On January 11th, “The 23rd Jewellery Best Wearer Award” held its ceremony at the Tokyo Big Sight in Odaiba, Japan.
The “Jewellery Best Wearer Award” is presented every year to celebrities, both male and female, who suited jewellery the most. The nine winners for this year’s awards were: Takei Emi (teen division), AKB48’s Oshima Yuko (20’s), Yonekura Ryoko (30’s), Dan Rei …
On December 6th, publishing company Takarajimasha announced the winners for the “Japan Fashion Leader Award 2011“.
This year, the award went to AKB48’s Itano Tomomi, models Rinka and Sasaki Nozomi, talento Becky, and actress Yonekura Ryoko.
During the award ceremony, Sasaki expressed, “To be given such an award, and to be among these wonderful winners, I’m happy. I’m very honored.” Itano also stated, “I …
Nobody can resist her spell. ("Kaseifu no Mita" - NTV)
Nobody can resist her spell. ("Kaseifu no Mita" – NTV)
This week’s first of two Drama Prime Time Reports offers two big winners, “Kasouken no Onna 11” and “Kaseifu no Mita“, which both improved their ratings by 3.0% or more.
Monday already started with some surprisingly high ratings for various shows. TV Asahi was able to shine with “Qsama!!” and …
Getting ready for an evening full of dramas! ("Watashi ga Renai Dekinai Riyuu" - Fuji TV)
Getting ready for an evening full of dramas! ("Watashi ga Renai Dekinai Riyuu" – Fuji TV)
For this week’s first of two Drama Prime Time Reports, we get to look at six new fall dramas, four of them reaching ratings of 17.0% and beyond, and a very stable “Kaseifu no Mita“.
On Monday, Fuji TV aired the first episode of …
From left: Kutsuna, Ishihara, Yonekura & Toyota
From left: Kutsuna, Ishihara, Yonekura & Toyota
On the 19th, the four actresses Toyota Maho (44), Yonekura Ryoko (36), Ishihara Satomi (24), and Kutsuna Shiori (18) received the “Clarino Beautiful Legs Award 2011” for their healthy and beautiful legs.
It was the ninth time that ‘Clarino‘, a leather brand of kuraray, honored four female celebrities from different age groups with the …
Tamori and Nakai Masahiro hang out with Fuji TV's fall drama stars!
Tamori and Nakai Masahiro hang out with Fuji TV's fall drama stars!
The Drama Prime Time Report is already back with Friday updates after the short drama void between the summer and fall season last week. The first four days of the week kept us entertained with a feature-length drama special, another qualifying match for the 2014 FIFA World …
The "Marumo no Okite" special brightened the Sunday evening.
The "Marumo no Okite" special brightened the Sunday evening.
It was an interesting and fun week full of variety specials, the “Freeter” and “Marumo no Okite” drama specials, and several new fall dramas have already gave us a nice taste of the upcoming season.
Monday was still a relatively slow day for us drama fans, but at least the quiz show …
Actress Yonekura Ryoko (36) recently attended the press conference for her upcoming Fuji TV drama, “HUNTER～Sono Onnatachi, Shokin Kasegi～“.
As we reported earlier, “HUNTER” is about former flight attendants who become bounty hunters, chasing down wanted criminals. Yonekura will play as the team leader, and Kiritani Mirei(21) will co-star alongside her as one of the bounty hunters.
At the press …
Fuji TV revealed the first pictures of actresses Yonekura Ryoko and Kiritani Mirei dressed up as cabin attendants for their upcoming drama, “HUNTER ~Sono Onnatachi, Shoukin Kasegi~“.
In the drama Yonekura plays a woman named ‘Isaka Rei‘, an underpaid cabin attendant who ends up becoming a bounty hunter due to some strange incident. Having a strong sense of justice, she quickly …
Kusumi Koharu who graduated from Morning Musume and Hello!Project back in December of 2009 will be a model for popular fashion magazine “CanCam“. Kusumi showed a strong interest to become a model ever since she graduated from Morning Musume. CanCam has produced top models such as Yonekura Ryoko, Ito Misaki and Hasegawa Kyoko, and Kusumi commented on becoming an official …
Gravure idol Hoshino Aki recently appeared at a talk event about beautiful, sparkling eyes, being a perfect example of having a ‘golden eye ratio’ of 1:2:1 (white of the eye : pupil : white of the eye).
Of course, when it comes to acting and performing, it’s also necessary to convey a wide variety of emotions with your eyes. Strength, fear, …
Multi-talent Yuki Maomi recently attended a PR-Event for the Japanese DVD/Blu-Ray release of “CHUCK” and wore a sexy black mini-one-piece dress in order to look like a heroine of a spy movie.
Spy/Action movies or dramas aren’t exactly overrepresented in Japan, but not every actress would be fit to play a role of a female spy in the first …
From left:Ueto Aya, Yonekura Ryoko, Goto Kumiko, Atsushi
From left:Ueto Aya, Yonekura Ryoko, Goto Kumiko, Atsushi
As of today, many of Japan’s top celebrities (like Ueto Aya and Yonekura Ryoko) are going to auction off personal belongings through Yahoo! Auction as part of the “Great Tohoku Earthquake Charity Auction“.
In this charity auction, fans will get the rare chance to purchase personal belongings from some of their favorite stars. All of …
A lot of Japanese dramas involve the police theme, but which actress looks the best dressed as a cop? goo Ranking and NTT Docomo recently collected 39093 votes to the question, “Which actress would look good in a police officer uniform?”, and actress Yonekura Ryoko came in first place!
Yonekura played a police detective for the hit drama “Koshonin …
Wada Akiko dressed as a (handsome?) man for "Suntory".
Wada Akiko dressed as a (handsome?) man for "Suntory".
Japanese singer and TV host, Wada Akiko, the Empress of the Japanese entertainment industry, recently revealed her new commercial for Suntory in which she is wearing a man’s suit.
At the PR event related to the commercial, she appeared wearing the same suit and stated that she was positively surprised when seeing herself …
