Its too sudden for us too knew Kamei,JunJun,and LinLin graduate from Morning Musume.According to a recent blog entry by Tsunku there will be 9th generation auditions as a result of Kamei, Jun Jun and Lin Lin’s graduation. An official site has been opened shortly after the announcement with more details. The site features rules and...

According to a recent entry on Tsunku’s blog Kamei Eri, Jun Jun, and Lin Lin will graduate from Morning Musume and Hello! Project. Kamei Eri will graduate due to a skin condition problem which she has had for some time and after talking with doctors she has decided to graduate from Morning Musume and Hello!...

Directed by Sato Shinsuke and starring Arashi’s Ninomiya Kazunari and actor Matsuyama Kenichi , the cast of the movie GANTZ attended a press conference on the 5th to announce the post-production progress of the film. The press conference was held at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo’s Uchisaiwaichou. Fellow cast members including Yoshitaka Yuriko and Yamada...

Miki Nakatani will once again be playing an unfortunate woman in her next major movie role. She has been cast as the star of “Hankyu Densha,” a movie adaptation of the novel of the same name by Hiro Arikawa (“Toshokan Sensou”). Erika Toda has also been cast. “Hankyu Densha” tells the story of various people...

Male duo, WaT, will release a new single “24/7 ~Mouichido~” on September 8th. Unlike their latest PV, “Kimi ga Boku ni Kiss wo shita” (released on July 28th), which was full of cuteness, the PV for the new single will be more adult and have an image of night, in which both Teppei and Wentz...

A 30th anniversary event for popular animation Gundam, titled “GUNDAM SUPER HERO EXPO TOKYO 2010″, will be open to public starting on August 10th in the Tokyo Dome City Prism Hall. For this celebration event, a number of big name artists and celebrities will participate in a project titled “Gunpura ...

From August 1st, AKB48′s sister-unit SDN48 are starring in the AKB48 stage play in Akihabara, Tokyo and their CD debut has now been decided. On August 1st they held a commemoration event for their debut and together with former AKB48 member Noro Kayo all 37 members stood on stage. “There is an announcement from SDN48...

Multiple news outlets are reporting today that actress Yu Aoi (24) and actor Nao Omori (38) are in a relationship. Since January, rumors have been circulating after the two were seen on a date at an oden restaurant, and photos of them on a group date were published in Nikkan Sports in late July. Omori...

Boy band Arashi released a new album on Wednesday, titled “Boku no Miteiru Fuukei.” In its first day of sales, fans bought 275,000 copies, setting a new personal record for the group. Last year, their “All the BEST! 1999-2009″ collection set their previous record with 261,000 copies in its first day. That album went on...

At the start of their most recent tour and their first day at Nippon Budokan, the GazettE have announced their December performance at TOKYO DOME. Last year in December the band had brought the fans a Christmas present with their live at Tokyo Big Sight, yet this year they will be mobilizing more than twice...

Matsumoto Jun  will interview Angelina Jolie on the next week’s “Arashi ni shiyagare“, which will be broadcasted on August 7th. There is a corner called “Michi tono Sougu shiyagare” (close encounter of unfamiliar things), and Jun meets a famous translator,Toda Natsukoin the corner. Natsuko teaches Jun how to interview Hollywood stars, and Jun will accept...

At yesterday’s press conference in Tokyo, six representatives from Johnny’s Jr. groups A.B.C-Z and Kis-My-Ft2 vowed to make next month’s musical performance a one-of-a-kind show, reports Nikkan Sports and Daily Sports Online. The two groups will star in “(Shonentachi: Koushi naki Rougoku”, a musical written and directed by Johnny’s & Associates president Johnny Kitagawa, which...

Jiro Hachimitsu  of Tokyo Dynamite and former Melon Kinenbi leader Hitomi Saito have married. Hachimitsu’s management notified the media of the marriage on Tuesday. According to Yoshimoto Creative Agency, Hachimitsu has been a Melon Kinenbi fan for a long time, and he often attended their live performances. He became acquainted with Saito through a friend,...

Arashi will release their 32nd single “L?ve Rainbow” on September 8th, which is also the theme song of Matsumoto Jun’s drama “Natsu no koi wa nijiiro ni kagayaku“. The details of the track list have not been revealed yet, but the limited edition will come with a DVD of the “L?ve Rainbow” PV and the...

Toma Ikuta has been chosen to star as Hikaru Genji in a new movie adaptation of “The Tale of Genji.” The film, tentatively titled “Genji Monogatari,” is being directed by Yasuo Tsuruhashi (“Ai no Rukeichi”) and reportedly has a budget of more than 1 billion yen. “The Tale of Genji,” generally believed to have been...

Rie Kugimiya has been selected by Seiyuu fans and based on number of appeareance as a seiyuu make her as Top Prolific Seiyuu for 2010!~Here are more ranking for other seiyuuTop Prolific Seiyuu 1. 134 – Rie Kugimiya 2. 125 – Miyuki Sawashiro / 125 – Keiji Fujiwara 3. 116 – Yuuichi Nakamura 4. 107...