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Speed Divorce for Ayu
International marriages are on the increase in Japan, and that has to be a good thing for such an insular country. But yesterday saw the all-too-sudden end of one such high profile marriage, as J-pop diva Hamasaki Ayumi (33) announced to her fans that she and her Austrian husband are getting divorced today. Ayu posted [...]
Continue reading...Showbiz News Update
17. January 2012
It’s been a fairly quiet start to the year in the Japanese entertainment world. On the scandal front, up-and-coming presenter Miyane Seiji (48) revealed just over a week ago that he has a 4-year-old child born outside of his marriage. His Japanese Wikipedia page now lists his family as one daughter, one lover, one “kakushigo,” [...]
Continue reading...RIP Nitani Hideaki
9. January 2012
Another veteran Japanese movie star has been lost to cancer. Nitani Hideaki died at the Keio University Hospital in Tokyo on January 7 of lung cancer. He was 81. His funeral will be held on Wednesday at the Zojoji temple in Tokyo and presided over by his widow, actress Shirakawa Yumi. Perhaps most widely remembered [...]
Continue reading...Merry Christmas from Japan Zone!
26. December 2011
We here at Japan Zone would like to wish all our readers a very Merry Christmas! We are having a rare white Christmas here in Nagoya. The snow started falling in the afternoon and by this morning (it’s now St. Stephen’s Day or Boxing Day) there was a blanket of snow across the city. Japanese [...]
Continue reading...Farewell to Veteran Actors
26. December 2011
Sad news over the Christmas weekend as the Japanese showbiz world lost several of its veteran actors. Irigawa Yasunori (photo left) died of rectal cancer at a Kanagawa Prefecture hospital. He was 72. Given just months to live when the cancer was discovered during surgery in August 2010, he held a press conference in March [...]
Continue reading...Dramatic Comeback for Matsushima
23. December 2011
Last night’s final episode of the NTV drama series “Kaseifu no Mita” proved that the right star can still pull in a huge audience. It got a phenomenal average audience rating of 40% in the Kanto region and was well over 30% across the country, according to the Video Research company. The rating peaked at [...]
Continue reading...Matsumoto Reiji in Apparent Suicide
20. December 2011
Lyricist Matsumoto Reiji died yesterday in what police believe was a suicide, setting himself on fire outside his home in Tokyo. He was 68. His wife found him badly burned but still conscious on the street in front of his Setagaya home at around 4:40am. Police later found a discarded lighter and the canister of [...]
Continue reading...The End of an Era
20. December 2011
One of Japanese TV’s longest running shows came to a close last night. Old school to the bitter end, the “Mito Komon” jidai-geki ran on the TBS network since August 1969. The last episode, an extended special that featured many past regulars, drew an audience rating of 13.9% in and around Tokyo and over 17% [...]
Continue reading...Koda’s Marriage Plans Back On Track
13. December 2011
J-pop queen Koda Kumi (29) took the showbiz world by surprise when she announced on her official website early this morning that she is about to get married. She and guitarist Kenji03 (27, band photo 2nd from left) of the band Back-On are planning to tie the knot before the end of the year. Koda [...]
Continue reading...The Heavy Hand of the Law
13. December 2011
Once again a celebrity steps over the line, feels the full force of the law and gets wiped off the TV map. In this case the perp is Dante Carver (34) of Softbank commercial fame. NHK say they will delete his appearances in already recorded episodes of the kids show “be Ponki Kids,” while other [...]
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