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Yui Aragaki tapped for drama theme song – Tokyograph
Actress Yui Aragaki has achieved her first drama tie-in as a singer. Her ‘Make my day’ will be used as the theme song for Fuji TV’s ’81diver,’ which premieres on May 3. Aragaki released her first album, ‘Sora,’ this past December. However, ‘Make my day’ will be her first actual single, scheduled to go on…
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Baby you can drive my car
Not one, but two Uchinanchu actresses topped the rankings at the #1 and #2 spot: Aya Ueto and Yui Aragaki. Next week is Golden Week in Japan. With that in mind, Oricon conducted a survey of a thousand people, asking them a series of leisure-related questions. When asked which actress they would want to go…
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Update on BEGIN
I received information from CDJapan on an upcoming — yet-to-be-named — single by BEGIN and noticed that quite some time has passed since I last posted an entry on our favorite O-pop band. The new single is set to be released on June 25 and will be the band’s first new release of 2008. Prior…
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Gackt’s Hollywood debut – Tokyograph
Musician Gackt will act in his first Hollywood film. The movie, titled ‘Bunraku,’ is an action film written and directed by Guy Moshe, starring Josh Hartnett and Demi Moore. The film is named after a type of traditional Japanese puppet theater, but the universe it is set in also draws inspiration from origami, video games,…
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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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Why you can never get tired of looking at shisa
my special shisa Originally uploaded by ukreal1 Flickr user ukreal1 shares a beautiful photo of shisa.
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50,000 and counting
I’ve been pretty busy to blog about this and we’re already 3,000+ hits past 50,000, so as I mentioned back in February when Karakui.com reached the 40,000 hit mark, I wanted to do something special for 50,000: I have three autographed copies of Keith Nakaganeku and Calabash’s awesome debut CD to give away. To win…
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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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