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Tokyo Girls Collection
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The Tokyo Girls Collection (東京ガールズコレクション, Tokyo Girls Collection?), sometimes abbreviated as TGC, is a semiannual fashion festival launched in 2005. The fashion event showcases the seasons fashionable streetwear by domestic brands, and are modeled by popular models from various Japanese fashion magazines. The event is open not only to buyers and journalists, but also to the general public.[1] and incorporates live concerts by well-known artists, as well as charity auctions.[2] The event, held by girlswalker.com, a popular mobile web portal, is also broadcasted live on cell phones and the internet, and the products donned by the models are made available for purchase on the spot.[3]

Past venues
-1st Tokyo Girls Collection: 2005 Autumn/Winter August 7, 2005; at Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo, Japan 30 models, 25 featured brands, guest performers: m-flo (and Akiko Wada)
-2nd Tokyo Girls Collection: 2006 Spring/Summer March 11, 2006; at Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo, Japan
45 models, 23 featured brands, guest performers: Yuna Ito, AI, Rihanna, DefTech
-3rd Tokyo Girls Collection: 2006 Autumn/Winter September 3, 2006; at Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo, Japan
54 models, 24 featured brands, guest performers: Ayaka, Sowelu, BoA
-4th Tokyo Girls Collection: 2007 Spring/Summer March 3, 2007; at Yokohama Arena, Yokohama, Japan
72 models, 24 featured brands, guest performers: Tamia, DJ Ozma, Minmi, Shonan no Kaze
-5th Tokyo Girls Collection: 2007 Autumn/Winter September 2, 2007; at Saitama Super Arena, Saitama, Japan
61 models, 21 featured brands, guest performers: Leah Dizon, TVXQ, DJ Ozma, Go Hiromi
-6th Tokyo Girls Collection: 2008 Spring/Summer March 15, 2008; at Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo, Japan
60 models, 20 featured brands, guest performers: Chemistry, FUNKY MONKEY BABYS
-7th Tokyo Girls Collection: 2008 Autumn/Winter September 6, 2008; at Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo, Japan
70 models, 21 featured brands, guest performers: PUFFY, Kimaguren

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Utada comments for first time on mother's apparent suicide

TOKYO — Singer Hikaru Utada on Monday commented for the first time on her mother’s apparent suicide last week.

In a statement posted on her official website, Utada, 30, said: “I am proud to be the daughter of my mother. I have nothing but gratitude for everything she did for me.”

Utada’s mother, Keiko Fuji, a former well-known enka singer, apparently jumped to her death from a 13th-floor apartment in Tokyo last Thursday. According to police, Fuji, 62, wearing a T-shirt and short pants, was found lying on the grounds of her apartment building in Shinjuku Ward at around 7 a.m. She was taken to hospital where she was pronounced dead. Police said Fuji lived in the apartment with a male friend in his 30s who was asleep at the time of the incident. Her slippers were found near the railing on the balcony, police said, but that no suicide note was found.

Utada said her mother had been suffering from mental illness for many years. “She is finally freed from her agony but ... the way she ended her life was beyond sad. I am suffering from a sense of remorse,” Utada said.

Utada also described her mother as “impulsive like a child but with an innocent charm that attracted everyone’s attention.”

Although Fuji faced many dark periods in her life, Utada said she only remembers her mother laughing.

Utada’s comments drew enormous interest from the public. As of 3 p.m., Utada’s website could not be accessed due to heavy traffic.

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'Dr Yonekura' will be back in October

TOKYO — Ryoko Yonekura, 38, will reprise her role as a miniskirt-wearing doctor in the second season of TV Asahi’s “Doctor X~surgeon Michiko Daimon.” The drama will every Thursday from 9 p.m., starting in October.

The drama revolves around the unusual lifestyle of a charismatic freelance surgeon, Michiko Daimon, played by Yonekura, who works at multiple hospitals. Michiko is not your average doctor, oozing sex appeal and wearing miniskirts under her white coat. Under a special contract, which allows Michiko to leave her work at 5 p.m., she enjoys her “after 5” life by dancing at clubs, playing mahjong, and going to hot springs and public bathhouses. Her favorite phrase is: “Failure is not an option.”

The average viewing rate for the first season last year was 19.1%, the highest for a commercial television series. The last episode of the first season garnered the highest rating of all the episodes, 23.4%.

