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TATSURO YAMASHITA – Christmas Eve

TATSURO YAMASHITA – Christmas Eve

Xmas time is looming.  As soon as December arrives, many Christmas songs are aired on the radio or TV. What do you want to listen to ? TATSURO YAMASHITA - Christmas Eve  is the most standard Xmas song...We may be able to say so now.  This song was released more than 25 years ago in Japan and it's been a top popular Xmas song since then.  [...]

PINK LADY Forever

PINK LADY  Forever

If we look back the history of Japanese idols, who do we select as the biggest memory ?  Some may choose Momoe Yamaguchi, and some may choose Seiko Matsuda, Akina Nakamori, Namie Amuro, or Candies.  Yet, probably the biggest idol in the history was PINK LADY. They suddenly came out on TV with a big hit record of PEPPER KEIBU ( or detective [...]

Crazy Obama City of Japan

Crazy Obama City of Japan

There is a small city called Obama in Japan.  The pronunciation is perfectly the same as the President Obama, although a little intonation differnce exist.  This Obama city has been crazy about president Obama since the election race of American President. Certainly, the promotion effect for this city might be very big.  But as far as I [...]

A moony question to America

Today, there is a news about NASA of America.  It says that NASA found evidence of  existence of a lot of water on the moon. It's a simple question.  Why do you find it now ? America sent people to the moon many times in 1960's and after then.  Already40 year have passed since then. Didn't you know that then ? Or the simplest thing is [...]

SHINGO KATORI on Broadway, TALK LIKE SINGING

SHINGO KATORI on Broadway, TALK LIKE SINGING

SHINGO KATORI is a member of SMAP, a Japanese idol group. He seems to have acted in Broadway musical theater in New York as the leading role.  Although many Japanese fans followed him to New York city, the audience was not only the Japanese but New Yorkers also seem to have enjoyed it if the news tells the truth. To be honest, I doubt SHINGO [...]

Keiichiro Nagashima wins Speed Skate Worldcup

Keiichiro Nagashima wins Speed Skate Worldcup

I didn't know this skating athlete. Today a news came out about him which says he won in the 2nd game of speed skating world cup held in Netherland.  He joined the 500m speed skating game and got the 1st prize with 34.98 sec. He is probably promised the ticket to go to Vancouver Olymplc games although some more good skaters are competing with [...]