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Ease your Christmas loneliness with idol singer Santa cosplay 【Photos】
J-pop vocalists dress up as Miss Claus. In Japan, Christmas is less about good tidings towards all mankind and more about good dates, as Christmas Eve is widely held to be the most romantic night of...
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AKB48 and Nogizaka46 songs to be played as subway train departure melodies in...
You can probably tell which stations they’ll be played at, but can you guess which songs have been chosen? One of the great things about travelling around Tokyo by rail is listening to all the...
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2016 Live-Action Death Note film casts former AKB48 idol Rina Kawaei
Kawaei possesses 1 of 6 Death Notes in fall film. The official website for this year’s live-action Death Note film revealed that former AKB48 idol group member Rina Kawaei (Azumi: Bakumatsu-hen stage...
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4 new versions of McDonald’s anime shorts with AKB48 idols streamed
Chūgoku, Kyūshū, Hokkaido, Chūbu/Hokuriku versions streamed. McDonald’s is streaming four more versions of its “Mirai no Watashi” (The Future Me) campaign anime shorts. The first video is the Chūgoku...
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Want some canned Japanese idol air? Smartphone virtual crane game offering...
Here’s your chance to breathe the rarefied air of AKB48, Japan’s highest-flying idol mega group. Many people would say that crane games, also called UFO catchers, are the best reason to make a trip to...
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Idols ahoy! AKB48 to hold concerts at Universal Studios Japan every day...
Osaka theme park doubles down (48-times down?) on its Japanese appeal with daily performances by members of four Japanese idol supergroups. When you stop and think about it, Universal Studios Japan’s...
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McDonald’s Japan set to reinstate Bacon Potato Pies on its menu, delight...
Pies! They’re not just for dessert anymore! As with many of its menu categories, McDonald’s has offered a number of pies that are exclusive to Japan. Right now, the fast food chain is selling Hakuho...
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Japanese idol singer reveals three simple phrases men need to use to be...
Former AKB48 member also advises against telling a woman “You’ve sure gotten fat recently.” Earlier this year, Japanese vocalist Minami Takahashi retired (or “graduated,” to use the industry parlance)...
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Japanese idol girls excite crowds by spitting water on them
Come for the J-pop idols, stay for the water discharging from their mouths. J-pop idol group Shizukaze & Kizuna has caused a stir online with an innovative stage trick of drinking water from a...
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Mr. Sato calls a phone number he found on a 1,000 yen bill
Our reporter tried to uncover the truth behind “AKB48 Non Yuu” and their mysterious phone number. Back where I come from it wasn’t uncommon for bills to come into my possession in various states of...
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AKB48 mega-fan creates labour-saving CD packaging-opening machine【Video】
Although presumably created at great expense and effort. Technology, the panacea of our times. From harvesting and processing the food to feed the world’s billions, to the maglev trains that may whip...
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Two Japanese idol singers announced as candidates for international 100 Most...
Former members of AKB48 and Rev. from DVL saluted. Since 1990, the members of the Independent Critics List have annually put their heads together to decide on a list of the 100 Most Beautiful Faces in...
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Wonder Woman promoted in Japan with idol song “A Woman Can’t Sleep Alone,”...
Detractors call the title and lyrics of Nogizaka46 song, the video for which has just been released, a poor fit for the independent DC Comics star. Wonder Woman doesn’t have much of an existing...
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TPE48 recruiting new members, gets 21 schools to participate in “Koi Suru...
Watch Taiwanese girls in flashy school uniforms perform the AKB48 hit song. When AKB48 released their smash hit “Koi Suru Fortune Cookie”, the catchy tune and upbeat dance spread through the world...
View ArticleAKB48, Love Live! idol supergroups to perform live in Los Angeles this summer
Three-concert series welcomes some of the biggest names in the anime/idol music world to the city of angels. At the very first anime convention I ever went to, a highlight of the programming was a...
View ArticleIdol group AKB48 sells 2.5 million copies of new CD, bags full of them end up...
In the Japanese idol singer world, sometimes the difference between love and hate can be hard to see. This week marked the release of “Teacher Teacher,” the highly anticipated 52nd single from Japanese...
View ArticleJapan’s most beautiful idol singer faces, with AKB48 barely cracking the top...
One idol group dominates the poll by taking all five top slots. In Japanese, idol singers are simply called aidoru, the corrupted pronunciation of the English “idol.” There’s no need to verbally...
View ArticleIdol group AKB48’s new song is the third-best-selling Japanese single CD of...
Akihabara-based mega-group reasserts its dominance over the idol singer industry. There’s no denying that this is the golden age of idol music in Japan, which is actually sort of a double-edged sword...
View ArticleJapanese idol singer too sick to dance in music video gets replaced by CG,...
AKB48 couldn’t give her spot to another idol, so they found a way to put her in the video even if she wasn’t physically present. If you’re filming a music video for Japanese idol supergroup AKB48, it...
View Article“It doesn’t feel like I’m alive” – Idol breaks silence after two male fans...
After men are released and management fails to address problem to her satisfaction, she says “I don’t want anyone else to have to go through this.” While Tokyo remains the center of the idol singer...
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