Archive for 1月, 2010
MAO ASADA won today
Mao Asada won the 4 continental figure skating competition today. Yesterday, she made some mistakes in the short program, so many worried about her success today. I think it was a brave choice for her because the next event is the Olympic games. Many of the world level skaters did not join in this competition because of the condition control, [...]
RAKUTEN starts new business in CHINA with BIDU.O 百度
Rakuten Ichiba (楽天市場）, or Internet Shopping Site, RAKUTEN will start EC business in China with BIDU.O (百度）. This is a really big news for us Japanese. Rakuten started it's business on the internet only about 10 and something years ago. But it already became the Japan's NO.1 internet shopping company, and it's ranked within top [...]
China became the biggest trading partner of Japan
Of course,the USA has been the largest country for Japan in the sense of trading and influence after the war. Japanese prosperity after the war, in a sense, was realized by the relation with the USA. But China seems to have taken place of the NO.1 trading status for Japan, according to the recent news. This is a good news. It's really [...]
HIKARU UTADA says Good bye to her new lover
HIKARU UTADA is, probably, the Japanese top musician who can work not only in Japan but in the world. She was born in the USA and her bilingual ability helps herself work in the world music market. Also her parents are also singer and producer respectively, so her destiny to become a musician might have been decided when she was born [...]
Namie Amuro’s CD ranked Top of the chart in 5 countries /areas
Namie Amuro has been a popular singer not only in Japan but in some Asian countries. She was recently reported that Atsushi of a comedian group, LONDON BOOTS, is her new lover and they went to Sedona, Las Vegas and LA in the USA together for secret tours. Namie Amuro is from Okinawa island of Japan, so she looks a little different from [...]
SEIBU department Yurakucho store to close this year
This is a little shocking news for me because I often visit this department store. SEIBU department store has a lot of branch stores in Japan, and Yurakucho store or the Ginza area store is one of the most sophisticated branch store of them all. It's located just near the Yurakucho station, and the building is a complex with some good cinema [...]
DENTSU buys Innovation Interactive
I don't know the present status of the Advertising company, Dentsu. But it used to be ( or still is ) a world largest advertising company. At least Dentsu is the largest AD company in Japan still with a big distance to the second company, Hakuhodo. That guliver like company, Dentsu, seems to buy an American internet advertising company [...]
Vivian Hsu’s Beautiful Day
Vivian Hsu was a very popular girl from Taiwan 10 or more years ago. Actually recently we've not seen her since then, and some are expecting her to come back to Japan again. Today, I saw her picture. She became a little adult looking ( of course ) and she seems to be OK because her face looks happy. The news says that she started her blog [...]
AVATAR outsells TITANIC
In Japan, TITANIC has long had a record of biggest theater sales among foreign movies. Including domestic movies, the top3 biggest selling and highest grossing movies are all Hayao Miyazaki animation films, Spirited away, Howl's Moving Castle, and Princess Mononoke. But the foreign movie's sales record seems to be replaced by AVATAR [...]
Mayor of Hiroshima City met President Obama
Recently the news about Japan-US relationship is not always good. That's because of the problem of removal of American base in Okinawa island first of all, and secondly, the new leading political party wants to get closer to Asian countries rather than staying with the USA only. Interestingly, impression of president Obama is not bad at all [...]
