This year Hokkaido will be home of the “RISING SUN ROCK FESTIVAL 2010 in EZO” on 8/13-8/14 at the Tarukawa Wharf of Ishikari Bay New Port.
Every year Hokkaido hosts this great “outdoor event” and by outdoor they mean camping. Yes this means if you want to go, you can camp and barbecue and enjoy great music from an array of …
Takenouchi Yutaka’s new movie ” Taiheiyou no kiseki ~Fox to yobareta otoko~“(miracle in Pacific ~the man who was called FOX~) revealed that they will be filming in Thailand and is scheduled for a February 2011 release.
The movie is originally a book by Don Jones who was a United States Navy admiral, and is being made as a project of the …
Girl idol group Buono! will be releasing “The Best Buono!” collection on August 10th. This will be the first best album for the group and will be available in a deluxe three disc collection and regular single disc edition.
The first disc of the limited edition will bring together all the hit singles from their three years in Hello!Project, while disc …
Model and singer, IMALU, appeared in the magazine “anan” and talked about her parents. IMALU has been bashed on the internet that she was not good enough to be on TV. She is the daughter of Akashiya Sanma(a big name comedian) and Otake Shinobu(veteran actress), and she debuted through the influence of her parents.
IMALU said on the magazine, “I know …
June 25th marked the anniversary of the death of seminal pop musician, Michael Jackson. The entire world has been mourning the loss of the superstar, and Japan was no exception. Zepp Tokyo sponsored a special live event with MUSIC ON! television network and Japanese R&B star, AI, to have a special screening of a new program called “AI …
Voice actress and singer, Mizuki Nana will be on MUSIC JAPAN, which will broadcast on July 4th. Nana is a narrator for this program, but she will show up as a singer and reveal her new song “Mysterion”, which will be included in her new album “IMPACT EXCITER” (released on July 7th).
“IMPACT EXCITER”, will include 16 songs and it has been a year since the release of her previous album, “ULTIMATE DIAMOND”.
Check out the PV teaser after the cut.
Since late last year, activities have been quiet for Japanese Visual-Kei group, The GazettE. Yet fans are finding the wait quite worth their while as the group will be coming back with a new single on July 21st in three special editions. The upcoming release, “SHIVER,” will be the band’s first since their record label switch to Sony Music and it will act as the opening theme to the second season of the gothic anime Kuroshitsuji(Black Butler). The single will contain three tracks, the title track “SHIVER,” “HESITATING MEANS DEATH,” and “Naraku.”
More under the cut.
Nagai Masaru(left in photo above) showed up at the press conference for the stage performance “Tusubaki Tokitobi“, on the 28th.It has reported that Nagai and Hirosue Ryoko(right in photo above) broke up in the beginning of June. The reporters asked Nagai why they broke up, but he had no comment about it.
This stage performance will go on from on August 11th …
One Piece’s 10th Movie titled STRONG WORLD is coming soon to Blu-Ray and DVD. The pre-orders for this has already exceeded 100,000 copies, approximately a month before its release date on August 27th.
Distribution company Pony Canyon has said that they receive approximately 300 calls per day about reserving a copy.
Source: Sanspo
Popular TV program, “Big eater championship” was broadcast on the 26th, and one of the challengers, Kojyo Seara hit the top of the Google search rankings. On the program, Seara ate 42 fried chicken pieces (about 3kg) and 11 bowls of Udon noodles (about 4kg), managing to come in at 2nd place.
Currently, she is a member of an Avex punk …
A new unit of AKB48, “Team Dragon from AKB48″, was formed to sing the ending theme song for “Dragonball Kai”. The new single titled “Kokoro no Hane” will be released on July 21st.
Application tickets will be bundled with the single, and if you’re one of the lucky 700 to be picked, you will be able to attend their “Dragonball kai meeting” on August 11th.
There will be 11 different versions of the “Kokoro no hane” single, a regular version with just the CD, or special versions including a DVD, featuring a different member and even special Dragonball Kai versions. The members of this collaboration are Maeda Atsuko, Takahashi Minami, Watanabe Mayu, Oshima Yuko, Itano Tomomi, Kojima Haruna, and Kashiwagi Yuki.
Check out the ending song from Dragonball Kai after the cut.
A full music video of BoA’s upcoming single “Woo Weekend” recently aired on MTV Japan as an “MTV EXCLUSIVE.”
This single is the 25th anniversary song for Disney On Ice in Japan.
This single is scheduled to be released on July 21st. Check out BoA’s funky retro-style based from the 80’s below.
Popular anime, ONE PIECE, has been chosen as the image character for travel agency H.I.S. The ONE PIECE trolleybus will run in Hawaii and Guam starting mid-July.
Since many Japanese people visit both Hawaii and Guam, it will be popular with Kids. They will also open a ONE PIECE beach house in Agana beach (Guam), sometime in July.
Source: Oricon style
Yamashita Tomohisa, best known as Yamapi from NEWS has a new CF (commercial film) for the summer. The Commercial is for Weider’s energy product in Jelly (from Morinaga Seika), the title of this CF is 「暑さを楽しめ」 (Enjoy the Heat/Summer).
The CF starts as Yamapi is walking in the city during the hot summer season in a fine tailored suit. People suddenly …
Singer, talent and also well known as the little sister of Koda Kumi, misono, made an appearance on “King’s brunch” (broadcast on June 26th).
misono was on a corner show called, “Shopping master”, in which celebrities go shopping with a budget of $1,000. By accident though, misono said “$1,000…since I get $2,000(after tax) a month, it would be a half my …
