Archive for 11月, 2009
Under 7 million travelers to Japan
Recently numbers of travelers to Japan has been on the increase for a long time. According to recent statistics, the numbers of last year went down under 7 million travelers. For the last 4 years, it's been more than 7 million. This big reduction in numbers is mainly because of the financial crisis, which led higher Japanese Yen rate. The [...]
CHINA MOTOR SHOW in Guangzhou outnumbers Tokyo Show
CHINA is expanding in all kind of business. Like Japan used to be a super power economy in the world, China will become the real power of the world in this century. At the motor show in China, Japanese car makers are exhibiting more cars than they did in Japanese motor show in Tokyo. It simply means that market importance is already transfered [...]
UNIQLO to open in Moscow Russia
It's hard to find non-UNIQLO topic on fashion industry. It's fact that UNIQLO is such a growing company in the world. Today, UNIQLO again annunced their new future plan, and this time they are going to try in Russian market. Decades ago when cold war was still real, who could imagine a Japanese company would make branches in Russia with [...]
Poland & Japan relation
This topic is totally from my personal taste. It's not a news topic but my thought about Poland. Without any reasons,I often think Poland may be close to Japan in human nature or nationality. That's because I have a friend from Poland and she has a similar emotional character as we Japanese have. She doesn't know anything about Japan, [...]
MAMPEI HOTEL in Karuizawa, Footprint of JOHN LENNON in Japan
As everyone knows, godsent genius John Lennon chose a Japanes for his second wife, Yoko Ono. While John was busy as house husband for his son, Sean, Yoko Ono and John Lennon came to Japan with Sean. In Japan, John and Yoko visited Karuizawa, a city of resort, each year from 1976 to 1979 before John was shot to death. Then the hotel they [...]
NANA MIZUKI to sing on TV
ULTIMATE DIAMOND - NANA MIZUKI is a very big hit CD. NANA MIZUKI is originally a voice-over actress, who ever worked on NARUTO, a very popular young generation anime. She acts as HINATA on NARUTO. She started as such, later she sings in the animation and released some of the hit CDs as above. She has been selected to one of the singers at [...]
Susan Boyle Japan CD release
SUSAN BOYLE was just a person of the time when she sang "I dreamt a dream" on the stage of TV show of UK. In Japan too, Susan's voice were aired on TV. Many were moved by her talent. Susan's first album is to be released in Japan on 25th, tomorrow. I personally think she got talent to sing, if her first CD was not a good sales, [...]
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami sells in Taiwan
Haruki Murakami is already a famous novelist of Japan. His latest work, 1Q84, is published in many countries, and it makes a hit sales in Taiwan too. In Taiwan, there are many people looking at Japanese pop culture or modern information through media. It's not a big surprise if Taiwan publishes this title. But the sales seems to be [...]
B’z Magic, 24th top album
MAGIC B'z B'z could be said Japanese Biggest Pop Group when we see the record sales. They play rock music, but the popularity is more than simple rock music. They have unique sales record in Japan. Each album they release makes the top rank on the hit chart at the first week. Recently they released the newest CD called Magic, [...]
SOSEKI NATSUME, the Great Novelist
Probably SOSEKI NATSUME is not so famous compared to Yukio Mishima or Haruki Murakami. Moreover, Japanese novelists aren't famous generally in the world. British, French, Russian, or German literature is always popular and it's a study at Colleges in the world. In that European power situation, some Japanese novelists are known to fans as [...]
