest. The group has opened a blog, a Mixi page, and a Twitter account.
Yumi Yoshimura has Remarried
Yumi Yoshimura (34) of the pop duo Puffy’s New Year’s Eve is married, has learned it. The unexpected news was announced on the website of the group on Saturday.
Yoshimura husband is a 29-year-old businessman. The two have been friends for about seven years, but they only began in earnest last September. They registered their marriage on 31 December, although it currently has no plans for a wedding on the basis of their working hours.
Yoshimura was previously married to musician Takanori Nishikawa (39) 1999 to 2002. In 2006, Yoshimura was) are reported in a serious relationship with actor Nao Omori (37, but it seems that they broke out in August 2009, just before she started from the businessman. Read more
lucky bags Tokyo Shoppers in rush
Major department stores across the Japan began business in 2010 on Saturday, with “lucky bags” at low prices gaining in popularity as consumers seek out bargains among the economic downturn.
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Bargain hunting: Shoppers snap up “lucky bags” with various products much cheaper than the original prices at Mitsukoshi department store in Chuo Ward, Tokyo, on Saturday. KYODO PHOTO
Mitsukoshi Ltd. ’s flagship store in Tokyo Nihonbashi district in Chuo Ward is at 9.45 clock, 15 minutes earlier than scheduled, as were about 8,000 people lined up in front of the store.
The Mitsukoshi store, said she prepared a total of 50,000 lucky bags. Among them, the bags were sold for 10,500 yen, were particularly popular. Each bag contains a down coat, a sweater and other items, and most of the 1,200 bags sold out in the morning, said Mitsukoshi.
“I’m usually cautious money, are so inexpensive grab bag with products that are in good quality, helpful,” said a 50-year-old housewife who was shopping at the store.
Save to Takashimaya Co. ’s flagship Nihonbashi, some customers lined up before dawn and rushed to the lucky bags on the floor to buy food after the store opened.
“Practical lucky bags and products are very popular, a Takashimaya official said. “Consumers are likely to continue to restrict their budgets.
Zero no Shoten Beauty of the rebel woman
Mystery writer Seicho Matsumoto (1909-1992) has long been on the Japanese entertainment industry, what Stephen King in Hollywood – a one-man fiction factory, provided the material for dozens of films and TV dramas.
Zero no Shoten
Mysterious beauties: Ryoko Hirosue Miki Nakatani, and in “Zero no Shoten” © 2009 “Zero no Shoten” Seisaku iinkai
Director: Isshin Inudo
Runtime: 131 minutes
Language: Japanese
Opens 14th November 2009
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One of his most famous novels, “Zero no Shoten” ( “Zero Focus”), was made in 1961, a film by Yoshitaro Nomura. Now Isshin Inudo a new version is aimed, seem very true to Matsumoto’s novel – unread by me.
Since his feature film debut in 1995 with “Futari ga Shabetteru” ( “Two People Talking”), has Inudo from a mixture of indie and commercial projects. What both types of films often share, but are strong female characters and a visual richness, even on an indie budget. Read more
Morning Musume Yomiura
Popular J-POP cute girl group Morning Musume. They Did the release of their latest live DVD set called Morning Musume. YOMIURA land east LIVE 2009 for the 20th January.
This DVD is footage of special meeting of the group on land Yomiura theater EAST function on 31 Held in October to celebrate the release of their clutch best-of album Morning Musume. Zen-Single Collection-coupling, which came out in early October.
As a side note, have Morning Musume. Their first national tour since the departure of a member Kusumi Koharu, from the group closed on 6 this month will be posted. Under the title of Morning Musume. Concert Tour 2010 Haru ~ Pikappikaa! ~ Will consist of 20 days, you will connect to the Tokyo Kousei Nenkin Kaikan on 19 March and follow-up in Nakano Sun Plaza on 5 May.

