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Found on Flickr: シーサー
シーサー Originally uploaded by m.terada Love this pic. This Flickr user uploads quite a bit of photos of Okinawa so be sure to check out his photostream.
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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year dear Karakui.com readers! While we’re still less than five hours from 2009 here in humid Hawaii, in Okinawa, it’s already the new year. So here’s wishing you all the best in 2009 and thank you for visiting Karakui.com. 🙂 It’s been a pretty amazing year—Karakui.com’s third anniversary is this month—that saw us…
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Meisa Kuroki featured in Tohoshinki’s (DBSK) latest PV
UPDATE: First of all, thank you to @amy for providing a link (see comments below) to the full PV and after watching it, looks like Meisa’s not in it. I guess we’ll have to wait for the movie to make its road show start to see Meisa in her full ballet glory. 😀 Above clip…
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Rimi Natsukawa to tie the knot on New Year’s – Tokyograph
On Sunday, the official website of singer Rimi Natsukawa (35) announced that she is planning to get married on New Year’s Day. Her husband-to-be is percussionist Masaaki Tamaki (41), who has toured with artists such as TUBE and Masayuki Suzuki. Sankei Sports had scooped the story a day earlier with some details of the couple.…
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Wallpaper: Aya Ueto for Softymo
This, perhaps our last wallpaper posting for 2008, cements Aya Ueto as having the largest number of officially-produced wallpapers in the industry. (Well, for Okinawan-related artists. 😛 ) This wallpaper is a calendar-type one (months January to March 2009) and is available on the Softymo site. (Via 壁紙fan!)
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“Gokusen” gets another special episode – Tokyograph
NTV has announced another special episode for the ‘Gokusen’ drama franchise. The show’s third season aired this past spring, and the upcoming episode will be a ‘graduation special’ featuring the same characters. Yukie Nakama will of course star in the show, with Yuya Takaki, Haruma Miura, and Hideo Ishiguro among the returning cast. The two…
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Merry Xmas!
Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you’re all having a nice time today. Let’s all make it safely into the new year. Take care, Richie.
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Daichi Miura’s new single to hit store shelves on 2/11/09
Former J-pop group Folder lead vocalist, Daichi Miura, will be releasing a new single titled “Your Love feat. KREVA” on February 11, 2009. The new single will be released almost seven months after his most recent single, “Inside Your Head,” which was released on July of this year. “Your Love feat. KREVA” will pair him…
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College student chosen to play Kamiji in documentary drama – Tokyograph
Fuji TV revealed in October that it is producing a special documentary drama titled ‘Kamiji Yusuke Monogatari,’ based on the life of rising male idol Yusuke Kamiji. The lead actor playing Kamiji has now been decided. 19-year-old Yuki Yoshida, a second-year student at a university in the Shiga prefecture, was chosen by audition for the…
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Chiaki (Syakari) posts pics of her sanshin
Chiaki, singer of the pop group Syakari, recently posted a couple pics of her sanshin on their official blog: しゃかりデジカメ日記. Originally from the band Diamantes, Chatan-born Chiaki started Syakari along with guitarist Masaru Kadekaru and former Rinken Band drummer Kazunari Uechi in 1998. Syakari’s “Kodou (コドウ)” from the 2005 album of the same title. Syakari’s…
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