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Rinana (pictured at left) has a couple of gigs coming up. She is a singer-songwriter whose full name is Rina Takenaka. You may remember her from when she was a member of Hinoi Team. Specifically, she will be appearing at Zeela on Sun., 7/17, with several other performers, including Leo, Cimba, and Aisha. Doors open at 16:00 and the show starts at 16:15. T...

Today, I’d like to address a Chinese singer, Rollin Wang. For a while, I’ve been wondering about pop music in China. I mean, mainland China, not Taiwan. The only girl group from mainland China that I have come across is SNH48, the sister group of AKB48. SNH48 has a MV for ‘Heavy Rotation’ that I like a lot. Anyway, while SNH48 is a Chinese group, singing...

This post will feature Makoto Ogawa, ex-Morning Musume. First of all, I’d like to mention that she will be in an upcoming stage play, “Sleeping Beauty.” She is the second female lead.

She joined Morning Musume as part of the fifth generation, in 2001, when she was 13. I was attracted to her because of her beauty/cuteness, but also because of her genkines...

I’d like to address a relatively obscure, but currently active, idol star. Her name is Ryona Himeno. In 2014, Ai Kago held a tryout for a new idol group, tentatively named Girls Unit Project. Each girl in the group was supposed to have a unique and special talent. One girl, Remi, was admitted to the group. Her talent was baton twirling. Aibon was taking t...

Earlier this month, aMI TOKITO made a blog post in honor of the fifth anniversary of the Japan earthquake and tsunami. I used bing translator, and did minor editing to try to make it more understandable. Following is aMI’s post.

“3 / 11

From the East Japan earthquake
Five years have passed.
Dead / missing persons

18,455 people dead/ 2,561 people still...

A month or so ago, Rinana (ex-Hinoi Team, also known as Rina Takenaka) had a twitcasting. I happened to be online, so I logged in. She greeted everyone who was online. I don’t speak Japanese, but I heard her call me Jon-san. I thought that was funny! I asked her if she liked Eurobeat music. She responded that no, she didn’t like Eurobeat music. Rather, sh...

I hope the New Year is off to a good start for everybody. It’s hard to believe that it is the end of January! The topic of this post will be Hikaru Koyama, ex-Hinoi Team. Her nickname is ‘hikachu.’She is currently working as a presenter for a news media outlet called Houdou Kyoku, part of Fuji Television Network. Their website is http://www.houdoukyoku.jp...

Greetings! After a break, I am so glad to be making another blog entry. By the way, happy new year!

The subject of this post is once again, Asuka Hinoi (leader of Hinoi Team). Born January 8, 1991, she recently celebrated her 25th birthday.

Asuka Hinoi appeared in another film, namely, “XXX Kiss Kiss Kiss” (2015). At 70 minutes long, I’m not sure if it...

Occasionally, I think back to how I got interested in Hello! Project, and its groups (Morning Musume, shuffle groups, etc.) I had been interested in K-pop for about 6 months. (I won’t go into how I got interested in that.) I thought that if I liked K-pop, maybe I would like J-pop, too. So, I typed ‘J-Pop girl groups’ into the search bar of YouTube. Up pop...

On Saturday, November 14, aMI TOKITO will be appearing and performing at the Japan Festival in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam.

aMI TOKITO appeared and performed at the same event last year in Vietnam. I saw some videos of aMI performing on YouTube, and it looked like a fun event and that she really enjoyed herself. Last year, there were 105,000 visitors at...