Now for the top 10 ‘sparkly’ stars of CNN’s “Tokyo Hotlist.”
10. Shogen: a.k.a ‘Shogenism’, 31 and still upcoming. He is a model who is on every Seven Stars cigarette vending machine poster. James Dean of Japan, he has a cool stare and a “come-hither smile.” He also has a credit of 10 full length feature films like “Seven Samurai.”
9. Exile: …
CNN made their ‘Tokyo Hotlist‘ and only 20 of the most ‘shining’ stars beat out the rest. Some may surprise you, some are probably obvious.
Did your favorite celebrity make the list? We’re splitting this in two part and working our way down starting from #20.
20. Keisuke Honda: He is a football fashion icon. The 24-year-old was the midfielder in the …
Just 1km east of Asakusa, the tallest building is being built. The Tokyo Sky Tree stands as of now stands at whopping 408m on Friday. The plan for this building is expected to reach 634m by 2012. The tower is located in the Narihirabashi/Oshiage are of Sumida Ward in Tokyo. Construction for the tower starting in July 2008.
The …
With the fast pace of the internet and file sharing, Japan’s CD album sales have plummeted. SIP, a market research company conducted a research for CD sales for the first half of the fiscal year. The accumulated costs of CD singles and albums for 2010 are 120.6B yen. This is a 7.4% drop from around the same time in 2009. While CD …
Jejung of THSK/JYJ has written a short and simple song to his manager called, Manager Song. Song and lyrics by Jaejoong Kim.
Oh Jae, you’re so funny. It’s a good thing you make a lot of money to pay your manager.
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lyric & trans:
マネージャーの唄 (作
詞・作曲 JEJUNG)
うちのマネージャー
は～ 太っている～ 食
べ過ぎて～またラー
メン食べてる～ カッ
プラーメン食べてる
～太りすぎて～ 仕事
が出来な～い だから
もう～ ダイエットし
てほしい～ ho～wow
～ 僕は～ だから
太ってな～い～
Manager Song
(lyrics & music by Kim
Jaejoong)
Our …
You all probably know Yoshinoya to be one of the largest Japanese chains of beef bowl restaurants in America. Though in Japan there are many beef bowl companies, and three of them lowering their prices to make you, the customer choose them over the other. Sukiya, Yoshinoya, and Matsuya all dropped their prices on their beef bowls this week and …
Social network gaming company Zynga should have no problems with money and should lower their prices for their “cash” and “rp” in their games. Mobile company, SoftBank, just handed them a check for $150M (yes million), for a joint venture.
Farmville is Zynga’s #1 game on Facebook (and here I thought it was Mafia Wars, no really, I did) and Zynga …
Nissin Food Products Co., Ltd. has announced that they will release a new instant food from their Cup Noodles series called, “Cup Noodles Gohan (Cup Noodles Rice)” starting on August 16th.
“Cup Noodles” is the first cup ramen in the world and started feeding the world since 1971.
Anyway, to enjoy their latest creation, all you have to do is put water …
World-famous Japanese beatboxer Hikakin will feature his content on leading Asian lifestyle and entertainment site.
San Francisco, Calif. (July 27, 2010) Hikakin the beatboxing sensation that has taken the internet by storm will now feature his content on Crunchyroll. Along with his other successful videos like his Kanye West beatbox cover and Justin Timberlake beatbox cover, Crunchyroll …
What kind of image do you have of Akihabara? Otaku’s? Maid cafe’s? Electronics? Well, they are all right, but there are also many spots which are very unique. I will introduce you to some spots which may not be well known by tourists, but are “must go” places in Akihabara.
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This is a glasses chain store, located right …
Actress and a wife of V6 Inohara Yoshihiko, Seto Asaka, challenged handmade soap using her own breast milk, and posted about it on her blog.
The “Breast milk soap” is made with olive oil, palm oil, coconut oil, and breast milk (heated), and it is said that breast milk soap is good for the skin.
Asaka said she made two bars of …
Popcorn no te
Popcorn no te
Do you hate getting oily hands while eating popcorn that’s drenched in delicious artificial butter? Well, you’re in luck then..
TAKARA TOMY (a toy company) has announced that they will release a new tool called “Popcorn no te (hand for popcorn)” in October.
This is the 2nd installment of their “eat while you do something” series. Previously, they released …
The preview party for “Kobe Plage” in Kobe Port was held on the 15th.
“Plage” means beach in French, and the highlight of the “Kobe Plage” will be an artificial 40 meter by 80 meter beach, and made with 3,000 tons of sands.
They will use it for the events such as beach volley festival, but will also be open to the …
Hobby Japan will publish a new series of “Pixel☆Maritan“, “Maritan English drill – F*CK volume“, which is a comic for English lessons. You might be thinking something is a little off with the title right now. Well, that’s because this “Pixel☆Maritan” series was created to teach you “super vulgar” and “excessive” English, apparently used by soldiers in the army.
You will …
A new vending machine for bananas has been placed in Shibuya, Tokyo. This machine is made by Dole, and is targeting students and business people who have less chances to go to the supermarket.
According to the article, the machine is set to 13℃ which is the best temperature to keep bananas at, and a belt conveyor is used so the …
