‘4- Entertainment’ Archives
AYAKA’s BEST ALBUM over 1 Million copies
AYAKA's best album, AYAKA's history 2006-2009, made sales over 1 million copies only 1 and half months after the releasing date. Last year, Namie Amuro made 1 million hit and this album followed it. In 1980 to 1990's, Japan had many million hit records by young generation's demand to music software. On the contrary, the young generation [...]
GACKT to be 37 years old
GACKT keeps something about him under secret. Age is one of the secrets. He recently said that he would be 37 years old next year ! Then finally we got his age. GACKT often jokes, and sometimes gets serious. If we don't get used to his talks, we would be at a loss about which is his real way. This time, it seems serious, so he will be 37, [...]
HIKARU UCHIDA -AUTOMATIC & COME BACK TO ME
When I first heard this song, Come Back to ME, I thought HIKARU UCHIDA grew up in some ways. Hikaru Uchida suddenly opened the door of Japanese POP music when she was just 16 or so. HikaruUchida's first hit song, AUTOMATIC, was a real shock to Japanese music industry because her song had something new we've never had. Melody has black [...]
HIROMI UEHARA – GENIUS Pianist
Do you know HIROMI UEHARA ? She is a real genius pianist. I must say I love her because of her music, positive attitude, and her humble humanity. Listening to her makes me understand she has the god-sent talent. Nobody can do the same with her because she is one and only talent in this planet. Genius artists are anytime one and only. [...]
MEGUMI ASAOKA – Pretty face stands out !
MEGUMI ASAOKA was a complete Japanese idol. Her big time was around 1972 to 1975. The star time was not that long. But the impact on Japanese boys then was really big, and many of the fans still remain as fan of her. Also new generation sometimes like her by just looking at photos of old time. Her pretty face and total image were beyond [...]
SIZUE ABE – Time of Typical Beauty Queen
I don't want to blame time. I don't want to look back when we were shining. I want to stay beautiful. But this is a real hard thing to dream. SIZUE ABE absolutely represented a beauty of Japanese women. When the record, At the Coffee Shop" ( Coffee shop de) was released, and the when she sung "Blue letter" ( Mizuiro no Tegami) on the stage of [...]
Can NORIKA FUJIWARA come back ?
NORIKA FUJIWARA is the biggest female star in late 1990's to around 2005. If I say so, maybe many of fans deny it. She is still a top star and has many fans even she got divorced. When she came up on screen in early 1990's, she was not such a big star. But after the rumore with gold medalist skate player, Niriyasu Shimizu, was thrown into [...]
TORAY selected pretty CM girl-CHINAMI SUZUKI
TORAY is a large Japanese textile company. It's dealing with various items and stuff in the market. Although the products are not familiar to guys in Japan, the biggest focus is always the commercial image girl for swimming wears. TORAY's one of the top sales items are swimming wears. The commercial girl is selected annualy and it's publically [...]
YAMAHA PIANO as NO.1
For Piano players, the best piano in the world would be Steinway's. Bosendorferor some German piano could follwo Steinway's piano in the standard reputation. I also play the piano and recently it's becomeing to tell the difference of the sound. It took long time to taste the sound well. The reason for that is because I'm not a [...]
Nobuyuki Tsujii, the piano for healing and joy
I like playing the piano. Sound of the piano really makes me feel happy and smooth. Today, I listened to a blind person's piano play. His name is NOBUYUKI TSUJII, who won the 1st prize at this year's Van Cliburn Piano Contest. He is certainly a blind player, so he is supposed to have hardship before coming to this stage. If I look at his [...]
