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Nakai Masahiro of SMAP fame will be hosting the 2008 NHK Kohaku with rakugo artist Shofukutei Tsurube. Masahiro will belong to the Red Team while Shofukutei to the White Team.
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Sanrio must really be rich by now with their expanded merchandise. Aside from licensing a special Hello Kitty rifle, they now have special message osenbei (Japanese rice crackers. There are some sold here of which the most common brand is called Wan Wan)! Look at the stuff I bought when my and my spiritual [...]

The Japan Foundation, Manila, in cooperation with the Manila Chamber Orchestra (MCO) Foundation, Banco de Oro and UP Film Institute, offers a taste of the bi-annual Japanese Film Festival entitled Eiga Sai, at the Antonio Molina Hall, BDO South Tower, Makati and Cine Adarna, UP Film Institute, UP-Diliman.
Dubbed Eiga Sai Fringe, the film festival mainly [...]