Fuji TV's 50th anniversary dorama special "Wagaya no Rekishi" has been completed and today the cast went up to the rooftop of said channel's Wangan Studio in Tokyo to make the happy announcement. One by one the all dressed up cast walked along the red carpet laid out on the  [ Read More ]

"April Bride" (in Japanese: Yomei Ikkagetsu no Hanayome), based on the true story of  a young woman with breast cancer, first aired as a TV documentary. Many people were intrigued by the touching story and made the following book adaption a best-seller with over 880,000 copies sold. In 2009 it  [ Read More ]

The “Oricon Style” website recently released the results of a survey conducted last month. They asked people to name the celebrity they wanted as a classmate. Miura Haruma obtained first place for the males list and for females it was the popular ‘talento’ Becky.   Females: 001. Becky 002. Aragaki  [ Read More ]

Masaki Okada and Yu Aoi are to star in Ryuichi Hiroki’s upcoming movie Raiou (雷桜) which is adapted from the novel Mari Ueza (宇江佐真理). Mari Ueza is regarded as Japan’s “Romeo and Juliet.”   Raiou is set during the Edo Period, where a young man from a noble family meets  [ Read More ]