Today we are doing some filming for Culture Japan with the Sega Sammy Group at a Pachinko parlor in Ikebukuro.
I have with me (from left to right) the lovely Minori Kawahara [河原実乃梨], Mao Kozuka [小塚 麻央] and Arisa Matsui [松井ありさ]. The 3 o...
AKB48 performing at the Anime Festival Asia Day 0. They are even more cuter close up! Was awesome and there is going to be more awesomeness tomorrow. See you on stage at 10.30.
Hello everybody! My name is Yuri Takeda [竹田有里]. I'm a reporter for Tokyo MX TV and also help out the Culture Japan staff by cheering them on.
While Danny is away in Singapore, I'll be in the office working with the team on this weeks Culture Jap...
"Eri Otoguro" is the romanization of her Japanese name [乙黒えり] but she writes her English name as Elly.
First blogged about Elly back in 2006 when she appeared in the tokusatsu Ryukendo.
Been a wee bit nervous after setting up lunch with Eri Otoguro ^^;
Am having lunch with her tomorrow afternoon in Daikanyama. Anything you want me to ask her?
Beckii Cruel - a young lady at the age of 14 gained popularity from the videos that she posted on YouTube of her dancing to JPop and anime tunes.
Today she performed at the Enta Matsuri in Akihabara where 600 fans showed up to egg her on.
An exampl...
After 10 years of publication, idol gravure magazine Sabra is calling it quits on its printed strategy.
Sabra was first published in May 2000 and gained popularity as being seen as a new generation of magazine due to integrating the web in its strat...
Pretty much dominating the news now - SMAP member Tsuyoshi Kusanagi gets arrested after being found in his birthday suit in the park. News of the incident below.
The Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications made a statement about how he is...
Members of AKB48 battle it out by cosplaying and gesturing to make the judges melt and go "moe." Each contestant has to make 4 out of the 5 judges give in to their cuteness.
#1 [SUBS]
#2 [SUBS]
#3 [SUBS]
#4 [SUBS]
#5 [SUBS]
#6 [SUBS...
Thanks to Jin for posting this. While I speak, read and write Korean, my current line of work doesn't involve me speaking it at all which is a bit of a shame. My first position as Web Marketing Executive at Nature had me speaking Korean nearly every...
After appearing in the Softbank commercial, Nanami Sakuraba [桜庭ななみ] seems to be gaining incredible popularity - I didn't really notice until I saw her in the CM and thought to myself "Fwoah! Whos that?!"
Nanami-chan was born on 1992/10/17 and...
Comrade magibon is starting up in Japanese show business.
Pls refrain from snide comments as she gets enough of it at YouTube already.
Original text from XeroVlade below.I dunno if this was posted already but here i go
Internet Idol Magibon sh...
Lovely dannychoo.com calendar created by Lightning featuring many dc.com members.
LOL at the Gruesome Eightsome bundled in the corner there.
Original text from lightningsabre below.It's the end of the year, and what other ways to celebrate the ne...
Schoolgirls look good with blasters. The video footage that we took this week is in Emily's hands right now and she will put something together soon.
Keep up with what shes doing at her burogu and YouTube channel.
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Me has been to a few idol photo sessions before but have not been for a while - previous coverage in the Japanese Idols portal.
When taking pics of the idols, you can ask them to pose for you in a particular way.
Fumikazu-san shows us a ton O pic...
Just to let you know that the server went down for a few hours today and took with it 7 hours worth of data with it orz.
So any posts/comment/puchi blurbs/profile changes since this morning are lost (sorry).
If your profiles or avatars look odd the...
The idol group ℃-ute recently had a hand-shake-with-fans session after a concert but one of the members Arihara ended up crying after.
The reason was that many fans ignored her when it was their turn to shake hands with her.
One of the given by fan...
You have just moved to Japan and its your first day at school. You is speaking no Japanese but luckily there are 22 girls in the school who can. They all come in to say hello, sit on one side of the class and the teacher asks you to choose one to be...
Its Meganekko battle time - although I get the feeling that we done this one before?
Anyway, let the battle begin. I choose my warriors as follows.
B2, B4, B5, C5,C6,C7,D3,D4,D5,D6 and maybe D7.
Via Neta.
Hijacked from Tiny Red Man who discovers the next style for maids this summer. Will be only a matter of time before we see them dressed like this in the maid cafes.
Original text from Tiny Red Man below.This is a new meido-fuku for the upcoming su...
iheartassassinmaids asks a crucial question - one or two piece bikini?
I do like one piece sukumizu but prefer to see belly so two piece it is ^^;
iheartassassinmaids original tekisuto below.I don't usually post 3D girls, but here you go.
Do y...
You are in Akihabara and see what appears to be a struggling idol selling her DVD for only [currency=480] where the average price is [currency=4800]. She looks up at you and gives you the watery eye puppy look. What do you do?
Original text from...
Hijacked from Chun. Never heard of Karen Girls before but do think the lead singer is sweet - does that make me a candidate for a call from Chris Hansen?
Are there young girlie groups in your region too? Or is it a Japan only thing because there are...
Hijacked from Slick Dog.
Its been a while since I made a vow to keep the ecchi posts to a nominal level but I think I went too far and dropped way below nominal levels. This scientific ball throwing experiment conducted by professor Hoshino Aki turn...
The last one was good but this time its great - Aya photo mosaic by Fabien Lee.
Fabien original text below.In my previous post, I did a portrait (the real term is photomosaic) of Aya Hirano by using 336 pictures of her. However, this time I create...
UPDATE: Fabien uploaded all the photos used in this collage to http://www.sendspace.com/file/hlmojk
You are the man Fabien!
Hijacked from flee who made this collage (is that the right word?) of Aya-chan - larger version at his blog.
Second re...
You start to live with your GF but then discover that she has a habit of dressing like this when cooking only when guests are around for dinner - what do you do?
More pics of the lovely Yashiro Minase thanks to Gashapons at SpareAPic.
Hijacked from member iheartassassinmaids.
LOL at A3. I choose B5 and D6.
Original text from iheartassassinmaids below.
Following someone elses 2D glasses post I thought I'd post this up. Who loves glasses girls? *Raises hand*
Original pos...
