Archive for 1月 26th, 2010
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 [...]
