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Last month, Japan chose its representative for the 2008 Elite Model Look international competition, which is scheduled to be held in China this October. A 177cm tal,l 19-year-old 2nd-year junior college student from Kagoshima Yui Hara won the Grand Prix in the model division of Japan’s finals and hopes to be a famous model like Yuri Ebihara.
In the the entertainment division of the competition, the winner was 12-year-old Risa Kamiya, an Okinawan idol currently in her first year of junior high who hopes to be a future star like other Okinawan natives Meisa Kuroki, Namie Amuro and Yukie Nakama.
Past winners of the Japan Elite Model Look include 18 year old Okinawa native Sesiru Kishimoto (2007) and Miyu Yanagisawa (2006)
New gravure idol Yuki or Yuuki 侑季 is from Gunma prefecture. Since she debuted in March this year, she has released 1 photo book and 5 DVDs and is appeared in the live action film version of Machine Gun Machiko 実写版 まいっちんぐマチコ先生 ビバ！モモカちゃん！！as Momoka, one of the students. The movie was released on August 22nd last month.
Read more about this pretty idol at her blog here.
Hollywood movie “What Happens in Vegas” starring Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz premiered in Japan on August 6th in Tokyo with a big bash at Tokyo’s Imperial Hotel. During their visit to Japan, both Diaz and Kutcher both had a brief holiday and enjoy being tourists. Cameron Diaz had lived in Tokyo for three months while working as a model when she was 16.
Former popular Japanese prime minister Junichiro Koizumi (2001-2006) met with other members of sports interest group ” the Association of Diet Members for the Promotion of Bowling” last month in Tokyo. Koizumi made at least one strike for the news cameras making a very respectable politician score of 149. If they really want to promote bowling in Japan, they should just set up a league for gravure idols and make a TV drama from it!
Japanese salarymen who have to wear suits face the every increasing dry cleaning bills when their suits need cleaning. Since earlier this spring and summer, the Konaka group, a Japanese suit manufacturer which has more than 300 clothing stores across Japan introduced the world first “Shower Clean Suit,” which is the world’s first wool non-iron suit that can be rinsed under a normal shower stream.
The 30,000-50,000 Yen suits were designed by Japanese designer Kansai Yamamoto and British designer John Pearse are marketed under the brand names KANSAINAN Collection and JOHN PEARSE and are aimed at job-hunting students and young business people who live alone.
The brilliance of the Shower Clean Suit fabric design means that dirt, smoke, smells and stains from food and drink are simply rinsed off after a few minutes under a 40 degree shower. The suit can be washed in the evening, ready to wear the following morning, with no ironing required.
Japanese animation studio Production I.G’s new animated movie The Sky Crawlersスカイ・クロラ , is based on the best-selling five-volume novel series of the same name by Hiroshi Mori 森博嗣,. The books which have sold 800,000 copies tells the story of a fantasy world in which children living in perpetual adolescence are enlisted to be pilot fighter planes for public entertainment.
The animated feature which opened in Japan during summer is directed by Mamoru Oshii (”Ghost in the Shell”) with the film’s score written by Kenji Kawai 川井 憲次, (”Ghost in the Shell” and “Death Note”). The voice cast includes Rinko Kikuchi (”Babel”) and Chiaki Kuriyama (”Kill Bill: Vol. 1″).
The film breaks new ground in blending 2-D and 3-D animation techniques that are highly innovative.
(Japan Sugoi)