“I’m excited to play Daimon again. I fit into this character so naturally,” Yonekura said.

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Ryoko Yonekura to provide voice of Princess Diana in new film

TOKYO — Actress Ryoko Yonekura, 38, will be the voice of Diana, Princess of Wales, in the Japanese-language version of the British film “Diana,” according to distributor GAGA.

The film deals with the last two years in the life of Princess Diana who died in a car crash in Paris on Aug 31, 1997. Naomi Watts plays the title role.

“The image of Yonekura matched Diana’s elegance and charisma,” GAGA said in a statement, explaining why they chose Yonekura.

“I want to put all my passion into my voice since I respect the way Diana lived as a mother and as a princess,” Yonekura said.

It will be Yonekura’s second time to be a voice actress, after “The Avengers,” which was released last year.

“Diana” will be released on Oct 18.

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Maki Horikita plays pilot in new drama

TOKYO — Actress Maki Horikita, 24, will play the main character in Fuji TV’s new drama “Miss Pilot,” which starts in October in the 9 p.m. prime time slot on Tuesdays.

Female pilots are still rare in Japan (only 20 out of 2,500 pilots at ANA are women). “Miss Pilot” depicts the struggles that female pilots are facing everyday, Horikita said.

“Miss Pilot” will be Horikita’s second time to play the lead in TV series since NHK’s morning drama “Ume-chan Sensei” last year, which had an average viewer rating of 20.7%. It was the first time in 9 years for the average rating of a morning TV drama to exceed 20%.

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New original Cutie Honey video animation to be released Dec 6

TOKYO — To commemorate 40 years since the birth of the “Cutie Honey” manga and movie series, “New Cutie Honey” OVA (original video animation) will be released on Dec 6. Before that, “Cutie Honey Complete” on Blu-Rray will be released on Oct 11.

Fans are excited about the coming release. New material has not been released since the famous film, produced by Gainax, directed by Hideaki Anno and starring Eriko Sato and the 3-episode OVA series, also produced by Gainax, in 2004, and a TV series on TV Tokyo in 2007.

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Here’s a trailer from the famous 2004 movie, starring Eriko Sato.

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Has Japan’s K-pop bubble burst? Weakening yen hits major Korean record label hard

TOKYO — It wasn’t so long ago that everywhere you looked in Japan, there were ads for Korean pop groups, cosmetics and health drinks. More people than ever were snapping up Korean language textbooks and, despite territorial squabbles and a few extreme-right noise makers, Japan was positively leaping on anything prefixed by the letter ‘K’.

Recent reports, however, suggest that all is not well in the K-pop music camp in Japan, with major Korean record label and talent agency S.M. Entertainment reporting losses of more than 70% compared to the same period last year. Has the K-pop bubble finally burst in Japan?

Despite boasting sales amounting to some $44 million in the first quarter of 2012, Japan’s Livedoor News reported last week that S.M. Entertainment’s profits fell by more than 70% during the same period this year, prompting industry analysts to wonder whether it’s finally game over for Korean pop idols in Japan.

The K-pop train may not be running at quite the speed it once did, but the real cause of S.M. Entertainment’s sudden dip in financial fortunes may not be Japanese fans’ indifference to their neighbors’ music so much as the fact that their money is worth less than it used to be abroad.

“No matter how you look at it, the cheap yen is very likely the major factor here,” said the editor of a Japan-based Korean entertainment magazine. “According to Korean financial analysts, some 70% of S.M.’s profits come from overseas, with Japan making up close to 50% of that. It’s only natural that, having relied on the [previously] strong yen so much, the company should take a hit now.”

Thanks in part to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s recent ‘Abenomics‘ financial footwork, the cost of the yen has fallen significantly for the first time in years, making life a little easier for Japanese companies trading outside of their homeland, but neighboring countries are feeling the strain as a result.

An S.M. Entertainment spokesperson responded to fears that the Japanese K-pop industry was in trouble, saying that the company had indeed posted much lower profits than in previous years, but stressed that the second financial quarter is set to be far more lucrative, with big names like Girls’ Generation and boy-band SHINee both going on tour and performing at a number of venues in Japan during the summer. Even so, with the yen far cheaper than it was last year, you can be sure that S.M., and many other Korean companies that rely on their Japanese fan base, will be left fondly remembering the days when their Japanese customers’ yen was worth much more back home.

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