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Desktop: Aya Ueto for Kose’s Softymo
Gosh, it seems like we’re always featuring a wallpaper of Aya Ueto here at Karakui.com but who’s complaining? For one thing, it’s free and the second thing (wait, do we really need a second reason after free?) is that this is also a nifty 3 month calendar for your Mac/PC’s desktop. So go and grab…
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Meisa Kuroki debuts as singer – Tokyograph
Rising young actress Meisa Kuroki has just made her singing debut in connection with the au Sportio/W62T mobile phones. Her first song is an R&B/dance number called ‘Like This.’ Kuroki will appear in commercials for both phones, and different arrangements of the song will be used for each. ‘Like This’ will see only limited distribution.…
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Desktop: Miyazato siblings for Meiji’s Almond chocolate snack
Wow, I think this is a first to have a desktop of a pro-golfer as a desktop. I’m not complaining since it features the talented (and cute) Ai Miyazato and her brothers (also golfers). The ad is for Meiji’s Almond chocolate snack and you’ll find a CM as well as the wallpaper up on the…
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D-51’s upcoming single: “Travelers Of Life”
Having put out a best-of album, February 2008’s “BEST OF D-51,” J-R&B duo D-51‘s next release for the year won’t be on store shelves until July 2nd. The single, “Travelers Of Life,” follows “Sepia” (released on 2008/2/6) and is currently featured in the Calpis Water CM starring popular actress Masami Nagasawa. Prior to “Travelers Of…
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Aya Ueto Mother’s Day special desktop
Chocolate + Mother’s Day go together like a burger and fries. (Don’t mind me, it’s almost dinner time.) This looks like an annual ad campaign for Lotte’s Ghana chocolate featuring several popular actresses (like Masami Nagasawa, Maki Horikita, Nana Eikura and Ei Morisako) and one dude (pro-golfer Ryo Ishikawa). For Karakui.com, although we’re favoring Aya…
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Pretty women: Shiseido’s TSUBAKI ad campaign screensaver
With a tag line that reads: “Nihon no josei wa, utsukushii.” (Japanese women are, beautiful), cosmetics giant Shiseido’s ad campaign for their TSUBAKI shampoo line definitely drives that point home. Featuring several (yes, more than one!) popular actresses, there are ads for TSUBAKI’s Shiro (white) and Aka (red) shampoo product. The one that we’re interested…
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Desktop: Aya Ueto gets you to buy softymo
Ah, it’s nice seeing a new wallpaper for my Mac (or your Mac/PC) — especially if it’s with Aya Ueto. So, yeah, it’s for a cosmetic product line called softymo (from KOSÉ), but it’s a calendar too (albeit one that only goes up to June but I digress). Come April we’ll be seeing Aya in…
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Nakama continues reign as CM queen – Tokyograph
Video Research Ltd. has released its TV commercial data for 2007, which revealed that for the third year in a row, actress Yukie Nakama is the ‘CM queen’ of the Kanto region. Nakama, whose work includes ads for KDDI, Daihatsu, and Lotte, racked up more than 54 hours of TV time with over 12,000 commercials…
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Desktop: Beer and Beni
Or should the title have read Beni and Beer? Well, regardless, this is a match made in heaven when a pop idol like Beni Arashiro becomes the image girl for an alcoholic beverage from one of my favorite beer makers: Orion Breweries based in Nago, Okinawa. There are two different wallpapers to choose from as…
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Yui, please be my girlfriend
According to an Oricon survey, ‘Koibito ni shitai hito’ (the person you want as your boy/girlfriend), uber-popular actress Yui Aragaki (Gakky) took the top spot in the ranking which also featured fellow Uchinanchu Yukie Nakama (#4) and Aya Ueto (#6). It’s no surprise to see her rank at the top because she’s definitely cute and…
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