On December 14th, AKB48’s ace Maeda Atsuko was in attendance of the 7pm show for 2PM’s arena tour “ARENA TOUR 2011 ‘REPUBLIC OF 2PM’”.
Maeda has previously attended other concerts by Korean artists, such as Big Bang, but this time she seemed to have gotten a bit more out of it. Maeda praised the boy group, “After work finished, I …
Every month, BIGLOBE releases the top Twitter trends in Japan. With November recently coming to an end, they’ve compiled their data and have just released their rankings for November.
Check out the rankings after the jump.
Utada Hikaru (28) is currently on hiatus from activities, but she still posted a tweet on the day of her 13th anniversary on the 10th. She wrote, “Yesterday was the 13th anniversary of my debut! Even though I have been on hiatus for a year already, I received a lot of congratulations, thank you so much “(`(エ)´)ﾉ彡☆ !!”
Shortly afterwards fans …
We mentioned the other day that Acid Black Cherry would be offering a free download of his live concert held on July 23rd at Fuji Q Highland Conifer Forest.
This free download was the 3rd part of his 4th anniversary project, “ABC Dream CUP 2011”, which was created to thank fans for their support over the past four …
Last month the nominations were revealed for the 53rd Japan Record Awards. Goo has polled its readers to find out which song they believe deserves the ‘Best Song’ award.
Check out the results below and find out where you stand and then let us know how you would vote.
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[Favorite Song From The Japan Record Awards Nominees]
1. Flying Get …
Popular model Komori Jun has a new hairstyle that’s become a huge hit among young girls.
Last month, Komori cut off her long locks for a more adult-looking bob. Around a month later, Komori went to her salon and found out that more than 100 girls came in to get the ‘Junpo Bob’.
Komori blogged, “More than 100 people …
On December 8th, AKB48 members Maeda Atsuko, Shinoda Mariko, Takahashi Minami, Sashihara Rino, and Takajo Aki attended a press conference for their new project with Google+.
Using Google+, the members will update information in various ways, allowing them to interact with overseas fans. Maeda commented, “I’m excited. I want to be able to have various interactions in order to be loved …
Recochoku has just updated their weekly charts for the week of November 30th to December 6th.
Check out the top ranking digital singles, chaku-uta, and music videos for this week below!
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< Chaku-Uta Full (Digital Single) Weekly Ranking >
01/(00) “Sit! Stay! Wait! Down!” – Amuro Namie
02/(00) “Ue kara Mariko” – AKB48
03/(06) “Yasashiku Naritai” – Saito Kazuyoshi
04/(01) “Aruite Ikou” …
Even though the year isn’t quite finished yet, BIGLOBE has compiled a list of the top Twitter trends for 2011. Many of the rankings aren’t surprising, especially those related to the Great Tohoku Earthquake this past March.
Check out the 2011 trends after the jump and look forward to the list of November’s trends soon!
Recochoku, one of the biggest mobile music download sites in Japan, recently released the 2011 yearly download chart ranking and awards for the period from December 1st, 2010 until November 30th, 2011.
Check out the top ranking for digital singles, chaku-uta, and music videos over the past twelve months below!
*Updated the top 10 of all rankings!
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dwango (mobile content provider) has announced the results of its yearly download ranking!
Check out the results below!
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<dwango.jp (Uta)> Chaku-uta 2011 Yearly Ranking
01. “Lotus” – Arashi
02. “Everybody Go” – Kis-My-Ft2
03. “Meikyu Love Song” – Arashi
04. “Aoi Bench” – Tegomass
05. “Maru Maru Mori Mori!” – Kaoru to Tomoki, Tamani Mook.
06. “Distance” – Nishino Kana
07. “Promise” – A.N.JELL
08. “Miss You” …
SKE48 and comedian Heisei Nobushi Kobushi attended a press conference of their upcoming internet TV program “Nobukobu & Zebra Tenshi no Kyuin x2 Variety” on December 5th in Tokyo.
This is the variety show of Pachinko (pinball game), and Heisei Nobushi Kobushi and SKE48 Ono Haruka, Takada Shiori, Deguchi Aki, Hirata Rikako and Furukawa Airi are showing how Pachinko …
In the Japanese music industry, there are handful of guitarist who are extremely talented and full of aura on the stage. Amongst these people, there can only one person who can represent the guitarist of Japan.
With this fact in mind, goo decided to ask its users, “Which guitarist do you think can be a representative for Japan?”
Let’s see who the …
On December 3rd, Yuki Maomi announced that she had opened an official Twitter account.
This announcement was first posted on her blog stating, “Although it’s late, I started my own Twitter account!” Until now, it was said that many of her fans mistook someone who was pretending to be her, as her real account.
Knowing this fact, …
Japan’s biggest Internet search portal, Yahoo! Japan, just released the final rankings of their annual ‘Search Word Ranking‘ list.
They accumulated all search words from January 1st until October 31st and ranked the results according to various categories.
The overall ranking contains some familiar search words, such as YouTube, which has been the number one search word on Yahoo! Japan for four …
