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Singer and actress Nakashima Mika (29) is reportedly dating volleyball player Shimizu Kunihiro (25), a member of the men’s national team who plays for the Panasonic Panthers (based in Osaka). According to the Sports Nippon newspaper, the two started dating about half a year ago. Read FULL article —> Sponichi Annex (Japanese) tokyograph (English) Sources [...]
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As a child growing up in mountainous Yamanashi Prefecture in the 1970s, artist Shojono Tomo had an irrational fear of using the brakes on her bicycle — though none whatsoever about riding just as fast as she could. “I would either purposely crash into a wall or my friends would form a wall and try [...]
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“Well, little Chrysanthème, let us part good friends; one last kiss even, if you like. I took you to amuse me; you have not perhaps succeeded very well, but after all you have done what you could: given me your little face, your little curtseys, your little music; in short, you have been pleasant enough [...]
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These are hard, uncertain times, especially for young Japanese who have failed to get the right degree from a prestigious university and the right job with a big-name company. If they can find work at all, it is often well below expectations for the rising generation of that onetime economic powerhouse, Japan Inc. Popular culture [...]
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If ever proof was needed of the efficacy of Tokyo Designers Week, the annual designers’ trade show currently under way at Tokyo’s Meiji Jingu Gaien park, then it is apparent at booth D14, where designer Atsuhiro Hayashi is showing his wares. In 2009, just months after establishing his own design office in Osaka, Hayashi came [...]
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It is revealed that AKB48 member, Itano Tomomi, has been diagnosed with a gastroenteritis (stomach flu), according to the Tokyo Hive website. On Sunday morning, Itano complained about having fever and stomach ache. Upon getting examined at a hospital on Tokyo, the idol was diagnosed with the stomach flu. Although her condition is nothing serious, [...]
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