the One of biggest Asian Superstarts Actor Takeshi Kaneshiro, could soon be following in the footsteps of fellow Asian stars Rain, Jay Chou and Lee Byung-hun and heading to Hollywood. While Kaneshiro’s agency has confirmed that the actor is indeed in Los Angeles, it said he is actually there on vacation to visit friends.The 33-year-old was recently spotted by fans in Los Angeles, fuelling speculation that the Taiwan-based actor is in talks to star in a Hollywood film. The actor has alwa... Read Full Story

Japantopten.com the Popular singer Amuro Namie has announced the release of her long-awaited ninth original album for December 16th. It has been over two years since namie’s latest album PLAY came out. This new album, though currently untitled, is being hyped by the media and her fans due to the release of her explosive best-of album BEST FRICTION in July 2008, which has sold over 1,700,000 copies since its release date. Amuro is known as the ‘Queen of J-pop’ before his popu... Read Full Story

Hello the Japantopten.com Fans , The Japanese publisher Shogakukan has announced on Monday that it will end the school learning magazines Shōgaku Gonensei and Shōgaku Rokunensei, as well as the shōjo manga magazine ChuChu . Shōgaku Gonensei and Shōgaku Rokunensei (literally, “Elementary Fifth-Grader” and “Elementary Sixth-Grader”) will end during the current school year on February 3 and December 28, respectively, and will be replaced by a new learning manga magazine, ... Read Full Story

Waseda Next 125 Transforming to Become the Global “WASEDA” Waseda University aims to uphold the independence of learning, and to promote the practical utilization of knowledge and good citizenship. To uphold the independence of learning, Waseda University shall strive to emphasize freedom of research and investigation, and to encourage original and creative studies, thereby contributing to the advancement of knowledge. To promote the practical utilization of knowledge, Waseda Univ... Read Full Story

Japantopten.com , TOKYO Japan — If movie industry buyers and sellers are tired of the non-stop caravan of film sales events, they scarcely showed it as the Tokyo festival’s three-day market got underway Tuesday, less than a week after Pusan’s Asian Film Market wrapped. Held on the 40th floor of the colossal Mori Tower in Tokyo’s colorful Roppongi district, the TIFFCOM corridors were busy, but not bursting. Many of the buyers and sellers were the same as had been spotte... Read Full Story

There are several schools of Sado, or Japanese tea ceremony, also known as Chanoyu. Tea, in this case O-cha (green tea), is as integral to culture in Japan as coffee is in the US (more so, in fact) or ‘a cuppa’ is in the UK. Also, its health benefits are widely touted and generally accepted worldwide. And study of the tea ceremony is still considered part of the ‘proper’ education of any aspiring young ‘lady’. All these factors ensure that this ancient art ... Read Full Story

hi Japantopten.com fans now we talk about Haruna ai. In Japan, she(Haruna Ai) is getting very popular. Is that because she is cute? Ai Haruna Biography Wiki : Born Kenji Ōnishi 21 July 1972 (1972-07-21) (age 37) Ōsaka Prefecture Japan Nationality Japanese Occupation TV personality, singer Website Well, yes, she is, but she has got some secrets. Guess what, she is a boy. She is not a Japanese girl, but actually Japanese boy who became a Japanese girl, and turned very cute girl! Her real na... Read Full Story

As a child, Sou Takakura (Shun Oguri) witnessed the murder of his father. Vowing to someday catch the culprit, he grew up to become an elite detective on the New York police force, regarded highly for his composure, discipline, adaptability, and military training. One day, he takes on a case involving a major drug operation linked to his father’s killer. Maruo Kudo (Hiro Mizushima), a member of a special investigative division in Japan, arrives in New York to help out. The investigation... Read Full Story

Movie producer Yoshino Sasaki (real name Yoshino Kanazawa) died of ovarian cancer on September 24, it has been learned. She was 51. Sasaki was involved in films such as Masayuki Suo’s “Soredemo Boku wa Yattenai” (2007), Itsumichi Isomura’s “Gege” (2004), and Shinobu Yaguchi’s “Water Boys” (2001). Read Full Story

One OF The Best Gravure OFfline Magazine Sabra, the Publisher Shogakukan announced on Monday that the monthly gravure magazine Sabra is being discontinued after the March 2010 issue, which goes on sale in January. Like all magazines in general, Sabra has been affected by the weak economy and the necessity for the publishing industry to shift towards digital. Sabra was launched in May 2000 and became very popular among readers, but its circulation has fallen in recent years. According to data ... Read Full Story