You might have already noticed a few rankings here that were taken from NTT DoCoMo's mobile voting service "NTT DoCoMo Mina no Polling & Ranking". That service already started a long time ago, but I didn't become aware of it until recently. There are obviously several rankings that I've missed  [ Read More ]

As announced in January, NHK's 2011 taiga drama will be "Gou ~Himetachi no Sengoku~," starring actress Juri Ueno (23). On Monday, two more key cast members were revealed: Rie Miyazawa (37) and Asami Mizukawa (26).   Ueno plays the role of Gou (also known as Oeyo), the third daughter of  [ Read More ]

Do you know the latest buzzword "Mori Girl"? It’s a term that got created in the mixi community, a huge social networking system and one of the most visited Japanese sites in the Internet. The general definition would be a "a girl who seems to be/live in a forest", describing  [ Read More ]