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Risa Niigaki, Ready for the Spotlight?
Ladies and gentlemen, the Niigaki Risa boom has come. Some crazy points here, coming from a huge Gaki-san fan. Apologies in advance if this sounded bias. Old news made new. Way back (I think a couple months) before Yossie’s graduation announcement, read from somewhere that there were some ‘insider’ rumour from internal staffs, that Yoshizawa…
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Vote for Keith Nakaganeku and Calabash!
Keith Nakaganeku and Calabash’s debut album, “Hawaiian Jazz Done Asian Style”, is up for New Artist of the Year for the 10th Annual Hawaii Music Awards. We can vote for him/his band online and they also have a sample (one minute long) of “Blue Darlin’” up on the site too. Vote for him over here…
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Cute Shiisaa
shisas by KE-TA. I love the designs on these shiisaa. Cute. 🙂
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MAX’s Reina Releases Semi-Nude Photobook
LINA’s already done it and now it looks like Reina (29) released her very own semi-nude photobook, “R-017” (in Japanese, “0” can be read as “rei”, “1” as “i”, and “7” as “na”. All-together now). Coming soon? Playboy Japan’s “The Girls of MAX“. 😛 Now if Nana ever releases one…
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Isshin – Of One Heart
Okay, I blogged about this joint (dance and taiko) concert a while back ago at Internet-Okinawa.com and also at the ol’ Karakui.com before I “accidentally” killed it (don’t ask). This’ll be the first for this blog tho’. ISSHIN – Of One Heart A concert featuring classical, contemporary and avant garde Okinawan dance and taiko Leeward…
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Ryukyukoku Matsuri Daiko Hawaii’s 10th Anniversary Recital
Dang, that’s a long post title. I’m back from an unplanned break (small part of it due to a lack of news, the rest because I was blogging elsewhere—sorry) from blogging here to bring you information on a recital of Okinawan taiko by Hawaii’s very own branch of the Ryukyukoku Matsuri Daiko (RMD). More info…
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Orange Clover Gets It
Two days ago I blogged about BEGIN’s plans for 2007 and one of the artists that I mentioned on that post caught my attention. Orange Clover is a relatively new J/O-pop duo from Ishikagi-jima who released their first album “LaLaLaLaLa” in 2004. Female lead singer/lyricist Shinobu Nakasone and male guitarist/composer Nobuhiro Miyara only have that…
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Happy New Year’s Eve!
We’re about 12 hours away from a new year, 2007! Since I’m off from my real job, I’ll post a few things here before the year is over.
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An Ageless Christmas Melody
Got wind of this little gem from Deckman. The song is called “Christmas Melody” and is performed by Takano Uehara with composition by her friend H. Tanahara. According to Deckman, Takano is an amateur singer from Itoman and the video was put out on the web to see if there would be any interest in…
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